highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
Ginza (district in Tokyo); busy shopping district; bustling location; silver mint (Edo period)
art gallery (esp. artworks for sale); picture gallery
sales promotion; hard selling
(doing something) for money; being mercenary
elegant; graceful; refined; leisurely; comfortable; easy
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
awareness; realization; noticing
polygraph test; lie detector test
hard (e.g. penis); strong (e.g. beat of music); throbbing (e.g. headache); blaring (e.g. rock music)
going to work; leaving for work; attendance (at work); being at work; presence (in the office); reporting for work
really; very; extremely; (not) anything; (not) at all; (not) a bit
chill; the shivers; shivering fit
ice; shaved ice (usually served with flavored simple syrup)
cold-bloodedness; coldheartedness
pitch-black; jet-black; strongly tanned; deeply sunburnt; sooty; black with dirt
clothes (esp. Western clothes); clothing; dress; counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, puffs of a cigarette, etc.
(non-documentary) television series; TV drama; teledrama; drama; dramatic incident; spectacle
drive recorder; dashcam; event data recorder; EDR
record; document; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); setting (a record); recording (a record high, etc.)
to die down (storm, anger, conflict, etc.); to calm down; to be at peace; to be governed well; to subside (of pain, symptoms, etc.); to be alleviated
from here; from this place
at present; currently; so far; for now; for the time being
whole (body); full-length (e.g. portrait); systemic
because; as; since; because of that; therefore; accordingly
to torment; to harass; to tease; to extort; to shake down; to demand money
to copy; to imitate; to counterfeit; to forge
to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear
obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit
life; lifetime; career; for life; all one's life; throughout one's life
to have a cross to bear; to carry a heavy burden
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
to let go by; to let pass; to overlook; to miss
final; eventual; ultimate
though; although; be that as it may; nonetheless
female friend; woman friend
adviser; someone to consult with; someone to turn to about one's concerns; confidant