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apart from; besides; in addition to (used to exclude, as in 除了他誰也沒來|除了他谁也没来 "apart from him, nobody came", or to include, as in 除了英語他也會法語|除了英语他也会法语 "in addition to English, he also knows French") / (used to introduce one of two habitual alternatives in the pattern 除了 + A + 就是 + B, "either A or B")
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French (language)
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french fries / french fried potatoes / chips
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France / French / abbr. for 法國|法国 / Taiwan pr. [Fa4]
Nicolas Sarkozy (1955-), French UMP politician, President 2007-2012
Rouen (France)
France
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French realist novelist, author of Madame Bovary
Carrefour, French supermarket chain
Martinique (French Caribbean island)
made in France
Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher
Paris, capital of France
Nice (city in France)
Marseille, city in south France / Basay, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Tahiti, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia
French Polynesia
Toulon (city in France)
Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian philosopher, author, and journalist
French-style
Reynolds (name) / Renault (French car company) / Reno, Nevada
Tokyo, capital of Japan / Tonkin (northern Vietnam during the French colonial period)
Calvin (1509-1564), French protestant reformer
L'Oréal (French cosmetics company)
France
Wuchang, county-level city in Harbin 哈爾濱|哈尔滨, Heilongjiang / the Permanent Five (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: China, France, Russia, the UK, and the USA)
Toulouse (city in France)
Air France
Citroën (French car manufacturer)
Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, destroyed by the British and French army in 1860
Zola (name) / Émile Zola (1840-1902), French naturalist novelist
a French-style bread, similar to a small baguette, commonly seen in Hong Kong and Macao
Brest, westernmost town in France
Annam (Tang Dynasty protectorate located in what is now northern Vietnam) / Annam (autonomous kingdom located in what is now northern Vietnam, 10th-15th century) / Annam (central part of Vietnam during the French colonial period) / old name for Vietnam / Annan District in Tainan 臺南|台南, Taiwan / Kofi Annan (1938-2018), UN secretary-general 1997-2006
Lancôme, French cosmetics brand
floor-to-ceiling window / French window
Lyon, French city on the Rhône
Napoleon (name) / Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
Cannes (France)
Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), leading French general at the start of World War One
Normandy, France
Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician
Tour de France cycle race / abbr. for 環法自行車賽|环法自行车赛
Provence (south of France)
China-France; Sino-French
Barth or Barthes (name) / Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French critic and semiotician
Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870), French writer
French language
Lagrange (name) / Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1735-1813), French mathematician and physicist
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French chemist and microbiologist
Hans (name) / Reims (city in France)
Nîmes (city in France)
René Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher
Charles Fourier (French sociologist and socialist, 1772-1837)
François Hollande (1954-), French Socialist politician, president of France 2012-2017 / also written 奧朗德|奥朗德
Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969), Belgian-French explorer and writer who traveled in Tibet in the 1920s
French Open (tennis tournament)
french fries
Alsace, French department
Hugo (name) / Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer
Pascal (name) / Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician
Réunion (island in Indian Ocean, a French overseas department)
the Franks (Germanic people who arrived in Europe from 600 AD and took over France)
Rhone, river of Switzerland and France
Tours (city in France)
Georges Bizet (1838–1875), French composer
Montpellier (French town)
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
Van Cleef & Arpels (French luxury jewelry company)
Bugatti (name) / Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. (French car company)
Jura mountains of eastern France and extending into Switzerland
Charles Montesquieu (1689-1755), French political philosopher
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), French Neoclassical painter
green bean / French bean / runner bean
Cognac / brandy 白蘭地|白兰地 from the Cognac region of southwest France
Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970), French general and politician, leader of the Free French during World War II and president of the Republic 1959–1969
Anglo-French
(coll.) to beat it / to take French leave
Cang Jize or Tseng Chi-tse (1839-1890), pioneer diplomat of late Qing, serve as imperial commissioner (ambassador) to UK, France and Russia
Grenoble (French town)
Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), French mathematician, physicist and philosopher
Perpignan (city in France)
Reims (city in France)
Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665), French mathematician
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French existential philosopher and novelist
Bikini atoll, French nuclear test site in South Pacific
Félix Faure (1841-1899), president of France 1895-1899
Metz (city in France)
Lorraine (region in France)
Wallis and Futuna (French island collectivity in the South Pacific)
(Tw) Emmanuel Macron (1977-), president of France from 2017
Lille (city in France)
Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author
Air France
Claude Monet (1840-1926), French impressionist painter
Istres (French town)
Li Na (1982-), Chinese tennis player, first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles title (2011 French Open women's singles)
(Tw) French kissing; to waggle one's tongue around (from Taiwanese 抐舌, Tai-lo pr. [lā-tsi̍h])
Spider-Man, see 蜘蛛俠|蜘蛛侠 / nickname of French skyscraper climber Alain Robert (1962-) / person who scales the outer walls of a building as a stunt or for building maintenance

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