as one would expect; naturally; indeed; still; all the same; after all
official post; regular post; principal post (as opposed to secondary post); I (of someone in government or the civil service)
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
piping hot; scalding; madly in love; passionately in love
carelessly; thoughtlessly; inadvertently
to return to normal; to revert to the starting point; to go back to how it was
(one's) older brother; lad; sonny
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
hail (esp. hailballs under 5 mm); graupel; dicing; small cubes; roasted mochi pieces (usu. flavoured with soy sauce, etc.)
direction; way; person; lady; method of; manner of; care of ...
carefully; thoroughly; fully; deliberately
(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
bone; frame; outline; core; backbone; spirit
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
blueback (any fish with a bluish back, such as the Japanese sardine)
ingredient; component; composition
well-behaved (esp. children and pets); obedient; good
acid; sourness; sour taste
to contain; to comprise; to hold in the mouth; to bear in mind; to understand; to express (emotion, etc.)
television; TV; TV program; TV programme; TV broadcast
excess; surplus; superabundance; overabundance
intake (e.g. of salt); ingestion; absorption (e.g. of new knowledge); adoption (e.g. of foreign culture); reception and protection
via; through; by doing; by means of; using
to make good; to improve; to do often; to be kind to; to treat well
to finish; to end; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry
there's but a fine line between genius and insanity
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
dial (on timepiece, meter, etc.); letter board (e.g. on typewriter, writing aide for the disabled, etc.); character board
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
Zhou dynasty (China, approx. 1046-256 BCE); Chou dynasty; perimeter; counter for laps or circuits
what the hell are you saying!?
to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip of (clothes, rank, etc.); to deprive of; to divest of
slowly; inefficiently; tardily; dawdling
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
in a quarrel, both parties are to blame
draw (in competition); tie game
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also