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Chinese style / à la chinoise
many superficial changes but no departure from the original stand (idiom); plus ça change, plus ça reste la mème chose
five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la / five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音, 牙音, 舌音, 齒音|齿音, 唇音
Tale of Courtesan Li Wa, novel by Tang writer Bai Xingjian 白行簡|白行简 along the lines of La Traviata, favorite opera plot
Aachen, city in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany / Aix-la-Chapelle
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
to order à la carte / single point (of measurement, mounting etc)
La Liga, the top division of the Spanish football league system
music notation in which the notes Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La and Si are represented by numerals 1 to 7
La Marseillaise
René Descartes (1596-1650), French philosopher and author of Discours de la méthode 方法論|方法论
La Salle (used in the names of schools etc) / Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651-1719), French priest, founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
minor triad la-do-mi
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia
methodology / Discours de la méthode by René Descartes 笛卡兒|笛卡儿, 1637
Shangri-la, the beautiful, idyllic land of James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon"; a paradise on earth / Shangri-La, a county-level city in Yunnan that takes its name from the fictional land of the 1933 novel
Castilla, old Spanish kingdom / modern Spanish provinces of Castilla-Leon and Castilla-La Mancha
La Comédie humaine, series of novels by 19th century French novelist Honoré de Balzac 巴爾扎克|巴尔扎克
refined cream cheese / fig. crème de la crème / nirvana / Buddha nature / Buddhist truth / broth / flawless personal character
La Niña, equatorial climatic variation over the Eastern Pacific, as opposed to El Niño 厄爾尼諾|厄尔尼诺
names of the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la
Andorra la Vella, capital of Andorra
Fang La
Nathu La (Himalayan pass on the Silk Road between Tibet and the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim)
pre-Tang names of the five notes of the pentatonic scale, corresponding roughly to do, re, mi, sol, la
Aachen, city in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany / Aix-la-Chapelle / also written 亞琛|亚琛
nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet / à la guerre comme à la guerre
Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)
midnight / to order à la carte / (math.) zero of a function
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia, usually written as 拉巴斯
nothing but herb soup and dry provisions to eat (idiom); to survive on a coarse diet / à la guerre comme à la guerre
La Coruña or A Coruña (city in Galicia, Spain)
La Niña (counterpart of El Niño in meteorology)


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