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to feel uplifted; to be cheered up; to hearten; to be inspired; to be energized

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irresponsible; perfunctory; lukewarm; half-baked; reasonable; moderate

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to make someone cry; to move someone to tears; to grieve

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flute; fife; pipe; whistle

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spring; fountain

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refreshingly; with a feeling of relief; shapely; neatly; cleanly; without trouble; clearly

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to breathe out; to breathe; to tell (a lie); to use (foul language); to vomit; to throw up

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pocket

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telephone call; speaking over the telephone; (Internet) voice call; counter for telephone calls of a set duration

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to try; to attempt; to have a go (at something)

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it cannot be helped; there's nothing for it; it's no use fighting back; it's hopeless; there is no way out of it

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to disappear into; to be lost in; to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.); to be almost indistinguishable; to be confusingly similar; to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.)

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fresh, young ears of rice

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to cling

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to weaken; to grow weak; to be downcast; to be dejected; to be troubled; to be at a loss

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to wave one's hand

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fool; idiot; simpleton

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to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)

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license; licence

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to feel depressed

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movement; transfer; migration; mobile; moving; traveling

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to provide; to arrange; to install

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canvas; base

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to be completely still

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to begin to tremble

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feeble

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floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

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to squat; to crouch down (completely, generally with face looking through knees)

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dark; gloomy; depressed; dispirited; dark (in colour); dull; ill-boding

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(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least

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then; well then; if so

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the same night; that night

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in high spirits

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to shake one's head

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to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to provide; to afford; to assign; to cause

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school gate

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to be distracted from feelings of depression, boredom, tension, etc.

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to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep

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it cannot be that...; it is highly unlikely that...; it is impossible that...

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to disappear; to vanish

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ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling

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sign of life; human presence; humanity; humaneness

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to ask a question; to begin to ask a question

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cannot do without something; indispensable; absolutely necessary; have to do

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sense of loss; feeling of loss

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to mope; to brood; to be in low spirits; to have the blues

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grounding (in a skill or subject); knowledge; training; achievements; attainments; accomplishments

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to take lessons in; to be taught; to learn (from a teacher); to study (under a teacher); to get training in

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judging from; on the basis of; from the point of view of

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to digest; to break down; to break to pieces; to be able to use; to be good at; to finish; to complete

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