Atlantis; Atlantis (space shuttle)
café; cafe; coffeehouse; hostess bar (serving western alcoholic beverages; Taisho and Showa period)
to borrow; to have a loan; to rent; to hire
corner; nook; recess; downstage right (on a noh stage)
desktop; desk-top; tabletop; after-dinner speech
scissors; shears; clippers; hole punch
polite; courteous; civil; careful; close; thorough
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
to pick out; to single out; to select; to extract; to draw out; to pull out
such things as ...; and ... and; the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; be; is; o
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
face; visage; look; expression; honor; honour
to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question
(a) step; one step; level; stage; small degree; small amount
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
is something wrong?; what's wrong?; what's the matter?; slightest; mere; trivial
to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered
to turn over; to turn pages of a book; to tear off; to strip off; to tear up
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
white paper; flyleaf; blank paper; clean slate; lack of prior opinion, positions, etc.; scratch
no more than; just; only; mere; goes no further than
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
(one) letter; (one) character
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
by no means; never!; something unexpected; emergency; (arch.) currently; (arch.) for the time being
to bring; to take (something) along; to fetch; to get
conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation
Mr; Mrs; clan; he; him; counter for people
to be bewitched by a fox; to be confused
to bite; to chew; to gnaw; to fumble one's words (esp. during a play, broadcast, etc.); to falter with one's words; to crash against (e.g. of waves); to break onto (shore)
for a moment; for a minute; for a while; for some time; for the time being; for now
to be silent; to say nothing
abrupt; sudden; unexpected