the basics, a general idea

a special talent or skill that one is good at / an act or expression that one often does

deathwatch beetle

(2channel slang) repeating something for the n-th time

vicissitudes, the way that the world or a person prospers one day and declines the next

一栄一落: vicissitudes

You should treasure every encounter, for it will never recur.

dotting the i's and crossing the t's

successive series of questions and responses

(the) outside