jpdb beta

Cantal (cheese)

5

local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling; present brought by a visitor; something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift

1

rear garden; back yard

2

rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby

4

to hang; to suspend; to dangle; to swing; to carry

1

very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly

3

months (period of)

2

to eat; to drink; to receive (e.g. a blow); to be on the receiving end (of something undesirable); to undergo (trouble)

2

with a feeling of relief; with a sigh of relief; deeply (sigh)

1

to take a breath; to take a short rest

1

as soon as possible

2

alley; alleyway; teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)

3

alley; alleyway; bare earth (i.e. ground not covered by a roof); open field; teahouse garden; path through a gate (or through a garden, etc.)

3

to fold in; to bear deep in mind; to follow up

1

already completed (arrived, happened, etc.)

2

no!; no no!; no, not at all

1

ill will; spite; bad meaning; mala fides; bad faith; malice

1

ryokan; traditional inn; Japanese-style lodging, usu. professionally-run

1

in name only; titular; nominal

1

copying; transcription

1

relying entirely on ...; using solely ...; with the sole purpose of ...; based on (mutual consent, etc.)

1

dirty-looking; filthy; disgusting; squalid

3

grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen

4

deafness; deaf person

1

great haste; mad rush

1

to become confused (disconcerted, disorganized, disorganised); to be flustered; to panic; to hurry; to rush; to hasten

5

to get on; to climb on

1

cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship

2

to rub in; to smear on; to spread on; to lay the blame on

4

concise; brief; succinct; compact (style)

2

totteringly; staggeringly; unsteadily; lanky; spindly; slender

1

to become; to amount to

4

dizzy; giddy

1

to badger; to pester; to beg

1

sky; heaven; God; svarga (heaven-like realm visited as a stage of death and rebirth); deva (divine being of Buddhism); top (of a book); sole (of a Japanese sandal)

1

mistress (of the house); hostess; landlady; proprietress

1

master (of a house, shop, etc.); husband; sir; boss; patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy

3

the person concerned; the person in question; the said person

1

hundred times; hundred degrees

1

(piece of) writing; document; (act of) writing

1

downheartedly; dejectedly; dispiritedly; despondently

1

aha!; yes sir

1

come; go; stay; welcome

1

help; aid; assistance

1

your home; your family; their home; (my) home

2

how many; how old

1

satisfactory; decent

1

doesn't even exist

1

about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite

1

to reconsider; to rethink; to reassess

1