to bind; to file; to top with egg (e.g. donburi)
book; booklet; story book; pamphlet; notebook
somehow; in some way; for some reason; faintly; vaguely
excursion; field trip; school trip
intellectual curiosity; out of curiosity; inquisitiveness
reason for being; raison d'être
curtain; bunting; act (in play)
Odin (god in Norse mythology); ODIN
head; chief; top student; head of the class; top seat; first desk (in orchestra)
self-conceit; self-centeredness; vainglory
only natural; no wonder; as expected; of course; as it should be
professionalism; professional awareness
education; training; discipline
hard to understand; Byzantine fashion
let me humbly say; most humbly; with all due respect
foolish thought; (one's own) thought; (one's own) idea
(a) principle; (a) reason; (a) point; some truth
to be enraged; to flip out
scrap; piece; fag end; unimportant (person); petty (official); barely (in a role)
starting late; late departure
to die; to decease; to perish; to pass away
to butt into a conversation (from someone uninvolved)
still more; even more; much more; increased; greater
(unpleasant) state of affairs; predicament; mess
retort; back talk; backchat
to stub out (e.g. a cigarette); to crush out; to smother (fire); to hush up; to cover up; to stifle
to displease; to offend; to hurt (a person's) feelings
(metropolitan) prefecture (of Osaka and Kyoto); the centre or seat (of) (center); (government) office; fu; historical administrative unit in China, Korea and Vietnam
vice-minister; undersecretary
gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase