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very bottom; rock bottom

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debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh

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August; eighth month of the lunar calendar

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year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

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appearing one after another; cropping up one after another; occurring in succession

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reader

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to be taken ill; to be addicted to; to become absorbed in; to give oneself up (to)

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renewal; update; innovation; improvement

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to miss (doing); to fail (to do)

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day after day; every day

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announcement; publication; presenting; statement; communique; making known

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opening to the public; making available to the public; putting on display; exhibiting; showing (play, movie, etc.); holding (interview, etc.)

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work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production

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(on the) net; (on the) Internet; (on the) Web

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writing (e.g. as a profession)

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upstart; parvenu; jumped-up person

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to write a novel

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to grow in intensity; to be aggravated; to get worse; to develop

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reading (books)

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Kanagawa prefecture (Kanto area)

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profile

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author (usu. of a particular book); writer

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to dream (of)

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for the first time in one's life

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to be transparent; to be see-through; to be clear; to be clear (voice, sound)

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lightly (floating, drifting, etc.); buoyantly; soft; fluffy; unsteadily; flightily

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pink (colour, color); (lit.) colour of peach (flowers)

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horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside

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to wither (of a plant); to be blasted; to die; to mature (of one's personality, abilities, etc.)

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parting; farewell

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memories; recollections; reminiscence

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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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to wave; to shake; to sprinkle; to throw (dice); to cast (actor); to allocate (work); to turn down (somebody)

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sign; signal; cue

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group; crowd; flock; herd; bevy; school

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in one's imagination

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to obey respectfully; to humble oneself; to sit straight (upright, respectfully, attentively)

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in a crowd; in droves; crawling (of insects); swarming; dragging (e.g. along the ground); trailing

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dropping in on the way; stopping off at; making a side trip; going the long way round; making a detour

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to work too hard; to try too hard; to strain oneself; to overdo it; to go too far

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to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing

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to hold up over one's head; to hold aloft; to hold over something; to hold (one's hands) out (e.g. towards a fire); to hold up to shade one's eyes, face, etc.

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base of the throat; bottom of the neck

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to comb out; to brush; to untangle; to unravel

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bruise

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external wound; (physical) trauma

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won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you

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to close one's eyes partly; to squint; to smile with one's whole face; to look fondly at

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it seems that; as if

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the three realms of existence; the whole universe (of a billion worlds) that Buddha enlightened; past, present and future existences; far-off ...; distant ...

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