Erlian Basin in Inner Mongolia
1.somewhere2.someplace3.where
the Yili basin around Urumqi in Xinjiang
(bird species of China) plain-backed thrush (Zoothera mollissima)
all-terrain vehicle (ATV)
tragedy of the commons (economics)
sub-prefecture-level city (county level division, administered by province, not under a prefecture)
the 12 earthly branches 子[zǐ], 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥 (used cyclically in the calendar and as ordinal numbers)
Boko Haram, Islamic insurgent group in north Nigeria
four great basin depressions of China, namely: Tarim 塔里木盆地 in south Xinjiang, Jungar 准葛尔盆地 and Tsaidam or Qaidam 柴达木盆地 in north Xinjiang Sichuan 四川盆地
1.underground bank2.illegal private bank3.loan shark
1.local economy2.regional economy
geocentric latitude (i.e. angle between the equatorial plane and straight line from center of the earth)
local Chinese opera, such as Shaoxing opera 越剧[yuè jù], Sichuan opera 川剧[chuān jù], Henan opera 豫剧[yù jù] etc
1.local autonomy2.home rule
geothermal electric power station
(idiom) small and densely populated
(coll.) transgressive humor that treats tragedy, suffering, or other morally sensitive topics as jokes (implying that laughing would send one to hell)
1.Earth orbit (orbit of a satellite around the Earth)2.Earth's orbit (orbit of the Earth around the Sun)
1.Monopoly (game)2.known as 大富翁[dà fù wēng] in PRC
1.geopolitics2.geopolitical
1.Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva of the Great Vow (to save all souls before accepting Bodhi)2.also translated Earth Treasury, Earth Womb, or Earth Store Bodhisattva
1.seismologist2.earthquake scientist
1.real-time report of earthquake data2.earthquake alert
ground control (of airborne or space operation)
1.ground zero2.Ground Zero (refers to the site of the World Trade Center destroyed in 9-11-2001 attack)
1.multicast address2.multistation address
Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth)
1.lit. a gulf between heaven and earth (idiom)2.fig. wide difference of opinion
first line of the Thousand Character Classic 千字文[qiān zì wén]
1.catastrophes and unnatural phenomena2.Heaven-sent warnings
(used on signs) caution – wet floor (lit. "be careful, the floor is slippery")
industrial and mining area
former Tibetan province of Kham, now split between Tibet and Sichuan