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Examples:Helan Mountains, lying across part of the border between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia—Amur River (the border between north east China and Russia)—Spratly islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam—Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.—Ceres, dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1801 by G. Piazzi—Wang Mang (45 BC-23 AD), usurped power and reigned 9-23 between the former and later Han—the web between the thumb and forefinger of a hand—fig. the dividing line between shipboard expenses and onshore freight charges—a clash between the police and the people—the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord government of China—Junggar or Dsungharian basin in Xinjiang between the Altai and TianShan ranges—geocentric latitude (i.e. angle between the equatorial plane and straight line from center of the earth)—the tissue between the skin and the flesh—choroid (vascular layer of the eyeball between the retina and the sclera)—battle of Mt Mengliang in Shandong of 1947 between the Nationalists and Communists—Eight banners system, the military and social organization of the Manchus between c. 1500 and 1911—mediastinum (organs and tissues in the thorax between the lungs)—the Bering Strait (between Siberia and Alaska)—Truong Son Ra, mountain range forming the border between Vietnam and Laos and Kampuchea—Five Dynasties (in different contexts, from mythology through Han and the interregnum between Han and Tang)—Khan Tengri or Mt Hantengri on the border between Xinjiang and Kazakhstan—The Sound (strait between Denmark and Sweden)—between the devil and the deep blue sea [idiom.]—the Six-Day War of June 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbors—Luoxiao Mountains, mountain range straddling the border between Jiangxi and Hunan—the Strawberry Generation (Taiwanese term, often sarcastic, for those born between 1980 and 1991, well off and influenced by advertising)—the Sino-Vietnamese War, fought between the PRC and Vietnam in 1979—contradictions between ourselves and the enemy—between the words and the lines (idiom); implied meaning—old tea-horse market between Tibet, China, Southeast Asia and India, formalized as a state enterprise under the Song dynasty—Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945—space between the eyebrows and the eyelashes—Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland—New Fourth Army Incident of 1940, involving fighting between the nationalists and communists—space between the door and the entrance screen—Shenzhen or Shamchun river Guangdong, the border between Hong Kong new territories and PRC—Batan Islands in Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines—the three Punic wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage—the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 between Israel and her Arab neighbors—Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya on the Zambesi River, between Zambia and Zimbabwe—there is a wide gap between the nobility and the common people [idiom.]— |