only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to
Japanese person; Japanese people
bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer
fluorescent lamp; fluorescent light; person who is slow to react; someone slow on the uptake
air con; air conditioner; air conditioning
to furnish; to install; to get someone's agreement; to patronize; to buy usually from the same store
daily supplies; daily necessities; household items; housewares
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
to float; to become merry; to be cheerful; to become loose; to become unsteady; to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you)
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create
a few years ago; some years back
rising; developing; emergent; burgeoning; new
to be oversized (overloud, etc.)
state of things; state of affairs; condition; situation; circumstances
change; variation; variety; diversity; inflection; declension
hurriedly; in a hurry; in haste; (arch.) sudden
kind; sort; type; similar example; parallel; the like
military stores; munitions of war
to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)
hurried construction; hurried production; hasty manufacture; hasty formation
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
door (Western-style, car, etc.)
to come and go; to go back and forth
majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly
smelling of mud or earth; unrefined; uncouth
men and women; man and woman; both sexes; both genders
wherein; therein; thereinto
incompetent person; incapable person; person without legal capacity
defeat; loss; reverse; setback
to lose consciousness; to faint; to black out
space (between); gap; period of time (during, while); duration; between (two parties or things); among (a group); relations (between)
talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)
battery; battery; pitcher and catcher
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
nape of the neck; back of the neck; scruff of the neck