jpdb beta

management; managerial position; administrative post; person in a managerial position

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human being; human; person; character (of a person)

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risk

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in good health; healthy; skilled; proficient; master; expert

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to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause

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they; those guys

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boorish; inelegant; unpolished; unromantic; tactless

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comparatively; relatively; fairly; rather; pretty; unexpectedly

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to intrude; to butt in; to meddle; to be forward; to be self-assertive; to show off

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cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike

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shallow; superficial; thoughtless; short-sighted; foolish; silly

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(common) use (of a language, currency, etc.); current use; to be accepted (e.g. of a way of thinking); to work (of an excuse, trick, etc.); going in and out; entrance and exit

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fool; blockhead; idiot; dunce

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trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern

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completely; absolutely; (not) at all; (not) a bit; earnestly; intently

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to die out; to peter out; to become extinct; to cease; to be stopped; to be discontinued

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that; the matter in question

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to know; to understand; to (understand and) accept (a responsibility); to have a knowledge of (a skill, art, etc.); to have a command of

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to awaken; to arouse from sleep; to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of); to sober up; to dampen

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what did you just say (to me)?; what's that?

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sobriety; soberness; sober face

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by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly

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to rub; to crumple; to massage; to argue; to have a heated discussion; to train; to coach

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young person; servant; errand boy in a samurai family; person of lowly status

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particularly; only; in the case of

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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

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one's social standing; one's position; one's place; one's station in life

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only; merely; but; no more than

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to hack; to chop (firewood, meat, etc.); to chop off (e.g. a head)

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door (esp. Japanese-style); shutter; window shutter; (arch.) entrance (to a home); (arch.) narrows

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reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight

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to talk; to tell; to recite; to pledge; to conspire with

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enjoyable; fun; pleasant; happy; delightful

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to amass; to accumulate; to store; to leave unpaid

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exactly; precisely; closely; tightly; properly; without fail

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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)

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touché; you've got me there

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generation of students educated under the "pressure-free" system (from the late 1970s onward)

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roof leak

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look, look!

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okay; sure; okey-dokey

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four people

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Maruchan

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guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper

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oh; right; I see; OK; gotcha

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all together now!; one, two, go!; ready, set, go!; heave, ho!; oops-a-daisy

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an issue being settled; a case being closed

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I'm sorry; (it's) inexcusable; thank you very much (for help, etc.)

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immature; childish

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to stick out too much; to protrude too far; to be too strong (e.g. of tea); to be too forward; to be too assertive; to be pushy

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