Josiah or Yoshiyahu (649-609 BC), a king of Judah (Judaism)
1. The New Yorker, US magazine2. resident of New York
Mallorca or Majorca (island of Spain)
Mayotte, island between NW Madagascar and Mozambique
treaty of Tianjin of 1885 ceding Vietnam to France
Treaty of Nanjing (1842) that concluded the First Opium War between Qing China and Britain
Treaty of Tianjin of 1858, a sequence of unequal treaties 不平等条约 between Russia, USA, England, France and Qing China
contract bridge (card game)
culture of honoring contractual obligations
1. to arrive as planned2. right on schedule
Treaty of Lhasa (1904) between British empire and Tibet
Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805-1844), founder of the Latter Day Saint movement
futures contract (finance)
1. to abrogate an agreement2. to break one's oath (idiom)
Treaty of Aigun, 1858 unequal treaty forced on Qing China by Tsarist Russia
1. signing bonus2. sign-on bonus
1. partner for dating2. a date (boyfriend or girlfriend)
1. approximate estimate2. to reckon roughly
cash equivalent (accountancy)
Second epistle of St John
1. John Paul (name)2. Pope John Paul II, Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920-2005), Pope 1978-2005
1. First epistle of St John2. also written 约翰一书
1. Second epistle of St John2. also written 约翰二书
New York Post (newspaper)
St John's, capital of Labrador and Newfoundland province, Canada
Boxer Protocol of 1901 signed in Beijing, ending the Eight-power Allied Force intervention after the Boxer uprising
forward contract (finance)
不平等条约 不平等條約 bù píng děng tiáo yuē (term coined c. 1920s) unequal treaty – a treaty between China and one or more aggressor nations (including Russia, Japan and various Western powers) which imposed humiliating conditions on China (in the 19th and early 20th centuries)
the Camp David agreement of 1978 brokered by President Jimmy Carter between Israel and Egypt
Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) between Qing China and Russia
履约保证金 履約保證金 lǚ yuē bǎo zhèng jīn performance bond (international trade)
教义和圣约 教義和聖約 jiào yì hé shèng yuē Doctrine and Covenants
日光节约时 日光節約時 rì guāng jié yuē shí daylight saving time
legal force (i.e. binding in law)
John Bunyan (1628-1688), English puritan writer, author of Pilgrim's Progress 天路历程
中俄伊犁条约 中俄伊犁條約 zhōng é yī lí tiáo yuē Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
中俄北京条约 中俄北京條約 zhōng é běi jīng tiáo yuē the Treaty of Beijing of 1860 between Qing China and Tsarist Russia
中俄改订条约 中俄改訂條約 zhōng é gǎi dìng tiáo yuē Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881, whereby Russia handed back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights
信贷违约掉期 信貸違約掉期 xìn dài wéi yuē diào qī credit default swap (finance)
儿童权利公约 兒童權利公約 ér tóng quán lì gōng yuē Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
改订伊犁条约 改訂伊犁條約 gǎi dìng yī lí tiáo yuē Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1881 in which Russia agreed to hand back Yili province to Qing China in exchange for compensation payment and unequal treaty rights