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Examples:lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers—part of Heilongjiang and the Vladivostok area ruled by the Ming dynasty—report delivered by the head of gov. on affairs of state—treaty port, forced on Qing China by the 19th century Great Powers—the whole elephant (i.e. not the small parts felt by the proverbial blind feelers)—Hundred Regiments offensive of August-December 1940, a large scale offensive against the Japanese by the communists—used instead of reign name by the nationalist government, then by Taiwan—glucocorticosteroid (corticosteroid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex)—Janjaweed (armed Baggara herders used by the Sudanese government against Darfur rebels)—seal script as unified by the Qin dynasty—let sth in by the back door—fig. by the barrowload (i.e. lots and lots)—runaway carriage (caused by the harnessed animal bolting in fright)—(old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation)—lead (an animal by the head)—lit. tune one's zither then play it; fig. to live by the consequences of one's actions—extravagant (idiom); throw away money by the handful—cow from Wu is terrified by the moon, mistaking it for the sun—rectangular frame used view a scene (made out of cardboard etc, or formed by the thumbs and forefingers)—Mt Wu on the Changjiang River (Yangtze) by the Three Gorges—a death claimed be a suicide by the authorities—grab sb by the queue (i.e. hair)—more flourishing by the day—fig. handle different things by the same method—National Treasure (officially designated by the state cultural authorities in China, Japan and Korea)—Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA.—rivers pour away by the day (idiom); going from bad worse—be corrupted by the ways of the world [idiom.]—call by the glorified name of [idiom.]—by the time when (sth. is ready etc)—tossed about by the wind and rain [idiom.]—by the window (referring seats on a plane etc)—kill a pig as a lesson to the children (idiom); parents must teach by example—the Shanghai coup of 12th Mar 1927 by Chiang Kai-shek against the communists—The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir)—haloalkane (obtained from hydrocarbon by substituting halogen for hydrogen, e.g. chlorobenzene or the CFCs)—a person of great moral stature does not remember the offenses committed by one of low moral stature—the Strawberry Generation (Taiwanese term, often sarcastic, for those born between 1980 and 1991, well off and influenced by advertising)—the family... (when preceded by a family name)—infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms)—break up the whole into pieces (idiom); dealing with things one by one—Mt Gangdisê (6656m) in southwest Tibet, revered by Tibetans as the center of the universe—meetings conducted by rulers in feudal China for the purpose of formalizing alliances, finalizing treaties— |