| | inquisitive / curious / inquisitiveness / curiosity | HSK 3 |
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| | magical / mystical / miraculous | HSK 5 |
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| | legendary / fantasy saga / romance / short stories of the Tang and Song Dynasty | HSK 7-9 |
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| | novel; new; exotic | HSK 7-9 |
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| | odd; bizarre | HSK 7-9 |
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| | rare / strange | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be amazed / to be surprised / to wonder | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Peppa, from Peppa Pig cartoon | |
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| | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter | |
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| | odd (number) | |
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| | strange / odd / weird / wonderful / surprisingly / unusually | |
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| | Jiagedaqi district of Daxing'anling prefecture 大興安嶺地區|大兴安岭地区, in northwest Heilongjiang and northeast Inner Mongolia | |
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| | cookie (loanword via Cantonese 曲奇 kuk1 kei4) | |
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| | Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | husky (sled dog) | |
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| | montage (film) (loanword) | |
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| | Dodge, US automobile brand, division of Chrysler LLC | |
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| | extraordinary / exceptional / unusual | |
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| | ordinary and mediocre (idiom); nothing to write home about | |
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| | rare / strange | |
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| | to hunt for novelty / to seek novelty | |
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| | Karachi (Pakistan) | |
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| | Jankovic / Yankovic / Yankovich / Jelena Jankovic (1985-), Serbian tennis player | |
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| | to hoard and profiteer / to speculate | |
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| | Urgench, city in Uzbekistan | |
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| | magnificent / precious | |
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| | Juan Antonio Samaranch (1920-2010), Spanish Olympic official, president of International Olympic Committee 1980-2001 | |
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| | to hoard / to speculate / profiteering | |
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| | Ilyich or Illich (name) | |
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| | Karadžić (Serbian surname) / Radovan Karadžić (1945-), former Bosnian Serb leader, convicted war criminal / Vuk Karadžić (1787-1864), Serbian linguist | |
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| | Gucci (brand) | |
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| | lit. to change something rotten into something magical (idiom) | |
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| | The Chronicles of Narnia, children's stories by C.S. Lewis | |
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| | Pope Vigilius (in office 537-555) / phonetic -vich or -wich in Russian names | |
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| | Vasilievich (name) | |
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| | Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part II), second of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初 | |
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| | Petrovich (name) | |
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| | to slap the table in amazement (idiom); wonderful! / amazing! | |
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| | Hufflepuff (Harry Potter) | |
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| | Anchorage (city in Alaska) | |
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| | Christchurch (New Zealand city) | |
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| | (loanword) kimchi | |
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| | The Name of the Rose, 1986 movie based on the novel by Umberto Eco | |
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| | Tadich (name) / Boris Tadić (1958-), Serbian politician, president 2004-2012 | |
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| | urban legend (translation of recent Western term) / story or theory circulated as true / same as 都會傳奇|都会传奇 | |
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| | (Newt) Gingrich | |
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| | fortune cookie | |
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| | Viktor Feyedov Yanukovych (1950-) Ukrainian politician | |
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| | to seek unusual scenery or places | |
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| | Andrija Mohorovichich or Mohorovičić (1857-1936), Croatian geologist and seismologist who discovered the Mohorovichich discontinuity or Moho | |
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| | not at all surprising (idiom) | |
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| | Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part I), first of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初 | |
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| | (loanword) kitsch, in a sense that originates in the writing of Milan Kundera: getting emotional about sth due to the influence of social conditioning | |
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| | South Georgia and The South Sandwich Islands | |
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| | to cluck one's tongue in wonder | |
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| | Goran Hadžić (1958-2016), Croatian Serb leader until 1994, indicted war criminal | |
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| | to click one's tongue in wonder (idiom) / to be astonished | |
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| | Mladić (name) / Ratko Mladić (1942-), army chief of Bosnian Serbs 1965-1996 and convicted war criminal | |
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| | strange and paradoxical | |
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| | Mickey or Mitch (name) | |
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| | to overturn empty convention, and display originality (idiom); new and different ideas | |
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| | Jelena Jankovic (1985-), Serbian tennis player | |
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| | Ermitazh or Hermitage museum in St Peterburg | |
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| | Sarkozy (name) / Nicolas Sarkozy (1955-), president of France 2007-2012 | |
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| | sygyt (overtone singing) | |
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| | urban legend (translation of recent Western term) / story or theory circulated as true / same as 都市傳奇|都市传奇 | |
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