jpdb beta

unexpected meeting; coincidence

3

earthen figure; clay figure; dogū; clay figurines from the late Jōmon period

1

chalk (rock); white wall

1

say; well; um; er

1

to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)

5

a little; some; somewhat; amount; quantity; number

1

to whistle

1

barefaced (e.g. lie); transparent; with feigned ignorance; pretending not to know; pure white; very clear

1

query; interrogation; enquiry; question; inquiry

1

to condemn; to blame; to urge; to press; to torture; to torment

3

responsibility; liability; blame; torture; torment

2

a great deal; very much; a lot; (arch.) with a great amount of effort

2

somewhere; in some respects; in some way

3

giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange

7

to hide; to conceal oneself; to disappear (behind); to be hidden (by); to live in seclusion; to retire (from the world)

5

beckoning

1

dash

2

Western painting; Western film; Western movie

1

inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care

1

misunderstanding; mistaken idea; wrong guess

6

something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...

8

scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful

12

tightly (hold, squeeze, etc.); firmly; forcefully (e.g. push); hard

1

to cling to; to embrace; to throw one's arms around

2

to bury (e.g. in the ground); to fill up (e.g. audience fills a hall); to cause to be packed; to plug (a gap); to stop (a gap); to make up for (a loss, shortage, etc.); to make amends

4

to get cloudy; to cloud over; to cloud up; to fog up; to be gloomy; to be clouded (expression)

2

womanizer; Lothario; Don Juan; philanderer; lady-killer

1

least; lowest; worst; awful; horrible; at the very least

2

to misjudge; to mistake; to misjudge (someone); to overestimate; to miss seeing; to overlook

1

face contorted and about to cry

1

to turn on one's heel; to turn back; to return

1

to run away; to run off

1

to follow; to pursue; to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one; to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)

1

to dribble; to spill; to suspend; to hang down; to slouch

3

natural; right; proper; naturally; as a matter of course; rightly

5

school building; schoolhouse

6

to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to be compensated; to make up for one's losses

1

adds light emphasis or insistence to a statement; gives a statement a threatening or condescending tone

2

goby (fish); yellowfin goby (Acanthogobius flavimanus)

1

to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt

1

serious; not joking; straight; (arch.) cannot; (arch.) should not; (arch.) will not

3

faint smile; half smile

1

whimpering; sniveling; sobbing

1

crying loudly; bawling; wailing; crying one's eyes out (without making noise); breaking into a flood of tears; crying buckets

2

to cling to ... in tears; to beg ... in tears; to appeal; to throw oneself on someone's mercy

1

all right; very well; there, there; patting (e.g. a child on the head); stroking

4

tummy; tumtum; bang-bang; pop-pop; without reservation; unreservedly

1

misunderstanding

4

even; even if ...; even though ...; because ...; as ...; with the purpose of ...

2

probably; likely; perhaps; a lot of; much; many

5