middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years
to dye; to colour; to color
to tear off; to pluck; to scratch off
young man; young woman; young people; youth; youngsters
crying loudly; bawling; wailing; crying one's eyes out (without making noise); breaking into a flood of tears; crying buckets
to be born and raised (in); to be born and brought up; to be born and bred
yellowish; tinged with yellow
to play a central role; to take a leading part
emigration; immigration; emigrant; immigrant
descendant; posterity; offspring
original; unique; distinctive; independent; one's own; personal
district; region; the country; countryside; civilian society
showy; brilliant; gorgeous; florid; gay
culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)
accepted; fully-fledged; clear; respectable
independent state; independent nation
aggression; invasion; raid
tenacious; persevering; persistent; sticky
postwar period; period after Second World War
commander-in-chief; generalissimo
eradication; extermination; rooting out; stamping out; getting rid of
autonomy; right of self-government
advantageous; favourable; better; profitable; lucrative; gainful
to make (the best) use of; to put to good use; to let live; to keep alive; to revive; to resuscitate
to covet; to crave; to lust insatiably for; to indulge in; to devour greedily
forced labor; forced labour; slave labor; slave labour
life imprisonment; life sentence
death penalty; capital punishment
insurrection; mutiny; rebellion; revolt; uprising
successive occurrence; frequent occurrence; succession (of); series
oppression; suppression; pressure
to make it a principle to ...; to aim at doing
to sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem
to place on (something); to give (someone) a ride; to give a lift; to load (luggage); to carry; to send out (on the airwaves, etc.); to deceive
root of an evil; source of a problem; source of trouble; cause of misfortune