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style
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式
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arrow craft.....well known style of shirts known as "arrow shirts" because of the little arrow sewn on each one |
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test
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試
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when manufacturer introduces new style to market, it runs a test on consumers, asking them to speak their opininos frankly about the product |
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two
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弐
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2 arrows in a quiver, in the shape of the roman numeral 2 |
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range
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域
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cowboys at homecoming fiesta kissing the ground....home on the range....area or zone |
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burglar
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賊
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fiesta is an occasion for burglar to take their lockpicking needle and break into the safe with the family's shells |
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plantation
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栽
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on a fruit plantation, it is the trees that one is grateful for during Thanksgiving. Imagine yourself inviting a few representative trees from the fields and orchards to join you around the table to give thanks |
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load
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載
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one loads bales on a wagon or cart in preparation for the Great Hay Ride that follows the Thanksgiving dinner each year |
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overgrown
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茂
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sense of overgrown is one of growning luxuriously, through not in excess. A whole parade of weeds(outcaste flowers). By way of exception, the flowers take their normal place over the enclosure |
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turn into
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成
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parade marching down the street turns into a dagger throwing bout between competing bands. Note how only one stroke was added to make the change |
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castle
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城
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pile of dirt being turned into a castle (like a sandcastle on the beach) |
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sincerety
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誠
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sure sign of sincerity...words are turned into deeds |
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intimidate
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威
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march of women demonstrating on behalf of equal rights, something extremely intimidating to the male chauvanist population |
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destroy
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滅
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march of flames demonstrating against the Fire Department for their right to destroy, but being doused with water by the police riot squads |
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dwindle
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減
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a group of unquenchable mouths sets out on a march across the country, drinking water wherever they find it until the water supply has dwindled to a trickle, triggering a national disaster |
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scaffold
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桟
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prior to the use of metal, trees were cut down and bound together to use as scaffoling material. in the case of the kanji, what's being constructed is not a skyscraper, but a simple float |
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coin
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銭
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gold-colored tokens minted each year for Mardi Gras and thrown into crowds from people on the floats give us the kanji for coins |
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shallow
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浅
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an entourage of floats going from one town to the next must always seek a shallow place to cross the water. Try to picture what happens if they don't |
