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ramen restaurant; noodle restaurant

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innocent; childlike; guileless; free of malice; thoughtless; simple-minded

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female high school student

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to couch (a sword); to look at cynically or ironically; (arch.) to stand ready (to do); (arch.) to adopt a formal attitude

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to boast; to brag; to feign ignorance; to pretend not to know; to recite (a song or poem to oneself); to bark

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to struggle; to writhe; to wriggle; to act frantically; to make desperate efforts

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trial and error

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uninterested (in); having no interest (in)

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movie; film; motion picture

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to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience

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like everyone else; like most people; like an ordinary person; as much as anyone else

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liking very much; loving (something or someone); adoring; being very fond of

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love story; romance; love affair

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Pretty Woman

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digital versatile disc; DVD

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Julia Roberts

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heroine; female protagonist; heroine; heroic woman; brave woman

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Vivian; Vivien; Vivienne; Vyvyan

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radiant smile; contented smile

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favorite; favourite; pet (e.g. teacher's pet); bookmark (in a web browser)

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cute

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to come down in the world; to fall low; to be ruined; to be reduced to poverty; to fall on hard times

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friend; ally; supporter; taking sides (with); supporting; standing by

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in this way; like this

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wow!; oh!; yeah!; alright!; waah!; boohoo!

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to take a picture; to take a photo

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to start eating

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roasted pork fillet (often used in ramen)

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slice; small piece

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to put into the mouth; to eat

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to be overawed; to be overwhelmed; to be overcome; to be intimidated; to be daunted

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languid; weary; listless; melancholy

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to dream (i.e. while asleep); to have a dream; to dream (of the future); to have a fleeting experience

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check (pattern); plaid; check; inspection; check (mark); tick; checking (something) out

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lunch break; noon recess; noon rest period

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baseball club (at a university, corporation, etc.); baseball team

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uniform

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to write down; to note down; to mention; to describe; to inscribe; to mark

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school color; school colour; character of a school

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marine blue; ultramarine

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to border; to fringe; to hem; to edge

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Koshien Stadium, a baseball stadium in Koshien which is the venue of the annual high school baseball tournaments; High school baseball in Japan, the tournaments generally referred to as Kōshien, named after the stadium; Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, a neighborhood of Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan; Koshien Stadium (baseball park in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture); National High School Baseball Tournament (held annually in August at Koshien Stadium); Summer Koshien; National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament (held annually in March at Koshien Stadium)

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batting practice pitcher

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first match (in a series)

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slider; slider (e.g. volume control); slide (e.g. water slide, playground slide); slider (of a zipper); slider (sandwich)

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machine; race car; racing motorcycle

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ball; ball (pitch delivered outside the strike zone); board (cardboard, pasteboard, etc.)

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back of the hand

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skillful; skilful; adroit; clever; shrewd; ingenious

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to roll; to wheel; to turn over; to tip over; to leave; to buy and sell (quickly for a profit)

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