evening meal, dinner

sashimi, a dish of sliced raw fish or meat.

cooked rice / a meal of any sort

(archaic) (as for) today

today, this day / nowadays

Same as こんにち above

good day, good afternoon: a Japanese greeting used in the daytime

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)

to seem, to appear

in my opinion; I think; I guess; upon thought; upon reflection; upon contemplation / conceivably; presumably