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1 back

2 rear

3 behind

1 doctoral degree

2 PhD

3 Doctor of Philosophy 哲學博士學位|哲学博士学位

1 (bird species of China) Blyth's shrike-babbler (Pteruthius aeralatus)

1 (Internet slang) friend (pun on 朋友[péng yǒu])

1 lit. when the boat gets to the pier-head, it will go straight with the current (proverb)

2 fig. everything will be all right

3 cf 車到山前必有路，船到橋頭自然直|车到山前必有路，船到桥头自然直

1 to reason by analogy

1 public opinion

1 (Northeastern dialect) simple-minded person

1 Jinyuan district of Taiyuan city 太原市[Tai4 yuan2 shi4], Shanxi

1 not in such a way as to

2 not likely to

1 Jiaoxi or Chiaohsi township in Yilan county 宜蘭縣|宜兰县[Yi2 lan2 xian4], Taiwan

1 machine

2 machinery

3 mechanical

4 (old) cunning

5 scheming

1 insignificant

2 trifling

3 merely

1 to drag

2 to tow

1 to expel pestilences

1 Seoul National University SNU

1 cheek

2 face

1 Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar

1 More moral strength increases one's safety, more power and influence increases one's danger (idiom, from Records of the Historian 史記|史记). cf Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it (William Pitt the Elder, 1770).