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1 the Milky Way

1 decontamination

1 James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863), British High Commissioner to China who ordered the looting and destruction of the Old Winter Palace Yuanmingyuan 圓明園|圆明园 in 1860

2 Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin (1766-1841), who stole the Parthenon Marbles in 1801-1810

1 Reporters Without Borders (pressure group)

1 cell cycle

1 Sicily

2 Sicilia (Italian Island)

1 goblet

2 bottle

3 wine-jar

1 to bubble

2 to fizz

3 to effervesce

1 polystyrene

1 demand loan (i.e. loan that the borrower can demanded back at any time)

1 Ma Zhongxi, Ming writer (1446-1512), author of the fable The Wolf of Zhongshan 中山狼傳|中山狼传[Zhong1 shan1 Lang2 Zhuan4]

1 corner

2 edge

3 arris (sharp ridge formed by two surfaces meeting at an edge)

4 protrusion

1 to be preoccupied (idiom)

2 to be inattentive

3 to be frightened out of one's mind

1 outside

2 in addition

3 foreign

4 external

1 search software

1 network administrator

1 to bother

2 to press sb, usu. to do sth

3 it's a tough job

4 sorry to bother you (polite, used to thank sb for a favor)

1 Zuo Qiuming or Zuoqiu Ming (556-451), famous blind historian from Lu 魯國|鲁国[Lǔ guó] to whom the history Zuo Zhuan 左傳|左传[Zuǒ Zhuàn] is attributed

1 Longshan county in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 湘西土家族苗族自治州[Xiang1 xi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1]

1 enemy (agents)

2 (class) enemy