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1 ancient

2 old

3 age-old

1 Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights

1 Rucheng county in Chenzhou 郴州[Chen1 zhou1], Hunan

1 to shrink back in fear (idiom); too cowardly to advance

1 to be on tenterhooks (idiom)

2 to be anxious and frightened

1 to force entrance into

2 to score a goal (sport)

1 certificate of deposit

1 useless

2 worthless

3 good-for-nothing

1 ingrained habits are hard to overcome (idiom); bad old practices die hard

1 Goran Hadžić (1958-), Croatian Serb leader until 1994, indicted war criminal

1 leucoplast

1 usable

2 workable

3 feasible

4 doable

5 to make

6 to cause

1 user

2 consumer

3 subscriber

4 customer

1 to offer as tribute

1 unaware of the inner workings

2 naive

3 unwitting

1 wealthy son-in-law

2 wealthy husband

1 to cut a long story short

2 a brief treatment of a complicated subject

3 fig. to treat an important question as a minor matter

1 doctor