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to rumble with thunder / clap of thunder
HSK 4
reggae (loanword) / also written 雷鬼
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surname Lei
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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 cutting (abbr. for 雷射雕刻)
Leibo, a county in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture 涼山彝族自治州|凉山彝族自治州, Sichuan
to be furious / to fly into a terrible rage
Ciudad Real
capercaillie (Lagopus, several species) / thunderbird (in native American mythology)
Lehman Brothers, investment bank
minesweeper (computer game)
lit. like thunder piercing the ear / a well-known reputation (idiom)
a selfless, helpful person, like the model citizen Lei Feng 雷鋒|雷锋 (often used to refer to sb in a joking or teasing way)
lidar
Halley's Comet
thunderclap / (of a P2P lending platform) to collapse
mirroring others / identical
HSK 7-9
land mine (CL:顆|颗) / (fig.) sore point; weak spot
Zhang Tailei (1898-1927), founding member of Chinese communist party
thunderstorm
muffled thunder / (fig.) sudden shock / blow
nuclear land mine / nuclear mine
to lay mines
Hamlet (name) / the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark c. 1601 by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
grenade
to step on a mine / (fig.) to inadvertently do sth that has an unpleasant result / (fig.) to be accidentally exposed to a spoiler
(military) to clear landmines / (fig.) (slang) to give people a heads-up; to warn others about bad experiences
thunderclap
gray (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword) (Tw)
Lexus / see also 凌志
detonator / fuse
(of a P2P lending platform) to collapse / (Tw) (slang) to reveal plot details / spoiler
Srebrenica, town in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Preston, city in England
Renoir (name) / Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French impressionist painter
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
thunderbolt
Anchorage (city in Alaska)
(loanword) radar
John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962), second-generation American missionary in China, first president of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China
thunderous applause (idiom)
Monterey
lightning rod
laser (loanword used in Taiwan) / also written 鐳射|镭射
Reynolds number (ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces in fluid mechanics)
sudden clap of thunder / fig. surprising turn of events
thunderous snoring
all thunder but no rain (idiom) / a lot of noise but no action
not overstepping the prescribed limits / to remain within bounds
Klebsiella pnenmoniae
Harare, capital of Zimbabwe
lightning bolt; lightning strike
Rex (name)
Pressburg (Slovakia)
António Guterres (1949-), secretary-general of the United Nations (2017-), prime minister of Portugal (1995-2002)
lidar
pass like thunder and move like the wind (idiom); swift and decisive reaction
Taiwan equivalent of 里根
dare not go one step beyond the prescribed limit
to stamp with fury; to fly into a rage
lit. loud thunder, but only tiny drops of rain (idiom) / fig. a lot of talk, but no action
sound of thunder
Quake (video game series)
lightning strike / thunderbolt
(Internet slang) shocking / appalling / terrifying / terrific
Tuareg (nomadic people of the Sahara)
Gray's Anatomy (medical reference book)
deep growling thunder
Tyrannosaurus rex
to be thundering / thunder clap / CL: 個|个
Grey / Gray
Raymond (name)
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA, location of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference
Dreyer (name) / June Teufel Dreyer, China expert at Univ. of Miami and Foreign Policy Research Institute
Adelaide, capital of South Australia / also written 阿德萊德|阿德莱德
Charles Grey (1764-1845), prime minister of the United Kingdom 1830-34
Trevor (name)
(George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)
the God of Thunder strikes bean curd, a bully picks the weakest person / to pick on an easy target
Riesling (grape type)
minelayer (ship)
Canterbury
minesweeper
Reykjavik, capital of Iceland
Lei Gong or Duke of Thunder, the God of Thunder in Chinese mythology
Leifeng Pagoda, by West Lake until it was destroyed (also from Madam White Snake)
Raytheon Company, US defense contractor
thunder
thunder and lightning
baited trap / booby-trap
lit. earthern pots make more noise than classical bells / good men are discarded in favor of bombastic ones (idiom)
Reykjavik, capital of Iceland (Tw)
(slang) poorly made TV drama (featuring absurd plots, terrible acting etc); a cringeworthy show (often so bad it's entertaining)
Lehman or Leymann (name)
Dreyfus (name) / Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French artillery officer of Alsatian and Jewish background, infamously imprisoned 1894 in miscarriage of justice
(loanword) beret
Dreyfus affair 1894-1906, notorious political scandal in France case involving antisemitism and miscarriage of justice

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