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cancellation

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stock prices

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money order; draft; exchange (e.g. foreign)

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to avert one's eyes; to avoid looking straight at something; to cover one's eyes

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to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)

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superiority complex; sense of superiority

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one eyebrow

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to raise; to lift; to hang up; to raise prices (artificially, deliberately)

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Chinese person

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cunning; crafty; wily; sly

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the more ... the more ...; as; (arch.) while; (arch.) during; (arch.) because; (arch.) since

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commercial spirit

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lively; vigorous; energetic; full of (energy, appetite, curiosity, etc.); brimming with

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one's true feelings and one's official stance (which may be at odds); one's real motive and one's stated reason

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the positive and the negative

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being able to do as one pleases; doing at will; pothook

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Chinese cooking; Chinese food

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(please) look; see; (please) try to do

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people; race; nation; ethnic group; ethnos

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civilization; civilisation; culture; Bunmei era (1469.4.28-1487.7.20)

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Western person

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to fabricate; to invent; to make up (a story); to cobble up; to put together in a hurry

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ideology

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et cetera; etc.; and the like; and so forth

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insignificant; inconsequential; trifling; negligible; of little importance

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we

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merchant; trader; tradesman; dealer; shopkeeper

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good opportunity; chance

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both; both sides; both parties

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ruin; fall; collapse; downfall; bankruptcy

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fortune; riches; goods; incorporated foundation

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to build; to construct; to erect; to amass (e.g. fortune); to pile up

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political

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day before yesterday

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in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all

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if you do a favor for somebody, you will get a return favor; (lit.) if a fish is friendly toward water, water will be kind to the fish too; mutual back-scratching

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pure; genuine; trueborn; natural-born

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Hong Konger; person from Hong Kong

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proud; haughty; arrogant

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way of speaking; intimation

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whereabouts; place where one is; position; location

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winnow; winnowing basket; winnowing fan

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casualties; injuries and deaths

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(seriously and slightly) injured persons; people with serious and minor injures

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analyst; assayer

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long time; many years

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urban area; urban district

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trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support

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consideration; examination; investigation; study; scrutiny; discussion

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to use up; to exhaust; to devote oneself (to); to do one's utmost (for); to do to exhaustion; to do completely

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