aggression; invasion; raid
three countries; Three Kingdoms (in China, 220 CE-280 CE); Three Kingdoms (in Korea, 57 BCE-668 CE); (arch.) Japan, China and India; (arch.) Japan, Korea and China
middle of a field; middle of a country; field of contest
to get scarce; to run short
charcoal; charred remains
bald mountain; denuded mountain; bare hill; treeless hill
constant; invariable; chronic; everlasting
that country; (arch.) nirvana
to have heard somewhere; to sound familiar
means of communication; media of communication; organ of communication; tool of communication
(for a conversation) to wander from the subject; to get off track
fairy tale; fairy story; nursery tale
great antiquity; old-fashioned; long ago
absurd; nonsensical; preposterous
fiction; made-up story; fable; fabrication; myth
tradition; legend; folklore
looking on (somebody) as hostile
doubting; questioning; being skeptical (of)
bitter experience; misery; distress; grief; sad thoughts; hardship
reception; acceptance; enjoyment; being given
crime; sin; penalty; sentence; fault; responsibility
to take someone's life; to kill someone
criminal; lawbreaker; wrongdoer; offender
monolith; large slab of rock
various opinions; various theories; various rumors (rumours)
to run away; to escape safely
absurd; foolish; stupid; silly; nonsense; ludicrous
someone (something) not to be trifled with
imagination; supposition; virtual; potential (enemy)
rightly or wrongly; by all possible means
inundation; submersion; flood
to bail out (water); to dip out; to ladle out; to start drawing (water)