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to rumble with thunder / clap of thunder
HSK 4
mirroring others / identical
HSK 7-9
thunderbolt
Tourette syndrome
pass like thunder and move like the wind (idiom); swift and decisive reaction
thunderbolt
Canterbury
(loanword) radar
Lexus / see also 凌志
Leizhou Peninsula
lightning bolt; lightning strike
lit. like thunder piercing the ear / a well-known reputation (idiom)
mine detector (employee)
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  *雷* | 雷* | *雷
surname Lei
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  *雷* | 雷* | *雷
thunder / (bound form) (military) mine, as in 地雷 land mine / (coll.) to shock; to stun; to astound / (Tw) (coll.) spoiler / (Tw) (coll.) to reveal plot details to (sb)
Frazer (name)
Greymouth, town in New Zealand / also written 格雷默斯
thundershower
Reynolds (name) / Renault (French car company) / Reno, Nevada
sound of thunder
laser (loanword used in Taiwan) / also written 鐳射|镭射
Rennes
lightning rod
to lay mines
(military) to clear landmines / (fig.) (slang) to give people a heads-up; to warn others about bad experiences
Brest, westernmost town in France
Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada
grenade
thunder
torpedo
thunderstorm
sudden clap of thunder / fig. surprising turn of events
(bound form) to avoid being struck by lightning / (slang) to steer clear of sth bad (e.g. shoddy goods, a scam, or a bad experience)
lightning strike / thunderbolt
thunder and lightning
Lei Gong or Duke of Thunder, the God of Thunder in Chinese mythology
to be furious / to fly into a terrible rage
Frederick (name)
minesweeper (computer game)
thunder rolls
Ray Romano (1957-), US actor and comedian
(slang) large breasts
Preston, city in England
naval mine
Shimon Peres (1923-2016), Israel politician, prime minister in 1977, 1984-1986 and 1995-1996, president 2007-2014, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 1994
Raymond (name)
Luilang, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Harare, capital of Zimbabwe
Reykjavik, capital of Iceland
minefield (lit. and fig.)
Riesling (grape type)
Tampere (Swedish Tammerfors), Finland's second city
thunderclap
capercaillie (Lagopus, several species) / thunderbird (in native American mythology)
to stamp with fury; to fly into a rage
Hamlet (name) / the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark c. 1601 by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
muffled thunder / (fig.) sudden shock / blow
thunderclap / (of a P2P lending platform) to collapse
not shaken by thunder (idiom); the arrangements are unalterable / to adhere rigidly to regulations / will go ahead whatever happens (of an arrangement or plan)
thunderous snoring
not overstepping the prescribed limits / to remain within bounds
Adelaide, capital of South Australia / also written 阿德萊德|阿德莱德
to detect mines / mine detection
Ciudad Real
Lei Feng (1940–1962), a soldier celebrated by the Chinese government from 1963 onward as a model of selflessness and devotion to the Communist Party
detonator / fuse
thunderstorm
sound of thunder
lidar
to step on a mine / (fig.) to inadvertently do sth that has an unpleasant result / (fig.) to be accidentally exposed to a spoiler
(of a P2P lending platform) to collapse / (Tw) (slang) to reveal plot details / spoiler
Freyr (god in Norse mythology)
lightning arrester
baited trap / booby-trap
Rex (name)
floating mine
Leifeng Pagoda, by West Lake until it was destroyed (also from Madam White Snake)
(loanword) reggae
Teresa / Theresa (name)
Tolui (1193-1232), fourth son of Genghis Khan
Lehman or Leymann (name)
Reynolds number (ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces in fluid mechanics)
Leibo, a county in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture 涼山彝族自治州|凉山彝族自治州, Sichuan
Clark T. Randt Jr. (1945-), US ambassador to Beijing 2001-2009
Gustave Dore (1832-1883), French artist and sculptor
Grey / Gray
Halley's Comet
António Guterres (1949-), secretary-general of the United Nations (2017-), prime minister of Portugal (1995-2002)
Renoir (name) / Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French impressionist painter
The Canterbury Tales, collection of stories by Geoffrey Chaucer 喬叟|乔叟
Leizhou, a county-level city in Zhanjiang City 湛江市, Guangdong
Trevor (name)
god of thunder (Chinese Leigong 雷公, Norse Thor 索爾|索尔, Greek Zeus 宙斯 etc)
real (Brazilian currency) (loanword)
Quake (video game series)
John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962), second-generation American missionary in China, first president of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China
Zhang Tailei (1898-1927), founding member of Chinese communist party

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