jpdb beta

complicated; complex; intricate; confusing; difficult; troublesome

1

to step on; to tread on; to set foot on (e.g. foreign soil); to stand on; to experience; to undergo; to follow (rules, principles, etc.)

6

if; when; when it comes to ...; as for ...; why don't you ...; why not ...

7

when; at what point

4

to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to

5

not a chance; not likely; no way; oh no; yuck; eew

2

grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen

1

to swallow (e.g. a story); to accept without questioning; to swallow (food) whole; to gobble up; to gulp down

1

to accept (e.g. an explanation); to be satisfied (with); to assent (to)

2

manner; way; appearance; air; custom; convention; folk song (genre of the Shi Jing)

5

to beat; to attack (an enemy); to do away with; to finish off

3

to finish; to end; to have a result less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry

16

jumping straight to the business, ...; I know this is abrupt, but ...; let's skip the pleasantries; getting to the point

1

that; the matter in question

6

(medical) treatment; care; therapy; cure; remedy

1

to be useful; to be helpful; to serve the purpose

2

to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded

1

blue; azure; green; pale (facial color); gray; unripe

5

curse; spell; malediction

16

magic; sorcery; incantation

11

primitive; original

1

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

4

system; organization; organisation; architecture

1

(the) mainstream; main course (of a river); main stream

2

system; lineage; ancestry; group (e.g. of colors) (colours); family (e.g. of languages); close (evolutionary) relationship

1

to belong to; to come under; to be affiliated with; to be subject to

1

weakness; debility; breakdown; prostration

1

to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely

6

trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support

4

physical condition; state of health; shape

1

unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident

2

arms; weapons (of war); armor; armour

1

storehouse; warehouse; godown

1

sorting; arrangement; liquidation; settlement; retrenchment; curtailment

2

at that time; in those days; at that moment; then

1

months and years

3

to pass; to elapse; to pass through; to go through; to experience; to go through

3

soul; spirit

1

to dwell (in); to exist (within); to stay (at); to stop (at); to be in the womb (of an unborn child); to be part of a constellation

4

Japan

13

what is called; as it is called; the so-called; known as; so to speak

1

artifact spirit; in folk belief, long-lived objects (household objects, living beings, nature, etc.) become inhabited by a spirit upon their 100th birthday

1

to rouse anger; to provoke wrath; to offend

1

witch doctor; shaman

1

occupation; profession; job; vocation; career; trade

1

lifting a curse; breaking a spell; disenchantment

6

spirit; soul; ghost

7

extremely; highly

4

rare; seldom

2

distant (from someone); aloof; estranged; knowing little (of); ill-informed (about); ignorant (of)

1