jpdb beta

to go on reading

1

outline; summary; gist; basic points

1

to threaten; to menace; to intimidate; to startle; to frighten; to scare

2

to dry up (spring, pond, etc.); to run out

5

to be reasonable; to stand to reason; to be logical; to hold water

2

error; mistake; slip; bug

1

Shisui

3

downstream; lower reaches of a river; lower classes

1

Chinese "winnowing basket" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

4

south coast; south bank

1

blood relative; close relation; (one's) flesh and blood; flesh and blood; the body

1

to bring to a finish; to bind firmly; to superintend

1

hurriedly; in a hurry; in haste

2

tomfoolery; foolish act; nonsense; fool; idiot

1

upper part; upper stream; upper course of a river; right side of the stage (audience's or camera's POV); stage left (actor's POV); skillful (in comparisons)

1

lower reaches (e.g. of a valley); downstream sector

1

government management

1

garden (esp. man-made); orchard; park; place; location

1

grandmother

4

to dry up; to parch; to ebb away

1

to wither completely (of a plant); to dry up completely; to drop all its leaves

1

to run out of; to dry up; to be depleted; to hit the bottom; to bottom out

1

to be hard pressed; to be at a loss; to become poor; to be reduced to poverty

1

given the situation; now that it has come to this; if it comes to this

1

young man who has a feminine aesthetic

1

eldest daughter; first-born daughter

3

to blame; to reproach; to question (a suspect); to challenge; to aggravate (an injury); to be aggravated

1

three days and three nights

2

to survive

1

to grow; to grow up; to be good at; to excel in

1

one (of a pair); incomplete; imperfect; few; little; off-centre

1

to kill by burning to death

1

to be mixed together; to be blended; to intermingle; to commingle

2

descendant; posterity; offspring

1

scene; setting; scene (in a movie, play); shot; state of the market

1

one's own child; one's own children

2

affection; love; fondness; tenderness

2

to write a few lines (to); to drop someone a line; to write a note (to)

1

flattery

1

exaggeration

2

circumstances

1

one stroke (of a brush); a few lines (of writing); note; writing in one go (without stopping to apply more ink to the brush); parcel (of land); same handwriting

1

drainage basin; catchment basin; river basin; watershed; valley

1

to write down; to make a note of; to put on record; to chronicle

1

unrelated

2

to pass (a car); to overtake; to surpass; to outstrip; to outdistance

1

needless fear; groundless apprehension; unfounded worry

1

to be urgent; to be pressing; to be imminent

1

cannot help feeling that; cannot help thinking that

1

to bend; to warp; to lose heart

1