jpdb beta

heroic

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public opinion; popular voice; public sentiment; consensus

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political opponent

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impostor; imposter; pretender; liar

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to interrupt (a person)

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supporter; adherent; proponent; backer

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wish; desire; request; prayer

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to forbid; to ban; to prohibit; to suppress (a feeling, laughter, etc.); to hold back (e.g. tears)

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shrine office; office of a Shinto shrine

4

to dam up; to hold back; to keep back; to stem (an activity); to check (e.g. progress)

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to shake with rage

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the second time

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obscene; indecent; dirty; improper

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coagulation; freezing; solidification

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viewing as a problem; problematizing

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to the end

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yellow; amber

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mask; striking the head (kendo)

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wording (esp. of written text); classical Chinese literary style; traditional written Chinese

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looking good; sounding good; (of) good appearance

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how long; how far; how much

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watchdog; chaperone; watcher

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fake smile; false smile

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votive tablet; wooden tablet usu. filled out with a prayer and one's name and hung up at a shrine or temple; orig. picturing a horse, as a stand-in for a donation of a live horse

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cute; adorable; charming; lovely; pretty

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shaking violently

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to scribble (down); to write quickly; to dash off

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overthrow; defeat; bringing down; knockdown

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aspiration; ambition; plan; hopes; wishes

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substitution; replacement; shifting; change

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real name

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thereupon; shortly thereafter

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to stretch around (e.g. a fence, dragnet, etc.); to lay out (e.g. a wiring system, network, etc.); to string up (e.g. an antenna, ship's rigging, etc.)

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to throw into; to dump in together

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as promised

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clank-clank; clang-clang; clattering

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to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)

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not one to talk; who are you to say; look who's talking

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empire; Empire of Japan

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skilfulness; skillfulness; cleverness

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fidelity; honour; honor; chastity (of a woman); faithfulness (e.g. to one's husband)

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four characters; four letters

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to ignore one's own shortcomings; to shut one's eyes to one's own faults; to act hypocritically

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to stop (someone) by throwing one's arms around them; to catch (someone) in one's arms; to hold (someone) back

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to prolong one's life

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superstition; superstitious belief

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as much as one wants; as many as one wants; all that one wishes for

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to let someone say

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to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to pierce something all the way through

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things don't work that well in the real world; things seldom go as one wishes; that is expecting too much; it won't be that easy; (lit.) the wholesaler won't sell it like that

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