jpdb beta

international community; international society

1

person from the countryside; countryman; countryfolk; provincial person; bumpkin; hick

2

there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)

5

to topple over; to be overturned; to capsize; to be overruled; to be reversed; to be discredited

1

this and that; one thing or another; something or other; various things

1

mincing; chopping finely; short and repeated (movements; e.g. trembling, quick steps); gradual; bit by bit

2

to follow; to come after; to come next (to); to rank next (to); to rank second (to)

1

state secrets; secrets of the state

1

internal trouble; domestic trouble

1

to conceal oneself; to hide; to endure; to bear; to stand

2

lower jaw; mandible

1

prosperity; flourishing; thriving

1

stage lighting

1

to be left in the dust (of); to be outdone (by); to be subordinate (to); to play second fiddle (to); to take second billing (to)

2

to wither while standing; to die standing (of plants)

1

sprouts; new shoots; young buds

1

chirp; twitter; warble; whale tongue

5

thawing of snow; thaw; thaw (in relations)

1

to get tired of seeing; to get tired of looking at

1

staring-out (down) game; game in which two children looking at each other try to make the opponents laugh first; constant looking at something (e.g. the computer screen, the clock)

1

amiable; affable

1

everyday; daily; ordinary; usual; routine; regular

1

13th day of the month; 13 days

2

serving food (to a nobleman); nobleman's server

12

January; first month of the lunar calendar

4

merger; joining into one; amalgamation; melding; merging; annexation

2

to cross over (e.g. mountain); to go across; to get over (e.g. hardship); to pass time (e.g. a winter); to surpass; to be better than; to move house

3

country road

7

travelling clothes; traveling clothes; travelling outfit; traveling outfit

1

statement; account (of something); declaration; allegation

1

feeling (much) obliged; being (very) grateful; feeling sorry (for troubling someone); feeling ashamed (e.g. of an error); (arch.) shrinking back in fear

5

schedule; program; programme; agenda

1

frankfurter

8

downstream

2

way; manner; school (e.g. of flower arrangement); class; rate; flow

2

to worry about; to be worried about; to fret about; to not know what to do; to be at a loss (as to what to do)

2

stroke of the brush; touch; literary style

1

passionate; fervent; affecting; moving; touching

2

fiance; fiancee

5

it is written that ...; ... is written; it says ...; it reads ...

1

to cast down one's eyes

1

party member

2

to ask a big favour; to ask unreasonable things; to be unreasonable

1

centripetal force; unifying force; cohesive power

2

rise (e.g. of a movement); emergence; rearing one's head; gaining prominence; coming to the fore; gaining power

1

to take off one's hat

1

manager; proprietor

1

with a lot of fat; with a heavy build; with a portly build; with a stout build

2

spreading around (news, rumor, etc.); making widely known; making public; publicizing; proclaiming

2

to clap

2