This extra period of explanation came in besides the main singing-and-acting and that is what the word episode translates to in Greek “coming in besides.”
And the word Jomon has come to be used not just for the objects, but for the people that made them, and even the whole historic period in which they were lived.
现在绳纹一词,已经不仅仅是这些物品的名称,那时代的人类,及他们生活的整个历史时期都被称之为绳纹。
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Since regular expressions treat a period as a single character, we can easily walk the word list, looking for matches.