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match (for lighting fire) / CL: ,
HSK 5
While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn (idiom). Where there's life there's hope.
a variety of free-range chicken, small with furless legs, laying smaller eggs
diesel engine
biodiesel
katsuobushi or dried bonito flakes (paper-thin shavings of preserved skipjack tuna)
lit. intense fire to dry wood (idiom); inferno in a woodpile / fig. consuming passion between lovers
diesel engine
(Cantonese) (coll.) good-for-nothing / loser
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firewood / lean (of meat) / thin (of a person)
stick figure; stick person
diesel-electric locomotive
(idiom) as thin as a match; emaciated
plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)
diesel fuel
to chop firewood / to split logs
chopped wood / firewood
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)
Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
honewort / Cryptotaenia japonica
to spout nonsense / to bullshit endlessly
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
firewood
simple and crude cart (or chariot)
lit. when everybody gathers fuel, the flames are higher (proverb) / fig. the more people, the more strength
to chop firewood / to gather firewood
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
lit. woodcutter's family / humble background / poor family background
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.
firewood
(dialect) country girl; unsophisticated girl
plant material used as fuel (firewood, straw, leaves etc)
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
firewood
kindling (to light a fire)
Da Qaidam county level subdivision of Haixi Mongol and Tibetan autonomous prefecture 海西蒙古族藏族自治州, Qinghai
Brazzaville, capital of Congo
reed stem / (fig.) extremely skinny person
shiba inu (Japanese dog breed)
Shibata (Japanese surname and place name)
lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea / fig. life's daily necessities
matches made of cardboard


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