gambling; gaming; speculation; undertaking a risky venture; (arch.) professional gambler; (arch.) gamester
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
leopard (Panthera pardus)
to pick up; to adopt (e.g. a proposal); to accept; to take away; to confiscate; to deliver (a baby)
door; gate; opening; title page
to crowd out; to push out; to start together; to set out en masse; to highlight; to draw attention to
to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square
cannot be helped; unavoidable; pointless; useless; hopeless (person); annoying
to be helpful; to be useful
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
electric line; electric cable; power cable; telephone line; telegraph wire
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
riding fast; driving a horse fast
wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza
standing tree; standing timber
whirlpool; swirl; eddy; vortex; maelstrom
to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt
to roll up; to hoist; to take away; to rip off (e.g. money from someone); to blow up (dust)
to scatter around; to leave untidy; to make a mess
pale; pallid; bluish-white
sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)
powerlessness; helplessness; incompetent
water caltrop; water chestnut; caltrop (weapon)
to curl oneself up; to squeeze oneself in; to be huddled
control; bringing under control; settling (a matter); putting in order
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
carefree; optimistic; careless; reckless; heedless; happy-go-lucky
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)
determination; resolution
to be exhausted; to be worn out
to joke; to jest; to make fun of; to laugh at; to romp; to gambol
prattle; broken language; halting language; baby talk; imperfect speech; smattering
to go against; to act contrary to; to run counter to; to deviate from