simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light
office worker; company employee; company man; salaryman (stereotypical Japanese office worker)
serious; earnest; real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice weapon)
how can (one) do something
to catch; to stop the blow; to react to; to take (advice, etc.); to accept
smartly dressed; stylish; someone smartly dressed; to dress up; to be fashionable
mental preparedness; being braced for; being steeled for
evening; night; nighttime
baggage; luggage; burden; albatross around one's neck; excess baggage
trivial; not amounting to much
to cool (from room temperature); to chill; to calm down; to cool off; to be frightened (at); to be scared (of)
to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)
what; what kind of; no ...; any; adds emphasis to the preceding word; no
thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
business; task; use; purpose; for the use of ...; used for ...
to succeed; to relieve; to take the place of; to substitute for; to be exchanged; to change (places with)
department store; department
clothes for a newborn baby; baby clothes
toy; (person or thing treated as a) plaything
to choose (a thing) at one's own discretion; to use one's discretion in choosing
to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous
to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to interpret; to understand
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
to stop (moving); to come to a stop; to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to alight; to perch on
(stand to) attention!; standing at attention
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment
complaint; grumbling; objection; phrase; words; expression
stingy; mean; narrow-minded; petty; shabby; poor
trivial; not amounting to much; not a big deal
establishing; proving; ascertaining; identifying; confirming
in addition; furthermore; above (which); on top of (which)
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
in terms of both ... and ...; from the perspective of ... as well as ...; whether it be ... or ...
having a headache; racking one's brains; troubling over something
incident; affair; happening; event
in succession; one by one