jpdb beta

reading in a monotone; reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese

1

shameful; disgraceful; indecent; unseemly; unbecoming; improper

1

to pretend

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beautiful voice

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(someone else's) daughter

3

suffix for familiar person

3

clapping hands; applause

1

performance (of a play, opera, etc.); staging; presentation

3

to sit up straight; to straighten one's posture; to straighten up

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skill; skillful; dexterity; flattery

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... is the reason; ... is my excuse

2

to manufacture; to produce; to raise (crops); to invent; to dream up; to create

1

to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)

1

to fire oneself up; to give it one's all; to get psyched; to fire someone up (with scolding, corporal punishment, etc.); to rouse

1

must not; do not

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background; scenery; background (of an incident, situation, etc.); circumstances; backing; support (from behind the scenes)

3

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

1

to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach

1

performance; take; game; season; penetrative vaginal sex (with a prostitute); unsimulated sex (in an adult movie)

1

just like

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curtain; bunting; act (in play)

3

to draw closed the curtain (of a theatre, etc.); (fig.) to come to an end

1

string; cord; man who is financially dependent on a woman; gigolo; restrictions; conditions

1

to crouch; to squat; to cower

1

signalling with the eyes; exchanging looks; winking

1

reader (person); person who reads the cards (in karuta games); composer (of a poem)

1

swaying; swinging; rocking; shaking; wavering; flickering

1

long ago

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small bird; little bird

2

to sing; to chirp; to twitter

1

high-pitched; shrill

1

(inflected) end of a word; end of a sentence

1

faint; dim; weak; poor; wretched; meagre

1

beyond; across; the other side; the distance

1

land of the gods; Japan; Heaven

1

earth; ground; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)

2

to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to bestow (favour, etc.); to grant (e.g. pardon)

1

to board a ship

1

lightly (floating, drifting, etc.); buoyantly; soft; fluffy; unsteadily; flightily

1

to float; to become merry; to be cheerful; to become loose; to become unsteady; to feel out of it; to be cut off (e.g. from those around you)

1

sprinkling (of rain, salt, etc.); pattering; flipping (through a book, etc.); riffling; sparse; scattered

1

to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down; to form (of frost); to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in; to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.)

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to fall onto; to happen; to befall

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what the hell; oh, great!; son of a gun; holy mackerel; oh no!; holy cow!

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to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop

2

to get better; to get well; to recover (from an illness); to be cured; to be restored; to heal

1

popular; folksy; plebeian; ordinary; unpretentious

1

talk; chat

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to tighten; to stiffen; to brace; to strain

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messy; confused; chaotic; complaining about various things

1