talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor
to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire
destination; whereabouts; future; prospects
to decide; to determine; to establish; to lay down; to bring peace (to); to make peaceful
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
roughly; approximately; round about; cursorily; briefly; quickly
a round; a turn; going around; first anniversary of a person's death
Dominica; Commonwealth of Dominica; the Lord's Day; Sunday
to go; to come; to be defeated; to collapse; to be annoyed; to be nonplussed
to be affected; to put on airs; to act like (something one isn't); to pretend to be
conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation
to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something
to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear
to advance; to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to improve; to deepen
to arrive (at one's destination); to reach; to come to a head; to reach a conclusion; to culminate (in)
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
to turn towards; to point
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
information; experience; knowledge; observation
account; history; chronicle; Kojiki; Records of Ancient Matters
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
interest (in something); curiosity (about something); zest (for)
at that time; in those days
foreigner; stranger; outsider; alien
to visit; to call on; to pay a visit to
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
calamity; disaster; accident
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
finally; at last; barely; narrowly; gradually; little by little
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
succession; continuation; series; sequence
to ask after (someone's health); to visit; to attack; to strike; to meet with misfortune
many; much; majority (of); greater part (of); mostly; mainly
100,000,000; one hundred million
long ago; a long time ago; already
to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)
revival; reconstruction; restoration; rebuilding; recovery; renaissance