jpdb beta

vivid description; painting a lively picture (of)

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chance (of success); odds

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forever

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trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support

4

(any) more; further; in addition (to this); at this stage; now; now that things have come to this

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viewing through a window; passing through a window; going through a window; doing through a window

1

sensible; perceptive; quick to understand; understanding; sympathetic

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to remember; to recall; to call to mind; to imagine; to picture in one's mind; to visualize

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gulping down (a drink); guzzling; chugging; sloshing around (of liquid in one's stomach)

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generous; big-hearted

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tomorrow will take care of itself; let the morn come and the meat with it; (lit.) tomorrow, the winds of tomorrow will blow

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to beat; to attack (an enemy); to do away with; to finish off

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helpless; forlorn; hopeless; unpromising; lonely; discouraging

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brat; kid; urchin; preta; hungry ghost

2

anything and everything; just about everything

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so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here

2

absconding; making off; taking off; slipping away; vanishing; disappearing

4

cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull

4

to blow against; to spray (paint, etc.; onto a surface)

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seashore; coast; seaside; waterfront; beach

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along (a wall, river, railroad tracks, etc.); alongside; following

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street at night; making a night journey

2

dead of night; midnight

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already; now; by this time; quick; early; fast

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mouth of river; estuary

1

to (finally) arrive at; to reach (at last); to (manage to) get to; to find one's way to

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sleeve (esp. of a kimono); pocket of sleeve; vicinity (esp. of a bridge); approach; foot of a mountain; base of a mountain

3

to wake (someone) up (roughly); to rouse out of bed; to awaken (someone) by knocking at the door

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to give shelter to; to lodge; to put up; to accommodate

1

next day; following day

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to run into; to rush into; to (run and) seek refuge in; to take shelter in

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not having enough workers; being understaffed; having nothing one can do about something; having no options; no reason not to ...; can't afford not to

1

anywhere; for all time; through thick and thin; come hell or high water; persistently; stubbornly

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(small) red dragonfly; darter (any dragonfly of genus Sympetrum, esp. the autumn darter, Sympetrum frequens); meadowhawk

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tree trunk; bole; backbone; base; foundation

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field (for growing wheat, fruit, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; field (of specialization); sphere; womb; birth

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silver cock's comb (Celosia argentea, esp. crested cock's comb, Celosia argentea var. cristata)

1

to burn; to get fired up

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Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki); Chinese persimmon; kaki

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kaki; Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki)

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to ripen (fruit, grain, etc.); to become ripe

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high in the sky

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shrike (any bird of family Laniidae); bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus); butcher bird

1

to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)

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(rocky) beach; seashore

6

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

9

-less; lacking; non-existing

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sandpiper (any bird of family Scolopacidae, incl. the curlews, godwits, phalaropes, redshanks, ruff, snipes, turnstones, and woodcocks)

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Tatsusawa

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evening; dusk; twilight

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