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ranked number one in the world / the world's first
step one / first step
World War II
front line / forefront
HSK 7-9
family with a literary reputation (idiom); literary family
third tone in Mandarin / falling-rising tone
first quarter (of financial year)
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(prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六 "sixth") / (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed / (old) residence of a high official / (literary) but; however / (literary) only; just
HSK 1
third quarter (of financial year)
science and technology is the number one productive force (from a 1978 speech by Deng Xiaoping 鄧小平|邓小平 introducing the Four Modernizations 四個現代化|四个现代化)
first level
third party
second quarter (of financial year)
Burgundy (Bourgogne), a medieval kingdom and later a powerful duchy, now a region of France
world's first
American Indians
to fail an exam
second place
First international, organized by Karl Marx in Geneva in 1866
top notch; highest quality
the first pot of gold / the initial profits from an economic endeavour
Type 2 diabetes
second tone in Mandarin / rising tone
order / sequence / one after another
first / most important; primary; foremost
Andes mountain chain of South America
Indiana, US state
fourth quarter (of financial year)
first under heaven / number one in the country
Third Reich, Nazi regime (1933-1945)
first-hand
HSK 7-9
first tone in Mandarin / high, level tone
third place
the second person / (fig.) someone else / third party
second / number two / next / secondary
the second time / second / number two
(math.) first fundamental form
in the first moments (of sth happening) / immediately (after an event) / first thing
World War One
sb who is romantically involved with sb already in a committed relationship / the other woman / the other man / third person / third party (in dispute) / disinterested party / number three in a list
(Tw) Des Moines, capital of Iowa
to pass an imperial examination
residence / mansion
(lit.) second spring / (fig.) falling in love for the second time / a new lease of life / rebirth
housing / high-class residence
first-class
suboptimal health status
(geopolitics) Second Island Chain, strategic arc of islands stretching from Japan's Bonin Islands to Guam and Papua New Guinea
fourth quarter
fourth channel / (in Taiwan) cable TV, FTV
the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
mansion house / official residence
Type 1 diabetes
secondary industry
sixth sense (i.e. intuition, premonition, telepathy etc)
Indiana, US state
third person (grammar)
Indianapolis, Indiana
first quadrant (of the coordinate plane, where both x and y are positive)
second job
category 5 / CAT 5 (cable)
next day / the morrow
The Second Sex (book by Simone de Beauvoir)
at first glance / at first sight
Faraday (name) / Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity
territory belonging to a third party (as a neutral location for peace negotiations or as a transit point for indirect travel or trade etc)
Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), Italian military commander and politician
Indus (constellation)
the Andes mountain range
the person in charge / the head of the leadership group
sixth sense / intuition
T'bilisi, capital of Georgia 格魯吉亞|格鲁吉亚
first round (of match, or election)
Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
Beijing International Studies University (BISU)
(literary) private residence; private house
the first time / first / number one
(American) Indian / native American / indigenous peoples of the Americas
Mandarin Phonetic Symbols 1 (official name of the phonetic system of writing Chinese used in Taiwan) / Bopomofo / abbr. to 注音一式
First Lady (wife of US president)
primary sector of industry
dinar (currency) (loanword)
Yiddish language
first case / first instance / first time (sth is done)
the fourth wall (in theater, TV, film etc)
fourth tone in Mandarin / falling tone
second round (of match, or election)
extensive residence / your house
the Andes mountain chain
first-person shooter (video game genre)
Third World
(geopolitics) First Island Chain, strategic arc of islands including Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines
Second World (Cold War-era term referring to communist nations as a bloc)
third period / tertiary (geological era since the extinction of the dinosaurs at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary 65 million years ago)
fifth column (subversive group)
the fourth estate; the press
Normandy, France
the whole family is invited (idiom)
Vivaldi (name) / Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741), Italian composer

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