- politics; political
- diplomacy; diplomatic; foreign affairs; CL:個|个[ge4]
- closely bound up (idiom); intimately related
- World War One
- to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
- to lose
- many; a lot of; much
- of the same generation; person of the same generation; peer
- to try; to make an attempt; to think of a way (to accomplish sth)
- to exempt; exemption
- military service
- remorse; repentance
- to be familiar with; to know well
- domain; sphere; field; territory; area
- delicate; fine; careful; meticulous; painstaking
- Germany
- intruder
- Belgium
- ordinary people; commoner (contrasted with the privileged); civilian (contrasted with the military)
- to exert (effort or pressure)
- savage act; outrage; atrocity
- war; to wage war
- to break out; to erupt; to explode; to burst out
- fuse (for explosive)
- reader
- to read; reading
- terrible; frightful; frightening; terror; terrorist
- to persecute
- thorough and detailed; exhaustive; the tedious details in full
- to relate (a story or information); to tell or talk about; to recount; narration; telling; narrative; account
- historian
- rigorous; strict; careful; (of writing) well organized; meticulous
- (lit. and fig.) to permeate; to seep into; (of a product, idea etc) to penetrate (in a population); (of hostile forces) to infiltrate; (chemistry) osmosis
- each; every
- character; script; writing; written language; writing style; phraseology; CL:個|个[ge4]
- inside; among; in the midst of (doing sth); during
- to abandon; to discard; to spurn; to forsake
- rumor
- unable to; incapable of
- to confirm (sth to be true); to verify
- content; substance; details; CL:項|项[xiang4]
- barely; only; merely; only (this and nothing more)
- to keep; to retain; to have reservations (about sth); to hold back (from saying sth); to put aside for later
- actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- evidence; proof; testimony
- really isn't