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Albert Einstein likes to start raves in the anthill's bathroom, setting up huge loudspeakers and turning down the light until it is very dark. Usually his raves are huge successes, but when the sun joins the mood is at a minimum, since then it's not dark at all anymore. However, everybody has an excuse then to wear sunglasses.
dark / gloomy / hidden / secret / muddled / obscure / in the dark
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Albert Einstein likes to start raves in the anthill's bathroom, setting up huge loudspeakers and turning down the light until it is very dark. Usually his raves are huge successes, but when the sun joins the mood is at a minimum, since then it's not dark at all anymore. However, everybody has an excuse then to wear sunglasses.
to close (a door) / to eclipse / muddled / stupid / ignorant / variant of 暗[an4]
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Albert Einstein likes to start raves in the anthill's bathroom, setting up huge loudspeakers and turning down the light until it is very dark. Usually his raves are huge successes, but when the sun joins the mood is at a minimum, since then it's not dark at all anymore. However, everybody has an excuse then to wear sunglasses.
earth / ground / field / place / land / CL:片[pian4]
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Dorothy Gale (di) hates the cleanliness of the space station, so she used an excavator (也) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) to dig a pile of dirt (土) out of the ground (地) for a mud bath.
lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]
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Mnemonic symbol: a sunflower. The 田 part looks like the blossom and 土 looks like the stem and leaves. Li Qingzhao (li) wants to put up a field (田) inside (里) the space station's living room (Ø3). First she puts some earth (土) here and there, and then she plants lots of sunflowers (里).
li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels