freezing; cold storage; refrigeration
manual labor; manual labour; handwork; manual procedure
to get scarce; to run short
pocket money; spending money; pin money; allowance
to sell like hot cakes; to fly off the shelves
to run out of; to dry up; to be depleted; to hit the bottom; to bottom out
tsk tsk; oh-oh; huh; what's that?
red bean paste; red bean jam; kudzu sauce; filling (of a dumpling, etc.); filling; stuffing
eye measurement; measure with eye
to make a mistake (in); to commit an error; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to mislead; to misguide
not one to talk; who are you to say; look who's talking
die all together; go to the grave together
sweetish; somewhat sweet; somewhat lenient; kind of optimistic
climate and natural features (of a region)
contiguous (of land); adjoining; adjacent; continuous (with); connected (without a break); seamlessly linked
Mediterranean Sea; Mediterranean sea (oceanography)
strip of vegetation (in an urban area); green strip; tree lawn; green belt; greenbelt
territory; autonomous region
Northern Europe; Nordic countries; Scandinavia
indigenousness; being native (to a region); settling (of people); native; indigenous; aboriginal
different race; different ethnic group; different peoples
to tower over the surroundings
scorpion (Scorpiones spp.)
antlion (larva); doodlebug; antlion pit
jostling; milling about; crush; packed with (activities, products, etc.); teeming with; chock-full of
to set a watch; to post guards
(the degree of) self-sufficiency (e.g. in oil)
poor crop; bad harvest; crop failure; low quality (e.g. of literary works)
famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
adjoining each other; next to each other; being in close proximity to something; being constantly exposed to (danger, etc.)
(a) weakness; shortcoming; failing; sore point
import; importation; introduction; afferent
to deprecate oneself and praise the listener; to abase oneself
western direction; Western Pure Land (Amitabha's Buddhist paradise); western fighter in a match (e.g. sumo)