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I already advized going long on cotton futures. What, you want more investment advice? Fine. Green Slime. You want it.
Here’s your homework. Do it. Or else.
原子弹 nuclear weapon. Small States, and Singapore is one, they don’t fuck around. Of course they totally don’t have a nuke. Also, SARS II isn’t a weapon.
微波炉 microwave oven (you can use them to make a home-made anti drone weapon, try not to get fried tho.)
打靶场。shooting range. Small states also have no highly trained snipers. Honest.
试管婴儿 test tube baby. Demographics haunt all industrialized societies.
法官 judge. well, the law of the jungle is still a kind of law…
I should bother to remind you of the continued things going up in flames in Russia the occasional Russian accidentally falling out an open window but by now oh yeah cars are on the menu again. Dining at Subway is always in style!
琢磨 research. “keep your nose to the grindstone” (研究)
胆怯 , 胆小 haipa, “know fear? no fear.”
自力更生 self reliance. this was a KEY policy of Mao Zedong! It is also Ukraine’s policy. Yes, Ukraine will win quicker and with less bloodshed and cost if you help. Guess what? Ukraine will win even without Western aid. The West needs Ukraine more than Ukraine needs the West.
会计 accountant
棘手 jishou difficult to do, “a thorny problem” is a possible colocation
木讷 “stock stupid” is an exact colocation.
Russia pulls out of Belarus, US and Vietnam enter into strategic partnership. I might learn Vietnamese. I just want world peace. Unlike most, am willing to fight for it. More Leopards reach Ukraine, Russian equipment losses in Ukraine increase. Russia cancels Zapad (=West) exercises. Usually Russia stages a large military exercise annually to threaten Europe. I guess everyone sees that threat was unrealistic. Back to work.
童真 qv 天真, tongyhen innocent as a child q.v. “Rainchild”...
真金不怕火炼 real gold doesn’t fear the crucible’s fire. Did I mention? I play for blood, not money, and really have no fear, because nothing left to lose. My worst case scenario is still pretty good!
不翼而飞 suddenly vanished
返老还童 lit. flip old replace with young, i.e. to reverse aging. “young at heart” rejuvenate. China recently speaks of policies of “national rejuvenation”.
返场 to return to the stage in response to an ovation. (actor has left stage, audience still applauding, returns to stage, i guess “an encore”?)
火焰 flame of gas that gives off heat and light
三寸金莲 ew golden lotus binding of feet to three inches
nishizhen逆时针 counterclockwise
门外汉 non expert, layman
pengfudaxiao 捧腹大笑 belly laugh
mahoupao 马后炮 closing the barn door after the house escaped is the same meaning tho this means to fire the cannon after the horse (is out of range)
huatielu滑铁卢 lit. means slippery iron oven but is the transliteration of WATERLOO also means to meet with failure.
花枝招展 it literally means the flowers and branches spread and wave but it is a metaphor for many very beautiful women who are very well dressed. It is from the dream of the red chambers. 红楼梦
“I remember who I am.”
我回忆我是谁
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