cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike
attractive; good-looking; stylish; cool; smooth; neat
scene; setting; scene (in a movie, play); shot; state of the market
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
the best one can do; one's best effort; with all one's might; to the best of one's ability
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
youngster; neophyte; greenhorn
had better ...; had better not ...
uncle; old man; mister; manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)
surely; undoubtedly; sternly; severely; having no slack; rigid
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
land mine; topic that sets someone off; sensitive topic; something that seems fine at first but turns out to be very bad (e.g. product, business); booby trap
to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)
daring; fearless; intrepid; bold; tough
close; intimate; on good terms
to stop (in one's tracks); to come to a stop; to halt; to pause; to stand still
to treat; to handle; to deal with; to arrange; to decorate; to dress
to frolic about; to mess around
interruption; suspension; break
to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)
perfectly; right on the mark; spot on; enough; sufficiently; thoroughly
gotcha; alrighty; got it; OK
inadvertently; for no special reason; truthfully; unexpectedly; after realizing; without knowing
shop; small store; business; firm
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
business district; shopping district; bustling street; shopping centre; shopping center; downtown
lived-in feel (e.g. of a room); sense of life; hints of daily life
to overflow; to brim over; to flood
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
district; section; sector
hearsay; rumor; rumour; report
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade
ruins; wreckage; wreck; broken remains; debris
destruction by fire; losing in a fire; being burnt down
to escape being burned (esp. of a building or the items in it); to survive a fire
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
to burn; to be roasted; to be heated; to be jealous; to be envious