Julia Kristeva (1941-), Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst, philosopher and literary critic
1. Crimea2. the Crimean peninsula
克里木战争 克里木戰爭 kè lǐ mù zhàn zhēng the Crimean War (1853-1856)
1. goose feather sent from afar (idiom); a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it2. also written 千里送鹅毛
Caliphate (Islamic empire formed after the death of the Prophet Muhammad 穆罕默德[mù hǎn mò dé] in 632)
Cantabria, Spanish autonomous region, capital Santander 桑坦德[sāng tǎn dé]
1. Bolshoi Ussuriisk Island in the Heilongjiang or Amur river, at mouth of the Ussuri River opposite Khabarovsk2. same as Heixiazi Island 黑瞎子岛[hēi xiā zi dǎo]
Barkol grasslands near Hami in Xinjiang
1. Flores, Indonesia2. also written 弗洛勒斯岛[fú luò lēi sī dǎo]
Chinese roseheart radish (shinrimei radish), green on the outside, purple-red on the inside, a favorite Beijing vegetable
恶事传千里 惡事傳千里 è shì chuán qiān lǐ evil deeds spread a thousand miles (idiom); scandal spreads like wildfire
1. Swahili (language)2. Kiswahili
Grimstad (city in Agder, Norway)
Santorini (volcanic island in the Aegean sea)
Euripides (c. 480-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Medea, Trojan Women etc
汗腾格里峰 汗騰格里峰 hán téng gé lǐ fēng Khan Tengri or Mt Hantengri on the border between Xinjiang and Kazakhstan
Podgorica, capital of Montenegro
Real Madrid (soccer team)
Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek playwright
1. lit. the meat falls apart as it stews, but it all stays in the pot (idiom)2. fig. some of us may lose or gain, but in any case the benefits don't go to outsiders
茅坑里点灯 茅坑裡點燈 máo kēng lǐ diǎn dēng (slang) (fig.) to court death (derived from 找死[zhǎo sǐ] via its near homophone 照屎[zhào shǐ])
1. Cyrillic alphabet2. Cyrillic letters
(bird species of China) Daurian jackdaw (Coloeus dauuricus)
Ferdinand von Richthofen (1833-1905), German geologist and explorer who published a major foundational study of the geology of China in 1887 and first introduced the term Silk Road 丝绸之路
Martti Ahtisaari (1937–2023), Finnish politician, peace negotiator and 2008 Nobel peace laureate
阴沟里翻船 陰溝裡翻船 yīn gōu lǐ fān chuán 1. to meet with unexpected failure (idiom)2. to fail miserably (where failure was not expected)
Shangri-La, a county-level city in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 迪庆藏族自治州[dí qìng zàng zú zì zhì zhōu], Yunnan
杰弗里·乔叟 傑弗里·喬叟 jié fú lǐ · qiáo sǒu Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集[kǎn tè bó léi gù shì jí]
Kristiansund (city in Norway)
Cathy Freeman (1973–), Australian sprinter
如堕五里雾中 如墮五里霧中 rú duò wǔ lǐ wù zhōng 1. as if lost in a thick fog (idiom)2. in a fog3. muddled4. completely unfamiliar with sth+1 条 Bloomsbury, London district
弗雷德里克顿 弗雷德里克頓 fú léi dé lǐ kè dùn Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
斯里巴加湾港 斯里巴加灣港 sī lǐ bā jiā wān gǎng Bandar Seri Begawan, capital of Brunei
瓦西里耶维奇 瓦西里耶維奇 wǎ xī lǐ yē wéi qí Vasilievich (name)
矬子里拔将军 矬子裡拔將軍 cuó zi lǐ bá jiāng jūn 1. lit. to choose a general among the dwarves (idiom)2. fig. to pick the best out of a bad group
矮子里拔将军 矮子裡拔將軍 ǎi zi li bá jiāng jūn 1. lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs2. fig. choose the best person available (out of a mediocre bunch)
圣德克旭贝里 聖德克旭貝里 shèng dé kè xù bèi lǐ (Antoine de) Saint-Exupéry
里瓦几亚条约 里瓦幾亞條約 lǐ wǎ jī yà tiáo yuē Treaty of Livadia (1879) between Russia and China, relating to territory in Chinese Turkistan, renegotiated in 1881 (Treaty of St. Petersburg)
鸡蛋里挑骨头 雞蛋裡挑骨頭 jī dàn li tiāo gǔ tou 1. to look for bones in an egg2. to find fault3. to nitpick (idiom)
马里亚纳海沟 馬里亞納海溝 mǎ lǐ yà nà hǎi gōu Mariana Trench
也好不到哪里去 也好不到哪裡去 yě hǎo bù dào nǎ lǐ qù just as bad; not much better