apartment building with an automatically locked entrance
spring picking; first flush (tea)
winning straight victories; making a clean score
conceit; hubris; vanity; presumption
ages; long time; decade; ten years (ago)
patching (up); cutting a part and pasting a new one (e.g. a shoji door); cut and paste
practice of buying a bottle of spirits at a bar which is then kept there for the customer
to come to an end; to lower the curtain
cinema fan; cinema-goer; cinephile; film aficionado; film buff; film fan
half-florescent; half-bloomed
to distribute; to arrange; to arrange; to lay out (as in decorating); (arch.) to marry off; (arch.) to exile
confirmation; certification; ascertainment
falling plump; falling down flat
to get moldy; to get mouldy; to get out-of-fashion
to take a big bite; to take the best part; to steal all the good parts; to steal the show
intermediate color; intermediate colour; neutral color or tint; neutral colour
regular train; local train; train that stops at every station
disposable camera; single-use camera
your honor (honour); his (or her) honor (honour)
crash; smash; crunch; bang; breaking sound
continuous; nonstop; consecutive; ceaseless
lewdness; lewd person; lecher
to exploit; to extort; to squeeze (someone); to squeeze (e.g. oil, juice); to wring out; to press out
sunny (room, etc.); well sunlit
anyone; anybody; everyone; whoever
normally; ordinarily; by anyone's standards; by normal standards; without any issues; without any difficulty
to be turned up; to be lifted up (e.g. by the wind)
breaking off; snapping off
curiously; curiously enough; oddly enough; to the point of being mysterious; to the extent of being strange
xiaolongbao (eastern Chinese steamed bun); soup dumpling