poverty; penury; need; shortage; lack; want
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
enough; sufficient; plenty; sufficiently; fully; thoroughly
property; fortune; means; assets
food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat); provisions; rations; food supply
distribution channel; channel of distribution
(death from) starvation; starving to death
to rescue from; to help out of; to save
poverty problem; poverty issue
to worry about; to be anxious about; to be concerned about; to lament; to grieve; to feel sorrow for
it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...
saint; wise and virtuous person (esp. in Confucianism); great religious teacher; refined sake
to repeat; to do something over again
if it is the case that ...
same; similar; (just) like; equal
earthquake disaster; Great Kanto Earthquake (1923)
very great; enormous; serious
(suffering) damage; injury; harm
foresight; foreknowledge; intimation; premonition; prediction
theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to spend time (on doing something)
towards; against; regarding; in contrast with
in some way or other; one way or another; somehow; only just; barely
fort; fortress; stronghold; fortification
to seclude oneself; to shut oneself away
intently; single-mindedly; devotedly; solely; earnestly; with all one's heart
towards (a destination); for the purpose of; with the goal of; targeting (a group, a demographic)
to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)
to get stuck with (some job); to end up with (something unpleasant)
self-deprecation; self-derision; self-mockery; laughing at oneself
small; small-sized; small-scale; miniature
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
to project; to show; to portray; to depict; to describe
to perceive; to sense; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment