jpdb beta

keenly; deeply; calmly; quietly; fixedly (e.g. gazing, staring)

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afterword; postscript

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approximately; about; only; nothing but; just (finished, etc.)

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to collect oneself; to cool off; to recover oneself

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the fifth

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title

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passing (a test, examination, etc.); pass (for admission, transport, etc.); ticket; pass (of a ball); (giving something a) pass; skipping (one's turn)

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book; volume; this; present; main; head

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to finish writing; to complete; to write down (e.g. a list); to write out

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deep emotion; being filled with emotion

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spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence

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selection; choice; picking out

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summer

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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

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successive championships

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undefeated; unbeatable; invincible

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Akinori

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high-school baseball

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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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professional

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challenge; defiance; dare; attempt; try

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television; TV

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commentator

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no!; no no!; no, not at all

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current; urgent; to confront (an issue); to face (up to something); for the meantime; at present

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goal; target; aim; mark; sign; landmark

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no matter what; whatever you say; in the end; after all

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true state; actual condition; reality

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to learn by experience; to learn one's lesson; to learn the hard way; to be discouraged (by); to have enough (of); to be disgusted (with)

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volume number; reel number; number of volumes; number of reels; a set number of scrolls to be read by a Buddhist monk

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implementation (e.g. of a system); materialization; materialisation; realization; realisation; actualization

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without; but if; otherwise; or else

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300; three hundred; 300 mon; trifling amount; shyster

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well, I must admit ...

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glass; pane

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Decae

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desperate

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to sit upright; to sit up straight; to take a defiant attitude; to become aggressive; to take the offensive

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a-ha-ha (laughing loudly)

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last; final; end; conclusion; rust

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at the time of writing

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questionnaire; survey; poll

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statistics

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house; one's house; one's home; one's family

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(fictional) character; character; personality; persona

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ups and downs; bobbing up and down; rising and falling; ebbing and flowing

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(just) making sure; just to be sure; just in case; for caution's sake

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one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission

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real number

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it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that...

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