look here; I say; well; I know what; I'll tell you what; just a minute
the other day; lately; recently
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
company president; manager; director
together; at the same time; same; identical
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
relieved; refreshed; frank; candid; easy-going
feeling; sense; impression
good-natured person; good person; (one's) lover; boyfriend; girlfriend
small; little; slight; below average (in degree, amount, etc.); low (e.g. sound); soft (e.g. voice)
comfortable (to live in); snug; cosy; cozy
after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
plate; dish; serving; helping; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
to carry; to transport; to come; to go; to wield (a tool, etc.); to use
individual plate; single individual's small dish on which food taken from shared serving dishes is placed
to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
multi-tenant building; building containing a mixture of businesses, shops and residential apartments
storey; story; stairs; stage (in chronostratigraphy); counter for storeys and floors of a building
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
president's office; director's office
game of make-believe; child's play; pretend play
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
plate (often as in "tectonic plate")
to take (a resource, e.g. time or money); to hang; to come into view; to arrive; to come under (a contract, a tax); to start (engines, motors); to attend
ten; 10; ten years of age
tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)
combined living-room and dining-room
combined living room, dining room and kitchen
all over; all over the place; everywhere
terrific; fierce; terrible; tremendous; dreadful; awful
to be in disorder; to lie scattered around
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
back and front; inside and outside; inside out (e.g. clothing); double-dealing; two faces (cf. two-faced); outward appearance and actual condition
does not seem; unlikely; improbable
several people; a few people
to sit at a desk (to study); to set to work on revision, homework, etc.
sometimes; at intervals; occasionally; on occasion; from time to time
if; in case; as for; on the topic of; if that's the case; if so
to become; to appear like; to have a touch of; to look like