chair; seat; stool; post; position; seat
to take a breather; to take a rest; to catch one's breath; to take a breath
to look around; to survey
phew; whew; huff; whoo; woohoo
consciousness; awareness; relief; calm
to gather; to collect; to assemble
poor-looking; impoverished-looking; scrawny (e.g. figure); thin-looking; sparse (e.g. meal)
to take into one's possession; to receive; to take into one's care (e.g. person, pet); to take custody of; to leave; to go away
one eye; one of one's eyes; being blind in one eye; person who is blind in one eye
that kind of; that sort of; that; like that; in that way; so
mark; guide; purpose; aim; sight (on a firearm)
princess; spoiled girl; hothouse flower; glue
to be (animate); to be; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
to talk oneself hoarse; to shout oneself hoarse
fearfully; timidly; cautiously; nervously
to duck one's head; to pull in one's head; to duck down; to shrug one's shoulders
to support (a theory, claim, etc.); to back up; to substantiate; to prove
conference room; council room
brush tip; first on a list; head; chief
king; ruler; tycoon; magnate; king (of the senior player)
selection; choice; choosing; picking; election
person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff
here and there; in twos and threes; sporadically; now and then; from time to time; occasionally
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
meeting up; gathering; assembly; set
assembling (in full force); muster; lining up; gathering; getting together
to be biased; to be prejudiced; to be partial; to be one-sided
burn; scald; (fig.) getting one's fingers burned (e.g. poor investment, mixing with the wrong people)
whereabouts; address; place of temporary residence
whole; entirety; to begin with; in the first place; ... the heck (e.g. "what the heck?"); ... in the world (e.g. "why in the world?")
exaggerated; overdone; overblown; hyperbolic; bombastic; grandiose
countermeasures headquarters; task force; countermeasures office; emergency headquarters
since some time ago; for quite a while; already
finally; at last; at length; barely; narrowly; hardly
the present; present time; as of; present tense; this world; this life
koku; traditional unit of volume, approx. 180.4 litres; measure of a Japanese-style boat's loading capacity (approx. 278.26 liters)
quotient; business; merchant; second degree (of the Japanese and Chinese pentatonic scale); Shang dynasty (of China; approx. 1600-1046 BCE); Yin dynasty
head office; main office; main store; this store; our store