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loss of strength; exhaustion; weakness

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some time ago; recently; lately; last (Sunday, etc.); previous

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NHK; Japan Broadcasting Corporation

1

broadcast(ing) satellite; BS; satellite television

1

feature (e.g. newspaper); special edition; report

1

China; Chinese food

1

profound; deep

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four thousand; 4,000

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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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Chinese cooking; Chinese food

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full-course dinner; multicourse meal

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Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912); Ch'ing dynasty; Manchu dynasty

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period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness

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emperor

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the place one comes from; one's birthplace; one's hometown

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Manchuria

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Imperial Court

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man among men; man's man

1

curio; rare article

1

torrentially; swiftly flowing (water, esp. river); (speak) eloquently; fluently; flood of the times (moving strongly in one direction); current of the times

1

glittering; sparkling; glistening; twinkling

1

serious; not joking; straight

3

every part of the world; all over the world; the four corners of the world

1

slowly; quietly; steadily; soon; momentarily; before long

1

individual; private person; personal; private

1

10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million

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before very long; soon; someday; one of these days; sooner or later

1

price; cost

1

to come down; to go down; to hang; to dangle; to move back; to step back; to deteriorate

1

package tour

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to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into

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at that time; at that moment; then; on that occasion

2

grandfather; male senior-citizen

1

to cock one's head in puzzlement; to tilt one's head in contemplation; to wrack one's brain; to think hard

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to; for; from the standpoint of; as far as ... is concerned

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to taste; to eat; to drink; to speak (of); to refer (to); to say

4

turning a comic, novel, etc. into an animated movie or TV series; making an animated version

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television; TV

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to poke fun at; to make fun of; to send up

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manner of speaking; mode of expression; way of saying something

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

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definite decision; final decision

1

drawing pictures; painting pictures; taking photographs

1

certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)

2

lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision

1

as (for); for; in the capacity of

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to be uncommon

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ignorance; innocence; stupidity

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to bring someone along

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company; corporation; workplace

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