distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

to investigate, to look up, to look into, to study, to examine, to check up on, to look over / (music) to play, to perform (an instrument) / (music) to tune

investigation / (music) melody; musical phrase

preliminary trial

the first sight of something / something seen for the first time

one should start a big project with immediate, practical steps; start small / the person who proposes something should be the first one to take practical steps to implement it

a difficult (to solve) case

love affair

Short for 六四天安門事件 (rokushi Ten'anmon jiken, “June 4 Tiananmen incident”).