pirate; sea robber; buccaneer; freebooter
method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)
to bend; to flutter; to wave; to yield to; to be swayed by; to bow to
apprenticeship; probation; learning by observation; apprentice; trainee; probationer
deck (e.g. ship, tape, cassette, observation, train vestibule)
shrewdly; smartly; calculatingly; astutely; cunningly
when; how soon; how long until
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
half-moon; half a month; semicircle
to pass (of time); to elapse
adult; grown-up; person who has come of age; fully fledged; established; qualified
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
son (of others); boy; young master; green young man from a well-to-do family; young man innocent of the ways of the world
wrong; different; not like that
my goodness!; oh my!; oh dear!
henchman; follower; (arch.) adopted child
what; what sort of thing; everything; anything; what (on earth)?; what's the meaning of this ...?
ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
sinking; foundering; getting dead drunk; having too much fun (esp. in a red-light district, etc.) and missing work or neglecting one's duties; staying in one place for a long time
to struggle in the water; to sink below the surface and become unable to breathe; to (nearly) drown; to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to be addicted
he; she; that person; (arch.) you
several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas
assistant; associate; duplicate; copy; adverb
ship's captain; skipper; length of a ship; boatman
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)
intimidating enough to quieten a crying child
to stray from the right path; to go wrong; to go off the rails; to turn delinquent