Chinese-style low dining table; Japanese-Chinese cuisine, served family-style (large dishes, diners help themselves), specialty of Nagasaki Chinese style low dining table; okame soba; soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc.
Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis); soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae)
deep in the mountains; mountain recesses
foreign (product, esp. agricultural); of foreign manufacture
entirely domestically produced; 100% domestically made
sole; single; solo; independence; singleness; singularity
man among men; manly man; alpha male
wrong; groundless; different; separate; unexpected; surprising
to be suspected (of); to be under suspicion (of)
platform; podium; (ceremonial) mound; world (of haiku, art, etc.); (literary) circles; (arch.) mandala
head; brains; intelligence
cannot be compared (with); being no match (for)
camouflage; disguise; pretense; feigning; masquerade
it's no big deal; it's nothing to fret about; it's not like it's the end of the world
elder brother; big brother; one's senior; one's elder; old ingredients; stale ingredients
thin (air); weak (liquid); dilute; lacking (enthusiasm, consideration, substance, etc.); insubstantial; deficient
videocassette recorder; VCR
number (of long, cylindrical things, movies, trains, home runs, etc.)
all night; throughout the night
mature woman; middle-aged woman
underarm hair; armpit hair
lifeboat; friend in need; helping hand; timely help
with a snap; (breaking) cleanly; (rejecting) sternly; flatly; smartly; (dressing up) well
on the surface; ostensibly; superficially; apparently
to betray a secret; to reveal a secret
going on ahead; forestalling; anticipating; arrival before another
German chamomile (Matricaria recutita); German camomile
herbal tea; herb tea; tisane
fast-talking; rapid talking
outward appearance; ostensible; public; official
(jumping) nimbly; light-footed; boing; used at sentence end to affect cuteness
brothers and sisters; siblings
to play dumb; to feign innocence
to shuffle (on one's bottom or knees); to crawl; to shift position (of an object)
to fly into a rage; to lose one's temper; to flare up; to break out
contact; touch; contact lens
disconnection; interruption; burn-out
forbidding mentioning (something to others); imposing silence (on); ordering (someone) to keep quiet; hush money
calamity; misfortune; disaster
field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness
related to; in relation to
feeling of alienation; sense of being excluded; feeling of estrangement