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Examples:get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate—the Three Wise Kings from the East in the biblical nativity story—in the dead of night [idiom.]—(in the Romanization of Chinese) write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)—lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening—paint a dragon and dot in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch—without a friend in the world—fig. forge ahead in the face of hardships and danger—(classifier for the ordinal number of a crop, in the context of multiple harvests)—catch an adulterous couple in the act—reply a poem in the same rhyme—great heroes pursue deer in the central plains (idiom); fig. many vie for supremacy—go for a walk in the moonlight—seniority in the family or clan—Great Sword Society, an offshoot of the White Lotus in the late Qing dynasty, involved in anti-Western activity at the time of the Boxer rebellion—get hold of (in the sense of to acquire)—pedestal in the form of a tortoise—refers all areas of Chinese presence (esp. in the cultural field), including parts of Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas—Cebu (province in the Philippines)—the Ming dynasty provincial headquarters in the Heilongjiang and Vladivostok area—keep one's calm in the face of the unexpected—cross a river in the same boat (idiom); fig. having common interests—Garden of Gethsemane (in the Christian passion story)—form of writing novels that comprise lots of poetry in the body of the text, popular in the Ming Dynasty—fig. try to achieve one's goal in the shortest time possible—Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar—(usually used in the negative) be of help or use—imagawayaki (sweet snack made of batter cooked in the shape of a car wheel, stuffed with azuki bean paste or other fillings)—zeta Ursae Majoris in the Big Dipper—auxiliary showing sth happened in the past—Alcántara, municipality in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain—Jokes (title of an ancient collection of jokes, often used in the title of modern collections of jokes)—Satsuma, the name of a former feudal domain in Japan, and of a former province, a battleship, a district, a peninsula etc—put a coffin in the grave—Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition—just as in the past (idiom); as before—Malpighian tubule system (in the insect digestive tract etc)—classifier for people working in the same domain—classifier for long, narrow, flexible objects such as fish, dogs, pants; for roads and rivers; for human lives; in the expression: one heart, meaning working together for a common goal—when things reach an extreme, they can only move in the opposite direction [idiom.]—ravenous wolves hold the road (idiom); wicked people in power—Jiuyi mountain range in Hunan on the border with Guangdong—(official title) herald the crown prince (in Imperial China)—League of Nations (1920-1946), based in Geneva, precursor of the UN—Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)—"river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans, caused by the filarial parasite worm Onchocerca volvulus—Grand View Garden, a garden in Dream of the Red Chamber—motion of no confidence (against the government, in parliamentary debates)— |