Stature (131)-social standing
A real honour to have someone of your stature here in our neighbourhood.
Dr. Saito was neighbourhood of Ono when Ono moved into his present house. Dr. Saito was pround that have famous person as his neighbourhood.
Imply (132)-means, try to say
But my memory of that first meeeting, and of Dr Saito recognizing my name on the gatepost, is sufficiently clear for me to assert with some confidence that my elder daughter, Setsuko, was quite mistaken in at least some of the things he tried to imply last month.
Ono was surely that his daughter, Sesuko, was mistaken of what Dr Saito treid to say.
Leave a mark (133)-strongly influence other
Then, around 1920 or 1921, at the peak of his success, Sugimura decided to gamble much of his wealth and capital on a project that would allow him to leave his mark for ever on his city and its people.
He wanted leave his name on city and people by use lots of money on his project.
Aspire (134)-desire
For indeed, a man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than ordinary, surely deserves admiration , even if in the end he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions.
Sugimura wanted stand on ordinary people. He achieved it, but he failed his project and lost money.
Medicore(134)-normal, middle, average
For indeed, a man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than ordinary, surely deserves admiration , even if in the end he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions.
Sugimura wanted stand on ordinary people. He achieved it, but he failed his project and lost money.
Dilapidation (137)-ruin
For though one would have been unable to see this from up on that path, Mori-san's villa was in a state of considerable dilapidation.
Mori-san's villas was on dangerous ruined place.
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