jpdb beta

to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends

4

a certain ...; some ...

1

time; season; period; phase; stage

1

(living) sacrifice; victim; scapegoat

5

finally; at last; ultimately; in the end

1

villager

2

to happen to pass by

1

sufferings; ordeals; agony; Passion (of Christ); crucifixion

1

rope; cord; policeman's rope

2

to wind; to coil; to envelope; to shroud; to outflank; to skirt

2

to drop; to lose; to let fall

1

after; later

2

being lost for words; becoming speechless; jueju (Chinese quatrain with lines of either five or seven syllables)

1

old tale; folk tale; legend; reminiscence

1

wise; sagacious; intelligent; sensible

1

talking about one's misfortunes; tales of one's misfortunes

1

paralysis; palsy; numbness; stupor

1

to have a tendency to; to be liable to; to have a touch of; to have a smack of

1

real intention; true motive; true will; original intention; original purpose; original hope

3

planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)

2

manure; fertilizer; fertiliser; compost

1

to add (numbers); to add (something); to top up (with something); to take care of (e.g. one's business)

1

human body

1

theory; reason; logic; (unreasonable) argument; strained logic; excuse

2

agency; intermediation

1

nonsense; no meaning; meaningless

1

rule of thumb

1

source; origin; cause; beginning; genesis

1

burial; interment

2

crop; crops; (agricultural) produce; farm products

1

to bear fruit; to ripen

1

as time goes by; as time went by; with the passage of time; over time

1

sanctification; consecration

2

process; course; mechanism

1

to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check

1

to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted

1

(written) report

1

at last; finally; barely; narrowly; just

1

such

1

to talk oneself hoarse; to shout oneself hoarse

1

as you can imagine; as you might guess

1

uncle (younger than one's parent)

4

(smile) broadly

1

hey!; hey!

1

fixtures; furnishings; equipment

1

to take something into ...; to bring in; to lodge (a complaint); to file (a plan); to bring to (a state: tied game, vote, trial, etc.)

2

garbage can; rubbish bin; trash can; dustbin

1

cavity; tooth decay; decayed tooth; dental caries

1

to make round; to roll up; to seduce; to cajole; to round off (a fraction); (arch.) to lump together

2

how (beautiful, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name

1