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jasmine tea

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soliloquy; monologue; speaking to oneself

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to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour

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minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)

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just now; a moment ago; this very minute

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objection; dissent; protest

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to declare; to plead

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to lend an ear to; to listen to

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certain; sure; doubtless; I have no doubt; You can depend on it; It's a safe bet

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to give advice; to counsel; to take part in a consultation

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payment

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it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...

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from the bottom of one's heart; heartily; sincerely

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loss and gain; advantage and disadvantage

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leaving out; omitting; skipping; (beating) in succession; in a row

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

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to do

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by no means; never!; something unexpected; emergency; (arch.) currently; (arch.) for the time being

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amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic); full; one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat; fully; to capacity

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arguing back and forth; bandying words; verbal tug-of-war

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before now; hitherto

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trade; business; commerce; occupation; calling; profession

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consideration; guess; conjecture; judgment; judgement

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severance payment; retirement money (usu. lump-sum); redundancy payment

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doesn't amount to doing (something); not significant enough to require (something); unnecessary

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to fall for (someone's smooth talk); to be taken in (by honeyed words)

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shopping; purchased goods

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beyond one's means or position; inappropriate to one's lot in life

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persuasion

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to require much effort; to be hard to do; to be bone-breakingly hard

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manual labor; manual labour; toil; Labour Party

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outstandingly; extraordinarily; exceptionally

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to erase; to delete; to turn off (power); to switch off; to extinguish; to put out

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poverty; penury; want; (arch.) insufficiency; (arch.) shortage; (arch.) deficiency

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to boast of; to be proud of; to take pride in

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bamboo grass; generally smaller species of running bamboo that do not shed their sheaths (e.g. Sasa spp.)

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this manuscript

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since long ago; already; for quite a while; for some time now

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to obtain; to procure

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cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant

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previously; already; for some time; for quite a while

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a small world

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as (e.g. "do as one is told", "as we age we gain wisdom"); wherever (e.g. "wherever my fancy took me")

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to load (a gun, etc.); to charge; to put into (e.g. emotion, effort); to include (e.g. tax in a sales price); to hang over; to shroud

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point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead

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snow storm; blizzard

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as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate

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collapsing in the street (from exhaustion, illness, etc.); falling dead in the street; person lying dead in the street

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inn; tavern; basket used by travellers to carry food and other supplies; basket used by travellers to carry horse fodder

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Palace of the Dragon King; palace from the story of Urashima Tarō (said to be located at the bottom of the sea)

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