love birds; sickeningly sweet and soppy couple
silly; foolish; absurd; childish; easy; trifling
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
direction; way; point of the compass; cardinal direction; method; means
sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care
pillow; bolster; introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story); lead-in
hard (life); tough (world)
light (color, colour, taste); simple; plain; frank; candid; ingenuous
holding out a little longer
rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse
to hardly recognise; to mistake for something or somebody else
by nature; naturally; by birth; innately; congenitally
to sweep; to brush; to clean; to gather silkworms
three (long cylindrical things); three-of-a-kind (in a dealt hand)
preview of next installment (TV shows, podcasts, etc.)
to mix with; to be mixed; to be mingled
July; seventh month of the lunar calendar
repeated at intervals; every other (day, week, month, ...)
main force; chief object; mainline
current; urgent; to confront (an issue); to face (up to something); for the meantime; at present
this and that; various things
safe (e.g. choice); secure; innocuous; acceptable; passable; satisfactory
to take a view or perspective; to regard as; to consider to be
relation; connection; relevance
to come to a dead end; to come to a standstill; to reach a deadlock; to reach an impasse; to reach a stalemate
honestly speaking; in truth; in all honesty; to be frank
vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry
despite; in spite of; not worrying about; without fear of
orderliness; put in order; tidying up; arranging neatly
from the viewpoint of; according to
to wait eagerly for; to look forward to
ardent; passionate; vehement
to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest)
resonance; sympathy (with a view, idea, etc.)
to fail (in getting a job); to miss out (at fishing, hunting, etc.); to be left out; to be crowded out
to become; to appear like; to have a touch of; to look like
specialized; specialised; boutique
... being the case; (precisely) because ...; as might be expected from ...