chapter one; first chapter
educational institution; school; academy; campus
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
standard; criterion; norm; benchmark; measure; gauge
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.
agglutination; adhesion; fusion; combination; blending; uniting
circle; "correct"; "good"; *; _; period
concurrent engineering; CE
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
dining room; dining hall; cafeteria; restaurant; eatery; snack bar
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
home position; origin; usual place (for something)
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
(pork) cutlet curry; tonkatsu curry
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to open one's mouth wide and eat heartily; to gulp down food
facing; opposite; across the street; other side
to sit (down); to have a seat; to be seated; to assume (a position); to take on (a duty); to occupy (a post)
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
something; some kind of; for some reason
(looking around) restlessly; (looking) all around; goggling
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
neck; head; dismissal (from a job); firing
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to go around; to make a circle around; to surround; to circle; to come around (of a season, anniversary, turn, etc.); to return
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
willingly; voluntarily; of one's own accord
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...; wow
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
by chance; by accident; accidentally; occasionally; once in a while; now and then
day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
you said; he said; even if; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that