jpdb beta

to tie; to fasten; to hitch; to secure (trust, patronage of customers, etc.); to keep (an employee, someone's interest, etc.); to save (someone's life)

1

famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)

1

thousands; several thousand

1

unusual event; strange occurrence; strange phenomenon; something abnormal; change (for the worse); accident

3

the lord of creation; man; mankind

1

transcendental

1

eternity; perpetuity

1

malicious; vicious; malignant; shoddy; inferior; poor-quality

1

the trouble is that ...; the problem is that ...; unfortunately; annoyingly

1

play; sport; fun; caprice; joke; jest

1

was

2

to fight with each other; to fight amongst yourselves

1

(suffering) damage; injury; harm

9

to raise; to lift; to boost; to enhance

4

invasion; raid; attack; visitation (of a calamity)

2

along the road; at the side of the road

1

fresh water; fiscal spending; government pump priming

1

outline of a solitary fish (as seen through the water when fishing, etc.)

1

ridge (in field); row of raised earth when planting crops; rib (cloth, mountains, sea); cord (e.g. corduroy)

1

it hasn't been long since

2

cultivating new land; clearing; reclamation

11

favourable; favorable; doing well; OK; all right

8

to beg; to ask; to request; to invite

3

exchange; conversion

1

had enough; flatly refusing; wouldn't do for anything; begging pardon

1

farming methods

4

science and technology; scientific technique

1

educational standards

1

insufficiency; deficiency; shortage; dissatisfaction; discontent; complaint

2

source of river; fountainhead

1

soil; breeding ground; fertile ground (for); foundation (for the development of ...)

1

good morning

1

farm work; field labour; field labor

2

proxy; representative

3

in a sense; in some way; to an extent

1

to pin one's hope on; to look forward to; to look toward; to get one's hopes up

1

to look down on; to make light of

1

follower; attendant; valet; servant

1

early on; earlier on; from early

1

to stop walking; to pause

5

older; senior

1

honorific; term of respect; polite expression; honorific language

2

polite language (e.g. masu, desu)

2

frank; candid; outspoken; unreserved

1

to deprecate oneself and praise the listener; to abase oneself

1

humming; crooning

1

to break into song; to burst into song; to begin singing

1

cheerful; jovial; weather; season; spirit of yang

1

he; she; that person; that; that one; that thing

6

to add (one thing to another); to add (a few more words, an explanation, etc.)

3