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1 pollination

1 capital of a country (literary)

1 food poisoning

1 the current imperial dynasty

2 one's own court

1 Tibet

2 Xizang 西藏

1 syntax

1 lit. to carry firewood to put out a fire (idiom); fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action

1 surname Qin

1 confrontation

2 contest

3 showdown

1 the rice is cooked

2 what's done is done

3 it's too late to change anything now (idiom)

1 to calculate (using bamboo tokens on a counting board)

2 to count beads

3 fig. to budget

4 to plan (an investment)

1 Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温[Ma3 ke4 · Tu3 wen1]

1 competition

2 to compete

3 to pursue

1 to sew together

2 suture (in surgery)

3 to sew up (a wound)

1 observer

2 spotter

1 Lantau Island

1 abstract

2 gist

3 main points

1 good looks

2 beauty

3 good-looking

1 elegiac tablet

1 can sing and dance (idiom); fig. a person of many talents