jpdb beta

ransom

3

purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention

1

running away from home; elopement; (arch.) outing; (arch.) going out; (arch.) becoming a Buddhist monk; (arch.) entering the priesthood

2

everyone; anyone; no one; nobody

2

to come back

4

sympathy; agreement with; alignment; conformity; tuning

1

to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up

3

very much; exceedingly; extremely

1

healthy; sound; wholesome

1

hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit

1

to (call and) stop; to call (someone) to stop; to hail (e.g. a taxi)

1

to learn; to acquire knowledge; to carry; to wear (clothes, etc.); to put on

3

(carrying) close to one's person; next to the skin

1

to take out; to drag out

1

family; members of a family

5

going out; outing; leaving (one's home, office, etc.)

1

carefree; optimistic; careless; reckless; heedless; happy-go-lucky

1

to elevate; to raise; to lift up; to flatter; to extol; to praise to the sky

1

to hit; to expose; to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class); to guess (an answer)

6

protest; objection

2

to entrance; to possess; to enthrall

1

to emit a voice; to emit a sound; to be able to speak

2

serious; earnest; real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice weapon)

1

to release; to let go; to free; to add (pieces of eggplant, potato, etc.) to water, broth, etc.

2

to come to one's senses; to calm down

1

to open one's mouth (to talk); to (start to) tell

2

supply; provision

1

clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.

6

below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after

1

cleavage (between breasts)

1

rather; better

1

one-sided; unilateral; arbitrary

1

easy; trifling; harmless; nothing of the sort; not at all

2

to separate; to part; to divide; to keep apart

1

to incline one's head

1

otherwise; if not; or else

2

to be surprising; to be shocking; to be jaw-dropping

1

sexual harassment

2

to attach; to stick together; to place together; to put side-by-side; to make someone get married; to get someone hitched

2

to keep; to preserve; to hold; to last; to endure; to keep well (food)

2

careful; scrupulous; thorough; conscientious; elaborate; deliberate

1

preparation; arrangements

1

attendance (on); chaperonage; attendant; escort; entourage

1

cheerfully; excitedly

1

that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so

3

method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)

1

to make a serious effort

1

younger; junior

1

stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation

3

purposely (of something needless, unexpected or seemingly counterproductive, etc.); daringly (doing something); not necessarily; not particularly; (arch.) definitely not

2