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economic world; financial circles; business community

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acquaintance

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serious look (on one's face); straight face

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store; shop

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banker; bank proprietor; bank manager

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to get to know each other; to make acquaintance

2

as soon as possible; as quickly as possible; speedily; without delay; ASAP

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to lower one's voice; to speak with a hushed voice

1

destination; whereabouts; future; prospects

1

to wring (towel, rag); to squeeze; to squeeze (fruit to extract juice); to press; to rack (one's brains); to strain (one's voice); to extort

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China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)

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Hong Kong; Hongkong

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easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...

3

maybe; could be; might

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religion; religious affiliation; belief; religious activity

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look; appearance; spectacle; sight; observation meditation; outlook on ...

1

future; distant future

1

easy-peasy; easy; simple; pleasant; comfortable; comfy

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university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

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Hokkaido (island, prefectural-level administrative unit)

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studying abroad; studying at a different school, etc. (usu. for a specific purpose)

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several hundreds

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to be born and raised (in); to be born and brought up; to be born and bred

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hygiene; sanitation; health

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philosophy

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useless; no future in it; doesn't make sense; having no point

1

knife

1

fork; forkball

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to put out one's hand; to extend one's arm; to reach (for); to try one's hand at (something new)

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floating; drifting; suspension; (arch.) wandering (about)

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to threaten; to menace; to frighten (into doing)

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seeing through (a trick, someone's mind, etc.)

1

at any rate; anyhow

1

eardrum; tympanic membrane

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to get torn; to tear; to rip; to be broken off (of negotiations, etc.); to break down; to collapse

1

sound of an explosion

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to blow off; to be blown off

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tone color; tone colour; tone quality; timbre

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to erase; to drown out (e.g. a voice); to make disappear

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pillar of fire; blazing column

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black smoke

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flame; blaze; flames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger); passion

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form; situation; condition

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every one (of them); (one and) all; without exception; to a man; to the last person

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to half-rise to one's feet

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remnant; fragment; fraction; odd sum; halfway; half-hearted

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stillness; repose; standing still

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Honda

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at the very beginning; first of all; first and foremost; before anything else

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binding hand and foot; temporary feeling of paralysis; sleep paralysis; being tied down with money

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