obligation; duty; charge; responsibility
total; sum total; total amount
terrible; terrifying; dreadful; astonishing; astounding; staggering
to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than
whether one likes it or not; willy-nilly
(relative) merits; superiority or inferiority; quality
to compete; to contend; to vie; to contest
to lose (a chance); to miss (a chance); to overlook; to omit; to deviate
some; any; please; anyway; anyhow
hundred million; 100,000,000; 10^8
regular pay; fixed salary
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it; I mean
low-quality products; strange thing; strange combination
alley; alleyway; path through a gate or garden; teahouse garden
many; numerous; various; large number of
shellfish; seashell; shell
crayfish (esp. the Japanese crayfish or red swamp crayfish); crawfish
paying back in installments (instalments); amortization plan (amortisation); gradual progression (oft. into an unwanted state); doing little by little; proceeding in a continual and vague fashion; gradually obscuring
extremely dangerous; full of peril
to deepen; to heighten; to intensify
shutout; shutting out; locking out; shutout; allowing no runs (goals, etc.)
I got it; I see; I now know; so that's the reason
great (quantity, amount, etc.); huge; enormous; serious
(not) readily; (not) easily; (not) right away; (not) simply; (not) without difficulty
unbelievable; incredible; implausible
to push into; to stuff into; to be enthusiastic (about); to be crazy (about); to get excited; to be stirred up
what one has a mind to do; what one feels like (doing); being so minded; (with) that in mind
shopfront; storefront; shopwindow; over-the-counter
to dish up; to arrange (food) on a plate
boiling with salt; boiling in salty water (e.g. vegetables)
light (flavor, color, etc.); simple; plain; frank; candid; easygoing
thorn; spine; splinter (esp. lodged in one's flesh); hard sharp item (esp. lodged in one's throat, e.g. fish bone); biting words
poisonous; venomous; hateful; detestable; gaudy; garish
clumsy; awkward; unskillful; incompetent; inept; bungling
to dig up; to dig out; to pick (nose, teeth, etc.); to pry into; to examine closely; to dredge up
marshland; wetland; swampland
remote place; backcountry; the sticks; hinterland
fried prawns; fried shrimp
tempura donburi; tempura served over a bowl of rice; (in comedy) repeating the same gag or silly line
getting information (esp. by interviewing witnesses, etc. in a police investigation)
circumstances; sequence of events; how things got this way; details; particulars