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1 inflammation of membrane

2 membranitis

1 whole city

1 Jiugongshan town in Tongshan county, Xianning prefecture 咸宁, Hubei

1 type page

1 barbecue

2 to roast

1 a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study (idiom)

1 cannot be avoided

2 cannot do without

1 to keep up with

2 to catch up with

3 to overtake

4 to chance upon

5 in time for

1 Ingushetia, republic in southwestern Russia

1 lit. cries of complaint fill the roads (idiom); complaints rise all around

2 discontent is openly voiced

1 lit. to share the same bed with different dreams (idiom); ostensible partners with different agendas

2 strange bedfellows

3 marital dissension

1 an unjust cause finds little support (idiom, from Mencius)

2 cf 得道多助[dé dào duō zhù] a just cause attracts much support

1 Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty

1 elite (e.g. troops)

2 crack

3 best quality personnel

1 to procure

2 to act as pimp

1 hole

2 opening

3 cut

4 gap

5 gash

6 my husband or wife

7 classifier for people (used for indicating the number of people in a family etc)

8 precedent

1 Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain

1 sometime

2 someday (in the future)