jpdb beta

as one would expect; just as you'd expect (from); just like (someone)

2

try to be; want to be

1

admiration; wonder; astonishment

2

any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand

3

period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years); apprenticeship; indentureship; indenture

1

review (of learned material); revision

2

leaving everything up to someone else

1

exactly; perfectly

1

something; nothing (with neg. verb)

5

similarly; same (idea); same (name)

1

nothing special; no big deal; doesn't matter; nothing to worry about

1

group; crowd; flock; herd; bevy; school

1

to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate

3

to stop talking; to break off; to pause

2

to push aside; to push one's way through

2

rustling; dry; rough feeling; rough (of a person); course; catching fish with a net

1

definite; final; decisive; conclusive

2

to stare at each other; to lock eyes with

1

fantastic; grotesque; strange-looking; suspicious-looking

23

gesture; movement; action; acting; performance

1

nail (e.g. fingernail, toenail); claw; plectrum; pick; hook; clasp

8

underside

1

several times; a few times

1

slowly (but steadily); gradually; irritatedly; impatiently; scorchingly (of the sun); sizzling (i.e. sound of frying in oil); sound of a warning bell, alarm clock, etc.

1

related to; in relation to; as far as ... is concerned

1

preventing (someone) from leaving; confinement; keeping indoors; being stranded; grounding

1

to distribute; to hand out; to deliver; to allot; to allocate; to place (staff, soldiers, etc.)

1

rather; better

1

to become muddy; to become cloudy; to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.); to become hoarse; to become impure (of a heart, society, etc.); to be corrupted

1

fruition; fructification; bearing fruit; bearing fruit (of efforts, plans, etc.); coming to fruition; yielding success

1

to throw at; to throw something at a person; to throw a person down

3

moving about in confusion; going every which way; going this way and that

1

to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included

2

he that fights and runs away may live to fight another day; (lit.) fleeing is winning

1

method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)

4

to clasp; to grasp; to hold (the answer); to have (e.g. the solution); to seize (power); to hold (the reins)

2

straight line

2

to keep running

1

to be hot on a person's heels

1

at once; right away; promptly; on the spur of the moment

1

to turn away (one's eyes, face, etc.); to avert; to displease; to annoy; to miss (the target, ball, etc.)

2

to open some distance (e.g. with other people)

1

going on ahead; forestalling; anticipating; arrival before another

1

to stop up; to close up; to stand in the way; to obstruct; to occupy; to fill up

1

hard to say; inexpressible; hesitant to say; embarrassing; delicate

1

to know; to understand; to be aware of; to consent; to agree

1

to run out of breath; to get breathless; to get puffed (out)

1

really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way

1

to sidle up to

1

check; keeping in check; containment (of enemy forces); diversionary action; pickoff throw; holding a runner on base

2