wearing light clothes for the sake of fashion
deviation-value-oriented education; education focused on test results; education that stresses studying and passing exams to raise one's ranking; academic cramming
setting aside; leaving to one side
big fuss over nothing; much cry and little wool; much ado about nothing
aquatic animal; aquatic fauna
mark indicating that the order of the adjacent characters is to be reversed (for reading kanbun in Japanese word order); check mark; tick mark
MI5 (from Military Intelligence Section 5); Security Service (UK)
Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)
no liking for; no interest in
branchial respiration (breathing using gills)
playing in the mud; playing with mud
full acceptance of workers' pay demands
poor correspondent; apparent disdain of (or trouble with) writing; someone who appears to dislike (or be poor at) writing
seemingly good but ultimately stupid idea
dependent on one's parents
foreign company; overseas enterprise; overseas firm
living in another person's house without paying for food and lodging; sponging on other people for accommodation
street gossips and idle rumors
International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) (Organisation)
shallow-minded mouthing of secondhand information
witness protection program; witness protection programme
supermoon; full moon or new moon occurring while the Moon is closest to Earth
skill learned in one's former days; using one's experience from the past
susceptible; vulnerable; prone (to)
both arguments (theories)
to go into the minutest details
(lying on one's belly and) basking in the sun; sunbathing (e.g. on a beach)