study reference; study-aid book
no liking for; no interest in
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)
proportional division; proportional distribution
ice cream with milk-solids content of 3% or greater
Winged Victory of Samothrace
innate cheerfulness; innately cheerful person; happy-go-lucky person; natural optimist
(making a) telephone call; (having a) telephone conversation; calling; dialing
unevenly cropped (hair); badly cropped
to be valuable as scrap; to be able to do other work; to have marketable skills
alternating; taking turns
dependent on one's parents
Venus de Milo (classical Greek sculpture of Aphrodite)
to set at naught; to ignore; to disregard
instant noodles; instant ramen
Toriyama Sekien (1712-1788)
BMX; bicycle motocross; bike motocross
self-inflicted accident; traffic accident where injury is caused by one's own negligence; one-car accident
Sugita Genpaku (1733-1817)
small shovel or trowel used in gardening
Hatsune Miku (Vocaloid software)
to go into the minutest details
being apt to make a show of one's faults; penchant for boasting of one's faults; pretending to be worse than one really is
strategy of holing oneself up in a castle (house, building)
over-the-knee socks; overknee socks
(following) a pragmatic (policy) line (approach)
making light of; disregarding
prequel; retrospective (talk, etc.)
live decoy fishing (esp. for sweetfish)