candy made from wheat gluten; wheat-gluten snack
shopkeeper; storekeeper; proprietor of a shop
handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler
faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre
rustling; dry; rough feeling; rough (of a person); coarse; catching fish with a net
during a telephone call; busy line
Blue Hawaii (cocktail); Blue Hawaii (shaved ice flavoring)
burn; scald; (fig.) getting one's fingers burned (e.g. poor investment, mixing with the wrong people)
ramune; type of lemon soda sold in a Codd-neck bottle; compressed tablet candy; glucose tablet
glass bottle; glass jar; phial; vial
food sampling area (e.g. in a supermarket)
several people; some people; a few people; a number of people
blunder; slip; error; error
careful; elaborate; scrupulous
preliminary investigation; preliminary inquiry; preparation (for a class); going over one's lessons (in advance); studying ahead
kimono fabrics shop; draper
to draw near; to approach; to be imminent; to be impending; to be at hand
preliminary inspection; having a look in advance; preparatory read-through (e.g. of lesson notes); siding (on a house); clapboard
to peel off; to come off; to be taken off
contents of a document (esp. of a letter)
frail; having a weak constitution; being in poor health
amount of sugar; sugar content
coffee jelly; coffee jello; gelled sweetened coffee dessert
wall clock; grandfather clock
disapproval; disagreement; no; the noes; not ...; dis-
agreement; affirmative; aye; yes; OK
competition; rivalry; feeling that something is worth the effort; motivation; enthusiasm
unmanageable child; spoiled child (spoilt); spoiled brat
somewhat below; slightly below
difficult to eat; unpalatable
totally (different); completely
to confuse (someone); to befuddle; to bewilder; to mystify; to throw up a smokescreen; (lit.) to surround with smoke
difficult to say which of the two is better; hard to tell which is better; (there is) little to choose between them
to read too much into things; to get wrong ideas by letting one's imagination run wild; to have a groundless suspicion
to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate
chance encounter (worth treasuring); a connection made with another person by chance
sharing one's lot with another; being in the same boat
barefaced (e.g. lie); transparent; with feigned ignorance; pretending not to know; pure white; very clear
opening (one's mouth) wide; saying "aah"; crying loudly; wailing; bawling
seeing the light; being awakened to the truth; having the scales fall from one's eyes