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pace

4

exactly as stated; verbatim

1

civil service examination

1

town hall

2

welfare; well-being; social welfare; social security; social service

3

lesson; section (in an organization); division; counter for lessons and chapters (of a book)

3

fame; reputation; popularity; rumour (rumor); talk

4

filial piety; being kind to one's parents; taking care of one's parents

1

very caring; kind; helpful; service-minded

3

marriage partner; spouse; wife-to-be; husband-to-be; future spouse

1

having special circumstances (e.g. problems, issues, advantages, flaws, defects, etc.); imperfect (merchandise); with defects

2

to make; to manufacture

1

to speak to; to give a (something) talk to; to speak words of (something)

2

wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam

9

sample; specimen; pattern; model; example

3

to accomplish; to finish; to carry through; to follow through

1

low salary

1

seeming very ...

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just a little

3

luxury; extravagance; to live in luxury; to indulge oneself; lavish (use of something); abundant

1

chancy trade or business with uncertain profitability; night entertainment business (e.g. hostess bar); nightlife business

2

part-time job; side job; part-time worker; albite

6

yakuza; gangster; mobster; useless; worthless; good-for-nothing

4

underling; person of low standing; grunt; petty (work, official, etc.); minor; lowly

1

to have a name entered in the family register

3

pregnancy; conception; gestation

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to leave the company

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to raise; to rear; to train; to teach; to promote the growth of; to nurture

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liberated woman

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vanishing behind the clouds (e.g. of the moon); vanishing; suddenly disappearing; going into hiding

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before one knows it; before one realises; without one's knowledge; without noticing

1

vice; immorality; corruption

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financing company; credit firm

1

large (amount of money); huge; hefty; expensive

1

debt; loan; liabilities; borrowing money

2

to pay

2

concrete

1

stuffing; packing; end (esp. the foot of a bridge); lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony; tea master; endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively); sweet eel sauce

1

Tokyo Bay

1

for dear life; barely escaping alive

1

to scurry home; to run home; to fly back

1

gossip

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spring flowers

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at any rate; anyhow

1

to come and stay; to drop in; to visit

1

tea drinking

1

pretending to know

1

way of speaking; intimation

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to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case); to be ... or something

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repayment; reimbursement; refund; redemption

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