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Examples:Tripitaka (602-664) Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator, who traveled India 629-645—Charles Messier (1730-1817), French astronomer who catalogued nebulas and galaxies—He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night.—Xuanzang (602-664) Tang dynasty Buddhist monk and translator, who traveled India 629-645—ghost of sb devoured by a tiger who helps the tiger devour others—Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC) mythical leader who tamed the floods—Andrija Mohorovichich or Mohorovičić (1857-1936), Croatian geologist and seismologist who discovered the Mohorovichich discontinuity or Moho—It is hard change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.—graduates who cannot break away from campus life—Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834-1907), Russian chemist who introduced the periodic table—the seat of the Law, on which the one who explains the doctrine is seated (Buddhism)—lit. persons who walk different paths cannot make plans together—sb who for a profit entices others obtain medical care—favored place of poet sages, who in legend arrived riding golden cranes—a Qing prince who was the designated successor emperor Guangxu until the Boxer uprising—Amédée Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval victories during the Tonkin campaign and the Sino-French War—buying by a group of individuals who negotiate a discount for the group—person who wanders abroad and does not return—medium who communicates with the dead (Daoism)—dilettante who speaks as though he were an expert—fig. those who spend their monthly income even before they earn their next salary (slang)—Jianzhen or Ganjin (688-763), Tang dynastic Buddhist monk, who crossed Japan after several unsuccessful attempts, influential in Japanese Buddhism—Robert Hart (1835-1911), Englishman who served 1863-1911 in Qing dynasty customs office—"mercenary expert", a person who is supposedly an independent expert, but receives payment for making comments favorable a particular entity—Wei Sheng (legendary character who waited for his love under a bridge until he was drowned in the surging waters)—a wretched-looking tramp who lives by begging or stealing—lit. rat in a country shrine, fox on town walls; fig. unprincipled thugs who abuse others' power bully and exploit people—He who gives no thought far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects).—the person who drinks it knows best whether the water is hot or cold (Zen proverb); self-awareness comes from within—carrier who carries heavy loads on his shoulder (dialect)—shuanggui, an extralegal system within the CCP for detaining and interrogating cadres who fall from grace—lurker (Internet slang for sb who reads forum posts but never replies)—Heshen (1746-1799), Manchu official of the Qing Dynasty who openly practiced various forms of corruption on a grand scale—Zhang Zhixin (1930-1975) female revolutionary and martyr, who followed the true Marxist-Leninist line as a party member, and was arrested in 1969, murdered in 1975 after opposing the counter-revolutionary party-usurping conspiracies of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four, and only rehabilitated posthumously in 1979—He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom).—(onom.) sound of the wind or the breathing of sb. who is sound asleep—Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods—sb. who is romantically involved with sb. already in a committed relationship— |