jpdb beta

living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood

3

main street

2

to descend; to go down; to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.); to pass (of time); to surrender; to capitulate; to be less than

2

factory worker; craftsman; artisan

1

laborer; labourer; blue-collar worker

1

store; shop; establishment; restaurant

2

peddler; pedlar; hawker

1

ordinary people; common folk; general masses; man in the street; populace at large

2

block (of land)

3

here and there; all around; everywhere; to get things in the wrong order (back to front); to become muddled up

6

to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)

1

establishment; institution; installation (of a machine or equipment)

1

roadside; wayside

2

beggar; begging

2

large number (of); many; majority

2

dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding

4

to stagnate; to settle (at the bottom); to deposit; to become sluggish; to become dull; to be delayed

1

chronic

1

in addition

2

work; job; labor; work

4

to impose (a tax, fine, etc.); to levy; to assign (a task, duty, etc.); to give; to set

2

to pay (e.g. money, bill); to brush off; to wipe away; to drive away (e.g. one's competitors); to sell off (something unneeded); to dispose of; to pay (e.g. attention)

1

tax collection; taxation

1

contractor

1

subordinate; underling; henchman; minion

2

what little ... one has; tiny amount of; paltry

1

one's property; personal effects; one's belongings

1

family; members of a family

5

to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up

6

wife (esp. one's own wife); court lady; female court attache; (arch.) woman (esp. as a love interest)

6

to leak out; to escape; to find expression; to give vent; to leak out; to be divulged

8

grief; lamentation

1

to poke (repeatedly, lightly); to nudge; to peck at (one's food); to pick at; to peck at (someone's faults, etc.); to egg on

1

explosion; rupture; break off

1

easy; simple; plain

1

rag; scrap; fault (esp. in a pretense, pretence); defect; run-down; shabby

1

to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)

5

children

5

thirst for blood; bloodlust; determination to kill

2

now that you mention it; come to think of it; that reminds me; on that subject; speaking of which

4

group of thieves

1

to increase; to multiply

3

shrewd; astute; cunning; alert

1

staringly; scrutinizing; scrutinising

1

observation; survey; watching

5

to bear; to endure

1

pickpocket

1

to work; to labor; to function; to operate; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate

3

to put in; to let in; to admit; to accept; to accept; to comply; to include

9

to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)

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