jpdb beta

acute ear; good ear

1

deep affection; dear; beloved

2

postscript; post scriptum; PS; P.S.

1

pair of lovers; girlfriend and boyfriend

3

to take (someone) with one; to bring along; to go with; to be accompanied by

3

thank you

3

to care for someone; to look after someone

2

resourcefulness; ability (esp. to earn a living); dependability; reliability

1

near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon

5

lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate

6

kind; gentle; considerate; generous; friendly; nice

4

as a child; when one was a child; childhood

4

as (much) as possible; as (much) as one can; wherever practicable; if possible

2

tea (usu. green); tea break (at work); tea ceremony

1

with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous

1

playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)

2

terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

1

eccentric; crank; oddball

1

to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)

2

to pass (by) each other; to brush past; to miss (meeting) each other; to fail to meet; to be at odds; to clash

2

to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something

5

passing by

1

so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why

7

to pile up; to accumulate; to estimate

1

arrangement; good offices; discretion; judgment; disposition

2

like that; so

5

as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")

1

easy; simple; there's no way that ...

4

remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted

2

et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth

8

beauty; siren; courtesan; prostitute

2

beautiful woman

2

just one person; only one

2

to incline; to lean; to devote oneself to; to concentrate on; to ruin; to squander

3

anyone; anybody; everyone; whoever

1

slanting; tilted; sloping; distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood)

1

in this case

4

to incline toward; to slant; to lurch; to go down (sun); to wane; to sink

3

to compare and contrast two alternatives; to weigh the relative merits of A and B; to weigh one's options; to try to have it both ways; to try to sit on two stools

1

to choose; to select

9

these days; nowadays; present day; at this time (of the day)

2

old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

2

greedy; avaricious; rapacious; insatiable

2

hero

3

image; figure; figure; form; image

1

to court; to woo; to approach defiantly

1

jiangshi; Chinese hopping vampire; reanimated corpse in Chinese legends and folklore

2

continent; continental Asia (esp. mainland China); continental Europe

1

death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out

1

stripping (of rights, office, etc.); deprivation; divestiture; forfeit; revocation

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