sweeping the sea for mines; dragging for mines
to pattern after; to liken to; to imitate
going east; heading eastward
going west; heading westward
to load (with goods, cargo); to put on board; to stow aboard
lifeline; safety rope; safety tether
Japan and Europe; Japanese-European
summit meeting; top-level conference
head; leader; top; (arch.) important part
all present; all concerned; all of us
to meet; to assemble; to gather; to encounter; to run into
discussion; talk; tête-à-tête; conference
preeminence; excellence; superiority; transcendence
language learning ability; foreign language skills; linguistic ability
grace (of God); benevolence (of Buddha); assistance; help; effects; influence
means of survival; means of escape; way out of a difficulty
alliance (of the Six Kingdoms against the Qin dynasty, and of individual Kingdoms with the Qin dynasty); (tactic of) making and breaking alliances (to benefit oneself as the occasion demands); resorting to alliances as a diplomatic expedient
to act as an intermediary; to step in; to come between; to intervene; to interject
fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized
to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference
to raise someone's position; to raise someone's standing
main point; gist; essentials; bones (e.g. of an idea); pith
discipline; punishment; reprimand
injustice; impropriety; unreasonableness; undeserved; unfair; invalid
characteristic; traditional; peculiar; inherent; native; eigen-
prompt; immediate; in real time
self-determination of peoples