jpdb beta

hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking

1

picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage

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to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke

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at once; immediately; right now

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sale; selling; selling point; gimmick; seller; vendor

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10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million

1

10,000,000,000; ten billion

1

to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish

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to mind; to care about; to be an issue; to matter; to keep company; to care for; to interfere with

1

mere; only; just; slight

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small; little; tiny; insignificant; humble; modest

1

this sort of; this kind of; like this; such

6

to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell

1

skillful; skilled; proficient; flattery

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to draw; to paint; to depict; to describe; to picture in one's mind; to imagine

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to make fun of; to look down on; to make light of

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misunderstanding

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to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)

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anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly

2

to chase; to run after; to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.); to drive out; to get rid of; to drive (e.g. a herd)

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to continue; to keep up; to keep on

1

give; I give up; uncle!

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increasing; uploading; posting (e.g. content); close-up; finishing shooting (of a film, etc.); upswept hairstyle; being up (i.e. leading in sports)

1

banana peel; banana skin

1

to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign

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look!; look out!; hey!; look at me!; there you are!

1

good boy; good girl

1

such ... as; or some such

1

way (of doing); manner; method; means

1

phew; whew; huff; whoo; wohoo

2

to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade

1

is that so? (generally rhetorical)

1

impostor; imposter; pretender; liar

1

gentleman

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to leak out (a secret); to be exposed (a lie, improper behaviour, etc.); to be found out; to get away (of fish)

2

thin veneer; hasty preparation; knowledge or skill learned as a stopgap; re-tempering a dull sword (so that it looks as if it's sharp, but is actually unusable)

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talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)

3

laughing matter

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everyone; everybody; all; everything; all

2

to shout (in anger); to yell

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to find out; to discover; to locate

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

1

to be shut; to close; to be locked; to tighten; to be tightened; to become sober

2

Matsue (city in Shimane)

3

well; now; then

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living thing; living creature; animal; life

1

talk; speech; topic; subject; discussions; negotiation; rumor

4

continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence

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moreover; furthermore; nevertheless; and yet

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older; senior

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