to catch; to capture; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)
human nature; human heart; public feeling; people's sentiments; consciousness; awareness
handing down (information); legend; tradition; folklore; transmission
old; former; the old; old things; old times; bygone days
change; conversion; transformation; transformation
simply put; putting it simply; in short
deity of the Moon; moon god
as one wishes; the way one wants; to one's satisfaction
arrangement; preparations; search (by police)
agreement; consent; same opinion; same view; same meaning
to spread; to propagate; to popularize; to broaden; to extend; to widen
support; backing; endorsement; support; holding up; propping
intimacy; friendship; familiarity
accident; emergency; calamity
performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
present point (i.e. in history); at the present time
will; probably; may; I think; surely; I hope
to be sacrificed; to fall victim to; to fall prey to
to disagree; to dispute; to fight (over)
gossip; corner of the mouth
to compete; to contest; to quarrel; to argue; to deny (e.g. evidence)
with these words; while saying
to smoke; to smoulder; to be sooty; to be smoke-stained; to smoulder (e.g. a dispute); to smolder
threatening attitude; menacing look; angry look
to be perturbed; to be agitated
opposition; rivalry; competition; antagonism
having ended; being resolved
to look on enviously while doing nothing; (lit.) to hold a finger in one's mouth
to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty
one's circumstances or condition, esp. compared to that of another; coherence (e.g. of a conversation)
dissenting opinion; opposite viewpoint; contraview
immediate; prompt; quick; rapid; urgent; pressing
investigation to determine the cause (of); tracing something back to its origin
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
countermeasure; counter-measure
to knead; to thicken into a paste (stirring over a flame); to polish (a plan, etc.); to refine; to train; to drill; to gloss (silk)
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
conference; consultation; discussion; negotiation
how; in what way; how about; questionable
to glare at each other; to confront each other
to exchange glances; to correspond; to counterbalance
saliva held in one's mouth during times of tension
to be beyond one's capacities; to be beyond one's powers; to be beyond one's control; to be unmanageable