jpdb beta

cannibalism (in animals); feeding on each other; mutually harmful competition; internecine struggle; dog-eat-dog competition

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don't you think?; indicates question

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human being; human; person; character (of a person)

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intervention

1

great antiquity; old-fashioned; long ago

1

narrow; confined; small; limited; narrow-minded; confining

1

lake

2

to live; to get along; to spend (time)

1

other (place, thing, person); the rest; outside; beyond; nothing except; nothing but

1

fish

2

to wound; to injure; to hurt someone's feelings (pride, etc.); to damage; to chip

1

but I suppose; it seems; probably; I guess

1

slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late

2

two minutes

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lateness; tardiness; arriving late

2

cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing

2

drying a futon (by hanging it outside in the sun)

1

-ish; -like

1

wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam

1

ta-dah!; ta-da!; voilà!

1

I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal

8

every day

3

3 o'clock; afternoon snack (eaten around 3 o'clock); three ages of Buddhism (following the death of Gautama Buddha; age of the true law, age of the copied law, and age of the degeneration of the law); three ages of the dharma

1

tired; frazzled; tiresome; tiring; draining

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chattering; talk; idle talk; chatty; talkative; chatterbox

2

but; however; although

6

limit; bounds

1

talk; chat; troth; lovers' vow

1

stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation

1

when it becomes; when it comes to

1

diary; journal

16

renewal; update; innovation; improvement

6

novelizing; novelising; adapting a movie, game, etc. into a book

4

to fear; to doubt; to have misgivings about; to worry about; to be anxious about; to be apprehensive about

1

maybe; could be; might

1

literary style; form of (written) language (e.g. classical, modern)

2

awkward; clumsy; stiff; crude; unrefined; constrained

2

in this way; thus; such; uh...

1

freedom; liberty

1

seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...

1

holiday; day off; sleep; rest; Good night

1

feeling; mood

1

to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow

2

continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago

5

instead of; in place of; as a substitute for; in exchange for; in return for; to make up for

1

if it's the case

1

of course; certainly; naturally

1

one's normal condition; one's usual state; keynote (esp. shamisen); proper key

1

oh; ho; exclamation of surprise, admiration, etc.; hoo (owl call); toot (sound of a flute)

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writing; composition; essay; sentence

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