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to achieve success

1

the preceding year; the previous year; last year

1

ambitious; motivated; willful

1

to say no more; to sink into silence

1

to be opposite; to face each other; to confront (an issue); to face

1

half-cooked; vague; halfhearted; indecisive

1

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

1

serious; important; significant; grave; weighty

1

this evening; tonight

1

after a meal

1

returning home

1

meal; dinner; diet

1

to drink oneself dead drunk; to drink oneself unconscious

2

sake cup; cup for alcoholic beverages; counter for cupfuls, bowlfuls, spoonfuls, etc.; counter for boats; counter for octopuses and squid; cup (in sports)

11

what would (you) do?; what to do about it

2

understood; I see; OK; present; here

4

to pile up; to heap up; to stir up; to enliven; to bring to a climax

3

museum

2

to earn (income); to make (money); to score (points, victory); to gain (time); to work hard (at one's job); to labor

1

full of; brimming with

1

will not do; do not; does not

2

proposal; proposition; suggestion

1

painful; being sorry; feeling sorry

1

last year

10

huge success

2

large-scale

3

leviathan

3

scale; scope; plan; structure

7

beer garden

1

setting up (a structure, building, camp, etc.); construction; preparation (e.g. of a venue); arrangement (of an event)

1

number of persons; personnel

1

sigh of relief

1

hiding place; hideout; refuge; retreat; hideaway

8

café; cafe; coffeehouse; hostess bar (serving western alcoholic beverages; Taisho and Showa period)

6

once; one time; one round; one game; one bout; one heat

3

in all

1

well-known; famous; noted; popular; recognized

1

to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment

1

all people; everybody; ten thousand people

2

to advance on; to close in; to march on; to descend on (the enemy); to move towards; to surge forward (crowd, wave of nostalgia, wave, etc.)

2

denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like

2

to take aim (at); to set one's sights (on)

1

thief; burglar; robber; theft; burglary; robbery

1

to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard

1

action of making something; -ification

1

company; corporation; workplace

2

that sort of; like that

1

one month

2

setting up a stall or booth (bazaar, festival); opening a branch office; opening a store

2

person; -er; (arch.) expert; (arch.) geisha; (arch.) prostitute

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