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杏林
xìng lín
  1. 1 forest of apricot trees
  2. 2 fig. honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉, 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of paying fees)
  3. 3 Xinglin district of Xiamen city (renamed Haicang 海沧区 in 2003)
戏说 | 戲說
xì shuō
  1. 1 dramatic form consisting of historical narration
  2. 2 history as jocular narrative
  3. 3 to stretch history for a joking story
  4. 4 amusing story with strained interpretations of history
  5. 5 to make an unreasonable comparison in jest
高山兀鹫 | 高山兀鷲
gāo shān wù jiù
  1. 1 (bird species of China) Himalayan vulture (Gyps himalayensis)
断句 | 斷句
duàn jù
  1. 1 to pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing
  2. 2 to punctuate
万代兰 | 萬代蘭
Wàn dài lán
  1. 1 Vanda genus of orchids
远眺 | 遠眺
yuǎn tiào
  1. 1 to gaze into the distance
劳资关系 | 勞資關係
láo zī guān xì
  1. 1 industrial relations
  2. 2 relations between labor and capital
蹿房越脊 | 躥房越脊
cuān fáng yuè jǐ
  1. 1 lit. to leap the house and cross the roofridge (idiom); dashing over rooftops (of robbers and pursuing knight-errant 俠客|侠客 in fiction)
烟尘 | 煙塵
yān chén
  1. 1 smoke and dust
  2. 2 air pollution
隐隐作痛 | 隱隱作痛
yǐn yǐn zuò tòng
  1. 1 to ache dully
廊坊
Láng fáng
  1. 1 Langfang prefecture-level city in Hebei
难喝 | 難喝
nán hē
  1. 1 unpleasant to drink
玻片
bō piàn
  1. 1 glass slide for medical sample
敛巴 | 斂巴
liǎn ba
  1. 1 (dialect) to gather (sth)
孟菲斯
Mèng fēi sī
  1. 1 Memphis (Egypt or Tennessee)
特朗普
Tè lǎng pǔ
  1. 1 Donald Trump (1946-), American business magnate, US president 2017-
隔壁有耳
gé bì yǒu ěr
  1. 1 walls have ears
重大
zhòng dà
  1. 1 great
  2. 2 important
  3. 3 major
  4. 4 significant
群众团体 | 群眾團體
qún zhòng tuán tǐ
  1. 1 mass organizations