please!; I'm asking you; for heaven's sake
getting hooked (on a video game, TV show, etc.)
living; being alive; freshness; liveliness; situation in which a group of stones cannot be captured because it contains two or more gaps (in go); stet
tsukemono; Japanese pickled vegetables
keepsake; memorabilia; memento
to get burned and stuck on (e.g. rice in a pan); to become uncollectable (e.g. debt or loan); to become irrecoverable; to remain unchanged (e.g. stock market)
mirin; type of sweet rice wine used in cooking
miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key (main) point; good part (of something); weakling
doubanjiang (Chinese broad bean chili paste)
face; honour; meld; lineup (of players participating in a mahjong game); attendees (e.g. at a meeting); members
to summon; to call (e.g. phone); to convene; to invoke (e.g. subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)
thesis; essay; treatise; paper; article
to read and understand; to subject to close analysis; to read deeply; to decipher; to decode
to take the time (to do); to set aside time (for)
while moving; on the move
establishment of more (offices)
to ask for trouble; to dig your own grave; to cut your own throat
to sit on the floor with one knee raised; to raise one knee; to sit with one knee up
to hurt; to smart; to sting
certain; unmistaken; evident; obvious; beyond doubt
reveal of how a trick is done; disclosure of a secret (cause, source, etc.); exposure; explanation
self-sufficiency; self-containment; autonomy; self-absorption
to be convinced (that); to be under the impression (that); to make up one's mind; to set one's heart on; to be obsessed (with a thought, idea, etc.); to think about obsessively
to knock down; to shoot down; to lop off
to harm; to hurt; to injure; to miss one's chance to (do something); to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer; grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow); failing to win a single hand during a half-game
carelessly (throwing, tossing, etc.); nonchalantly; casually
to cut up; to cut and discard; to eliminate systematically (in fault-finding); to isolate
thread-sail filefish (Stephanolepis cirrhifer); skinning (an animal); stripping (a tree of its bark); barking