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1 hammerhead shark

1 to receive (a call, report etc)

1 opportunity knocks but once (idiom)

1 mythical evil serpent

2 evil dragon in Western mythology, cf Revelations 14:12

1 to be in a thundering rage (idiom)

1 hybrid model

1 to glance back

2 fig. to regret

3 to have second thoughts about sth

1 Rectification campaign

2 political purge

3 cf Mao's 1942-44 campaign at Yanan, and his 1950 and 1957 anti-rightist purges

1 close female friend

2 confidante

1 lay (as opposed to clergy)

2 ordinary

3 commonplace

1 to eavesdrop

2 to tap (telephone conversations)

3 to intercept and investigate

1 arsine

1 classical

1 Ye Yonglie (1940-), popular science writer

1 broccoli

1 murder case

2 homicide case

1 step-parents

1 curse it!

2 to hell with it!

1 merchant

1 not to be repeated

2 not to be taken as a precedent

3 just this once