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| | Tyre (Lebanon) | |
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| | Ar Horqin banner or Aru Khorchin khoshuu in Chifeng 赤峰, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Basel, Switzerland | |
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| | Orwell (name) / George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984 一九八四年 | |
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| | Jalainur, a district of Hulunbuir City 呼倫貝爾市|呼伦贝尔市, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | Eiffel Tower | |
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| | Overijssel | |
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| | Serbian (language) | |
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| | Gaelic (language) | |
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| | Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | |
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| | (loanword) hormone | |
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| | (George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek) | |
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| | Erfurt (German city) | |
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| | (loanword) emir; amir | |
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| | Wall Street, New York / by extension, American big business | |
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| | Taxkorgan Tajik autonomous county (Tashqurqan Tajik aptonom nahiyisi) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang | |
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| | Malmo (Malmo city, of Sweden) | |
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| | Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist and author of "Brave New World" 美麗新世界|美丽新世界 | |
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| | thus / so / like that / you / thou | |
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| | Volga River | |
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| | Mount Everest | |
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| | George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), German-born British composer | |
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| | Tolstoy (name) / Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平 | |
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| | (idiom) to experience the joy of being newly married | |
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| | dinar (currency) (loanword) | |
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| | Khyber pass (between Pakistand and Afghanistan) | |
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| | old: to reap the consequences of one's words (idiom, from Mencius); modern: to go back on one's word / to blow hot and cold / to contradict oneself / inconsistent | |
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| | golf / golf ball | HSK 7-9 |
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| | El Niño effect, equatorial climatic variation over the Pacific Ocean | |
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| | Istanbul, Turkey | |
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| | Nobel Prize | |
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| | Celt | |
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| | Sherlock Holmes | |
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| | to take sth as given / to assume / as one would expect / naturally | |
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| | Grinnell College (private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, USA) | |
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| | Bolshevik | |
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| | Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, capital Ürümqi 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市 (abbr. to 新) | |
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| | Hormuz Island, Iran, at the mouth of the Persian Gulf | |
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| | Daur ethnic group of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang | |
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| | Paris Hilton | |
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| | New South Wales (Australian state) | |
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| | (loanword) golf | |
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| | Steven Spielberg (1946-), US film director | |
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| | (name) Chelsea | |
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| | Calcutta (India) | |
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| | standing above the common crowd (idiom); outstanding / excellent and unrivaled | |
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| | Standard and Poor's (S&P), company specializing in financial market ratings / S&P financial index | |
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| | (Tw) (loanword) waltz (dance) | |
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| | Christian Bale (1974-), English actor | |
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| | Ordos Desert, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | George Orwell (1903-1950), British novelist, author of Animal Farm 動物農場|动物农场 and 1984 | |
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| | Rebiya Kadeer or Rabiye Qadir (1947-), Uighur businesswoman and activist, imprisoned 1999-2005, then president of the World Uighur Congress | |
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| | Kyrgyz (person) | |
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| | (computing) Moore's law | |
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| | Uighur (Uyghur) ethnic group of Xinjiang | |
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| | the Seychelles | |
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| | Wales, constituent nation of UK | |
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| | Ireland | |
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| | Saarbrücken, capital of Saarland, Germany | |
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| | Alzheimer's disease | |
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| | Bolton (name) | |
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| | Republic of Ireland | |
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| | Azores Islands | |
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| | Bern, capital of Switzerland | |
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| | Northern Ireland | |
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| | Melbourne, Australia | |
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| | Wilson (name) | |
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| | Balkan | |
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| | delta (Greek letter Δ, δ) | |
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| | Félix Faure (1841-1899), president of France 1895-1899 | |
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| | Cyrillic alphabet / Cyrillic letters | |
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| | Darfur, region of western Sudan | |
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| | Alcatel, old company name | |
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| | cartel (loanword) | |
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| | Harbin, sub-provincial city and capital of Heilongjiang Province 黑龍江省|黑龙江省 | |
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| | Calvin (name) | |
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| | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine | |
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| | Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes 五大湖 | |
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| | Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland | |
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| | Michael Crichton (1942-), US techno-thriller writer, author of Jurassic Park | |
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| | Mars (Roman God of War) | |
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| | (Mount) Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountains, southwest Russia | |
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| | Balkan Peninsula | |
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| | Anna Sergeevna Kournikova (1981-), Russian tennis star and glamor model | |
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| | Ralph (name) | |
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| | Chandighar, capital of Punjab state of northwest India | |
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| | Wimbledon (district of southwest London) / Wimbledon Championships (tennis) | |
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| | Argun River of Mongolia and Heilongjiang province, tributary of Heilongjiang River 黑龍江|黑龙江 | |
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| | golf course | |
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| | Nadal (name) / Rafael Nadal (1986-), Spanish tennis player | |
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| | Seoul National University SNU | |
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| | not more than so-so (idiom); mediocre / nothing out of the ordinary | |
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| | creole language | |
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