motherland; fatherland; native country
traditional food; ancestral food
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii)
pickling in salt; leaving unchanged; leaving unused
second; secondary; quadratic (function, equation, etc.); second-order
via; through; by doing; by means of; using
good flavor (flavour); good taste; umami (fifth category of taste in food); skill; cleverness; profit
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled
canned food; tinned food; confining someone (e.g. so they can concentrate on work); being stuck in a confined space
to gasp; to pant; to breathe hard; to suffer; to struggle
person's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
to soak (in); to steep; to dip; to pickle; to preserve (in salt, vinegar, etc.)
good flavor; good flavour; delicacy; dainty
the East; the Orient; (East) Asia; Japan
regional cuisine; local cuisine
to writhe (in pain); to be in agony; to be anguished; to be agonized; to be troubled
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
to melt; to thaw; to fuse; to dissolve
to collapse; to crumble; to get out of shape; to lose one's shape; to break down; to be thrown into disarray; to crash (stock market)
to be boiled down; to come to a standstill; to reach an impasse; to approach a conclusion (of a discussion, investigation, etc.)
empty seat; unoccupied seat; vacancy; vacant post
chair; stool; post; office; position
by all rights; properly speaking; legally speaking
dining; dining room; meal
unclear; obscure; unknown; unidentified; ignorance; lack of wisdom
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)
astonished; shocked; amazed; astounded; aghast
gaining time; stalling for time; time-buying
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
great hurry; great haste; rush
to eat up (completely); to put down (a rebellion); to suppress; (arch.) to make flat; (arch.) to level out
light blue; pale blue; aqua
to strain; to stretch; to string up; to cover over (e.g. with tiles, ice, etc.)
sudden; abrupt; unexpected
drawing room; parlour; parlor; reception office
excessively spacious; unduly wide; sprawling