Vocabulary

erasure; obliteration

secret meeting; clandestine meeting

popular sentiment

unreasonable demand

husband; groom

famous (musical) recording; famous record; excellent record

leaf bud

right to keep silent; right to silence; right to remain silent

unhulled rice; rice in the husk; paddy

sorrow; grief; anguish; distress

prognosis

greed; avarice; covetousness; greedy person

railing; guard rail; handrail; banister; balustrade; parapet

way of standing

coronation ceremony; enthronement

abdication

degeneration; retrogression; atrophy

execution by proxy; subrogation (of administrative acts)

the real pleasure (of something); the real thrill; the true charm

daruma; tumbling doll; round, red-painted good-luck doll in the shape of Bodhidharma, with a blank eye to be completed when a person's wish is granted

removing one's hat

single colour (color); monochrome

searching; hunting for news story; journalist

disguising oneself as a man; dressing as a man (for a woman); male clothing

stilts (for walking)

storage battery

dark reddish-brown; liver color

Chinese Communist Party; Chinese Communists

about the middle (of an era)

loyalty and filial piety

sake cup

morning glow; sunrise colors; sunrise colours

stethoscope

permanence; perpetuity

lasting long; continuation; keeping at (something); sticking to (something)

going straight on; going straight ahead

literal translation; direct translation

low blood pressure

stopping a ship; detention; quarantine

becoming a pupil (of); becoming an apprentice