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1 Cognac

2 brandy 白蘭地|白兰地[bái lán dì] from the Cognac region of southwest France

1 court examination, the top grade imperial exam

1 lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom

1 numerical control (machining)

1 sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom)

1 to be unable to guess or make out

1 scattering

1 stinking pretension

2 to give oneself airs and offend others

3 hateful arrogance

1 lit. to comb one's hair in the wind and wash it in the rain (idiom)

2 fig. to work in the open regardless of the weather

1 valve

1 luxurious vegetation

1 gray

2 ash gray

3 grizzly

4 pessimistic

5 gloomy

6 dispirited

7 ambiguous

1 to abandon an infant

2 abandoned baby

1 the (rightful) emperor

2 "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)

1 figure (esp. a woman's)

1 incentive mechanism

2 motivation method

1 colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character

1 to read

2 to study

3 reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音[pīn yīn]

1 Kasimov (town in Russia)