for your information; I'm telling you
unrelated; irrelevant; unconcerned; unconnected
manager; person in a (school or university) sports team in charge of administrative and miscellaneous duties
public and private matters; official and personal affairs; professional and personal lives
private; personal life; (one's) privacy
to death (bored, scared, etc.); to distraction; like crazy; like mad; so much; dying (e.g. for a drink)
appearing that; seeming that; looking like; having the appearance of
way of saying (something); way of putting it; wording; phrasing; language; expression
to be given the cold shoulder; to be jilted; to be rejected; to be dumped
chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox
couscous; cuscus (variety of phalanger)
vague; faint; dim; indistinct; hazy; blurry
though; although; notwithstanding; while; as; at the same time as
to advance (spatially); to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to move ahead (e.g. of work); to intensify
road; path; route; way; distance; journey; road (e.g. to victory)
almost every day; almost daily
changing one's attitude; turning over a new leaf; getting a fresh start
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
second-year student; second-year pupil; biennial; biennial plant
promotion (school, military, etc.)
big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)
shuffle (of playing cards, etc.); rearranging (in a random order); shaking (a container to mix ingredients, etc.)
composition; formation; organization; organisation; compilation
circumstances; condition; arranging; managing; lending money; raising money
replacement; substitution; change; shunting (rail); switching
depending on the situation; depending on circumstances
movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling
to be forced to do or experience something (against one's will); to be forced to do something because one has no other choice
pattern; behavioural pattern; behavioral pattern; predictability
seems to be; appears to have; supposed to be
table; chart; list; memorial to an emperor
foursome; group of four people; Gang of Four (Maoist political faction)
boo! (sound used to scare someone); ugh (dissatisfaction, aggravation); ulp (consternation)
as a matter of fact; actually; effectively; in reality; in effect
demotion; relegation; downgrading
same person; said person; the person in question; coterie; clique; dōjin
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; operation; moving picture
band (group of musicians); band (material); strap; belt (clothing); (frequency) band
absorbed in; immersed in; forgetting oneself; daze; within a dream; while dreaming
to fall; to drop; to set (of the sun or moon); to sink; to decrease (of popularity, quality, speed, sales, etc.); to fall; to be inferior (to)
to continue (for a long time); to occur in succession; to come next (e.g. on TV)
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
after having come this far; now that we've come this far