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ransomware (computing)
Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成 / see also 托勒密
the Doppler effect
Caribbean Sea
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *勒* | 勒* | *勒
to strap tightly / to bind
HSK 7-9
Palestine
Oregon
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Roger Federer (1981-), Swiss tennis star
to blackmail / to extort
Caterpillar Inc.
Oregon
(slang) shoot! / crap!
Leningrad, former name (1923–1991) of Russian city Saint Petersburg 聖彼得堡|圣彼得堡
to draw the outline of / to outline / to sketch / to delineate contours of / to give a brief account of
Valletta, capital of Malta (Tw)
Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered the Doppler effect
extortion and blackmail (idiom)
Chrysler (car manufacturer)
Palestinian National Authority
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943) / also called 斯大林格勒戰役|斯大林格勒战役
to order / to force
lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom) / fig. to act in the nick of time
blackmail
Petrograd (former name of Saint Petersburg 聖彼得堡|圣彼得堡)
Rockefeller
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *勒* | 勒* | *勒
(literary) bridle; halter; headstall / to rein in / to compel; to force / (literary) to carve; to engrave / (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc) / (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯)
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC / Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成 / see also 托勒玫
laughing Maitreya
to guide a horse with the reins / to rein in a horse
Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
Stalingrad, former name of Volvograd 伏爾加格勒|伏尔加格勒 (1925-1961)
Xilingol, league in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region 內蒙古自治區|内蒙古自治区
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces
Bucharest, capital of Romania
Altay, prefecture in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC
Qizilsu or Kizilsu River in Xinjiang
lux (unit of illuminance) (loanword)
Whistler (name)
Belgrade, capital of Serbia (Tw)
Lillehammer (city in Norway)
Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)
Lviv (Lvov), town in western Ukraine
Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories
Korla Shehiri, Korla or Ku'erle City, capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Flores, Indonesia / also written 弗洛里斯島|弗洛里斯岛
Maitreya / the Bodhisattva that will be the next to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
portobello mushroom
Schiller (name) / Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller or Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区, Xinjiang
Saint Pancras (London railway station)
Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman Emperor
Keller or Köhler (name) / Horst Köhler (1943-), German economist and CDU politician, head of the IMF 2000-2004, president of Germany 2004-2010
Nazareth (in Biblical Palestine)
Bielefeld (city in Germany)
sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum)
Kingdom of Naples (1282-1860)
Altay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang
to strangle
to throttle / to strangle
to coerce / to force / to press sb into doing sth
wagon (yoked to beast of burden)
to strangle
Maitreya Bodhisattva
to kidnap for ransom
Perez (son of Judah)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of planetary motion
Zagreb, capital of Croatia 克羅地亞|克罗地亚
Øresund / The Sound (strait between Denmark and Sweden)
Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian islands
Napoli, capital of Campania region of Italy / Naples
Mahler (name) / Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Austrian composer
Salem, capital of Oregon / Salem, city in Massachusetts / Salem, city in India
Kyzyl, capital of Tuva 圖瓦|图瓦
to force sb to give up (a drug) / to enforce abstinence / to break drug dependence
thaler or taler (currency of various Germanic countries in 15th-19th centuries) (loanword)
to tighten
Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区, Xinjiang
Caribbean
Le Havre (French town)
Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), French mathematician and astronomer who predicted the position of Neptune
Levinas (philosopher)
Örebro (city in Sweden)
Drøbak (city in Akershus, Norway)
becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq) / abbr. to 貝克|贝克
Scarborough Shoal (Philippines' name for Huangyan Island)
Shi Le, founder of Later Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms 後趙|后赵 (319-350)
Sophocles (496–406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus Rex
Zwolle (Netherlands)
Holingol, a county-level city in Tongliao City 通遼市|通辽市, Inner Mongolia
Taylor (name)

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