part-time job; side job; part-time worker; part-timer
to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor
100,000; hundred thousand
almost every day; almost daily
to receive favor; to receive assistance; to receive help; to be looked after; to be taken care of; to become dependent (on)
to wriggle; to squirm; to crawl like a worm
sense of distance (physical or emotional); feeling of distance
therefore; for that reason; such being the case
to resign; to retire; to quit; to leave (one's job, etc.)
recovery; regaining; getting back; retrieval; restoration; revival
unpleasant; awkward; embarrassing; uneasy
since some time ago; for some time; for quite a while
OK; okay; fine (without); not needed; unnecessary
uncertain; indefinite; vague; ambiguous; equivocal; dubious
smallest (in size, degree, etc.); least; minimum; minimal
extent; scope; sphere; range; span
to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up
hiding one's embarrassment
hello (e.g. on phone); excuse me! (when calling out to someone)
advantage; benefit; merit; good point; plus
city; Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
vice; immorality; corruption
the above figure (diagram, illustration, chart, graph, etc.)
Chinese "star" constellation (one of the 28 mansions); Singapore
(an actor) conveying qualities of a character without gestures or speech; implied acting; implicitly asserting one's will (e.g. by sheer force of personality); performance using one's stomach (e.g. by drawing a face on it and animating it using one's abdominal muscles); acrobatics performed on a laid-out person's belly
satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client
to take (someone) by surprise; to do something unexpected
(a) weakness; shortcoming; failing; sore point
ground glass; frosted glass
to fall (e.g. blossoms, leaves); to scatter; to be dispersed; to disappear; to dissolve; to spread
it's better to; it's best to; it's safest to; you can't go wrong with; it doesn't hurt (to be young, beautiful, have money, etc.)
slide (for projection); transparency; (microscope) slide; to slide; to slip; to shift (e.g. a group of items in a schedule)
to blink (one's eyes) repeatedly
by chance; by accident; accidentally; occasionally; once in a while; now and then