jpdb beta

clever; shrewd; crafty; cunning; pretentious; impertinent

1

mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)

1

first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)

1

to carry out (of somewhere); to transport; to take out

3

among (them); of (them)

2

sand; grit

3

to stuff into; to jam; to shorten; to move closer together; to reduce (spending); to conserve; to focus intently on

1

to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire

11

rice granary

1

to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself

10

management; dealing with; course of events; circumstances; end result (usu. bad); outcome

1

careful; thorough; meticulous; scrupulous

1

fall; sinking; surrender; capitulation

1

information; news; report; reward; retribution

1

whole day and night; 24 hours

1

at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much as possible; as much as one can

1

storefront; shopfront

1

taking refuge; finding shelter; evacuation; escape; seeking safe haven

1

contents; interior; substance; content; (sword) blade

1

to change; to swap; to change the object of one's interest or focus; to spend or take time; to infect; to permeate something with the smell or colour of something; to move on to the next or different stage of (a plan, etc.)

1

what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn

14

to catch; to capture; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)

4

to vomit; to throw up; to emit; to send forth; to give (an opinion); to make (a comment)

4

irritating; frustrating

1

in the city

1

questioning; interrogation; examination (of a witness)

1

at present; currently; so far; for now; for the time being

1

notable; important; chief; valuable; conspicuous; outstanding

1

completely empty (of a residence, etc.); vacant; body from which the soul has left; corpse; shed skin (of a snake, insect, etc.)

1

brow; glabella; middle forehead; area between the eyebrows

1

to wrinkle up (one's eyebrows, one's nose); to furrow; to crimple

2

all people; everybody; ten thousand people

2

three times

2

nine; 9

2

food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion

1

consumption; expenditure

1

in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start

9

eating heavily; hearty eating; binge eating; big eater; trencherman; gormandizer

1

to have much trouble; to have a hard time; to not know how to handle

1

provisions

2

to estimate

1

fourth day of the month; four days

1

afterwards

2

war council

1

fighting with one's back to the wall; having burnt one's bridges; last stand; from strategy of general Han Xin in the Battle of Jingxing

1

shall; should; must

1

to run (of liquid); to spread; to blur; to blot; to ooze; to well up (of tears, etc.)

4

destiny; will of Heaven; luck

2

to rely on; to depend on; to count on; to turn to (for help)

3

crushing defeat

1