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Examples:lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); untold numbers—white cane (used by the blind)—the Mukden or Manchurian railway incident of 18th September 1931 used by the Japanese as a pretext annex Manchuria—(in the Romanization of Chinese) write two or more syllables together as a single word (not separated by spaces)—lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening—lit. enter by the back door—be blown about by the wind—part of Heilongjiang and the Vladivostok area ruled by the Ming dynasty—travel by the light of torch—report delivered by the head of gov. on affairs of state—Hundred Regiments offensive of August-December 1940, a large scale offensive against the Japanese by the communists—goal ball (served by the goal keeper)—seal script as unified by the Qin dynasty—fig. by the barrowload (i.e. lots and lots)—signal the musicians (in Chinese opera, by prolonging a spoken word before attacking a song)—Confucius Institute, organization established internationally by the PRC, promoting Chinese language and culture—Border Region currency, issued by the Communist Border Region governments during the War against Japan and the War of Liberation—(old) young fellow (term of address used by the older generation)—be bestowed, conferred, or granted by the emperor—keep one's spear by the pillow and await the dawn (idiom); ready for battle—Joan of Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English—extravagant (idiom); throw away money by the handful—State Key Laboratories (university laboratories in PRC supported by the central government)—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—the right of immunity from arrest afforded by the Taiwan ROC Constitution, for the duration of meetings, unless caught actually committing a crime, members of the National Assembly, the Legislative Yuan, or a supervisory committee—take the bull by the horns [idiom.]—Jeanne d'Arc (1412-1431), French heroine and liberator, executed as a witch by the Burgundians and English—move the tiger from the mountain (idiom); to lure an opponent out by a stratagem—Illness enters by the mouth (idiom). Mind what you eat!—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.—factory designated by the state make a particular product—rivers pour away by the day (idiom); going from bad worse—lit. a bird startled by the mere twang of a bow [idiom.]—by the window (referring seats on a plane etc)—parkour, French sport invented by David Belle in 1980s, with the aim of efficiently traversing obstacles in the environment—hang on to and serve the rich and powerful by literary hack work etc—the Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare—Qu Qiubai (1899-1935), politician, Soviet expert of the Chinese communists at time of Soviet influence, publisher and Russian translator, captured and executed by Guomindang at the time of the Long March—infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms)—Mt Gangdisê (6656m) in southwest Tibet, revered by Tibetans as the center of the universe—lit. seeing others go hunting, one is excited by memories of the thrill of the hunt [idiom.]—You can't judge a person by appearance, just as you can't measure the sea with a pint pot. [idiom.]—crystal lattice (the regular 3-dimensional pattern formed by atoms in a crystal)— |