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to rumble with thunder / clap of thunder
HSK 4
lit. like thunder piercing the ear / a well-known reputation (idiom)
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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 cutting (abbr. for 雷射雕刻)
minesweeper
(George) Wehrfritz (Beijing bureau chief of Newsweek)
Lehman Brothers, investment bank
thunder
Halley's Comet
thunderclap / (of a P2P lending platform) to collapse
to lay mines
mirroring others / identical
HSK 7-9
land mine (CL:顆|颗) / (fig.) sore point; weak spot
thunderstorm
nuclear land mine / nuclear mine
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)
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
reggae (loanword) / also written 雷鬼
(military) to clear landmines / (fig.) (slang) to give people a heads-up; to warn others about bad experiences
to be furious / to fly into a terrible rage
thunderclap
all thunder but no rain (idiom) / a lot of noise but no action
gray (unit of absorbed dose of ionizing radiation) (loanword) (Tw)
detonator / fuse
(of a P2P lending platform) to collapse / (Tw) (slang) to reveal plot details / spoiler
minelayer (ship)
Srebrenica, town in Bosnia-Herzegovina
thunderbolt
laser pointer (Tw)
Anchorage (city in Alaska)
apatosaurus / former name: brontosaurus
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
thundershower
Monterey
laser (loanword used in Taiwan) / also written 鐳射|镭射
not overstepping the prescribed limits / to remain within bounds
thunderous applause (idiom)
Klebsiella pnenmoniae
Harare, capital of Zimbabwe
Tourette syndrome
lightning bolt; lightning strike
Rex (name)
(loanword) radar
Pressburg (Slovakia)
Reynolds number (ratio of inertial forces to viscous forces in fluid mechanics)
pass like thunder and move like the wind (idiom); swift and decisive reaction
António Guterres (1949-), secretary-general of the United Nations (2017-), prime minister of Portugal (1995-2002)
Taiwan equivalent of 里根
radar antenna
capercaillie (Lagopus, several species) / thunderbird (in native American mythology)
dare not go one step beyond the prescribed limit
to stamp with fury; to fly into a rage
lidar
Sucre, constitutional capital of Bolivia
sound of thunder
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA, location of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference
torpedo
(loanword) beret
(coll.) to wonder secretly / to make wild conjectures
(bird species of China) willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus)
Ray Romano (1957-), US actor and comedian
lightning rod
(Internet slang) shocking / appalling / terrifying / terrific
Charles Grey (1764-1845), prime minister of the United Kingdom 1830-34
deep growling thunder
Reynolds (name) / Renault (French car company) / Reno, Nevada
minesweeper
Grey / Gray
(slang) poorly made TV drama (featuring absurd plots, terrible acting etc); a cringeworthy show (often so bad it's entertaining)
Raymond (name)
lidar
Gray's Anatomy (medical reference book)
Adelaide, capital of South Australia / also written 阿德萊德|阿德莱德
minesweeper (computer game)
Preston, city in England
Trevor (name)
Riesling (grape type)
Klebsiella
Canterbury
Dreyer (name) / June Teufel Dreyer, China expert at Univ. of Miami and Foreign Policy Research Institute
transponder / electronic device that responds to a radio code
Reykjavik, capital of Iceland
Lei Gong or Duke of Thunder, the God of Thunder in Chinese mythology
Leishan, a county in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture 黔東南苗族侗族自治州|黔东南苗族侗族自治州, Guizhou
Leifeng Pagoda, by West Lake until it was destroyed (also from Madam White Snake)
Raytheon Company, US defense contractor
thunderous snoring
Lehman or Leymann (name)
Frazer (name)
Dreyfus (name) / Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French artillery officer of Alsatian and Jewish background, infamously imprisoned 1894 in miscarriage of justice
Reykjavik, capital of Iceland (Tw)
minefield (lit. and fig.)
Leizhou Peninsula

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