jpdb beta

lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

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to be at a loss; to be puzzled

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hospitality; reception; treatment; (light) refreshment; entertaining with food and drink; treat

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fishing; gathering seafood (e.g. clams, seaweed); catch (e.g. of fish); haul

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turban shell (any mollusc of the family Turbinidae, esp. the horned turban, Turbo cornutus)

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to adopt (method, proposal, etc.); to take (measure, course of action, etc.); to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather (e.g. mushrooms); to extract (e.g. juice); to take (e.g. a sample); to assume (an attitude)

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Tokyo

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mummy

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fishing grounds; permitted fishing zone

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Fire Horse (43rd year of the sexagenary cycle, e.g. 1906, 1966, 2026)

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baby; infant

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pessimism; disappointment

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throwing oneself (e.g. into the water to commit suicide)

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among the mountains

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to grow old

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old couple; elderly couple

3

sunrise

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grandfather; male senior-citizen

4

drawing water

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river surface; surface of a river

1

lightly (floating); buoyantly; puffing (on a pipe, cigarette, etc.); tooting (a trumpet, horn, etc.); blowing (a flute, whistle)

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to take home; to carry home; to bring back home; to take out (e.g. food)

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klop; klunk; whonk; with a heavy impact; forcibly

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to slam into; to crash into; to run into; to face (trouble, difficulties, etc.); to confront

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amygdalin

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stomach acid; gastric acid

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hydrocyanic acid; prussic acid; hydrogen cyanide

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to backfire; to have a harmful result

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various

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Second World War (1939-1945); World War II; WWII; WW2

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poor; needy; lacking (quantity and quality-wise); poor; scanty

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village

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dispersal; evacuation; removal; spreading out (troops); deployment

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in times of war

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granddaughter

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

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grandpa; granddad

2

to become hungry; to get an empty stomach

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to take a bath; to have a bath; to take a shower

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bed; berth; crib; cot; kip; bedroom

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acquaintance; making someone's acquaintance

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simmering; (boiling) gently

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to boil (something in hot water); to treat with medicinal steam (a swelling, etc.)

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funny story; funny anecdote

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site (usu. website); sight; payable on sight

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miso soup

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peeking; peeping (e.g. through a hole, narrow gap)

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boiled egg

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boiled egg

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to get (much) colder; to deepen (cold); to feel cold (of the body); to be chilled to the bones; to worsen (of relations, economic conditions, etc.)

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