fish having white flesh (e.g. tai, hirame, karei)
root crops; root vegetables
bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
simple; plain; modest; frugal; reserved
underlying cause; indirect cause; remote cause
to sum up; to summarize; to summarise
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
to diffuse; to spread throughout; to prevail; to become widespread; to reach everyone
to starve; to be famished; to be hungry; to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for
just; justifiable; right; due; proper; equitable
attachment; adhesion; tenacity; fixation; obsession
luxury; extravagance; to live in luxury; to indulge oneself; lavish (use of something); abundant
just because; even if; even though
widely; extensively; far and wide; everywhere; all around; generally
personal appearance; character; personality
noble; lofty; high-minded; virtuous; upright
dripping with sweat; doing something by the sweat of one's brow
quiet; calm; easily; comfortably; distant; far-off
bad-mouthing someone so as to be deliberately overheard; intentionally letting someone hear insults or sarcasm regarding them
people; (all) persons; you (usu. plural); various
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
to perceive; to understand
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
(if) by some chance; by some possibility; in the unlikely event that; (unlikely event of) emergency; the worst(-case scenario)
coming out; going out; attending (work); appearing (on stage); start; beginning; origins
prohibition; ban; embargo
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
unnatural; affected; studied; forced
pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants
feeling sick; feeling queasy; feeling nauseated; being angry; being offended; being disgusted
to insinuate; to satirize; to satirise; to take a dig at
implicitly; indirectly; tacitly; by implication; obscurely
disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment
miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key (main) point; good part (of something); weakling