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Examples:lit. a caged bird in a pavilion (idiom); fig. lose vigilance by comfortable living—General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war—Ceres, dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1801 by G. Piazzi—bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy—let sth in by the back door—Vesta, an asteroid, second most massive object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1807 by H.W. Olbers—the Elgin Marbles, the Parthenon marbles stolen in 1801-1810 by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin—get by in a job with the minimum effort—Pallas, an asteroid, discovered in 1802 by H.W. Olbers—unsuccessful and bloody Korean palace coup in 1884 by westernisers against conservatives, crushed by Qing troops—Fuzhou Naval College, a.k.a. Foochow Naval Dockyard School, set up in 1866 by the Qing dynasty—taken in (by sb's deceit)—Deutsch-französische Jahrbücher (published once in 1844 by Karl Marx and bourgeois radical Arnold Ruge)—titer (measure of effective concentration in virology or chemical pathology, defined in terms of potency after dilution by titration)—currency issued by Nationalist Government in 1948—by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel—lit. heard in the morning and changed by the evening—separated in time (usu. followed by a quantity of time)—I, me (humble term used by men in public speech)—once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope—extinguish by stamping out or immersing in water—First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866—replaced by Qamdo, Zhag'yab and Jomdo counties in 1999—Huang Chao peasant uprising 875-884 in late Tang, led by Huang Chao—infant's part in opera, usually played by child actor—mahjong player disqualified by unintentionally taking in the wrong number of dominoes—UN convention against torture and cruel treatment (ratified by PRC in 1988)—Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a romanization system for Chinese devised by Y.R. Chao and others in 1925-26—pay one's respects by bowing with hands in front of one's chest clasping joss sticks, or with palms pressed together—the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949—fig. can get by (in life)—reconstruction loan provided by Great Powers Yuan Shikai in 1913—prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)—Mt Gangdisê (6656m) in southwest Tibet, revered by Tibetans as the center of the universe—"Pregnancy-oriented Economy", new market conditions brought about by a predicted baby boom in China—in sequence, step by step (idiom); make steady progress incrementally—join things together by fixing them in place at one or more points—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.—Dan, female roles in Chinese opera (played by specialized male actors)—embroidered headband used as decoration by actors or in Hui ethnic group—an excess of heat caused by a deficiency in Yin energy [idiom.]—teaching by example beats explaining in words [idiom.]— |