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1 lit. to settle accounts after autumn

2 settle scores at an opportune moment (idiom)

1 general situation

2 summary

1 Jyōmon period of Japanese prehistory, with rope pattern pottery

1 affected

2 artificial

1 reins of leather

1 (literary) toilsome

2 laborious

3 (of an edge etc) worn out

4 blunt

1 strange

2 mystic

1 nasal mucus

2 snivel

1 the insured person

2 the person covered by an insurance policy

1 Heshan district of Hebi city 鶴壁市|鹤壁市[He4 bi4 shi4], Henan

2 Heshan county level city in Jiangmen 江門|江门, Guangdong

1 to guarantee

1 to lay out the corpse

1 predicament

1 knife work (food preparation)

1 soaring inflation

2 rocketing prices

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

1 family education

2 upbringing

3 to bring sb up

4 private tutor

1 Zhang Taiyan (1869-1936), scholar, journalist, revolutionary and leading intellectual around the time of the Xinhai revolution

1 can't touch

2 can't reach

3 (fig.) unable to get a grasp of

1 rivers and lakes

2 all corners of the country

3 remote areas to which hermits retreat

4 section of society operating independently of mainstream society, out of reach of the law

5 the milieu in which wuxia tales play out (cf. 武俠|武侠[wǔ xiá])

6 (in late imperial times) world of traveling merchants, itinerant doctors, fortune tellers etc

7 demimonde

8 (in modern times) triads

9 secret gangster societies

10 underworld