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  *顿* | 顿* | *顿
to stop / to pause / to arrange / to lay out / to kowtow / to stamp (one's foot) / at once / classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
HSK 3
to tidy up / to reorganize / to consolidate / to rectify
HSK 6
to halt / to break off / pause (in speech)
HSK 7-9
Dresden, capital of Saxony 薩克森州|萨克森州, Germany
Bridgetown, capital of Barbados
(Tw) Clinton (name) / Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, president 1993-2001 / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
HSK 7-9
Hilton (hotel chain)
immediately; suddenly
HSK 7-9
Washington (name) / George Washington (1732-1799), first US president / Washington, US State / Washington, D.C. (US federal capital)
Princeton University
Newtonian mechanics
to find a place for / to help settle down / to arrange for / undisturbed / peaceful
Lipton (name)
(literary) fatigued / wearied
Washington Post (newspaper)
Bolton (name)
Boston University
Winston (name)
Manhattan borough of New York City
Washington D.C. (US federal capital)
Clinton (name) / Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, President 1993-2001 / Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
Preston, city in England
Boston, capital of Massachusetts
Boston Red Sox (baseball) team
Washington Times (newspaper)
Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada
Princeton, New Jersey
fatigued / exhausted / poverty-stricken / in straitened circumstances
Staten Island, borough of New York City
to pause
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
Houston
Wimbledon
Manhattan island / Manhattan borough of New York City
a flash of realization / the truth in a flash / a moment of enlightenment (usually Buddhist)
Johnston, Johnson, Johnstone etc, name
to eat one's fill / to be full
Huffington Post (US online news aggregator)
Brighton, town in England
George Washington (1732-1799), first US president
Donetsk region of W. Ukraine
Carleton
inactive / obtuse
Houston, Texas
Wellington, capital of New Zealand
Milton (name) / John Milton (1608-1674), English republican writer and poet, author of Paradise Lost
Republic of Macedonia (former Yugoslav republic)
Dalton (name) / John Dalton (1766-1844), British scientist who contributed to atomic theory
Aston Martin
Eton public school (English elite school)
Wimbledon
(computing) slow; unresponsive
Hamilton (name) / Hamilton, capital of Bermuda
Sidon (Lebanon)
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA, location of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference
Huntington's disease
(name) Clayton or Crichton
North Macedonia
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
Haydn (name) / Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Austrian classical composer
to feel suddenly / to realize abruptly
Halliburton (US construction company)
enumeration comma (、) (used to separate words or phrases in a list)
Paris Hilton
to place in safe keeping / to leave sth with sb
murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear
Leiden (the Netherlands)
Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg) / Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA.
Michael Crichton (1942-), US techno-thriller writer, author of Jurassic Park
Don River
stamp (one's feet)
Wellington, capital of New Zealand (Tw) / Wellington (name) / Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1851)
Wharton (name)
Dayton (city in Ohio)
Lexington, Massachusetts
(idiom) to beat one's chest and stamp one's feet (in sorrow, anguish etc)
cadence / modulation
Dresden, Germany
Charleston
newton meter, unit of torque (symbol: N⋅m)
Newton (name) / Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
newton (SI unit of force)
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
to go without meals (due to poverty or scarcity)
Hotton, Holden, Wharton, Houghton etc (name)
Appleton (name) / Sir Edward Appleton (1892-1965), British physicist, Nobel laureate who discovered the ionosphere
travel-worn
travel-worn
a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes / a cadence / punctuated by a transition / with syncopated cadence (brush stroke in painting)
suddenly / abruptly
kowtow
Everton (town in northwest England) / Everton soccer team
University of Leiden
Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada / also written 埃德蒙頓|埃德蒙顿
Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC, USA
Donetsk, city in Ukraine
Armageddon (in Revelation 16:16)
Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar

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