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Examples:Mozambique, SE Africa (Tw)—lit. qin and se sing in harmony—classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal—qin and se, two string instruments that play in perfect harmony—the future is long (idiom); there will be ample time for that later—Fall inthe moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.—holding two or more (official) posts at the same time—Nicodemus, prominent Jew of the time of Christ, mentioned in the Gospel of John—Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908)—born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. complain about one's fate)—double happiness cakes, pastries offered by a man his fiancée's family at the time of their engagement—Swaziland, SE Africa (Tw)—beat time with a percussion instrument made of pottery—sell while it's still hot (idiom); fig. in a great hurry to publish or sell (and no time to improve the product)—Frank Chang-ting Hsieh (1946-), Taiwanese DPP politician, mayor of Kaohsiung 1998-2005—Tse Ting-Fung or Nicholas Tse (1980-), cantopop star—Guanting or Kuan-ting reservoir in Hebei, one of the main water reservoirs serving Beijing—the corresponding time period (in a different year etc)—hold two contradictory views at the same time—Matsu, name of a sea goddess still widely worshipped on the SE China coast and in SE Asia—time flies like an arrow (idiom); How time flies!—Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (1835-1908), regent 1861-1908—Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution—undertake to perform work within a time limit and according to specifications—twelve divisions of the day of early Chinese and Babylonian time-keeping and astronomy—lit. When a lazy donkey is turning a grindstone, it takes a lot of time off for peeing and pooing—a day drags past like a year (idiom); time hangs heavy—gherao (from Hindi, SE Asian method of protest)—Ye Ting (1896-1946), communist military leader—become more resolute with the passing of time [idiom.]—trichothecenes (TS, T-2)— |