jpdb beta

Tsu (city in Mie); harbour; harbor; ferry

1

mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)

4

halfway; half measures; unfinished; incomplete; by halves; half-baked

1

10,000 yen

1

traditional Japanese meal brought in courses; tea-ceremony dishes

1

delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient

2

standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability

2

full-course dinner; multicourse meal

1

to have meaning; to be meaningful

1

good-quality; superior in quality

1

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

2

the very end; finish; to the very end; to the last; thoroughly

1

proficient; skillful; enjoying; satisfaction; satiation

1

should do; ought to do

6

cost performance; cost effectiveness; price-performance ratio; value for money; bang for one's buck

1

no problem; all right; not an issue; unobjectionable

1

middle; midway; middle position; moderate position; interim; intermediary

1

both; (not) either

1

bold; daring; audacious

2

to take out a loan; to get a loan

1

one's (own) house; one's (own) home

1

every month; each month; monthly

3

to shorten; to cut short; to trim; to cut down on; to reduce; to scrimp on

1

personal expenses; pocket money; spending money; incidental expenses; allowance

2

tens of thousands

1

(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style

3

this much; this amount

1

method; manner; appearance; air; tendency; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)

1

that; the matter in question

1

pattern; behavioural pattern; behavioral pattern; predictability

2

of bad character; ill-natured; nasty; vicious; wicked; malignant

1

to chase; to run after; to pursue

1

sense of values; values; value system

1

really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way

1

optical illusion; hallucination; misapprehension; delusion

1

balance

1

to count; to enumerate

1

underground; below the ground; world of the dead; the grave; underground (activities, movement, etc.); secret

1

in a row; in a line

1

to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal

6

to fit in

1

to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up

1

holiday house; vacation home; villa; prison; jail

3

full of (e.g. mistakes); riddled with; covered all over with (blood, mud, etc.)

2

sense of purpose

1

speech; words; one's lines; remarks

1

studying for a test (esp. school or university entrance examinations)

1

qualifications; requirements; capabilities

2

it's different when ... but; it's not so bad when ... but

3

to put to use; to make use of; to turn to account

3