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change in pronunciation or meaning of a word; sound change; word with an altered pronunciation or meaning; turning or twisting part of a text (in Chinese poetry)

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Japan

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at the very beginning of one's speech; immediately upon opening one's mouth (to speak); before anything else; first of all

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revival from the brink of death; recovering from a hopeless situation; resuscitation; revitalization

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to be resurrected; to be resuscitated; to be rehabilitated; to be recalled (e.g. memories); to be brought back

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simile; metaphor; allegory; parable

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to jump back; to leap back; to jump aside; to jump out of the way

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criticism; critique; review; comment; critical essay

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to be responsive; to show immediate results

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seeing is believing; one eye-witness is better than many hearsays; a picture is worth a thousand words

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standing comparison with; comparing favorably with; by no means inferior to; equal to

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being in dire distress; being hard put to it; being hard pressed (for money); the four and eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)

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with a twitch (e.g. an eyebrow); with a dip; with a bob; with a flutter

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keep it up!; way to go!; you've got it!; that's it; attaboy!; attagirl!

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the most; the best; the greatest; supreme; unrivalled; unsurpassed

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redoing; doing over again

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to put something out of the way; to move (something, someone) aside; to set aside; to keep apart; to remove (someone) from the group; to shun

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pursuit of knowledge; studying; learning; training; completing a course

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self-assessment; self-declaration; self-certification; personal statement

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to pull from both ends; to pull from both sides; to play tug of war

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to get the hang of; to learn the secret to

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feeling that something has come too late

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to have both; to possess both; to combine with

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floatingly; driftingly; softly; gently; restlessly; uncertainly

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spirit; psyche; god; deity; divinity

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video (esp. digital); video clip; animation; animated cartoon; in-betweens (animation)

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to resign oneself (to); to reconcile oneself (to); to accept (e.g. defeat); to give up

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separation; partition; detachment; segregation; isolation

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spontaneous combustion

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to split; to tear; to burst; to be separated; to be divided

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review; rehearsal

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surprisingly; astonishingly; amazingly; alarmingly

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to hit repeatedly

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unprecedented; never seen before

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life and death; life or death; samsara (cycle of death and rebirth); death

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burdening; bearing; load (electrical, mechanical, etc.); stress; stress testing (of physical function or performance); provocative testing

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you have only to; all you have to (do); all that's required; as long as; if only

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crushed flat; flattened; flat-chested girl; sound of a sticky rice cake sticking to something

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werewolf

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killing two birds with one stone

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stand-alone

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result (that makes an act worthwhile); worth (in doing something); value; Kai (former province located in present-day Yamanashi Prefecture)

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often; again and again; frequently; repeatedly

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to drive away; to turn away; to send away; to repel; to repulse

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gulp; gulping

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to make a sound with one's throat; to purr (of a cat)

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one breath; chug!; drink!

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to become frightened; to get scared; to be seized with fear; to be intimidated; to lose one's nerve; to get cold feet

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under the control (of); under the dominion (of)

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inner psychological world; mental world; spiritual world

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