jpdb beta

collector

1

barn; road; bang; bam

1

meddling; meddlesomeness; nosiness; meddler; buttinsky; busybody

1

attention; notice; care; caution; advice; warning

1

to wish to go well; to have good intentions

1

opinion; view; comment

1

with great caution; gingerly

1

eeny, meeny, miny, moe; eenie, meenie, minie, moe

1

gun

1

treatment; service; handling (of a machine, tool, etc.); operation; treating as; treating like

1

taking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away

1

well done!; bravo

1

operating together; working together; being linked (to); being tied (to); being connected (with); interlocking

1

power; might; authority; influence

1

to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to lob (e.g. grenades)

1

rotation (usu. around something); revolution; turning

2

target; object (of worship, study, etc.); subject (of taxation, etc.)

1

having done that; if that is done; if it is done in that way

1

floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

1

judgement; judgment; expert opinion; appraisal

1

blood type; blood group

2

DNA test

1

another thing; exception; special case

1

unnatural; artificial; affected; strained

1

is not; am not; are not

1

now that you say that; now that you mention it

1

being resented (by someone one holds resentment towards); thinking ill of a person based on a misunderstanding; unjustified resentment caused by a misunderstanding; responding to kindness with resentment

1

a little; a bit; just a minute; for a moment; somewhat; rather

2

often; frequently; lightly (of a movement); easily; simply

2

for today; for the time being

1

feeling refreshed; feeling relieved; neat; tidy; frank; open-hearted; completely

1

living by oneself; living alone

1

chaos

1

by any chance; (should) it happen (that); by some chance

1

firing; shooting; fire; gunshot; marksmanship

7

Japanese representative; Japanese delegate; Japanese delegation

3

one sheet; one page; one block of tofu; one serving (in a restaurant); one long and narrow thing (e.g. guns, scissors, spades, hoes, inksticks, palanquins, candles, jinrikishas, shamisen, oars, etc.); one chō (unit of distance, 109.09 m); one game

2

retirement

1

peak; peek

1

results; record; grades; marks

4

downhill; downward slope; descent; decline; waning; ebb

1

coach

2

representative; representation; delegation; switchboard number; main number

2

heyday; golden age

1

together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

1

beautiful man and woman; handsome couple

1

feature

1

cause; origin; source

1

mess; sorry state; -ways; -wards; in the act of ...; just as one is ...

1

removalist; mover

2