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1 disaster

2 calamity

1 lit. black brick kiln

2 factories that acquired notoriety in 2007 for slave labor

1 not to be repeated

2 not to be taken as a precedent

3 just this once

1 to worry

1 both sides

1 second hand clothes

1 lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering

2 fig. gigantic

3 of spectacular significance

1 (bird species of China) ruddy-breasted crake (Porzana fusca)

1 corner gate

1 (lit.) leftover men

2 (fig.) loyalist adherents of a former dynasty

3 surviving members of an ethnic group

1 presumption of innocence (law)

1 an examiner

2 an official conducting an exam

1 to use for the purpose of

2 to serve as

1 Bahrain

1 now

2 at this moment

1 ubiquity

2 universality

1 ball

1 abstract thought

2 logical thinking

1 to work with a common purpose (idiom); to make concerted efforts

2 to pull together

3 to work as one

1 plumber