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1 to send away to serve a penal sentence

1 gloomy

1 circus

1 keynote speech

1 apprentice

2 trainee worker

1 anode

2 positive electrode (i.e. attracting electrons)

1 unimportant

2 of no consequence

1 to place sb on field of death

2 to confront with mortal danger

3 to give sb no way out

4 with one's back to the wall

5 looking death in the eye

6 part of idiom 置之死地而後生|置之死地而后生

1 in former times

1 civilian clothes

2 plain clothes

3 plainclothesman

1 it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black; as long as it catches mice it's a good cat (variant of a Sichuanese saying used in a speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平[Dèng Xiǎo píng] in 1962, usually associated with his economic reforms starting in 1978, in which pragmatism was favored over ideological purity)

1 Chagas disease

2 American trypanosomiasis

1 to distinguish (between different things)

2 to make distinctions clear

1 yawn

1 sudden movement of a corpse (superstition)

2 fig. sudden torrent of abuse

1 if

2 supposing that...

1 Tallinn, capital of Estonia

1 to disseminate

2 to propagate

3 to spread