enterprise; business; company; corporation
union; alliance; combination; RENGO (Japanese Trade Union Confederation)
to exceed (esp. figures: profits, unemployment rate, etc.); to surpass; to be more than; to be better than
history; pedigree; lineage
rank; place (e.g. first place); decimal place; counter for ghosts
diplomacy; selling (e.g. door-to-door); canvassing
bureaucratic routine; red tape
custom; practice; convention; precedent
to speed; to tear away; to skip over (e.g. pages)
to move; to stir; to operate; to run; to make a move; to take action; to be touched
correspondence (to); equivalence; suitability; coordination; dealing with; coping with
natural; reasonable; obvious; usual; common; ordinary
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
suspicious-looking; shady; questionable; dubious; fishy
to glare at; to scowl at; to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; to estimate; to guess
previous time; last time; previous installment; previous instalment; previous session
teacher; instructor; teaching staff; faculty member
to be enigmatic; to be puzzling; to be wrapped in mystery
to touch; to feel; to touch (with); to experience; to come in contact with; to touch on (a subject); to allude to
fault; error; going poorly; being disadvantageous; un-; non-
substance; essence; entity; subject; content; reality
to change; to be transformed; to move to; to be different; to be uncommon
illegal channel; back channel; black market
book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter
to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous
document; writing; letter; document addressed to someone
real thing; original; actual
to deliver; to forward; to send; to report; to notify; to file notice (to the authorities)
in short; the point is; the important thing is; in a word; basically
joining (an association, agreement, etc.); participation; affiliation; accession
dozens; scores of; decades
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
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
municipality; local government; self-governing body; autonomous body
100,000,000; one hundred million
to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house
therefore; and so; for that reason; accordingly; consequently; hence