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1 a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb)

2 (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe)

1 The Goddess, 1934 silent film about a Shanghai prostitute, directed by 吳永剛|吴永刚[Wu2 Yong3 gang1]

1 tip

1 European Cup (e.g. soccer)

1 to cooperate in a charity project

1 Iricdaceae, the iris family

1 destructive

2 crushing (defeat)

1 statute

1 lit. the iron tree blooms (idiom)

2 a highly improbable or extremely rare occurrence

1 an air vent

2 a ventilation shaft

1 to publicize

2 openness (of government, PRC equivalent of "glasnost")

1 biological clock

1 Nankan or Nangan township in Lienchiang county 連江縣|连江县[Lian2 jiang1 xian4] i.e. the Matsu Islands, Taiwan

1 Nanshi District, former district of Shanghai, merged into Huangpu District 黃浦區|黄浦区[Huang2 pu3 qu1] in 2000

1 to meet death

1 to learn is to know one's ignorance (the Book of Rites 禮記|礼记[Li3 ji4])

1 stepped fields

2 terracing

1 Hawkins or Hawking

2 Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), English theoretical physicist

1 to suffer bullying and beating (idiom)

1 nature

2 disposition

3 innate

4 natural