first; firstly; first of all; Introduction; Preface
manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party
employee; worker; laborer (labourer); blue-collar worker
industry; (arch.) livelihood; (arch.) occupation
modernization; modernisation
fullness; completion; enhancement; improvement; replenishment; repletion
last century; ancient times
wise person; virtuous person; sage; unrefined sake
vice; immorality; corruption
abundant; plentiful; rich; ample
racial or national characteristics
recognition; awareness; perception; understanding; knowledge; cognition
full stomach; filling one's stomach; eating one's fill; complete; total; full
classic (work, esp. book); the classics
to revive; to come to oneself; to be restored to life
with all one's strength; with might and main; as hard as one can
normalcy; normality; normal
strong power of the state; iron fist; heavy hand
thickheaded; insensitive; dull; thick-skinned
to escape from; to get out
to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)
declaration; statement; proclamation
ancestral; hereditary; imported; transmitted; handed down
haughty; arrogant; supercilious
October; tenth month of the lunar calendar
colloquial style; written style based on spoken language
distinction; differentiation; classification
really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
to exercise one's ingenuity; to come up with an ingenious plan
here and there; in places