jpdb beta

to come of age; to become an adult; to become fully qualified; to stand on one's own

1

meddling; fumbling; fondling; playing around with something

10

engineer; technical expert; technician; craftsperson

1

parents; both parents

6

what with this and that; for a number of reasons

1

university; college; former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

2

taking an examination (esp. for entrance to a school or university)

2

ronin; masterless samurai; high school graduate waiting for another chance to enter university after having failed the yearly entrance examination; person out of work; jobless person; (arch.) wanderer

1

pride; self-confidence; thinking highly of oneself; being proud of one's abilities or achievements

1

when one was a very young child; very early in one's life

1

play; playing; pleasure; amusement; play (in a mechanism, e.g. a steering wheel); slack

1

extension; elongation; (total) length; extension (e.g. of one's work); continuation; extension (of a line segment); extension (property of occupying space)

1

spine; backbone; spinal column

1

brain; encephalon

1

to ooze (out); to seep

1

bitter (taste); sour (expression, look); bitter; bitter (e.g. experience); painful

2

(feeling of) hatred; (strong) dislike; disgust; aversion; revulsion; loathing

1

good (place to leave off); convenient

1

to look up at; to raise one's eyes; to look up to; to admire; to respect

6

white; blank (e.g. paper); uncolored; innocent; not guilty; (arch.) bright

5

moonlight; moonbeam

1

thin (of an object); pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.)

2

emission (of light); radiation (of light); luminescence

1

the more ... the more ...; as; (arch.) while; (arch.) during; (arch.) because; (arch.) since

1

sense of reality

1

meagre; meager; scarce; limited; destitute; hard up

1

simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated

1

naked; bare; uncovered; frank; open; blunt

1

what kind of thing; anything (else); nothing (but)

1

to be caught; to be captured; to be taken prisoner; to be seized with (fear, etc.); to be a slave to; to stick to

1

gravity; gravitation; gravitational pull

2

absurd; ridiculous; silly; ludicrous; nonsensical; asinine

1

to show in; to usher in

1

(just) one's imagination

3

and then; after that

1

dry riverbed; river beach

1

lunch; midday meal

1

original; novel; new

1

to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time

1

monkey

3

to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour

5

to dive (into or under water); to get under; to get into; to hide oneself (esp. from the government); to conceal oneself

1

to speak; to say; to vocalize

1

thank you for waiting; sorry to have kept you waiting

3

thank you; thanks

1

to crawl out of; to creep out of

1

in the morning; during the morning

1

early morning

1

to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous

2

extent; scope; sphere; range; span

2