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HSK
to search (a place, a database, online etc); to search for (sth)
HSK 5
trail / clues / thread (of a story)
HSK 5
to explore; to probe
HSK 6
to ask for compensation / to claim damages / claim for damages
HSK 7-9
fuse (for explosive)
HSK 7-9
to think deeply / to ponder
HSK 7-9
to feel about / to grope about / to fumble / to do things slowly
HSK 7-9
to ask / to demand
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to act without taking time to think; to react instantly; to fire from the hip
HSK 7-9
nimble
HSK 7-9
you might as well (do it) / simply / just
HSK 7-9
Yamoussoukro, capital of Ivory Coast (Tw)
Limassol, Cyprus / Lemesos
Luxor, city in Egypt
Thor (Norse god of thunder)
Roseau, the capital of Commonwealth of Dominica
to blackmail / to extort
human flesh search engine / a large-scale collective effort to find details about a person or event (Internet slang)
to seek / to demand
anchor lift (ski-lift)
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  *索* | 索* | *索
surname Suo / abbr. for 索馬里|索马里, Somalia
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  *索* | 索* | *索
to search / to demand / to ask / to exact / large rope / isolated
chordata
bleak / desolate / melancholy
index
to retrieve (data) / to look up / retrieval / search
Sony
suspension bridge
El Paso (Texas)
aerial ropeway / cable car
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, "Il Duce", president 1922-1943
spermatic cord (anatomy)
ropeway
Dionysus, the god of wine in Greek mythology
to ask for / to request / to demand
extortion and blackmail (idiom)
to seek an answer / to look for an explanation / to explain / explanation
Picasso
to search for sth / to seek / to quest / to explore
François Hollande (1954-), French Socialist politician, president of France 2012-2017 / also written 奧朗德|奥朗德
to demand sb's life
cable / hawser / mooring rope
full-text search
rope
a noose for hanging criminals
to demand; to ask for
Somalia
Kosovo
(Tw) Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau
(loanword) peso (monetary unit)
Sofia (capital of Bulgaria)
notochord (anatomy)
lit. looking for a fine horse using only a picture (idiom) / fig. to do things along rigid, conventional lines / to try and find sth with the help of a clue
Gasol (name) / Pau Gasol (1980-), former Spanish professional basketball player (NBA) / Marc Gasol (1985-), Spanish professional basketball player
Sofia, capital of Bulgaria
dull / insipid
(Tw) (loanword) peso (monetary unit)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Russian composer, composer of Pictures at an Exhibition
Mesopotamia
to exact bribes / to solicit bribes / to demand bribes / to extort
to ask a price / to charge / asking price
dull / dry
to rack one's brains (for apt wording etc) (idiom)
Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek playwright
to mull over (idiom) / to think long and hard
(literary) desolate and lonely
zip line
to inquire into / to ascertain
Thorpe (name)
dull and insipid
Hagia Sophia (the main cathedral of Constantinople, subsequently the major mosque of Istanbul)
Soros (name) / George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist
trembling
full-text search
Aesop (trad. 620-560 BC), Greek slave and storyteller, supposed author of Aesop's fables
search engine
axon (long thin axis of nerve cell)
(old) to ask for recompense (for personal services rendered)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Sochi (city on the Black Sea in Russia)
Burkina Faso
space exploration
Denisovan, an extinct species of human
Curaçao
zip line
Chordata, phylum containing vertebrates
Sodom
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), Russian writer, prominent Soviet dissident, author of the Gulag Archipelago
Soria, Spain
exploratory
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温
to have no interest in sth
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
Ethiopia (Tw)
tightrope walking
to crowdsource information about sb or sth (typically as a form of vigilantism resulting in doxing)
blackmail
Burkina Faso (Tw)
zip line

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