jpdb beta

moat; fosse; canal; ditch

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poetic diction

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central stalk of a dried rice plant

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Shibamoto

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fleeting life; this transient world; sad world; world of grief and worry; the world of the living; this life

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to bind together

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drainage

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to insist on one's own ideas

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low class; poor quality

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that much; as much; to that extent; only that; that alone; no more than that

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drooping; hanging down

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appearance; look

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customary; usual; common; ordinary; idiomatic

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to be brief and to the point; to be succinct

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to count on; to anticipate; to expect

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direct debit; account-to-account transfer

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presenting no difficulty; not hard

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wooden doll; blockhead; good-for-nothing

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any number of people; as many people as one likes

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of noble birth; wellborn

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time to die

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inner wall (e.g. cave); inner rockface (mountain valley, etc.)

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night chat; tale told at night; book of informal essays

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to drive into the ground (e.g. car); to ride to death (e.g. horse)

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to send around (e.g. a car)

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to like; to suit; to be pleased with

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to build (a bridge) over a river

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lace-up boots

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grapevine

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snake venom; snake toxin

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mechanical doll; automaton; string puppet; marionette; (fig.) person who follows orders blindly

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horses owned; horse owned

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sympathizer; sympathiser; fellow traveler; fellow traveller

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ne'er-do-well; waster; idler; good-for-nothing

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herculean strength; mountain carrier-guide

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God's will

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stray sheep

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remote place

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laughing by oneself; erotic pictures; shunga

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copper saucepan; copper pot

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sin of having sexual relations with a woman (for a Buddhist priest)

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Borja (Spain)

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to suddenly assume an antagonistic attitude; to suddenly become defiant; to turn aggressive (in one's manner); to moon; to point one's naked buttocks at someone; to give somebody the brown-eye

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difficult to speak about

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codification

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serving a master; employee

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unwelcome favor; unwelcome favour; misplaced kindness

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cleaning dust etc. from rooms; housecleaning; (the traditional Japanese end-of-the-year, 13th December) big house cleaning; spring cleaning (only not in spring)

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as far as the eye can reach; as far as the eye can see

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bombastic; pretentious; exaggerated

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