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1 Jericho (town in West Bank)

1 road as twisty as sheep's intestine (idiom); narrow and winding road

2 fig. complicated and tricky job

1 An Dehai (-1869), the Qing equivalent of Rasputin, all-powerful court eunuch with the dowager empress Cixi 慈禧太后[Cí xǐ tài hòu], executed in 1869 by her rival Empress Mother Empress Dowager Ci'an 慈安皇太后

1 lit. to stroke the tiger's whiskers

2 to do sth very daring

1 Yushe county in Jinzhong 晉中|晋中[Jin4 zhong1], Shanxi

1 vajra scepter (ritual object of Buddhism)

1 workers and peasants

1 Yuwangtai district of Kaifeng city 開封市|开封市[Kai1 feng1 shi4], Henan

1 to have the impertinence

2 to have the cheek to

1 cochlea

1 stroke count (number of brushstrokes of a Chinese character)

1 methyalamino group

1 aboriginal

1 little by little

2 bit by bit

3 gradually

1 lit. to guard one's mouth like a closed bottle (idiom); tight-lipped

2 reticent

3 not breathing a word

1 butchering one another as fish and flesh (idiom); killing one another

2 internecine strife

1 (of the holder of an official post which no longer exists) the last (incumbent)

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