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1 trap

2 snare

3 trick

1 to set out (on a campaign)

2 to stand for election

3 to throw one's cap in the ring

1 familiar words

2 known Chinese character

1 neck

1 Brest, town in Belarus

1 Cheng Hao (1032-1085), Song neo-Confucian scholar

1 (bird species of China) yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki)

1 single-lens reflex camera (Tw)

1 not to be repeated

2 not to be taken as a precedent

3 just this once

1 lit. a willow that bends with the wind

2 one with no fixed principles (idiom)

1 fumigant

1 aged enzyme

1 to whitewash

2 to plaster

1 hot (summer) weather

1 laurel

2 victory garland (in Greek and Western culture)

1 to behead

1 this city

2 our city

1 the brush stroke that dots in the eyes (idiom); fig. to add the vital finishing touch

2 the crucial point that brings the subject to life

3 a few words to clinch the point

1 machine gun

1 excited

2 in high spirits