jpdb beta

Shinto shrine

15

weird; eerie; uncanny

1

irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; reasonable; moderate

3

first shrine visit of New Year

1

New Year's Eve; December 31

1

Shinto priest; chief Shinto priest (of a shrine); Welsh onion; pun in Buddhist monk jargon

1

dispatch; despatch; deployment; temporary employee (esp. from an agency); temporary worker; agency temp

2

going in and out; entering and exiting; visiting regularly; frequenting; income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings; increase and decrease

2

unmanned; uninhabited; unattended; shorthandedness; lack of help

2

bicycle; bike

9

physical ability

1

(degree of) urgency

1

license; permit; licence; certificate

1

private automobile

1

taxi

1

athletic; good at sports

1

the whole country

1

specifications; specs

3

pitiful; unfortunate; poor; unpardonable; regrettable

1

unskillful; poor; awkward; imprudent; untactful

6

to meet face-to-face

1

natural; understandable; reasonable; no wonder

2

when it comes to ...; if one were to speak of ...; by ... you mean ...; when you say ... you mean that ...; whenever ...; if it's ... then (without fail)

4

similarly; same (idea); same (name)

6

to suffer; to groan; to be worried

8

to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect

1

grounds (esp. of shrines and temples); compound; churchyard; precincts

3

(flight of) stone steps; stone stairway

7

to scale (mountain, flight of stairs, etc.)

2

indication; denotation; designation; instructions; directions

8

in accordance with; according to; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)

6

electric light

1

murmur; mutter; murmuring; tweet; Twitter post

4

consent; assent; understanding; agreement; comprehension; grasp

1

Shiiko

1

any beech tree of genus Castanopsis; chinquapin; chinkapin

44

to reflect; to throw back light

2

love; attachment; lovesickness

1

thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love

5

dear

1

to rise to the surface; to come to the front; to emerge (e.g. from obscurity); to stand out (e.g. against a dark background)

2

both

2

to connect; to correlate; to associate; to relate; to link

1

part; assigning (allotment of) parts; role; duties

4

to pour into (liquids); to pump into

5

name; title

2

to combine; to join; to tie on; to attach with a knot; to bind (e.g. an address)

1

presumably; it seems that ...; I guess that ...; I suppose that ...; one could infer that ...

2

love; love-making; passion; emotion; affections

13

example; precedent; case

1