jpdb beta

to blame; to find fault with

1

to bring (someone into a place); to lead into

1

charge; rush; dash; assault; attack

1

matter (to discuss); item (on the agenda); (court) case; project; enterprise; advertisement

4

to delay; to put off; to procrastinate

1

to remain; to stay (somewhere)

3

to that extent; accordingly; that being the case; that state; that condition

2

overtime (work)

1

sign; indication

1

retirement (from work); leading a quiet life (after retirement); retired person; retiree; surrendering headship of the family (pre-WWII)

1

age forty; one's forties

3

past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)

5

memory; sense; experience

1

word; vocabulary

1

satisfactory; decent; good; proper; respectable

1

(something) has never occurred; to have never done (something); such a thing has not happened; never happens; there is never a time when

7

to invite; to ask; to beckon; to wave someone in; to call in; to send for

1

to see to it that ...; to make sure that ...; to try to ...; to make an effort to ...

10

to need; to demand; to take; to require

1

no!; no no!; no, not at all

1

winter

2

cherry blossom viewing; flower viewing

1

indolence; laziness; sloth

1

monocle; lorgnon

12

whistling (wind); blowing; fluttering (in the wind); waving; staggering; tottering

1

middle-age; middle age; midlife; one's middle years

2

civil official

16

it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...

4

appropriate; adequate; suitable; fitting; worthy

3

fox (esp. the red fox, Vulpes vulpes); fox (i.e. a sly person); soba or udon topped with deep-fried tofu; light brown; golden brown

6

intellect; intelligence

1

madness; insanity

2

to conceive; to become pregnant; to get filled with (e.g. sails filled with wind); to be swollen with; to contain (a contradiction, danger, etc.); to carry (a problem, consequences, etc.)

3

name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext

8

Ra

95

strategist; tactician; schemer

14

(avid) angler

1

world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign

2

forty; 40

1

having a wife; marrying (a woman); marriage

1

(another person's) nephew

1

adopted child (usu. male); son-in-law

2

control; management (e.g. of a business)

7

to leave (a matter, decision, etc. to someone); to entrust (to someone); to leave (to chance, one's imagination, etc.); to let (take its own course); to use (money, strength, spare time, etc.) to the full; to use freely

4

gossip

4

even if not; even without

1

to roll up; to enfold; to swallow up; to involve; to drag into

3

to charge; to lunge; to flare up (at someone); to turn on (someone); to collide with; to bump into

3

to be fated; to be linked by fate

1

brothel

2