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耕当问奴,织当访婢 | 耕當問奴,織當訪婢
- 1 if it's plowing ask the laborer, if it's weaving ask the maid (idiom); when managing a matter, consult the appropriate specialist
揕
- 1 to hit
- 2 to thrust
弃市 | 棄市
- 1 public execution (old)
陈独秀 | 陳獨秀
- 1 Chen Duxiu (1879-1942), co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921
漂洋
- 1 to cross the ocean
帐户 | 帳戶
- 1 (bank, computer etc) account
耗材
- 1 consumables
- 2 to consume raw materials
并立 | 並立
- 1 to exist side by side
- 2 to exist simultaneously
站员 | 站員
- 1 station employee
- 2 railway clerk
嘴子
- 1 mouth
- 2 beak
- 3 spout
- 4 mouthpiece
排骨精
- 1 (jocularly) anorexic girl
- 2 a bag of bones
姊 | 姉
- 1 old variant of 姊[zi3]
大雨如注
- 1 pouring with rain
- 2 rain bucketing down
石库门 | 石庫門
- 1 "shikumen" style architecture: traditional (ca. 19th century) residences with courtyards, once common in Shanghai
时空胶囊 | 時空膠囊
- 1 time capsule (Tw)
半脱产 | 半脫產
- 1 partly released from productive labor
- 2 partly released from one's regular work
角钉 | 角釘
- 1 corner bracket (for securing the corner of a picture frame etc)
- 2 brad
国安局 | 國安局
- 1 abbr. for 國家安全局|国家安全局[Guo2 jia1 An1 quan2 ju2]
吹鼓手
- 1 (old) musicians at a wedding cortege or funeral procession
- 2 (fig.) trumpeter of sb's praises
- 3 booster
车到山前必有路 | 車到山前必有路
- 1 lit. When we get to the mountain, there'll be a way through. (idiom)
- 2 fig. Everything will turn out for the best.
- 3 Let's worry about it when it happens.
- 4 It will be all right on the night.
- 5 cf couplet 車到山前必有路,船到橋頭自然直|车到山前必有路,船到桥头自然直