thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward
good(-tasting); nice; delicious; attractive (offer, opportunity, etc.); appealing; convenient
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
unexpected; surprising; unanticipated; strange; unforeseen
once; one time; exclusively; only; alone
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
by all means; at any cost; whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; on no account; by no means
liking; being fond of; liking (romantically); being in love with; faddism; eccentricity
body; physique; shape; form; substance; identity; field
to be found; to be discovered
position; situation; viewpoint; standpoint; point of view
perhaps; possibly; maybe; if; in case; in the event that
retort (vessel used for distillation); retort (airtight vessel used to heat and sterilize canned or retort-pouch food)
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
store; shop; establishment; restaurant
ramen; Chinese-style noodles
two persons; two people; pair; couple
supermarket; subtitles; telop; superheterodyne; super
bulk buying; buying in quantity; stocking up (on)
soy sauce; soya sauce; shoyu
(sense of) taste; counter for kinds of food, drink or medicine
eggs; egg; (hen's) egg; a ... in the making; future (lawyer, doctor, etc.); beginning
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
curry (esp. Japanese curry); rice and curry
to try (out); to have a try (at); to test; to put to the test
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
until then; till then; to that extent; the end of it; all there is to it
crude; unrefined; coarse; ill-mannered; rude; insensitive
leasing (out); renting out; hiring out; letting
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
grace (of God); benevolence (of Buddha); assistance; help; effects; influence
your husband; her husband
orthopaedic surgeon; plastic surgeon
director (of a hospital, institution, academy, etc.); superintendent; rector
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman
standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability
to put out one's hand; to extend one's arm; to reach (for); to try one's hand at (something new)
to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp
aah!; ooh!; oh no!; oh boy!
to give up (all thoughts of); to abandon; to despair of; to make up one's mind; to make a decision; to decide