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1 to float and drift

2 unstable

1 flower fair or festival

1 unexpectedly

1 to cultivate one's moral character

2 (fashion) slim-fit

3 body-hugging

1 saying

2 famous remark

1 (coll.) old fellow

2 old codger

1 Bandung (city in Indonesia)

1 screenshot

2 to capture an image displayed on a computer screen

1 male gamete

2 sperm cell

1 swim bladder

1 tender green

2 soft green

1 boyfriend

1 Volkswagen

1 Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman Emperor

1 ambassadorial

1 blunder

1 Cuiluan district of Yichun city 伊春市[Yi1 chun1 shi4], Heilongjiang

1 Jialing river in Sichuan (a tributary of the Yangtze)

1 Moon Goddess

1 lit. Ying writes a letter and Yan reads it

2 fig. to misinterpret the original meaning

3 to pile up errors

4 refers to the letter from capital 郢[Ying3] of 楚[Chu3] in which the inadvertent words "hold up the candle" are mistaken by the minister of 燕[Yan1] as "promote the wise"