a person who regularly walks by the river cannot avoid getting their shoes wet (proverb) / (fig.) it comes with the territory (e.g. a person with the power to grant favors will inevitably succumb to temptation and take a bribe)
常
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小
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冖
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吊
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Charlie Chaplin is fighting his way through anglepod's underbrush with a coat hanger. The anglepod has not been visited in a hundred years, and with his coat hanger, Charlie Chaplin has to cut down a lot of daisies. Finally he found what he was looking for: the centennial light, protected from the daisies and the rain by a cooking top.
在
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一
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亻
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土
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Zorro (z) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) exist (在) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). Rosa is in the middle of balancing a flute (一) on her head and on a pile of clay (土). Zorro uses his rapier to inscribe "Z" into the flute, so as to mark that the pronunciation of "在" begins with "z".
河
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可
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氵
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A river has flooded the elevator, and in the kitchen, Hamlet is floating on a bed of nails. He found a water bottle to put upside down on the nails, so he has to balance on the bottle in order to not have to sit directly on the nails. It is quite difficult to do on a rocking makeshift raft.
边
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力
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辶
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Brunhilde fell down on the sidewalk in front of the anthill. One of her gladiator sandals got stuck in a electricity line at the side of the inn.
to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / from / through / away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]) / to change (shape, form, meaning)
走
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龰
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土
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Mnemonic symbol: a Nordic walking pole. Zorro (z) is fighting Neanderthal Man (bottom of 龰) in the outhouse's living room (ou3). Neanderthal Man uses his pennant (top of 龰), and Zorro uses a Nordic walking pole (走). Zorro overcomes Neanderthal Man by using a dirty trick: he throws some dirt (土) at Neanderthal Mans face, who is blinded and hurts his foot with his pennant (the pennant pierces his foot: 龰). Just at this moment Zorro uses the opportunity to sedate Neanderthal Man and rams a syringe (龰) into his shoulder.
哪
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口
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那
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Napoleon is locked into the ashram. He holds a mandarin like Hamlet held that skull and asks himself: "By my holy laser sword, how can I escape this dreadful place?"
In an act of revolution, with a pair of scissors (𠂇) Maud Younger (y) is cutting a paper moon (月) into tiny pieces in the outhouse's living room (ou3). There is (有) only confetti (有) left over.
不
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丆
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卜
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Bruno Bear (bu) is setting up a wind wheel (丆) with a voodoo staff (卜) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4). He also puts a "forbidden" sign (mnemonic symbol for 不) on it, to make clear that it may not (不) be stopped.
湿
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显
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氵
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Sherlock Holmes (sh) is investigating a wet (湿) puddle next to an empty water bottle (氵) in front of the space station (Ø1). Although it is very obvious what happened through the conspicuous (显) empty water bottle, Sherlock still has to think hard about it.
鞋
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圭
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革
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Marie Curie (xi) made herself some shoes (鞋) and tries them on in the elevator's kitchen (e2). She cut the shoes out of a cow's hide (革) of which shreds are scattered all around. The shoes are a bit small, so Marie needs to use a jade tablet (圭) as shoehorn to get into the shoe.
鞋
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圭
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革
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Marie Curie (xi) made herself some shoes (鞋) and tries them on in the elevator's kitchen (e2). She cut the shoes out of a cow's hide (革) of which shreds are scattered all around. The shoes are a bit small, so Marie needs to use a jade tablet (圭) as shoehorn to get into the shoe.