self-protection; self-preservation
(can you) spare a little time (to speak)?; (do you) have a moment (to speak)?
middle of summer; height of summer; midsummer
smuggler; bootlegger; illicit dealer; trafficker
touting; soliciting; luring; tout; barker; pander
people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos
accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
exaggerated; overblown; overdone
eyesight; vision; visual acuity
shade; tone; tinge; hue; colour; color
traveling bag; travelling bag; suitcase
to sell off; to dispose of
crisis awareness; sense of impending crisis
dejectedly; dispiritedly; despondently; gloomily
mountain villa; chalet; mountain cottage; mountain retreat; house in the mountains
floating and sinking; rise and fall; ebb and flow; ups and downs
to be about to board; to be riding on; to get on top of; to lean over; to set about; to collide with
ascending and descending; going up and down
stay; sojourn; stay; prop; support
pulse; vein; chain (of mountains, etc.); hope; thread (of an argument)
nodding (in agreement, with approval, etc.); repeatedly nodding and dozing off; suddenly (dying); deep (flavor, flavour, color, colour, etc.); rich
one's best interests; one's own good
to turn; to rotate; to go around; to circle; to make the rounds (of); to go around (several places); to go by way of
to be second to none (in)
suspicious character (person, figure)
to peer into the darkness
difference (of opinion); strange; odd; different
lower region; lower part; region below
unwanted child; shunned child
illegitimate child; bastard; love child
vermillion (colour); cinnabar; vermillion (pigment); cinnabar ink stick; correction written in red ink
to shine; to be visible; to be tinged with; to rise (of water levels); to flow in; to be felt (i.e. as an emotion); to come over one
night soil; muck; filth; dirt
to lie; to pretend; to feign; to deceive; to trick
to keep (something) a close secret; to hide (the truth, one's pain, etc.); to keep hidden
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
thick glasses; (lit.) bottle bottom glasses