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"text": "22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/\nBut that’s a dubious triumph: A book is a book and a movie is a movie, and whenever the latter merely sets about illustrating the former, it’s a failure of adaptation, to say nothing of imagination."
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"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
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"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
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"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
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"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
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"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
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"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
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"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
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"sense": "to attack",
"word": "aanvallen"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to attack",
"word": "käydä päälle"
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"sense": "to attack",
"word": "käydä kimppuun"
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"sense": "to attack",
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"sense": "to attack",
"word": "megtámad"
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"word": "nekimegy"
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"sense": "to attack",
"word": "ionsaigh"
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"sense": "to attack",
"word": "aggredire"
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"sense": "to attack",
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"text": "22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/\nBut that’s a dubious triumph: A book is a book and a movie is a movie, and whenever the latter merely sets about illustrating the former, it’s a failure of adaptation, to say nothing of imagination."
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"text": "Two youths set about him."
}
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "pustit se do"
},
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"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "op het punt staan te"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "eraan beginnen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "aan de slag schieten"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "aloittaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "alkaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "ryhtyä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "entreprendre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "s’attaquer à"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "hozzáfog"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "nekiáll"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "nekilát"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "ionsaigh"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "scaoil faoi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "iniziare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "cominciare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "intraprendere"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "eō"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Rumanian",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "se apuca"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Rumanian",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "porni"
},
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Rumanian",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "se pune"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pristupitʹ k",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "приступить к"
},
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to initiate or begin some action",
"word": "başlatmak"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to attack",
"word": "aanvallen"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to attack",
"word": "käydä päälle"
},
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"sense": "to attack",
"word": "käydä kimppuun"
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"sense": "to attack",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to attack",
"word": "megtámad"
},
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"sense": "to attack",
"word": "nekimegy"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "to attack",
"word": "ionsaigh"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to attack",
"word": "aggredire"
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"sense": "to attack",
"word": "saldırmak"
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"word": "set about"
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