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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

1 just by chance

2 to happen to (just at the right time)

3 opportune

1 Tar Heel state

1 Nyingchi prefecture of Tibet, Tibetan: Nying khri sa khul, Chinese Linzhi

1 mistake

2 to twist

1 maltose syrup

2 molasses

3 heavy (eyelids)

4 drowsy-eyed

5 listless

6 (of dough, candy etc) to soften

7 to become soft and sticky

1 old variant of 尷|尴[gan1]

1 China Times (newspaper)

2 abbr. for 中國時報|中国时报 [Zhōng guó Shí bào]

1 instant (food)

1 to dawdle

2 to go slow deliberately

3 to fizzle out

4 to have all one's hopes dashed

5 (Tw) to have a soak in a hot spring

1 (bird species of China) scaly laughingthrush (Trochalopteron subunicolor)

1 inactive

2 careless

3 lazy

4 indolent

5 negligent

1 Rogers

1 motorcycle taxi

2 abbr. for 摩托車的士|摩托车的士[mó tuō chē dī shì]

1 doorstop

1 gone without a trace

1 midnight

2 in the middle of the night

1 to illustrate

2 typical example

1 unified examination

1 magnetic field