maid; helper; help; assistance
guidance; showing the way; guide; guidepost; signpost; waymark
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
to finger; to touch; to make changes to; to tinker with; to dabble in; to do as a hobby
affable; amiable; sociable; agreeable
soft, coaxing voice; wheedling voice; ingratiating voice
beginning and end; doing something from beginning to end; being unchanged from beginning to end; from beginning to end; the whole time
fierce look; frightening look; tough look; aggressive attitude; coercive attitude; taking a hard line
to go against; to oppose; to disobey; to defy
light and darkness; light and shade
regarding as important; attaching importance to; taking a serious view of; putting emphasis on
such; like that; that sort of; very
revisiting; visiting again
awkward (movements, speech, etc.); jerky; stiff; strained (relations); sour
inarticulate; not making oneself quite clear; slurring one's words; evasive
to disturb; to upset; to ruffle; to stir up; to mess up
negligent; neglectful; careless; remiss
foreigner; foreign citizen; foreign national; alien; non-Japanese
rustling; flapping; unkempt (hair, etc.); loose; dry; decisively
knight; keima (in go); knight's move; stone placed at a knight's jump from another stone of the same color
literal translation; direct translation
misrepresentation (falsification) of one's past record (personal history)
kind, careful, and thorough (of an explanation, advice, etc.); thoughtful and scrupulous
(written) explanation; instructions (e.g. on a product); explanatory label
highly cursive style (of writing Chinese characters); grass style
physiological; physical; visceral; instinctive; in one's guts
to ascend; to go up; to ascend (as a natural process, e.g. the Sun); to rise; to go to (the capital); to be promoted; to add up to
undeserved good luck; luck of the devil; dumb luck; bad luck
to recognise; to recognize; to know by sight; to become acquainted with
household (electrical) appliances; home appliances; consumer electronics
sales; selling; marketing
electrical appliance store
to go through; to pass through; to get through; to cut across
like that; that way; thus
having served one's purpose; being finished (with); business settled
whim; caprice; whimsy; fickle; moody; uneven temper