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1 dead letter

2 rule no longer in force

3 empty formality

1 practical application

1 (TCM) menstruation

2 period

1 flower but no fruit (idiom); handsome exterior but hollow inside

2 flashy

1 Bosworth (name)

2 Stephen Bosworth (1939-), US academic and diplomat, special representative for policy on North Korea from 2009

1 shinjitai, simplified Japanese character used since 1946

1 (Tw) (coll.) earthquake (According to a folk tale, earthquakes are caused by the occasional movements of an ox that lives under the earth.)

1 (old) Arabia

2 Arabian

1 pope

1 surname Hong

1 Loongson (a family of general-purpose CPUs developed within China)

1 zero curvature

2 flat

1 meeting points of qi (in Chinese medicine)

1 happy countenance

1 to be more scared than hurt (idiom)

2 to get through a daunting experience without mishap

1 Avatamsaka sutra of the Huayan school

2 also called Buddhavatamsaka-mahavaipulya Sutra, the Flower adornment sutra or the Garland sutra

1 China Travel Service (CTS), state-owned travel company

1 to reduce payment

2 to annul (debts, bills, taxes etc)

3 to let sb off paying