sauce; Worcestershire sauce
merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper
likes and dislikes; pickiness (about food); choosiness; fussiness; tastes; preferences
you must be kidding; hey, come on!; surely not!
well; in good health; safe; free from accident
dinner party; ceremonial dinner; dinner meeting (or lunch, breakfast)
instant; moment; (split) second; (in a) flash; (in the) blink of an eye
to substitute for; to stand in for; to fill in for
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
another helping; second helping; seconds; command to have dog place its second paw in one's hand
pressing; urging; demanding; demand
twice; again; second time
leaving something where it is; abandoning something
call; visit; inquiry; enquiry; question
to change one's way of thinking; to switch the direction of one's thoughts; to put one's focus on a new subject; to adopt a new frame of mind
to hesitate; to have scruples; to be afraid of what others may think; to lord it over; to have great influence
release (e.g. information); disclosure (legal); show; indication; display
purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
castle (in place names); castle; fortress
legendary beast; magical beast
to be a matter of life or death
to carry around; to carry on one's person
bento; Japanese box lunch
breaking up (e.g. meeting); dispersing (e.g. crowd); dissolving (company, organization, etc.); liquidating; dissolving (diet, parliament, etc.)
Middle Ages (in Japan esp. the Kamakura and Muromachi periods); medieval times; mediaeval times
bookstore; bookshop; publisher; main building
medical science; medicine
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
food culture; dietary culture; cuisine
to be impatient; to be eager; to be restless; to be excited; to be in high spirits
easy; simple; easygoing; lighthearted; simplistic
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)
to write down; to record; to register
(please) try to; (please) look; seeing; looking
highest grade; superlative degree
seeing things in a favourable light (favorable)
north; the North; northern territories; North Korea; (arch.) north wind
on one occasion; once; at one point; at one time
border; boundary; turning point; watershed; area; region