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match (for lighting fire) / CL: ,
HSK 5
lit. when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (proverb) / fig. the more people, the more strength
(Cantonese) (coll.) good-for-nothing / loser
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea / fig. life's daily necessities
While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
biodiesel
lit. sharpening the axe won't make the wood-splitting take longer (idiom) / fig. time invested in preparations is not lost / a beard well lathered is half shaved
diesel engine
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
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firewood / lean (of meat) / thin (of a person)
katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes (paper-thin shavings of preserved skipjack tuna)
stick figure; stick person
Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.
(idiom) as thin as a match; emaciated
plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)
diesel fuel
diesel engine
to chop firewood / to split logs
chopped wood / firewood
Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai
honewort / Cryptotaenia japonica
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer
Chinese thorowax (Bupleurum chinense) / root of Chinese thorowax (used in TCM)
kindling
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky (1840-1893), Russian composer, composer of 6 symphonies and the opera Eugene Onegin
Brazzaville, capital of Congo
firewood
reed stem / (fig.) extremely skinny person
lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile / fig. consuming passion between lovers
to chop firewood / to gather firewood
lit. woodcutter's family / humble background / poor family background
a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs
firewood
to spout nonsense / to bullshit endlessly
(dialect) country girl; unsophisticated girl
plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)
woodcutter's cottage (idiom); poor person's hovel / fig. my humble house
Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai
firewood
kindling (to light a fire)
matches made of cardboard
diesel-electric locomotive
shiba inu (Japanese dog breed)
Shibata (Japanese surname and place name)
simple and crude cart (or chariot)
Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai


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