jpdb beta

interview; audience; meeting; (viewing) party

11

thick voice

1

skilfulness; skillfulness; cleverness

2

television; TV

3

skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid

3

one's future; one's fate; one's way; one's path

1

losing posture; falling position from which it is impossible to recover; lame duck; hopeless situation

1

to stretch larger; to enlarge (photos); to delay (e.g. the end of a meeting)

1

stagnation; tie-up; standstill; congestion; delay; accumulation

3

(suffer) deterioration; growing worse; aggravation; degeneration; corruption

4

opportunity; chance; good time (to do); trend; tendency; momentum

2

trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support

1

pump

2

fire fighting; extinguishing a fire

1

offstage; backstage; behind the scenes

1

laughingstock

1

performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written; doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution); put-up job; charade; sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)

1

to obtain evidence

1

small theatre; kabuki performed in a small theatre; little performance; short acted scene; act

1

condolence; condolences

2

defeat; loss; reverse; setback

1

underhanded; unfair; makeshift; stopgap

1

three; three years of age

2

to come back (to); to return to a starting point

2

one move (in go, shogi, etc.); only way; only means; doing alone; doing single-handed

2

purchaser

2

several people; a few people

1

predominance; superiority; ascendancy; advantage; supremacy

3

as much as one can; as much as possible; if at all possible

3

to get in touch with

2

register of names; list of names; roll; register; roster

12

preparation; arrangements

1

losing initiative; being forestalled; second move (in go or shogi); moving second; rear guard

1

devoting (oneself) to; concentrating (one's efforts) on

1

goal to strive for; challenge

1

to withdraw; to leave; to retire; to back down; to give up

1

to stand in the way; to bar someone's way; to block the way

1

proposed solution; idea for a solution

4

to jump over; to clear; to walk over (someone)

1

pawn (chess piece); boing; sproing (e.g. sound of releasing a spring); flipping through the air; tossing

3

suicide bombing (e.g. crashing one's plane into a target); self-destruction; blowing oneself up

2

viewpoint; point of view; way of understanding; way of appreciating; how to look at something (e.g. noh, train schedule)

1

Zen dialogue; Zen questions and answers

1

to take the middle (between the two); to split the difference

1

motor

7

chassis

9

resemblance; similarity; likeness; analogy

1

on one hand; on the other hand

4

still; as yet; as it has been

1

healthy; robust

1