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1 to detour

2 to bypass

3 to circumvent

4 to avoid

5 to wind around (of a road etc)

1 lit. paper can't wrap fire; fig. the truth will out

1 anonymous author

1 neither giving way to the other

1 submachine gun

1 metacarpal bone (long bones in the hand and feet)

1 to bestir oneself

2 to pull oneself together

3 to cheer up

4 to uplift

5 to stimulate

1 interpretation of the cause

2 onset and process of an illness

3 pathogenesis

1 family of officials

2 family with connections to the bureaucracy (i.e. the middle classes in imperial China)

1 printing with movable type

1 place name

1 ill-founded

2 groundless

1 historical period

1 lit. when the boat gets to the pier-head, it will go straight with the current (proverb)

2 fig. everything will be all right

3 cf 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

1 crime of spying

1 antique store

1 to foreordain

2 to be bound to

3 to be destined to

4 to be doomed to

5 inevitably

1 earpick

2 curette

1 editor

2 compiler

1 (theater) hand prop (wine glass, pistol etc)