land used for farming; cultivated land

to have extensive power and to prosper; be in power

all in all; the issue (is); the heart of the matter (is); in any event

novella (a tale or short story of the type contained in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron; a fictional prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story; a short novel or a long short story)

(fig.) [is] finicky; picky; (lit.) [does] have a lot of stories

fiction; an imagined; feigned; invented; made-up story

high security prison

on and on until the point that

at the beginning; originally

overwhelming support; moral and spiritual support

colander; sieve; strainer

acid reflux disease

[โรคซิฟิลิส] syphilis

chronic illness; congenital disease

anemia

[alternate spelling of โรคาพยาติ]

gasworks

municipal school

windmill

[Thai transcription of the foreign loanword] rover

[Thai transcription for foreign term] rye

lit. “a hermit shepherding turtles”

(metaphor) a government of geriatric and unresponsive leaders

to issue a unanimous opinion

to reduce a punishment; decrease penalty

to overturn; to capsize; to sink; to be overturned; to be turned upside-down; to fail; to sink

to spy; extract secrets (from)

molt; moult; slough

to build an enclosure (for animals); build stalls; fence in

an opera; a musical (play)

[is] delicate; fine; subtle