fearfully; timidly; cautiously; nervously
manner of using one's hands
imitation (of someone, something); impersonation; (vocal) mimicry
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt; sentence-ending particle expressing a rhetorical question
messy; confused; chaotic; in a nagging manner; (complaining) about various things
to jostle; to crowd; to haggle
to jostle; to shove and push; to struggle with one another
scrambling; falling over each other; striving to be first
house in an alley; rear tenement
Japanese zelkova (Zelkova serrata)
to rule; to govern; to reign over; to subdue; to suppress; to quell
very difficult to ...; nearly impossible to ...
good-natured person; good person; (one's) lover; boyfriend; girlfriend
substitute; replacement; stand-in; proxy; compensation; exchange
mature woman; middle-aged woman
master (of a house, shop, etc.); husband; sir; boss; patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy
either way; in any case; one way or another
anyway; either way; one way or the other; whichever; whatever
ground; land; the region in question; the local area; skin; texture; fabric
alley; alleyway; path through a gate or garden; teahouse garden
vacant house; unoccupied house
piercing; shrill; noisy; loud; clamorous; wild
unable to stay (on); unable to endure being somewhere a second longer; feel like running away
to stand all around (e.g. bamboo, pines, pampas grass)
to smoke (something); to fumigate; to oxidize; to oxidise
to rush into; to surge into; to crowd into
in pieces; in scraps; fragmentary (e.g. knowledge); scrappy; insignificant; unimportant
to be torn off; to come off; to be torn to pieces; to be torn to shreds
brocade; fine dress; fine clothes
phoenix (esp. fenghuang, the Chinese phoenix)
black spot; dark spot; sunspot
to overflow from something full
crying loudly; bawling; wailing; crying one's eyes out (without making noise); breaking into a flood of tears; crying buckets
evening; evening (of a special event); last night; yesterday evening
defile; narrow path; bottleneck; impasse
agonizing cries; pandemonium; two of Buddhism's hells
prosperity; glory; splendour; splendor; majesty; luxury
shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff
ruin; fall; collapse; downfall; bankruptcy
heyday; prime; one's glory; the height of one's prosperity