suspension system (of a vehicle); undercarriage; area around one's feet; footwear
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!
fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred
to find; to discover; to come across; to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
to touch; to feel; to get involved (with); to approach; to be harmful to; to hinder
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
of course; certainly; naturally
image; figure; figure; form; image
safety confirmation; confirming (something) is safe
reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...
wanting (to have); desiring; wishing for; I want (you, them, etc.) to (do)
bad(-tasting); unpalatable; poor; unskillful; ugly; unattractive
tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well
convenient; handy; useful
remnants; survivors; refugees; pocket (of resistance)
hunting; hunt; gathering (mushrooms, shellfish, etc.); picking (berries, fruit, etc.); hunting down (a criminal, etc.); rounding up (e.g. communists)
careful; scrupulous; thorough; conscientious; elaborate; deliberate
ruins; wreckage; wreck; broken remains; debris
disposal; throwing away; dealing with (a problem); measure; punishment; penalty
collection; recovery; withdrawal; retrieval
to cut corners; to be shoddy; to slack off; to play a tenuki; to tenuki
for example; for instance; e.g.
raw materials; ingredient
body; physique; shape; form; substance; identity; field
else; in addition; on top of that; furthermore; further; besides
various; a variety of; variously; in various ways; various things; this and that
to be collected (of clams, etc.); to be gathered (of mushrooms, herbs, etc.); to be picked (of fruit, etc.); to be able to collect; to be able to extract; to be able to get
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
careless; thoughtless; stupid; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
if I (we, etc.) could; if one were to ... then ... (an unpleasant thing would happen)
far from; anything but; not at all ... but rather ...; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
one's own strength and skill alone (without money, connections, etc); nothing to rely on but oneself; (being) self-made
encroachment; invasion; erosion (e.g. of market share, rights); erosion; corrosion