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1 border control (abbr. for 邊境控制|边境控制[bian1 jing4 kong4 zhi4])

2 to place sb on a border control list (a list of people to be detained if they attempt to enter or leave the country)

1 national minority

2 ethnic group

1 way

2 channel

1 trunk

2 main

3 core

1 to loaf about

2 lazy

3 to hang around (and cause trouble to everyone)

1 the objective world (as opposed to empirical observation)

1 famous master

2 great teacher

1 calamity

1 the four masters of Yuan poetry, namely 虞集[Yu2 Ji2], 範梈|范梈[Fan4 Peng1], 楊載|杨载[Yang2 Zai4] and 揭傒斯[Jie1 Xi1 si1]

1 Sudan

2 sultan (ruler of some Muslim states, esp. Ottoman Emperor)

1 Mount Zion

1 iliac fossa (anatomy)

2 pelvic basin internal to ilium

1 to take a picture

1 one's body as wood and earth

2 undecorated

3 unvarnished (truth)

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 information

2 news

3 message

1 leadership (role)

1 mist covered water

1 to miss an appointment