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1 (of a price) to fluctuate according to the market

2 to sell at the market price

1 to stop

1 a kind of traditional Chinese sword-play

1 Tower of Babel, in Genesis 11:5-foll.

1 James Legge (1815-1897), Scottish Protestant missionary in Qing China and translator of the Chinese classics into English

1 Oklahoma City

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 to take cities and seize territories (idiom)

1 Tuku town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan

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)

1 there is no need

2 why should

1 war of words

1 well established

2 accepted as a result of long usage

1 performer

2 musician

1 Greenpeace (environmental network)

1 Jiang'an district of Wuhan city 武漢市|武汉市[Wu3 han4 shi4], Hubei

1 a sliced ball (tennis or table tennis)

1 to fool people (idiom)

2 to pull the wool over people's eyes

1 dilapidated

2 in ruins

1 perpetual calendar

2 ten thousand year calendar

3 Islamic calendar introduced to Yuan China by Jamal al-Din 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁