Chinese cooking; Chinese food
important; serious; valuable; precious; serious matter; major incident
employee welfare; employee benefits; fringe benefits
way of speaking; intimation
whim; caprice; whimsy; fickle; moody; uneven temper
one's superior; senior; elder
food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion
to be palatable; to suit one's taste
to weigh on one's mind; to be worried about (something)
eccentric; oddball; character; weirdo
to act timid (about doing); to show diffidence; to feel ashamed; to feel guilty
to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
words used by young people; slang
registration; accession; register; entry; record
same period; corresponding period; same year (of graduation, entering a company, etc.); contemporary; synchronization; synchronism
reason; logic; sense; truth; right
to bring up a subject; to touch on a matter
last (i.e. immediately preceding); previous; pre- (e.g. premodern); before; before; earlier
nonchalant air; unruffled air
sharing; division; draw; tie
human relations; personal relationships
sensitive; alert; aware; susceptible
tourist attraction; sight-seeing area
increasingly; more and more; decreasingly (when declining); less and less
to live; to make a living; to get on with
you have only to; all you have to (do); all that's required; as long as; if only
process; course; mechanism
elimination; erasure; clearing; elimination (of variables)
how; in what way; in what manner
to take advantage of; to impose on; to make an entry (in an account book)
worry; fear; anxiety; concern
overserious; deeply sincere; very earnest
while alive; during one's lifetime
to follow; to accompany; to cleave to; to join up with; to obey implicitly; to flatter
obvious; clear; plain; evident; apparent; explicit
straight-laced person; stubborn person
success or failure; outcome; result
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
extra; more; unnecessary; needless; all the more; even more
battle formation; lineup (e.g. for a game)