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Examples:war on all sides (idiom); fighting from all four quarters—Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora —by the window (referring seats on a plane etc)—Jingzhou prefecture level city on Changjiang in Hubei—Lawpita Falls on the Balu Chaung river, location of Myanmar's biggest hydroelectric plant—Jianji, PRC fighter plane based on Soviet MiG—lit. no blood on the men's swords (idiom); fig. an effortless victory—Celestial Empire, tributary title conferred on Imperial China—report delivered by the head of gov. on affairs of state—treaty port, forced on Qing China by the 19th century Great Powers—great mansion on the verge of collapse (idiom); hopeless situation—faithful undeath (i.e. Confucian ban on widow remarrying)—the seat of the Law, on which the one who explains the doctrine is seated (Buddhism)—have qualified successors to carry on one's undertaking—lit. a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood (idiom); fig. an utterly inadequate measure—agree on three laws (idiom); provisional agreement made by new dynastic government with the people—diagnosis and treatment based on an overall analysis of the illness and the patient's condition—appearing tough on the outside as mask one's inner vulnerability—Ekaterinaburg or Ekaterinburg (formerly Sverdlovsk), Russian town on the Ural mountains—Hualián or Hualien city and county on the east coast of Taiwan—(until WWII) Königsberg, capital of East Prussia on the Baltic—HMS Consort, Royal Navy destroyer involved in 1949 Amethyst incident on Changjiang—a dog threatens based on master's power (idiom); use one's position to bully others—the matter depends on the individual (idiom); it is a matter for your own effort—a popular form of narrative literature flourishing in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) with alternate prose and rhymed parts for recitation and singing (often on Buddhist themes)—kneel three times and kowtow nine times (formal etiquette on meeting the emperor)—Eid al-Azha Festival of sacrifice on tenth of twelfth month of Muslim lunar calendar—Liu Guijin (1945-), PRC diplomat, special representative Africa from 2007, Chinese specialist on Sudan and the Darfur issue—state committee on films and broadcast media—lit. on the beat, move apart; fig. break-up (of marriage or business partners)—lit. speak of two things on the same day (idiom); to mention things on equal terms (often with negatives: you can't mention X at the same time as Y)—fig. wasting a lot of effort on trivialities—Fan Zhen (c. 450-c. 510), philosopher from Qi and Liang of the Southern dynasties, as atheist denying Buddhist teachings on karma and rebirth—orphaned of all one's immediate relatives (idiom); no one rely on—Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, a 10 meter long hadrosaur with a single horn on its duck-billed snout—a wrong repeated becomes right (idiom); a lie or an error passed on for a long time may be taken for the truth—possibly tribal leaders before the historiographers got working on them—one (unambiguous spoken form when spelling out numbers, esp. on telephone or in military)—add sb. to one's blacklist (on a cellphone, or in instant messaging software etc)— |