difficulties, hardship, trouble

渡し船: ferry, ferryboat

隻: boats / 石: (slang) transistors

堰: weir, embankment / 咳: cough / 関: frontier pass, close, relation / 席: seat, mat, banquet / 積: accumulate, store up, amass / 籍: record, register, list, census / 舎: house, dwelling, dwell, reside

関: Seki (a city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan); a surname

ferry, ferryboat

building bridges / (figuratively) intermediation; mediation; intermediary

to build a bridge or bridges / (figuratively) to intermediate; to mediate (between)

seat for press / press box

leaving one's seat