private citizen; civilian
fruit of one's labor; result of one's efforts
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
standing by; awaiting an opportunity; being on alert
swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence (pretense); show; going to restaurant, hotel etc. without a reservation or introduction
money-making; earning money
indicates concession or compromise; indicates permission
to be popular; to come into fashion; to be prevalent; to spread widely (e.g. disease); to flourish; to thrive
to whinge; to kvetch; to gripe; to complain; to whine
breast; chest; pit of the stomach; solar plexus; epigastrium
by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing
to profit; to get; to have (bear, beget) a child; to have a stroke of luck
unexpectedly; unusually; considering all that
to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)
(stare or glare with) scornful eyes; reproachful eyes; disgusted eyes
to be a matter of life or death
in proportion to; just as much as
cardboard box; carton; corrugated box
(Judeo-Christian) Sabbath
conclusion; resolution; gathering and bundling; convergence; focusing (e.g. light); convergence
performer; entertainer; actor
baked sweet goods (e.g. Danish pastry, melon bread); sweet pastry; sweet bread
in that case; (might not be what was expected or hoped for but) if that's the case
change; conversion; transformation; transformation
to melt into; to dissolve into; to merge into; to blend into (surroundings); to fit in; to adapt to
feature (e.g. newspaper); special edition; report
broadcasting; broadcast; program; announcement
sense of impending crisis; sense of danger
to think too much; to be over-concerned
on the sea; surface of the sea
artificial island; man-made island
one of Japan's foremost; leading in Japan
tourist attraction; sight-seeing area
in the morning; during the morning
limits; boundary; domain; area (e.g. in programming languages)
power plant; power station
falling into a doze; dozing off; nodding off