to flatter; to soft-soap; to sweet talk; to cajole; to instigate
feeling startled; getting a shock; prank; practical joke
a family; a household; (one's own) style; school; gang; (yakuza) family
ancestor; forefather; foremother
deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA
sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages; counter for cupfuls, bowlfuls, spoonfuls, etc.; counter for boats; counter for octopuses and squid; cup (in sports)
at a young age; while still young
of bad omen; ill augur; boding evil; bad fortune
implication; hidden meaning; latitude; atmosphere; tone; sentiment
focusing on only the good points or strong points; incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks); picking the best of both (everything); cherry-picking (e.g. information)
serious look (on one's face); straight face
therefore; for that reason; such being the case
one day; (on) a certain day
(talent) scout; recruiter; scouting; headhunting; Boy Scouts; Girl Scouts
as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively
by nature; naturally; by birth; inborn
one's family (home) background (environment)
winner; victor; conqueror
to cling to; to hold on to; to set about doing; to begin; to take hold of; to possess
fighting scene; scene of carnage (bloodshed); location of the fight between the Asuras and Shakra; difficulties (in a love relationship); crunch time (esp. for cartoonists)
threshold (esp. one with grooves for sliding doors); sill
anyway; by the way; incidentally; well; to change the subject
to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)
insensitive; inconsiderate; callous; thick-skinned
to enter; to trespass; to interfere; to meddle; to pry into
to happen to have on hand or in stock
splitting the cost; Dutch treat
tightfisted; stingy; miserly; small-minded
it's different when ... but; it's not so bad when ... but
manly; masculine; like a man
constraint; reserve; feeling hesitant; being afraid of troubling someone
(not) anyone; (not) a single person; no one; nobody
popular; folksy; plebeian; ordinary; unpretentious
upstart; nouveau riche; new money; piece promoted to gold general
this place; where one comes from; here
parcel kept refrigerated during delivery; cool delivery
contrived; false-sounding