jpdb beta

to curry favour (with); to play up (to); to cozy up (to); to butter up

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to take the name of; to call oneself; to pretend; to feign; to purport

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seasoning; flavoring; flavouring; addition; inclusion; taking into account

1

drifting cloud; floating cloud; instability

1

sigh; grief; lamentation

1

to dodge; to evade; to avoid; to sidestep

1

oil dealer; oil merchant

3

Echigo (former province located in present-day Niigata Prefecture)

1

peasant; small farmer

1

landowner; landlord; landlady

1

better fortune

1

to do something together

1

bare livelihood; subsistence

2

to arrive; to reach; to adhere; to insist on; to put on; to wear

1

residence

1

to be unable to make up one's mind; to be undecided

1

one's home; hometown; native place; birthplace

1

way; method; means; resource; course

3

for the time being; for the present; immediate; present; for some time (after); current account

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oil; petroleum; kerosene; paraffin

2

from door to door

1

several day period

1

all day; for a whole day

2

to eke out a living; to barely manage to get by

1

intersection; crossing; crossroad; street corner; street

2

rickshaw; jinrikisha

3

accomplice; cohort

1

to saw; to grind (e.g. coffee beans); to mill

3

to set one's hand to; to start work on; to embezzle; to use (money obtained in illegal fashion); to have sexual relations; to have an affair

1

aunt

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to loaf (particularly on the job); to idle one's time away; to dawdle

2

wooden floor; room with a wooden floor; changing room (at a public bath)

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to sit (down)

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to write (e.g. a letter); to draw up (a document); to take down (e.g. notes); to have (lunch, dinner, etc.); to eat

1

indolence; listlessness

2

to peel; to skin; to pare; to hull; to bare (e.g. fangs); to open wide (e.g. eyes)

2

to hold (an event); to give (a dinner, party, etc.); to feel (sensation, emotion, call of nature, etc.); to show signs of

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darkness

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toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; painstaking labor (labour)

1

dawn; daybreak; first light of day; first indication; glimpse; gleam

1

oil peddler; lazy person

1

being full; (counting) completed years (e.g. when calculating age); full (years, months, etc.); Manchuria

1

500; five hundred; many

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being in charge (of an area of responsibility); being responsible (for a work role, etc.)

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dual income; husband and wife both working

1

at the most; at best; to the utmost; as much as possible; as much as one can

2

call; visit; inquiry; enquiry; question

3

buying; shopping; buyer; purchase

1

financially scraping by; meagre existence (meager); hand to mouth existence; living one's life without plan; living life day-by-day; taking life one day at a time

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daily employment; hiring by the day; day laborer; day labourer

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