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putting one's life on the line; staking one's life (on); risking one's life; life and death situation

2

in pieces

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tricky

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to allow; to enable; to make possible; to make feasible; to permit

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acquaintance; relation; affinity; reason

1

to master something (through personal experience)

1

rival; opponent; revenge; (arch.) spouse

1

bisection

1

position in a game of go or shogi; state of the game; aspect of an affair; situation

2

fresh snow; new snow

1

to trample down; to devastate

1

whitewashing; glossing over; lip service; deftly finishing up; putting on the final touches

2

cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)

1

annoying; noisy; strict

4

the two leading actors (in a play); the two star players; the two distinctive features; the two main items (attractions)

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surname; family name; last name

2

battlefield; battleground

2

wave motion; undulation; surge; wave

32

vomiting of blood

1

here; with this

2

hardness

2

breathing exercise; breath control; spirit cultivation; chi kung; qigong

2

telephone book; telephone directory

1

to begin to do; to cater; to deliver food

1

law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale

1

of all things

1

control

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to do ... incessantly; to do ... hard; (arch.) to happen repeatedly; (arch.) to happen over and over again

1

herself; she herself

1

buoyancy; floating power

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land

2

thrust; driving force; propulsion

1

on board a ship; aboard a ship

1

to be reduced to ashes; to be cremated

6

to fire from a job; to dismiss; to discharge; to behead

2

hunger; starvation

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to board a ship

1

tailspin; spin; drilling; boring

1

soft rush (Juncus effusus var. decipiens); common rush

1

gust of wind; vanguard

2

indispensable; essential

1

to pull around; to drag around; to take around; to show around

1

whatever (the case may be)

1

poisonous air; poisonous gas; poisonous ingredient; poisonous nature; malice; spite

2

strong smell of grass (esp. in summer heat)

1

to set foot into; to enter; to step inside; to cross the threshold

1

nothing ventured, nothing gained; (lit.) you will not get the tiger cub without entering the tiger's den

1

bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

1

after a while; a little while later; shortly afterward

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after all; in the end; when all's said and done; for the time being; at present

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