cutting ingredients into decorative shapes (e.g. vegetables)
homemade bento containing food decorated to look like cute characters (from anime, etc.)
dietary education; nutrition education; food education
demonstrative of one's worth; worthy of one's reputation; living up to one's name; bolstering one's reputation; enhancing one's prestige; winning one honour
cultivation of aesthetic sensibility; education in good taste
latch; clasp; catch; check; fastener
inscription; epitaph; (manufacturer's) engraved signature; motto; maxim
unable to back out; unable to withdraw; unable to stop; unable to compromise
being irresistible; being furiously vigorous; being intensely forceful
to be relieved; to feel relieved
epidemic; plague; pestilence
to mourn; to lament; to be sorry; to regret; to repent
to make absolutely sure; to make doubly sure
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
accompanying; being accompanied by; going with
blunder; miss; slip; oversight
death; mortality; to die; to pass away
fatal accident; deadly accident
while moving; on the move
rewinding (e.g. VCR, tape deck, etc.)
to content oneself with; to be resigned to (one's fate); to be contented (satisfied) with (one's lot)
adapting oneself to the requirements of the moment; playing by ear; ad hoc approach
to remind (someone of something); to call attention to; to make sure of; to emphasize; to emphasise
bucket maker; well maker; cooper; hooper
to be profitable; to yield a profit
to gesture to come closer; to beckon; to call; to summon
to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through
leaving everything up to someone else
for the first time in one's life
to pamper; to make a fuss of; to spoil; to fawn over
currently nowhere to be seen; unknown where it went; disappeared into thin air
to ask; to inquire; to implore (a god for an oracle); to seek direction (from your superior); to visit; to speak to (a large crowd at a theatre, etc.)
to say it out loud; to yell out; to emphasize
knowledge; awareness; consent; acceptance; forgiving; pardoning
massive failure; debacle; fiasco
colluding; complicity; liaison; compromise; giving in
role of a villain (film, drama, etc.); bad-guy role; social outcast role
Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis)
aquaculture; culture; cultivation; raising
La France pear (var. of French pear); Claude Blanchet pear; La France rose
tuna (edible fish, Thunnus spp.); tunny; Pacific bluefin tuna (edible fish, Thunnus orientalis); dead lay; starfish
commercialization; commercialisation
age of the Moon; number of days since the new moon; age in months (esp. of an infant)
to strain (oneself); to bear down; to exert oneself; to put on a bold front; to make a show of strength; to swagger
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about