jpdb beta

supporting role (actor); minor role

1

assist; assistance

1

carrying out one's original intention

1

is it?; isn't it?; be; is

1

floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

3

to lie down; to throw oneself down

1

to clatter; to flap (noisily); to rattle; to walk around being unable to settle down

1

to sprawl; to lie sprawled; to stretch oneself out; to lie relaxed on one's side

1

something; some kind of; for some reason

1

on a routine basis; regularly; habitually

1

tired; frazzled; tiresome; tiring; draining

2

relatively; comparatively

1

ridiculous; absurd

1

unmanageable child; spoiled child (spoilt); spoiled brat

1

sitting cross-legged (i.e. Indian style)

1

friend

5

distant look; faraway look

1

confrontation; opposition; antagonism

2

hopeless; futile; no use; beyond help; cannot be done

1

to have a showdown; to settle (e.g. a dispute)

2

reserve; modesty

1

desk

3

suddenly; unexpectedly; by chance; accidentally; lightly; nimbly

1

roundabout (e.g. expression); indirect (reference, criticism, etc.); oblique

1

perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility

1

that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that

4

to join hands together; to join forces; to collaborate

1

on the occasion of; at the time of

1

to change; to alter; to mistake; to make a mistake; to fail to keep (e.g. one's promise); to sprain (a muscle)

1

establishment; creation; posing (a problem); options setting; preference settings; configuration

3

to rub together (e.g. one's hands)

1

lack of relation (to); independence (of)

2

to talk (a person) down; to confute

1

unreasonable request; asking for something unreasonable

1

to consist of; to be made up of; to be concluded (e.g. of an agreement); to hold true (e.g. of a theory); to be viable (of a business, lifestyle, etc.); to carry on

1

to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)

2

to occur to; to remind of; to come to mind

2

to wrinkle; to crinkle; to shrivel

1

wrinkle; crease; ripple

2

course (of events); development; progress; market order; order without limit

1

matter; affair; counter for (received) emails, text messages, voicemail messages, etc.; counter for accounts (on a website, email service, etc.)

1

to knock (ideas) against each other; to present competing ideas; to have a lively exchange of ideas; to smash together; to crash into each other; to throw at each other

1

to ask a question; to begin to ask a question

1

orange (color, colour)

1

essentially nonexistent; virtually nil

1

charming; fascinating; attractive

1

for a long time; since long ago; always; already; far in advance (e.g. reservation)

1

army corps; corps

1

personnel cut; labor cut; labour cut

1

crown (of head); summit (of mountain); easy win for one; something received

2