food shortage; food scarcity; difficulty of obtaining food
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
abdomen; belly; womb; one's mind; one's real intentions; courage; nerve
to abate; to decrease; to diminish; to shorten
some people; a few people; several people
charge; custody; safekeeping; deposit; storage
canned food; tinned food; confining someone (e.g. so they can concentrate on work); being stuck in a confined space
stealthily; secretly; in secret
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
dead of night; middle of the night; midnight; third quarter of the hour of the ox (2-2:30am, or 3-3:30am)
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
to take someone's life; to kill someone
when it becomes; when it comes to
student (esp. a university student)
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
to roll; to tumble; to fall over; to roll over; to lie down; to be scattered about; to be lying around
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
power outage; electricity outage; blackout; failure of electricity supply
trader; dealer; businessperson; fellow trader; people in the same trade
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
electricity; (electric) light
to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
to pass (time); to spend; to overdo (esp. of one's alcohol consumption); to drink (alcohol); (arch.) to take care of; (arch.) to support
endurance; perseverance; patience
way; method; means; resource; course
gate; branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master; division; phylum; counter for cannons
just; right; pure; genuine; truth
to be seen; to be in sight; to look; to seem; to come
to gather; to collect; to assemble
aah!; ooh!; oh no!; oh boy!
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise