jpdb beta

two groups; two bands

1

to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter

1

to tag along; to follow; to tail; to leave tracks; to leave footprints

6

shadow; tail; following

5

as a matter of fact; to tell the truth

1

probability; likelihood; chances

1

military service; combat experience

1

appearing in unexpected places and at unexpected moments; elusive; phantom

1

thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception

1

withdrawal; secession; separation; breakaway

1

tactics; strategy

1

victory; triumph; win; conquest; success

1

later; afterwards; future; after one's death; (arch.) descendant

1

persistent; obstinate; tenacious; relentless; insistent; importunate

2

hot pursuit; hot chase

1

large-scale

1

perfection; flawlessness

1

it's different when ... but; it's not so bad when ... but

1

hiding place; hideout; refuge; retreat; hideaway

1

possession; retention; maintenance; holding; keeping

2

D; d; director

1

home ground; home field; one's haunt; one's stamping ground; one's domain

1

whole area; whole region; stretch (of land); tract; belt

1

familiarity; intimacy; acquaintance

1

to rest; to suspend; to give relief

1

number of times; frequency; count

1

hearer; listener; audience; interviewer; questioner

1

role; part; job; assignment

1

about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite

1

balance of power (in a relationship); power dynamic

1

powers of observation

1

to be completely absorbed in; to fall for (something)

1

at hand; on hand; way of moving one's arms; skill; money at hand; pocket money

1

to part (from); to part company (with); to split (with); to break off relations (with)

1

that field; the authorities (esp. the police); the yakuza; organized crime circles

1

breaking up (a meeting, gathering, etc.); dispersal (e.g. of a crowd); dissolution (of a company, organization, etc.); winding-up; dissolution (of the Diet, Parliament, etc.)

1

at parting; on parting

3

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

1

slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)

1

pity; sorrow; pitiable; pitiful; alack; alas

1

the same generation; coeval

3

to follow; to shadow; to hanker after; to hover around

1

snugly; cosily; carefree; easily; freshly made and still warm; imprudently

1

disastrous; tragic; miserable; wretched; pitiful; woeful

1

poor; pitiful; piteous; pitiable

1

400; four hundred

1

attendant's booth (in a bathhouse changing room); door-keeper's stand; watcher's seat

1

number one; item 1

1

foot of a mountain; base of a mountain

3

memory; sense; experience

2