confectionery; sweets; candy; cake
preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)
table; desk; counter for tables, desks, etc.; offering table before an altar (sometimes used in tea ceremony); tabletop incense burner
member; participant; attendee; lineup (sport)
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
employee welfare; employee benefits; fringe benefits
implication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
freely; right and left; as one pleases
living; lifestyle; living room
going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease
to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch
to mind; to care about; to be an issue; to matter; to keep company; to care for; to interfere with
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
actually; really; truly; in practice; practically
to become indisposed; to feel unwell; to have one's physical condition deteriorate
thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee
puzzling; tangled; complicated; complex
to be needed; to be wanted
seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words
awkward; uncomfortable; embarrassing
comparatively; relatively; unexpectedly; unusually; considering; for one's ...
(emotional) tension; anxiety; (highness of) spirits; (good) mood; tension; tensile strength
low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.); low (position); close to the ground; short (height); deep (voice); in a low key
beyond expectations; beyond what one expected; not foreseen; exceeding assumptions
bewilderment; perplexity; embarrassment; discomfiture; bafflement
such ... as; or some such
to some extent; to a certain extent
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
calmness; composure; coolness; serenity; presence of mind
by no means; never!; something unexpected; emergency; (arch.) currently; (arch.) for the time being
to look away; to avert one's eyes
to rise; to erect; to get up
(appearance while) in pajamas (pyjamas)
fearfully; timidly; nervously; cautiously; gingerly
to fish; to angle; to catch; to lure in; to tempt; to attract
corridor; hallway; passageway
to advance; to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to improve; to deepen
long sentence; long piece of writing (e.g. passage, letter, article, telegram)
thought; consideration; thinking
to line up; to put in a row; to add (to a group); to accept (as a member of an organization, etc.); to link; to put together