young child; toddler; child over 1 but not yet of school age
to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
necessities of life (food, clothing and shelter)
strange; rare; novel; curious
stimulant; stimulative; excitant
ordinary; run-of-the-mill; usual
petty bourgeois; lower middle class
low-quality products; strange thing; strange combination
the more ... the more ...; as; (arch.) while; (arch.) during; (arch.) because; (arch.) since
highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses
disgust; hate; repugnance; loathing
to get involved (with); to begin (with); to have a hand (in)
to support (a theory, claim, etc.); to back up; to substantiate; to prove
clean; hygienic; sanitary; pure; virtuous; immaculate
muddiness; murkiness; impurity; Japanese voiced consonant mark; unrefined sake
shell; husk; hull; pod; chaff
suddenly; all of a sudden
quiet (place); still; silent; inconspicuously; modestly; quietly
outstanding talent; person of exceptional talent; gifted person
young noblewoman; princess
Les Miserables (novel by Victor Hugo)
protagonist; main character; hero(ine) (of a story); head of household
to tear up and throw away
falling into straitened circumstances; downfall; ruin
being reduced to poverty; living in poverty; coming down in the world; straitened (reduced) circumstances
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful
growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
to oppress; to persecute; to tyrannize
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
to give birth to; to have a stomachache
to give birth to; to drop (a calf, foal, etc.); to lay (an egg)
quiver (of arrows; cylindrical)