to receive favor; to receive assistance; to receive help; to be looked after; to be taken care of; to become dependent (on)
chief; main; principal; important
shopping; purchased goods
promising without due consideration
(electric) torch; flashlight
outskirts (of a town); edge (of a town); just outside the city limits
street at night; making a night journey
gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase
to turn back; to go back; to come back; to return; to retrace one's steps
to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess
courage; bravery; valour; valor; nerve; boldness
to use to the full (one's voice, energy, etc.); to muster all of (one's strength, courage, etc.); to summon all of; to exert fully; to strain (one's voice)
to lay hands on; to touch; to care for; to look after; to make off with; to steal
pitch-dark; pitch-black; completely dark; very bleak (future); utterly hopeless
to be thirsty; to feel thirsty; to thirst for; to crave
lightly (floating, drifting, etc.); buoyantly; soft; fluffy; unsteadily; flightily
thickly; densely; luxuriantly
to perceive; to grasp (the situation)
to stare at; to look hard at; to look up and down; to scrutinize; to scrutinise
comparatively; relatively; fairly; rather; pretty; unexpectedly
exaggerated; overdone; overblown; hyperbolic; bombastic; grandiose
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young woman; young (animal); offshoot
light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence; power
pupil (of the eye); one's eyes
to shine; to glitter; to be bright
to have tears in one's eyes; to be moved to tears
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
expression; representation; description; representation (of a group)
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to remember; to recall
looking over someone's shoulder
I see; that's right; indeed
weird; eerie; ominous; creepy; uncanny; unearthly
respect; esteem; reverence; honour; honor
alone; by oneself; on one's own
one (small animal); two-tan bolt of cloth
counter for small animals; counter for rolls of cloth (two han in size); (arch.) counter for horses; roll of cloth
country in civil war; country disarrayed by war; Warring States period (Japan, China); competition in which there are several evenly matched participants; hotly contested game (match, market, etc.)
pronunciation; production of sound
difficult to ...; hard to ...
completely (beaten, defeated, etc.); thoroughly; utterly; black and blue; to a pulp