time for doing something / period of time / season

writing surface / being crushed underneath

断食: fasting

直: direct / 時期: time, period / 磁気: magnetism / 次期: next period / 磁器: porcelain / 時季: season / 時機: opportunity, chance / 自棄: despair / 自記: writing oneself

fast, fasting. Abstaining from food.

to fast, to abstain from food

food for a carnivore: prey / (figuratively) a victim, a mark

bullion

self-abandonment, loss of interest in life, despair

the next period, the next term