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Examples:toy formed of a spindle with two sharp ends—Song of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing—intersection of the ecliptic with the moon's orbit plane—legendary ape of Sichuan and Yunnan, with a penchant for carrying off girls—speak forcefully and with justice (idiom); to argue with the courage of one's convictions—parkour, French sport invented by David Belle in 1980s, with the aim of efficiently traversing obstacles in the environment—fire cupping (acupressure technique of Chinese medicine, with fired vacuum cup applied the skin)—seersucker (cotton cloth with pattern of dimples)—wooden clappers with bars of unequal length—maintain the land (with rotation of crops or fertilizer)—hole in the body of a musical instrument, covered with a membrane which produces a buzzing tone—a hero with no chance of using his might—(of clothes) be soaked with sweat—family of Chinese two-stringed fiddles, with snakeskin covered wooden soundbox and bamboo bow with horsehair bowstring—don't blame the speaker, take note of his warning (idiom); an exhortation speak one's mind without fear of reprisals, and with the expectation of being taken seriously—overweight from overwork (the supposition that white collar workers become fat as a consequence of factors associated with being under pressure at work, including irregular diet, lack of exercise and inadequate rest)—place name in Ningxia with rock carving conjectured be a stage in the development of Chinese characters—lit. shout out hoping for fives and sixes when gambling with dice; a hubbub of gambling—group of sentences with clear meaning—be buried with or next to dead person (of deceased's partner, or of funerary objects)—part (usually with little hope of meeting again)—Pocahontas (c. 1595-1617), native American noted for her association with the colony of Jamestown, Virginia—Court of imperial stud, office originally charged with horse breeding—ink slab or ink stone of celadon or white porcelain with unglazed surface—the intersection of the Moon's orbit with the ecliptic in Vedic astronomy (Sanskrit rahu)—apical consonant (produced with the tip of the tongue, i.e. d or t)—Hajdú-Bihar province of east Hungary on the border with Romania—verse form consisting of 8 lines of 7 syllables, with rhyme on alternate lines—(fig.) banquet set up with the aim of murdering a guest—(of responsibility for a matter) rest with sb—Khabarovsk, far eastern Russian city and province on the border with Heilongjiang province of China—lit. plaintive whine of geese (idiom); fig. land swarming with disaster victims—fig. with the connivance of both sides—harmonic (wave with frequency an integer multiple of the fundamental)—Zai Yu sleeps by day (idiom); refers story in Analects of Confucius remonstrating bitterly with his student for sleeping during lectures—imagawayaki (sweet snack made of batter cooked in the shape of a car wheel, stuffed with azuki bean paste or other fillings)—household with savings or annual income of 10,000 yuan or more (considered a large amount in the 1970s, when the term became established)—genuflection, a form of salutation in Qing times performed by men, going down on the right knee and reaching down with the right hand—Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997), Chinese communist leader, de facleader of PRC 1978-1990 and creator of "socialism with Chinese characteristics"—decorate with a row of colored garlands—Purple Mountain in suburbs of Nanjing, with Ming tombs and Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum—person with a poor sense of direction—become more resolute with the passing of time [idiom.]—listen to the ideas of others with an open mind [idiom.]—classifier for groups of domesticated animals like pigs, cows; hair (only with modifier)— |