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1 Notes on a Minutely Observed Thatched Hut by Ji Yun 紀昀|纪昀[Ji4 Yun2], novel of the supernatural

2 The Thatched Study of Close Scrutiny

1 Gao Yang (1926-1992), Taiwanese historical novelist

1 inhibition

1 manuscript

2 script

1 dull, stupid, suspicious

1 physique

2 build

1 favor the concubine and do away with the wife (idiom)

2 spoil one's mistress and neglect one's wife

1 personal guarantee

2 to sign as guarantor

1 Sri Lanka

2 (formerly) Ceylon

1 less than, <

1 Primorsky Krai (Russian territory whose administrative center is Vladivostok 符拉迪沃斯托克)

1 Zhongshan prefecture-level city in Guangdong province 廣東省|广东省[Guǎng dōng shěng] in south China, close to Dr Sun Yat-sen's birthplace

1 to happen

2 to occur

3 to take place

4 to break out

1 Xie He (479-502), portrait painter from Qi of Southern dynasties 南齊

1 to consider

2 to allow for

3 to use one's discretion

4 to measure (food and drink)

1 brook

2 streamlet

1 to start on virtue but give up (idiom); to fail to carry things through

2 lack of sticking power

3 short attention span

1 Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2 foreign office

3 Dept. of State

1 root system

1 postposition

2 suffix

3 word placed after