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to highlight something; to bring something to the forefront

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survival of the fittest; the law of the jungle; (lit.) the weak are meat the strong do eat

1

to exploit; to extort; to squeeze (someone); to squeeze (e.g. oil, juice); to wring out; to press out

1

reserve; spare; note; memorandum; duplicate; copy

1

emphatic verbal prefix; humble verbal prefix

1

inheritance; succession; accession; share-alike

4

mass production

1

maternity leave; paternity leave

1

intolerable; unbearable; tremendous; out of this world; cannot help (doing); cannot but do

1

useless; in vain

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reaching a stopping place; settling down (before the next stage); getting to a point where one can rest; one paragraph

3

to backfire; to have a harmful result

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unable to do (as one wishes); able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to

1

is something that; is that which

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outbreak of war; starting a war

1

to start (an argument, a battle, etc.)

1

unjust; inhuman

1

twitching

1

convulsion; cramp; spasm; tic; twitch; fit

1

ugly man

1

suspicious; dubious; unreliable; indecent; unseemly

1

neighbouring country; neighboring country; adjacent country

2

international problem

1

to open hostilities; to take up arms (against)

1

substance; essence; real (in economics, vs. nominal, e.g. real interest rate); substantive; substantial

1

continent; continental Asia (esp. mainland China); continental Europe

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conquest; domination; mastery

3

opening of hostilities

2

degenerate; pervert; deviant

1

ceremony; rites

1

goods; materials; commodities; resources; supplies

1

enemy nation

3

yessir; yes, sir

1

desperation; despair; self-abandonment

1

rushing into; breaking into; storming; plunging into (war, etc.); embarking on (a new venture)

5

war damage; ravages of war; horrors of war

3

the other day; lately; recently; meanwhile; in the meantime

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total war; all-out war

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to do nothing but; to spend all one's time doing

2

details; particulars; longitude and latitude; warp and weft; warp and woof

3

to be well-known

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same country; same province; the (said) country

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sister complex; excessive attachment to one's sister; audio component system; stereo component system

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to inscribe one's name in history

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as a matter of fact; actually; effectively; in reality; in effect

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sea; ocean; waters

4

inviolability; nonaggression; sacredness

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declaration; indication; representation; manifestation; demonstration; expression

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domination; supremacy

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original method or procedure; serious; orthodox; classical

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