preventive medicine; prophylactic
fall; decline; lowering; deterioration; degradation
to defend against; to protect against; to prevent; to avert; to avoid
life; existence; (one's) working life; career; life force; lifeblood
to rescue from; to help out of; to save
progress; advance; improvement; development
walking; pace; step; course (of history, one's life, etc.); history; pitch (of a screw, etc.)
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include
via; through; by doing; by means of; using
furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more
critical (condition); serious
to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
thinking; thought; idea; notion; intention; plan
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
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)
to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to
ancient times; distant past; antiquity
healer; clinician; physician; person who gives treatment; therapist
for; for the sake of; to one's advantage; because of; as a result of
to blow into; to breathe into; to inspire; to indoctrinate; to record (music, video, etc.)
United Kingdom; Britain; Great Britain
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
technology; engineering; technique; skill; art; craft
(a) step; one step; level; stage; small degree; small amount
to advance; to move forward; to carry forward (plans, work, etc.); to proceed with; to raise; to elevate
close relation (association)
to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)
comparatively; relatively
action; operation; effect; function
few; a little; scarce; insufficient; seldom