to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest; to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)
dubious tale; cock-and-bull story; questionable information; taking care not to be fooled
to feel awkward; to feel ashamed; to feel inferior; to feel shy (about doing something)
today and tomorrow; today or tomorrow; in a day or two; very soon
February; second month of the lunar calendar
debt collection; debt collector
while alive; during one's lifetime
caregiver; care worker; carer
guarantor; surety; sponsor; reference; bondsman
economic slump; hard times; poor (business); dull; gloomy; cheerless
mortgage; security; hypothec; pledge
at any rate; anyhow; anyway; in any case; because
to throb (with pain); to ache; to smart; to rankle; to gall; to rile
self-aggrandizement under pretense of aiding another (aggrandisement, pretence)
money-making; earning money
to take on a role; to take part
good feeling; good will; favourable impression; favorable impression
unable to stay (on); unable to endure being somewhere a second longer; feel like running away
cellar; cave; hole in the ground
long ago; once upon a time
ticktock; chinking (e.g. of a hammer against rock); knocking; dry and hard; (frozen) stiff; hidebound
seed leaves (of a dicot); cotyledons; bud; early stages; very beginning
charcoal; charred remains
eyeball; special feature; centerpiece; special program; loss leader; sunny-side up fried egg
skull; cranium; kanji "person" radical at top
big fire (buildings, etc. on fire)
the whole day; all the day
to escape being burned (esp. of a building or the items in it); to survive a fire
total fire loss; completely burned
number of people; population; human head
to lie down; to throw oneself down
enormous; gargantuan; immense; ridiculously large
expresses a firm view or feeling; please ...; would you ...
master (of a house, shop, etc.); husband; sir; boss; patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy
hawfinch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes)
place to die; place of death
to succeed (in doing); to pull something off; to manage (to do a job)