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1 Yueyang prefecture in Hunan

1 burial goods

2 burial gifts

1 to cool off

2 cooling

1 (mechanics) coupling

1 to stand out from one's fellows

2 high-level examination for official candidacy (traditional)

1 (bird species of China) green-billed malkoha (Phaenicophaeus tristis)

1 Soong Mei-ling (1898-2003), Chiang Kai-shek's second wife

1 to shift resources into areas of need

2 to inject funds

3 to balance resources

1 large stockholder

2 majority shareholder

1 movie contract

1 to pass the provincial level imperial examination

1 social status

2 price of a slave

3 price of a person (a sportsman etc)

4 worth

5 value (of stocks, valuables etc)

1 marginalized people (not part of mainstream society)

2 marginal man (term coined by social psychologist Kurt Lewin, referring to a person in transition between two cultures or social groups, not fully belonging to either)

1 (bird species of China) grey-tailed tattler (Tringa brevipes)

1 Wu Jiajing (1618-1684), early Qing dynasty poet

1 a hero with no chance of using his might

2 to have no opportunity to display one's talents

1 cannot achieve

2 cannot reach

1 of no avail

2 not helping in the least

1 Election Committee (Hong Kong)