to study, to engage in scholarship

study of something; the sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning; scholarship

A chant for breathing to a rhythm, associated with the Lamaze technique.

mask / face / features / surface

labor cost, payroll cost, personnel expenditures

to each his own; different strokes for different folks; there's no accounting for taste

思い浮かぶ: to come to mind; to occur to

to draw in one's mind: to picture; to visualize; to imagine

countenance; facial expression

"to send one's thoughts running": to think of something far-off (temporally or physically)