jpdb beta

foolish; stupid; silly

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I; me; oneself; (arch.) you

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friend; companion; comrade; accompaniment; companion (e.g. book); complement

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to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade

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-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person

3

my; our; one's own

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together with; same; both; all; including ...

3

to love; to cherish; to admire; to appreciate

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person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others

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cram school; private tutoring school; juku

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to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen

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to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience

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outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else

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if; in case; as for; on the topic of; if that's the case; if so

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here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...

4

to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)

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to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach

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the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...

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yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr

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when it becomes; when it comes to

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to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine

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without authority; without reason; unnecessarily; recklessly; indiscriminately

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teacher; master; religious leader; specialist; (arch.) five-battalion brigade comprising 2500 men (Zhou-dynasty Chinese army)

2

to become; to amount to

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must not; should not; do not

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to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case

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pupil; student; schoolchild

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that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...

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appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style

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pupil; disciple; adherent; follower; apprentice; young person

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Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker

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inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)

4

to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with

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small; little; slight; below average (in degree, amount, etc.); low (e.g. sound); soft (e.g. voice)

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child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot

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reading and writing

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Confucius

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Mencius (372-289 BCE); Mengzi; Mencius (one of the Four Books)

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children and grandchildren; posterity; descendants

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lecture

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until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to

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older brother; elder brother

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story; tale; talk; discussion

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to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress

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surely; undoubtedly; sternly; severely; having no slack; rigid

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to be of benefit; to be useful; to be good for you

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oh, yes?; really?

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to finish; to end; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry

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older brother

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pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)

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