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Chinese-style spare ribs (esp. pork, also beef or lamb), breaded and fried

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to take up one's chopsticks (to begin a meal); to start to eat; to eat

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a help; assistance

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downheartedly; dejectedly; dispiritedly; despondently

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a few hours; several hours; about two to six hours

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stopping one night

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land

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grand; luxurious; lavish; great; large; big (e.g. storm)

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early rising

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come, come; come; come now; here you go; here; when handing something

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swing; shake; appearance; behaviour; pretence (pretense); show; going to restaurant, hotel etc. without a reservation or introduction

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fish sauce (made from fermented salted fish)

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to close (one's eyes); to shut

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to be ordered (to do); to be charged with (a duty); to be assigned (a job)

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going on ahead; forestalling; anticipating; arrival before another

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relation; connection; affinity

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reemployment

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bullying a young wife

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male-female relationships; relations between the sexes; sexual relations

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janitor; cleaner

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to take away; to carry away

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locked room; secret room

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very hungry; starving; fawning; bowing and scraping; giving in; being dented

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early rising

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behavioral principle; principle (value) governing one's conduct

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to fall down; to drop

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splash; plop

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wharf; bridge; jetty; pier

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(verbal) message; sending word; (arch.) excuse; (arch.) pretext

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nightclothes; nightwear; sleepwear; pyjamas; pajamas; nightgown

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to warp; to curve; to arch; to bend backward (body or body part, e.g. fingers)

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solid (body)

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liquid state

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receiving in advance (e.g. wages, interest); taking before others; anticipation; being ahead of (e.g. the times); prefetch; anticipatory completion (i.e. finishing another's sentence)

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yakitori; chicken pieces (or sometimes beef or pork offal) grilled on a skewer; grilled and skewered bird (esp. sparrow); failing to win a single hand during a half-game

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official notice; Edo-period proclamation issued by the shogunate (or a daimyo, etc.) usu. to the general populace

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not covered (by); not subject (to)

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paying one's own way

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to be hairy (person); to be thickly bearded; to be dense (vegetation); to be thick; to be slow (person); to be dull

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palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)

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areca nut; betel nut

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chewing tobacco

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deworming medicine; anthelmintic

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Chinese fan palm (Livistona chinensis)

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oil palm (esp. the African oil palm, Elaeis guineensis)

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algae; waterweed; seaweed; duckweed

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root; origin; source; Ōmoto (religion)

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palm tree (any tree of family Arecaceae)

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to cause a loss; to make a hole (in)

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coconut

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