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1 Alzheimer's disease

2 senile dementia

1 to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's enemy) (idiom)

2 hoisted by one's own petard

1 a controller

1 screw jack

1 to render meritorious service

2 to make worthy contributions

3 to distinguish oneself

1 famous at home and abroad

1 to be born

2 (fig.) to develop out of sth else (of ideas, stories, political systems etc)

3 (fig.) to shed one's body (to be reborn)

4 bodiless (e.g. lacquerware)

1 contactor

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"

1 it's always good to have more skills (idiom)

1 (bird species of China) cinnamon bittern (Ixobrychus cinnamomeus)

1 code page

1 to sink down

1 Japanese yen (unit of currency)

2 also written 日圓|日圆

1 to facilitate

2 thus making easier

1 dispenser (for consumables such as liquid soap)

2 splitter (for cable TV signal etc)

1 Božena Němcová (1820-1862), Czech writer

1 bar

2 rod

1 physical strength

2 physical power

1 pig iron