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rise to the occasion

To show resolve or effectiveness in dealing with a difficulty.
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Gabriel, though one of the quietest and most gentle men on earth, rose to the occasion, with martial promptness and vigour. "That's my fist. . . . Now — the first man in the parish that I hear prophesying bad of our mistress, why" (here the fist was raised and let fall as Thor might have done with his hammer in assaying it) — "he'll smell and taste that."

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機会に立ち上がる

兴起

興起

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