jpdb beta

Japan

3

great; excellent; very troublesome; awful; tiring; tough

1

general; shogun

3

indiscriminately; blindly; at random; indiscriminate; random; excessive

2

friendly

1

barrier; gate; seki (in go); mutual life

1

field; plain; prairie; tundra; moor; wilderness

1

to all appearances; no matter how you look at it

1

ordinary person; average person; man in the street; everyman; (a) nobody

1

no change; no difference; no unusual events; no accidents; no incidents

1

wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason

6

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

1

matter; thing; affair; circumstance

2

cough; ahem

1

to stare fixedly at; to fix one's gaze on; to make sure of; to set one's eyes on (e.g. the future); to focus on

4

the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come

1

science fiction; sci-fi; SF

1

(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season

6

imagination; supposition; guess

9

just as one thought; as usual; sure enough

1

well, I must admit ...

1

to protect (someone); to look after (e.g. an injured leg); to defend; to cover for; to stand up for; to stick up for

1

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

2

original inhabitant; aboriginal; previous priest

6

vacantly; blankly; openmouthed; with one's mouth wide-open; with a whack; with a thump

1

barbarian; savage

1

to mediate; to intervene; to smooth

1

base (of a plant, tree, pillar, etc.); (part near the) root; roots (of one's hair); root (e.g. of a problem); source

1

spacious; vast; wide

1

culture; civilization; civilisation; Bunka era (1804.2.11-1818.4.22)

1

to breathe (heavily); to pant; to gasp; to live

1

old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago

1

to operate (e.g. a machine); to handle; to have a good command of (a language); to play proficiently (of a musical instrument); to work (a puppet); to pull the strings of a puppet

6

exactly right!; indeed; damn straight

2

these days; nowadays; now; at present; recently; lately

1

if not

1

difference (of opinion); strange; odd; different

1

way of calling

1

weight; weight (e.g. of someone's words); burden; importance; significance

1

origin; source; history; originally; from the start; by nature

1

really; very; extremely; (not) anything; (not) at all; (not) a bit

3

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

1

sense of reality

2

thin (e.g. air); diluted; sparse; lacking (e.g. empathy); deficient; insufficient (e.g. zeal)

1

ancestor; forefather; foremother

3

in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something

1

indescribable; inexpressible; unspeakable; indefinable; nobody can tell

1

reeking of blood; stinking of blood; bloody (battle, crime, etc.)

1

primly; with one's nose in the air; smugly

1

extensive knowledge; erudition

1