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15 Cards in this Set
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portent (when to the left, it means turtle)
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兆
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back of a turtle, two vertical strokes are the ridge, the four short strokes are the shell pattern...turtles as a way to foretell the turtle and in particular to portent coming evils |
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peach tree
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桃
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legend of momotaro, the peach boy, man and woman couldn't have a child, one day man caught giant peach, from which came a boy..boy was destined to perform heroic deeds, which portends that bad things are going to happen in the future. thus the tree that is associated with the portent of coming evil comes to be the peach tree |
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stare
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眺
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turtle...eye...give someone the evil eye...wishing them evil..being stared at is depicted as an eye that portends evil |
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dog (small dog/chihuahua), to the left means "pack of wild dogs"
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犬
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drop(final stroke) means that we have to do with a normal sized dog, which compared to the St. Bernard is no more than a drop in the kernel |
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status quo
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状
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turtle madly in love with a chihuahua but could not have her because their two families did not like the idea of their children intermarrying |
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silence
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黙
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black chihuahua...the critter's name is Darknes...famous song about silence that begins "Hello Darkness, my old friend" |
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sort of thing (suffix that when added gives the preceding word an adjectival quality
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然
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back in time, when dogs were more widely eaten than today, we see a large cauldron boiling over an oven flame with the flesh of a chihuahua thrown into the whole concoction to make it into a "hot-diggity, dog-diggity" sort of thing |
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reed
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荻
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lure pack of wild dogs into a swamp that has reeds with cattail flowers and then set fire to the swamp. take care to focus on the flower and not the cattail |
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hunt
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狩
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pack of wild dogs...guard... one of the worst problems you have to face when you go hunting is to guard your take from the wild dogs...imagining yourself failing to do so rather than succeeding |
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cat
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猫
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dogs love to chase cats... pack of wild dogs planting cat seedlings, watering them, and then fertilizing them until they can be harvested as a crop of cats for them to chase and torment |
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cow
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牛
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doodle showing a cow that has been run over by a steamroller, the small dot in the first stroke shows its head turned to one side, and the next strokes are the 4 legs |
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special
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特
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special means "a class of its own"....the sacred cows of India that wander freely in a buddhist temply without fear of being butchered and ground into a hamburger |
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revelation
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告
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talking animals showing a wisdom superior to human beings... revelation through the mouth of a cow, suggesting oracular utterances about truths hidden to human intelligence |
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before (i.e. in the physical sense)
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先
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if you have a cow with human legs, it's because you have two people in a cow suit...prefer to be the one standing before rather than the one that holds up the rear and becomes the "butt" of everyone's laughter |
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wash
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洗
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"Pigpen" from the Peanuts comic..who is always preceded by a little cloud of dust and grime and rename him "Wash out"...everywhere he walks, a spray of water goes before him to sanitize everything he touches |
