to make someone drink; to force someone to drink; to serve (alcohol); to treat someone (to drinks); to be drinkable (esp. of alcohol); to be palatable
to get blurred; to get hoarse; to get husky; to graze; to scrape
tone color; tone colour; tone quality; timbre
to recognise; to recognize; to know by sight; to become acquainted with
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
uneven; irregular; non-uniform; unsorted; odd; miscellaneous
chorus; singing in a chorus
old person; senior citizen; the aged; the elderly
jumbling together; lumping together; mixing up
to drain; to pour; to wash away; to distribute (e.g. electricity over wires, music over a PA system, etc.); to circulate; to cruise (e.g. taxi); to float
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
twelve o'clock; noon; midnight
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
once; before; formerly; never yet; never before; first time
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
nongovernment organization (organisation); NGO
integration; unification; unity; combination; consolidation; synthesis
engine; agency; organisation; system; facility
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
now; soon; already; yet; further; more
century; hundred years; (fig.) a long time
talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor
in that way; thus; so; so?
merger; joining into one; amalgamation; melding; merging; annexation
accelerated; accelerating; gathering speed
decrease; reduction; decline
as; because; with; due to
every part of the world; all over the world; the four corners of the world
to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate
insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
school district; school area
field; sphere; realm; division; branch
magnification; enlargement; expansion; amplification
flow (of a fluid or gas); stream; flow (of people, things); passage (of time); course (of events); (step-by-step) procedure; group of people who remain together after the end of an event
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs