jpdb beta

they

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slow-witted person; simpleton; pig-ignorant; dumbass

1

stress

1

reliable; trustworthy; hopeful; promising

1

well; now; then

5

television; TV; TV program; TV programme; TV broadcast

8

to mediate; to intervene

1

reading partway; leaving half-read

3

stand; rack; support; holder; counter for machines, incl. vehicles; setting (e.g. in jewellery); level (e.g. price level)

3

Saitou Mokichi (1882-1953)

1

collection of waka poems; anthology; songbook

5

miso; fermented condiment usu. made from soybeans; innards (from crabs, shrimps, etc.) resembling miso; key (main) point; good part (of something); weakling

1

one (written) character; (arch.) Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum)

1

to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till

12

to blush; to go red in the face; to change color; to change colour

3

song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry

5

tanka; 31-mora Japanese poem

2

to twist; to wrench; to puzzle over; to defeat easily

3

dodoitsu; unrhymed non-metrical Japanese popular love song or limerick in the 7-7-7-5 syllable pattern

1

handsome man; looker; good guy; great guy; influential person (esp. in the yakuza); sumo wrestler

3

particle used to indicate the speaker's hope, desire, wish, etc. (e.g. "it would be nice if ...", "I wish there were ...", etc.); emphatic particle; particle adding uncertainty

1

still; yet; more; still more; as ...; like ...

4

is something wrong?; what's wrong?; what's the matter?; slightest; mere; trivial

1

using one's elbows as a pillow

1

real world; society

1

to advance; to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to improve; to deepen

3

to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do

6

approval; agreement; support; favour; favor

4

to raise (one's head)

1

stimulus; impetus; incentive; encouragement; motivation; provocation

1

that's true; of course; obviously

1

abandoned child; foundling

2

indescribable; having no way to express

1

uneasy; unsure; unreliable; untrustworthy; (arch.) nervous; (arch.) impatient

4

we'll cross that bridge when we get there; we'll think about it when the time comes

1

to fret (over); to brood (about); to mope; worriedly; (fretting) constantly; (worrying) over this and that

1

tomorrow; near future

9

to worry about; to be vexed

1

Bible; the Scriptures; Holy Writ

2

years later

2

total darkness; pitch dark; bleak future; poor prospects

1

to envelop; to blanket; to cloak

1

lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)

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participation; joining; entry; adherence

1

hey!; oi!; ahoy!; I; me

10

that sort of; like that

1

it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that

2

originally; by nature; from the start

2

nature itself is a good mother; (lit.) even without parents, children grow up

1

abruptly (rising); slowly (rising); plump; rotund

1