释义 |
Examples:Pamir high plateau on the border between Xinjiang and Tajikistan—Spratly islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam—Mt Tomur (Russian: Pik Pobeda), the highest peak of Tianshan mountains on the border between Xinjiang and Kyrgyzstan—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.—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—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—confrontation of 1929 between Chiang Kaishek and the Guangxi warlord faction—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)—thirty eighth parallel, forming the DMZ border between North and South Korea—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 Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937 that sparked WW2 between Japan and China—Hengduan mountains, several parallel mountain ranges on the border between west Yunnan and Sichuan and east Tibet—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—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—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—Batan Islands in Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines—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.]— |