adjustment; regulation; coordination; reconciliation; tuning; fixing
slander; bad-mouthing; abuse; insult; speaking ill (of)
before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to
daring; fearless; intrepid; bold; tough
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to take off one's glasses
(art of) fencing; swordsmanship
willpower; guts; determination; character; nature; disposition
to cite as an example; to refer to; to quote
to warp; to bend; to contort; to be perverted; to be warped (of a view, mind, etc.); to be distorted
(someone else's) child; child; kid
to throw into disorder; to disarrange; to disturb (order, peace, etc.); to corrupt (public morals); to dishevel (hair)
specialization; specialisation
to spoil; to break; to go bad; to go wrong; to fail
unsightly; ugly; unseemly; indecent; deplorable; disgraceful
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
especially; particularly; surely; clearly; as if; as though
Japanese writing paper (lined with a square grid, one square per character); manuscript paper
bothersome; tiresome; bother to do
the most; the best; peerless; the greatest; first-rate
very thin; flimsy; cheap; shallow
effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
not exceeding; and downward; below (e.g. standard); under (e.g. a level); the below-mentioned; the following
to do for (someone); to take in; to deceive; to hoodwink
light; illumination; glow; lamp; light
electricity; (electric) light
girl; daughter; baby girl; young woman
egregious; outrageous; too much; over the top
to reverberate; to resound; to echo; to have one's fame spread; to be renowned
monster; monstrosity; giant; influential figure; monsterlike; over-demanding
large quantity; massive (quantity); mass (e.g. mass production, mass transit, mass destruction)
to break through; to penetrate; to pierce
successively; one after another
marine life; marine organism
to fly about; to skip about; to bustle about
to falter; to flinch (from); to recoil (from); to quail (at)