jpdb beta

episode; anecdote; vignette; episode

1

common; ordinary; conventional; customary

1

space; room; space (between letters, words, etc.); space (piece of type); (outer) space

2

um; er; nuh-uh; no; oof

1

Japanese-style room

3

taste; elegance; appearance; air; the likes of ...; lowly people such as ...

1

criticizing; lambasting; pointing out faults; calling for a retake; ordering (someone) to redo something

1

imperial villa; royal villa; detached palace

1

national treasury

1

embezzlement; misappropriation; usurpation

1

fine; penalty

1

seizure; confiscation; impounding; sequestration; forfeiture

1

property; fortune; assets

1

to use up; to exhaust; to wear out

1

casual income; extraordinary revenue; incidental income; nonrecurring income; perquisite

1

money

1

waste (of money, time, etc.); squandering; frittering away

1

to look into; to peep into; to peer into

2

personnel expenses; labor cost; labour cost; indirect labour costs; indirect labor costs

1

income; earnings; revenue; proceeds; takings; receipts

1

amount sold; sales; proceeds; takings; turnover

1

standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself; overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability

1

to resort to violence; to use force; to be able to get; to be able to afford; to jab; to swing at a bad ball (baseball)

1

price; cost

3

deep-fried food

5

coupled with; together

1

contention; competition; rivalry; quarrel

1

camping; campground; making camp

14

to sprinkle over (e.g. salt, pepper, etc. on food)

1

public works

1

to go in the direction of; to proceed toward; to become; to face (facts, circumstances, etc.); (arch.) to abide by; (arch.) to agree to

1

rotation

2

as likely as not; fifty-fifty; even match; tie

1

precision; accuracy

2

equal (distribution, treatment, level, etc.); even; uniform

1

memory; ability to remember

1

oral; verbal; spoken; parol

2

reading and writing

1

insufficient; inadequate; imperfect

1

note; memo; memorandum

1

value in doing something; feeling that something is worth doing; rewarding feeling; sense of satisfaction

1

called; known as; that; to say

1

an instant; a split second; no time at all; (lit.) time of an "ah!"

1

parting (of people); separation; farewell; breakup

2

to be able to conceal

1

mandarin (esp. the satsuma mandarin (Citrus unshiu)); mandarin orange; tangerine; citrus (Citrus spp.)

10

box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building

2

facing; opposite; across the street; other side

1

to take in one's hand; to pick up; to obtain

1

citrus; citrus fruit

1