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Examples:forming a bridge between earlier and later stages—not distinguishing red-blue or black-white (idiom); not distinguish between right and wrong—Pamir high plateau on the border between Xinjiang and Tajikistan—Spratly islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam—act as go-between (between prospective marriage partners etc)—incite a quarrel (idiom); to sow discord between people—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—Mayotte, island between NW Madagascar and Mozambique—by ext. the relations between parts in a speech, composition etc—Three Sovereigns, between Gods and Emperors in third millennium BC—Sittang River of central Myanmar (Burma), between Irrawaddy and Salween rivers—Lugou Bridge or Marco Polo Bridge, the scene of "incident" sparking WW2 between Japan and China—Diaoyu or Senkaku Islands between Taiwan and Okinawa (administered by Japan), also known as the Pinnacle Islands—the treaty of 1923 normalizing relations between the Soviet Union and the Northern Warlord government of China—special rail line (e.g. between airport and city)—sapwood (between vascular cambium and pith inside growing wood)—choroid (vascular layer of the eyeball between the retina and the sclera)—Big Mac Index, a measure of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between currencies—decisive engagement between opposing armed forces—Eight banners system, the military and social organization of the Manchus between c. 1500 and 1911—verbal dexterity used sow discord (idiom); to incite trouble between people—Mengzhu mountain range between south Hunan and Guangxi—two tigers fighting (idiom); fierce contest between evenly matched protagonists—Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet—Yang Ningshi (873-954) calligrapher of 5 dynasties period between Tang and Song—reject a word because of the speaker (idiom, from Analects); to judge on preference between advisers rather than the merits of the case—former Kham province of Tibet, now split between Tibet and Sichuan—the Sino-Vietnamese War, fought between the PRC and Vietnam in 1979—fig. to-and-fro between two sides—war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government—Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due quantum mechanical vacuum effects)—lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom); fierce battle between giants—treat everyone equally favorably (idiom); not to discriminate between people—draft unequal treaty of Livadia (Crimea) of 1879 between Russia and Qing China, subsequently renegotiated—Shenzhen or Shamchun river Guangdong, the border between Hong Kong new territories and PRC—Amu Darya, the biggest river of Central Asia, from Pamir Aral sea, forming the boundary between Afghanistan and Tajikistan then flowing through Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan—marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)—Batan Islands in Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines—return without any achievement (idiom); to go home with one's tail between one's legs—request sb. to act as a go-between— |