| | fossil | HSK 5 |
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| | oil / petroleum | HSK 3 |
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| | slab / flagstone / slate | |
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| | China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation, Sinopec | |
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| | stony | |
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| | Shimen, a county in Changde City 常德市, Hunan | |
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| | foundation stone; cornerstone / (fig.) basis; foundation | |
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| | bluestone / limestone (colloquial) | |
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| | Jinguashi, town in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, noted for its historic gold and copper mines, used as a prisoner-of-war camp by the Japanese (1942-1945) | |
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| | Mt Maiji Caves at Tianshui 天水, Gansu | |
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| | light petroleum (product) / gasoline and diesel oil | |
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| | lit. to use a sacred tripod as cooking pot and jade as ordinary stone (idiom); fig. a waste of precious material / casting pearls before swine | |
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| | naphtha | |
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| | cave; cavern | |
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| | British Petroleum, BP | |
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| | reef | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975), military leader, head of the Nationalist government in China 1928-1949 and the government in exile on Taiwan 1950-1975 | |
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| | Yakeshi, a county-level city in Hulunbuir City 呼倫貝爾市｜呼伦贝尔市, Inner Mongolia | |
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| | safe places for storing important articles | |
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| | stepping stone / fig. person used to advance one's career | |
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| | lime (calcium oxide) | |
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| | Stonehenge / Salisbury stone circle | |
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| | lit. as the water recedes, the rocks appear (idiom) / fig. the truth comes to light | HSK 7-9 |
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| | soapstone | |
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| | CNOOC; China National Offshore Oil Corporation | |
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| | Wang Anshi (1021-1086), Song dynasty politician and writer, one of the Eight Giants 唐宋八大家 | |
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| | Paleolithic Era | |
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| | to kill two birds with one stone (idiom) | |
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| | rock-solid | |
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| | Neolithic Era | |
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| | dental calculus; tartar | |
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| | grouper (Portuguese: garoupa) / also called 鮨 / Epinephelinae (subfamily of Serranidae, fish family including grouper) | |
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| | dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success / You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up. / Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty. | |
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| | marble | |
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| | Dunhuang caves in Gansu / refers to Mogao caves 莫高石窟 | |
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| | Yungang Caves at Datong 大同, Shanxi 山西 | |
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| | sapphire | |
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| | | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (Tw) debris flow / mudslide | |
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| | to wade across the river, feeling for footholds as one goes (idiom) / to advance cautiously, step by step / to feel one's way forward | |
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| | brick | |
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| | stone inscription / carved stone | |
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| | Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County in Chongqing 重慶｜重庆 | |
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| | petrochemistry | |
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| | rock | HSK 7-9 |
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| | diamond / also called 鑽石｜钻石 | |
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| | gargoyle / grotesque | |
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| | beryl | |
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| | petrology / lithology / study of rocks | |
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| | Stone Age | |
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| | huge rock; boulder; monolith | |
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| | stone pit / quarry | |
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| | kidney stone | |
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| | graphene | |
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| | sand and stones | |
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| | solitaire (puzzle) | |
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| | catapult / ballista (siege catapult firing stone blocks) | |
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| | limestone | |
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| | touchstone / fig. test that sth is genuine | |
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| | pebble / cobblestone | |
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| | rock-paper-scissors (game) | |
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| | sarcophagus | |
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| | lit. crossing the river by feeling for stones / improvise by trial-and-error / move cautiously | |
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| | moonstone | |
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| | lit. body made of wood, heart made of stone (idiom) / fig. heartless | |
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| | gravel / pebbles | |
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| | philosopher's stone | |
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| | dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success / You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up. / Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty. | |
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| | iron ore | |
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| | Lingshi county in Jinzhong 晉中｜晋中, Shanxi | |
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| | paraffin wax | |
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| | to touch base matter and turn it to gold (idiom); fig. to turn crude writing into a literary gem | |
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| | lapis lazuli | |
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| | to burn both jade and common stone / to destroy indiscriminately (idiom) | |
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| | petroleum wax | |
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| | stalactite | |
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| | Chevron Corporation | |
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| | lit. the other mountain's stone can polish jade (idiom); to improve oneself by accepting criticism from outside / to borrow talent from abroad to develop the nation effectively | |
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| | excavated soil and rock / construction spoil | |
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| | Dongshi or Tungshih Township in Chiayi County 嘉義縣｜嘉义县, west Taiwan | |
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| | The Story of the Stone, another name for A Dream of Red Mansions 紅樓夢｜红楼梦 | |
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| | (mining) gangue | |
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| | whetstone (for honing knives) | |
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| | Mesolithic Era | |
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| | dripping water penetrates the stone (idiom); constant perseverance yields success / You can achieve your aim if you try hard without giving up. / Persistent effort overcomes any difficulty. | |
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| | Shizuishan, prefecture-level city in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區｜宁夏回族自治区 | |
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| | obsidian (mining) | |
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| | Shilin Yi autonomous county in Kunming 昆明, Yunnan | |
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| | lit. to throw a stone and see it sink without trace in the sea (idiom) / fig. to elicit no response | |
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| | guardian lion, a lion statue traditionally placed at the entrance of Chinese imperial palaces, imperial tombs, temples etc | |
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| | quartz | |
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| | rocks / stones / rubble / riprap | |
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| | surname Shi / abbr. for Shijiazhuang 石家莊｜石家庄, the capital of Hebei | |
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| | dry measure for grain equal to ten dou 斗; one hundred liters / ancient pr. [shi2] | |
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