- house; building (single- or two-story); apartment; room; CL:棟|栋[dong4],幢[zhuang4],座[zuo4],套[tao4],間|间[jian1]
- minister; diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic relations
- to reside; to dwell; to live in a place; resident in
- to get to know each other; acquaintance
- to receive sb; to grant an interview
- many times; repeatedly
- to talk (with sb); to have a conversation; talk; conversation; CL:次[ci4]
- start of month; early in the month
- to assert; to claim
- to be present; to be on the scene
- circumstances; state of affairs; situation; CL:種|种[zhong3]
- agreement; pact; protocol; CL:項|项[xiang4]
- to bind
- for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past
- to be classified as
- key task; important affair
- Otto
- London, capital of United Kingdom
- to negotiate (with); to have dealings (with)
- to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency)
- to take prisoner; prisoner of war
- in general; more or less; in rough terms; basically; on the whole; overall situation; the big picture; cadaver for dissection in training medical students
- signatory states; countries that are party to a treaty
- seemingly; apparently; looks as if; appears to be; gives the impression that; seems on the face of it to be
- suspicious; dubious
- peace; peaceful
- 谈 tán: 谈 tan2: to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss谈 Tán: 谈 Tan2: surname Tan
- UK-France
- relatively; opposite; to resist; to oppose; relative; vis-a-vis; counterpart
- heel; to follow closely; to go with; (of a woman) to marry sb; with; compared with; to; towards; and (joining two nouns)
- in the years of; during those years; period (of dynasty or decade)
- basic; fundamental; main; elementary
- agreement; accord; to reach an agreement
- since (a time); ever since
- look; style; appearance; approximation; about; CL:個|个[ge4]; also pr. [mo2 yang4]
- (lit. and fig.) to nibble away at
- (conjunction linking two nouns) and its ...; and their ...; and his ...; and her ...
- ally
- outstanding; notable; remarkable; statistically significant
- expansion; dilation; to expand (e.g. one's power or influence); to broaden
- overseas; abroad
- territory
- India
- hegemony; supremacy
- main point; essential
- to replace the old with new; to renew; to renovate; to upgrade; to update; to regenerate