please; if you would; somehow or other; one way or another; whether (or not); if
talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
please (give me); please (do for me)
Chinese firebird; Chinese phoenix
revival (of an old system, custom, fashion, etc.); restoration; return; resurrection; rebirth
to approach; to draw near; to be imminent; to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
one's body; one's person; oneself; one's appearance; one's place (in society, etc.); one's position
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
danger; peril; hazard; risk
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
flute; fife; pipe; whistle
to collect; to assemble; to gather
heavy labor; heavy labour; hard work; hard labor (in prison); hard labour
engaging in (work); pursuing (e.g. studies); following (a profession); being involved in
profit; gains; benefit; advantage; grace (of God, Buddha, etc., esp. as attained through rightful actions, prayer, adherence to one's faith, etc.); blessing
everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly
to suck up; to pump up; to siphon off (profits, etc.); to exploit; to take up others' opinions, hopes, etc.
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; used for soft emphasis or to soften a statement or request; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.
weak (constitution); sickly; feeble; in poor health
to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
older brother; elder brother; brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband)
highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
instead of; in place of; as a substitute for; in exchange for; in return for; to make up for
exploitation; bleeding dry; squeezing dry; milking (e.g. a cow's teat); extracting (a liquid) through squeezing
to continue; to keep up; to keep on; to continue ...; to keep on ...
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
shield; buckler; escutcheon; pretext; excuse; grounds (for)
to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe
to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
cowardly; craven; unfair; mean; sneaky
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
hero; the brave; man of valour (valor)
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from ... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that ...; trying to ...
force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort
while; during; while; although; all; both
to receive; to take; to get someone to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch
to cling to ... in tears; to beg ... in tears; to appeal; to throw oneself on someone's mercy
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become