MacGuffin (plot device); McGuffin; maguffin
long telephone conversation; being on the phone for a long time
to be rearranged or transposed
reading partway; leaving half-read
in accordance with plans; just as planned
to obligate; to make compulsory; to require; to mandate
violet (any flower of genus Viola, esp. the Fuji dawn, Viola mandshurica)
printout; (computer) printing
thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee
twenty-eighth day of the month; twenty-eight days
twelfth day of the month; twelve days
android; Android (mobile operating system)
to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)
to grow taller (of people)
umeboshi; pickled dried ume; pickled dried plum
to be loath to; to balk at (doing); to grudge (doing); to take (good) care of
the matter you have been talking about
small tool; gadget; (stage) properties; prop; prop master
to end one's life; to commit suicide; to end a life; to kill
luxury; extravagance; to live in luxury; to indulge oneself; lavish (use of something); abundant
save; checking; curbing; suppressing
in a manner of speaking; as it were; so to speak; if you like; per se
viewing as ...; seeing as ...; treating as ...; regarding as ...
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
twelve o'clock; noon; midnight
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
shortcut; short-cut hairstyle for women
wonderful; astounding; marvellous
through; throughout; in the course of; all over or throughout (e.g. a place)
no objection; nothing to criticize; nothing to criticise
August; eighth month of the lunar calendar