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to rumble with thunder / clap of thunder
HSK 4
mirroring others / identical
HSK 7-9
thunderbolt
radar (loanword)
thunder and lightning
lit. like thunder piercing the ear / a well-known reputation (idiom)
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
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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)
laser (loanword used in Taiwan) / also written 鐳射|镭射
Reynolds (name) / Renault (French car company) / Reno, Nevada
Lexus / see also 凌志
sound of thunder
Rennes
thunderstorm
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
Leishan county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture 黔東南州|黔东南州, Guizhou
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
Lei Gong or Duke of Thunder, the God of Thunder in Chinese mythology
to be furious / to fly into a terrible rage
Frederick (name)
pass like thunder and move like the wind (idiom); swift and decisive reaction
minesweeper (computer game)
thunder rolls
(slang) large breasts
Preston, city in England
naval mine
Raymond (name)
to stamp with fury; to fly into a rage
Harare, capital of Zimbabwe
Tampere (Swedish Tammerfors), Finland's second city
Reykjavik, capital of Iceland
minefield (lit. and fig.)
Riesling (grape type)
thunderclap
capercaillie (Lagopus, several species) / thunderbird (in native American mythology)
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
Greymouth, town in New Zealand / also written 格雷默斯
Adelaide, capital of South Australia / also written 阿德萊德|阿德莱德
to detect mines / mine detection
Ciudad Real
detonator / fuse
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
lightning bolt; lightning strike
(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)
reggae (loanword)
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)
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
Leibo County in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture 涼山彝族自治州|凉山彝族自治州, Sichuan
Gray's Anatomy (medical reference book)
Clark T. Randt Jr. (1945-), US ambassador to Beijing 2001-2009
Canterbury
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, county-level city in Zhanjiang 湛江市, Guangdong
Trevor (name)
god of thunder (Chinese Leigong 雷公, Norse Thor 索爾|索尔, Greek Zeus 宙斯 etc)
lightning rod
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
Anchorage (city in Alaska)
thunderous applause (idiom)
Sucre, constitutional capital of Bolivia
to be in a thundering rage (idiom)
lit. much thunder but little rain; fig. a lot of talk but little action / his bark is worse than his bite
Lehman Brothers, investment bank
Taiwan equivalent of 里根
Grey / Gray
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880
radar antenna

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