Japanese fir (Abies firma); momi fir
aromatic (roasted beans, roasted tea, etc.); fragrant (e.g. burning wood); pleasant-smelling; savory-smelling (e.g. barbecued meat); savoury; appetizing
to cut one's way through the waves
each house; every house; many houses
(preliminary) skirmish; prelude; preliminary encounter; warm-up match (e.g. before a final)
scriptwriter; playwright; scenario writer
splash; spray; chance blow; by-blow; getting dragged into (a quarrel, etc.)
restricted; confined; unfree
unfashionable; uncouth; unrefined; unpolished; unsophisticated
notice; notification; permission; consent; rejection; refusal
convenience store lunch box
to rummage through; to ransack (e.g. a drawer); to throw into confusion; to disrupt; to upset
boorish; inelegant; unpolished; unromantic; tactless
redundancy; superfluity; useless addition
looking like a ...; acting as if a ...
small salary; meagre salary; low pay
eve (esp. Christmas Eve); the night before
imposition (i.e. of rules, of a decision); compulsion
good fences make good neighbors; a hedge between keeps friendship green
woman's level of motivation in fashion, makeup, taste in clothes, etc.; femininity
self-service drink area in a restaurant (incl. soft drinks, coffee, tea, etc.)
to mount up; to pile up; to accumulate; to increase
research funds (expenses)
work-related injury; work-related illness; work-related death; workers' compensation insurance
to fall flat; to collapse in a heap
three-cornered conversation
settlement (of affairs); remedial measures; cleaning up afterwards
to act as a receptacle; to receive; to take on; to host
power of the state; government authority
in the confusion of the moment; taking advantage of the confused state of affairs