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Examples:boat deck (upper deck on which lifeboats are stored)—get involved in things which are not one's business—bamboos placed across wooden frames on which grain may be stored in damp climates—percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the back, across which one runs a drumstick—in Daoism, astral wind on which immortals may ride—vagrant bird (a migrating bird which has lost its way)—Guardian Council, body of 12 appointed clerics which govern Iran—posthumous or ghost marriage (in which at least one of the bride and groom is dead)—which? (interrogative, followed by classifier or numeral-classifier)—the prestige of another person, which one borrows for oneself—return to the same school and repeat a course from which one has already graduated, as a result of failing to get good enough results to progress to one's desired higher-level school—Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights—source material on which later works (books, movies etc) are based—Prosper Mérimée, French scholar and writer, author of novel Carmen on which Bizet based his opera—intercept (the point at which a line crosses the x- or y-axis)—formal betrothal (in which the boy's family sends presents the girl's family)—Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty—inflexion point (math., a point of a curve at which the curvature changes sign)—A summer insect (which does not live see winter) cannot talk about ice—Enjo-kōsai or "compensated dating", a practice which originated in Japan where older men give money or luxury gifts women for their companionship and sexual favors—third and fourth lines (in an eight-line poem) which form a couplet—traditional Asian method of calculating a person's age, which holds that a baby is one year old at birth—originally a theatrical device in which a character explains his own role—final particle which transforms statements inquestions that indicate doubt or surprise (Cantonese)—house built with cheap, unreliable concrete which contains a high quantity of sea sand—the pivots, at the top and bottom of a Chinese door, on which the door turns—small pillars that support the roof, those which rest on the main beam—drama series in which the actors are chosen for their pre-existing popularity with young viewers—tea egg (egg boiled with flavorings which may include black tea)—period during which one can prosecute or sue sb—classifier for pairs of objects which naturally come in pairs such as chopsticks or shoes— |