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上虞市
- 1 Shangyu county level city in Shaoxing 紹興|绍兴[Shào xīng], Zhejiang
如是我闻 | 如是我聞
- 1 so I have heard (idiom)
- 2 the beginning clause of Buddha's quotations as recorded by his disciple, Ananda (Buddhism)
冬耕
- 1 winter plowing
黑鸢 | 黑鳶
- 1 (bird species of China) black kite (Milvus migrans)
载漪 | 載漪
- 1 Zai Yi (1856-1922), Manchu imperial prince and politician, disgraced after supporting the Boxers
播种 | 播種
- 1 to sow seeds
- 2 sowing
- 3 seed
招惹
- 1 to provoke
- 2 to tease
明日黄花 | 明日黃花
- 1 lit. chrysanthemums after the Double Ninth Festival (idiom)
- 2 fig. outdated
- 3 thing of the past
- 4 dead letter
婚姻调解 | 婚姻調解
- 1 marriage counseling
荣归故里 | 榮歸故里
- 1 to return home with honor
侵夜
- 1 (literary) nightfall
- 2 night
几欲 | 幾欲
- 1 almost
- 2 nearly going to
兼优 | 兼優
- 1 an all-rounder
- 2 good at everything
持用
- 1 to have in one's possession and use when required
鼎立
- 1 lit. to stand like the three legs of a tripod
- 2 tripartite confrontation or balance of forces
趔
- 1 stumble
喀尔喀 | 喀爾喀
- 1 Khalkha, largest subgroup of Mongol people
不近人情
- 1 not amenable to reason
- 2 unreasonable
陆海空军 | 陸海空軍
- 1 army, navy and air force
郢书燕说 | 郢書燕說
- 1 lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it
- 2 fig. to misinterpret the original meaning
- 3 to pile up errors
- 4 refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"