jpdb beta

boy; son; baby boy; young man

1

painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh

1

to be disappointed; to be dejected; to be downhearted; to feel exhausted; to feel drained

1

withdrawal; retraction; revocation; repeal

1

every kind; all sorts

1

to set up (a house, store, etc.); to build; to have at the ready (e.g. a gun); to hold in preparation (e.g. a camera); to adopt a posture; to assume a stance; to put on an air

1

to equivocate; to beat around the bush

1

needless to say; it goes without saying that

1

previous remarks

4

testimony; (verbal) evidence

1

English(-language) literature; British literature

1

Odashima Yuushi

1

coffee shop; coffeehouse; café

1

Shakespeare, William

1

Akutagawa Ryuunosuke (1892.3.1-1927.7.24)

1

antique; curio

1

broth made of fish and vegetables

1

short sentence; short piece of writing (e.g. passage, article, composition)

1

my; one's own; I ...; one ...

1

in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start

1

loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback

1

modesty; humility; being humble

3

poet

1

Hugo

1

humorous

1

literary master

2

suddenly; all of a sudden; abruptly

1

persuasiveness; powers of persuasion; cogency

1

habu (Trimeresurus flavoviridis); yellow-spotted pit viper

10

aunt; old lady; ma'am

6

timid; faint of heart

1

stomach; Chinese "stomach" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)

1

to pin down; to hold down; to cover (esp. a part of one's body with one's hand); to clutch (a body part in pain); to get a hold of; to obtain

1

cold sweat; greasy sweat

1

to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle

2

next seat; adjacent seat

1

female university student; female college student

2

bench

1

emergency case; person that has suddenly taken ill

1

Yasue

5

(Catholic) Mass

4

stomach medicine

1

to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled

1

ill-mannered; rude

1

to apologize; to apologise

1

auntie; older woman

1

to throw; to hurl; to give up; to abandon; to cast (a glance, shadow, doubt, etc.)

1

leader; leading figure

1

to leave out (someone); to exclude; to ignore; to ostracize; to shun

1

to see through; to see into (someone's heart, mind, etc.); to perceive; to find out; to detect

1