吉尼斯世界纪录 吉尼斯世界紀錄 jí ní sī shì jiè jì lù Guinness World Records
第一次世界大战 第一次世界大戰 dì yī cì shì jiè dà zhàn World War One
第二次世界大战 第二次世界大戰 dì èr cì shì jiè dà zhàn World War II
世界知识产权组织 世界知識產權組織 shì jiè zhī shí chǎn quán zǔ zhī World Intellectual Property Organization
see 恍如隔世[huǎng rú gé shì]
hereditary benefits such as rank and wealth
1. hereditary house2. noble or official family
World Bank (abbr. for 世界银行[shì jiè yín háng])
to make the world a better place
the netherworld; the world of the dead
(soccer slang) spectacular, world-class goal; wonder goal (originally Cantonese: 波 is borrowed from English "ball", Jyutping [bō])
World Uighur Congress (abbr. for 世界维吾尔代表大会[shì jiè wéi wú ěr dài biǎo dà huì])
Sasebo (city and naval port in Nagasaki, Japan)
JUSCO, Japanese chain of hypermarkets
(geology) the Holocene Epoch
Genesis (first book of the Bible)
1. (law) absolute rights2. erga omnes rights
1. everywhere2. across the world
Oligocene (geological epoch from 34m-24m years ago)
(ACG) another world; parallel universe (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 異世界 "isekai")
1. the foremost person of his age2. unequalled3. a leading light
Cretaceous (geological period 140-65m years ago)
the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America
1. unworldly2. unsophisticated
Sejong the Great or Sejong Daewang (1397-1450), reigned 1418-1450 as fourth king of Joseon or Chosun dynasty, in whose reign the hangeul alphabet was invented
1. ranked number one in the world2. the world's first
global economy; world economy
1. world trade2. global trade
family with hereditary emoluments
final years of the century
World Health Organization (WHO) (abbr. for 世界卫生组织[shì jiè wèi shēng zǔ zhī])
1. succession struggle2. dispute over inheritance
(of a position or title) to be passed down unaltered through generations within a family
1. world with only two people (usually refers to a romantic couple)2. romantic couple's world