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干邑
- 1 Cognac
- 2 brandy 白蘭地|白兰地[bái lán dì] from the Cognac region of southwest France
廷试 | 廷試
- 1 court examination, the top grade imperial exam
挂搭 | 掛搭
- 1 variant: 挂褡 guà dā
三个臭皮匠,合成一个诸葛亮 | 三個臭皮匠,合成一個諸葛亮
- 1 lit. three ignorant cobblers add up to a genius (idiom); fig. collective wisdom
数控 | 數控
- 1 numerical control (machining)
悬崖峭壁 | 懸崖峭壁
- 1 sheer cliffs and precipitous rock faces (idiom)
猜不透
- 1 to be unable to guess or make out
散射
- 1 scattering
臭架子
- 1 stinking pretension
- 2 to give oneself airs and offend others
- 3 hateful arrogance
栉风沐雨 | 櫛風沐雨
- 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
活门 | 活門
- 1 valve
榛莽
- 1 luxurious vegetation
灰色
- 1 gray
- 2 ash gray
- 3 grizzly
- 4 pessimistic
- 5 gloomy
- 6 dispirited
- 7 ambiguous
弃婴 | 棄嬰
- 1 to abandon an infant
- 2 abandoned baby
天子
- 1 the (rightful) emperor
- 2 "Son of Heaven" (traditional English translation)
身形
- 1 figure (esp. a woman's)
激励机制 | 激勵機製
- 1 incentive mechanism
- 2 motivation method
白读 | 白讀
- 1 colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
读 | 讀
- 1 to read
- 2 to study
- 3 reading of word (i.e. pronunciation), similar to 拼音[pīn yīn]
卡西莫夫
- 1 Kasimov (town in Russia)