personality; character; individuality; personhood
(skill of) making funny faces; facial performance
utter indifference; talking to the wall; praying to deaf ears
household head; master; host (e.g. of a tea gathering); husband
to tell (to do); to order; to tell (on someone); to report; to often say; to be used to saying
uncontrollable; irrepressible
starching (e.g. clothes); pasting; gluing (e.g. paper, a letter)
to cut with scissors; to put scissors to; to trim (a tree, shrub, etc.); to punch (a ticket)
surreptitious glance; looking furtively
cunning; craft; guile; slyness
is it?; isn't it?; be; is
few decades; many decades; several decades
this world; this life; current epoch (i.e. the Holocene epoch)
weir; bonds; fetters; ties of obligation
to permeate (of a stain, smell, etc.); to become ingrained; to become embedded; to become a deeply ingrained habit; to become second nature
article for sale; goods for sale; main attraction; specialty; For Sale
(plump and) happy-looking
garnish (e.g. vegetables with a meat dish); trimmings; fixings; relish
Szechuan pickles; Sichuan vegetables; zha cai; pickled mustard plant stem
while; during; performed in this condition
youngster; neophyte; greenhorn
to pinch; to hold (between one's fingers); to pick up and eat; to snack on; to pick out (the main point); to summarize
stinginess; miserliness; parsimony
rakugo; traditional Japanese comic storytelling; comic story (told by a professional storyteller)
erotic; pornographic; obscene; perverted; horny; dirty
to rewrite; to overwrite; to renew; to transfer
to switch (secretly); to substitute; to replace; to sidestep (an issue)
sexual assault (of a woman); rape
perpetrators of (some) crime; (some type of) crime
(among) one's friends; (within) one's circle
mahjong gambling; playing mahjong for money
major loss; crushing defeat; big discount
dense; thick; close (relationship); intimate; minute; fine
to confess one's love; to profess one's feelings
coward; chicken; yellow-belly; sneaky person; underhanded person; dastardly person