hospitality; reception; treatment; (light) refreshment; entertaining with food and drink; treat
to pass (time); to spend; to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol); (arch.) to take care of; (arch.) to support
shelf; ledge; rack; trellis
large number; innumerable; great many; immense; vast; abundant
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
digital versatile disc; DVD
to fill to capacity; to pack; to complete; to tessellate
kind; sort; type; similar example; parallel; the like
to throw at; to turn; to raise
all; altogether; entirely; exactly like; just like; spitting image of
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
(short) rest; breather; break
print; printing; (printed) copy; handout; flyer
juice; soft drink (usu. fruit-based); sweetened drink
comfortable (to live in); snug; cozy; cosy
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
environment; circumstance
kind; gentle; considerate; generous; friendly; nice
prejudice; bias; distorted view
confections; sweets; candy; cake
to take a breather; to take a rest; to catch one's breath; to take a breath
(confronting a problem, etc.) head-on; directly; outright; (lit.) from the front
to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on
hooded sweatshirt; hoodie; hoody; hooded jacket; parka; anorak
loungewear; comfortable clothing worn at home
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
to wear; to be dressed in; to be adorned in; to clad oneself with
establishment; creation; posing (a problem); options setting; preference settings; configuration
reimportation; reimport; reverse import; (cultural, etc.) reverse import (e.g. California rolls being introduced in Japan)
to be intimate with; to befriend
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
sound of something making firm contact with a flat surface
little by little; bit by bit; sparingly
even more; still more; further
offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)
father; dad; husband; you; he
slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late
dealing with; coping with
gloomy (e.g. mood); depressing; irritating; troublesome; heavy (weather); cloudy