jpdb beta

honest; frank; candid; honestly; frankly

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trade; business; occupation; profession; job

1

wife; bride; (one's) daughter-in-law

1

house; hall; building

1

pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)

1

to be disheartened; to be dejected; to be discouraged; suddenly (losing a lot of weight); looking emaciated; becoming very thin

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and yet; even so; nonetheless; for all that

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glossy; bright; slick

1

even now; still; as yet

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to pull into; to draw in; to bring in; to win over

2

interruption (e.g. of a conversation)

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audience; attendance; hearers

1

weird; odd; bizarre; curious

1

manager

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grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen

1

being scattered in all directions; being broken up and dispersed

1

woman working in the nightlife business (bar or nightclub hostess, geisha, etc.); woman who works in an adult entertainment business; demimondaine; prostitute

1

weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)

2

indicates means of action; cause of effect; by

1

first class; first rank; one degree; one level; most; best

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to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention

1

child

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that day; the very same day

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regular customer

1

previous engagement; prior contract

1

geisha

1

reserved; engaged

1

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

1

comrade; friend; associate; colleague; fellow student; fellow apprentice

1

red hair; ginger hair

1

slow (slightly pejorative); dull; stupid

1

close; intimate; on good terms

1

to cast down one's eyes

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as expected; predictably; not surprisingly

1

death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out

1

condition; state; health; state (of health); way; manner

2

to get worse; to deteriorate; to go from bad to worse; to spoil (of food); to go bad; to perish

1

to fall fast asleep; to be confined to one's bed; to be laid up

1

14; fourteen

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mummy

1

to dry up completely; to become stale

1

trembling (with fear, anger, etc.); shivering (with cold); shaking; quivering

1

frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed

3

that night; that evening; over the course of the evening

1

middle of the night; dead of night

1

to wake up; to awake; to perk up; to awaken (to the truth, etc.); to come to a realization; to come to one's senses

1

uneasiness; vague apprehension; premonition

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peep; peeping; peep show; device with lens mounted on a stand or in a box to view enlarged pictures

2

at this stage; at this point; now (contrasting with the past)

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The End; Finis; completion; conclusion; providing fully

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