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  *勒* | 勒* | *勒
to strap tightly / to bind
HSK 7-9
Kyzyl, capital of Tuva 圖瓦|图瓦
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  *勒* | 勒* | *勒
(literary) bridle; halter; headstall / to rein in / to compel; to force / (literary) to carve; to engrave / (literary) to command; to lead (an army etc) / (physics) lux (abbr. for 勒克斯)
Jules Verne (1828-1905), French novelist specializing in science fiction and adventure stories
Maitreya, the future Bodhisattva, to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
Bucharest, capital of Romania
Taylor (name)
Friedrich Schiller or Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered the Doppler effect
to blackmail / to extort
Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of planetary motion
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
Palestine
to draw the outline of / to outline / to sketch / to delineate contours of / to give a brief account of
Kaliningrad, town on Baltic now in Russian republic / formerly Königsberg, capital of East Prussia
Schiller (name) / Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller or Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and dramatist
Zagreb, capital of Croatia 克羅地亞|克罗地亚
Caribbean
to strangle
extortion and blackmail (idiom)
Shule ancient name for modern Kashgar / Shule county in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Chrysler (car manufacturer)
Roger Federer (1981-), Swiss tennis star
Huolin Gol, county-level city in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
to tighten
Napoli, capital of Campania region of Italy / Naples
Oregon
Chira County in Hotan Prefecture 和田地區|和田地区, Xinjiang
Rockefeller
to order / to force
Salem, capital of Oregon / Salem, city in Massachusets / Salem, city in India
lit. to rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom) / fig. to act in the nick of time
Palermo, Italy
Grenoble (French town)
Lillehammer (city in Norway)
Cordillera, series of mountain ranges stretching from Patagonia in South America through to Alaska and Aleutian Islands
Örebro (city in Sweden)
Zwolle (Netherlands)
(onom.) laughing sound / glug-glug haha!
to coerce / to force / to press sb into doing sth
Keller or Köhler (name) / Horst Köhler (1943-), German economist and CDU politician, head of the IMF 2000-2004, president of Germany 2004-2010
Mahler (name) / Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Austrian composer
Shi Le, founder of Later Zhao of the Sixteen Kingdoms 後趙|后赵 (319-350)
sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum)
Leningrad, former name (1923-1991) of Russian city Saint Petersburg 聖彼得堡|圣彼得堡
(slang) shoot! / crap!
Maitreya / the Bodhisattva that will be the next to come after Shakyamuni Buddha
Oregon
Altay, prefecture in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Pretoria, capital of South Africa
lux (unit of illuminance) (loanword)
Nilka County or Nilqa nahiyisi in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture 伊犁哈薩克自治州|伊犁哈萨克自治州, Xinjiang
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), French philosopher
Saint Helena
Korla Shehiri, Korla or Ku'erle City, capital of Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Nazareth (in Biblical Palestine)
the Doppler effect
Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces
Shule county in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区, west Xinjiang
Huolin Gol, county-level city in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture, in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region 新疆維吾爾自治區|新疆维吾尔自治区
Altay prefecture-level city in Xinjiang
Perez (son of Judah)
becquerel (unit of radioactivity, symbol Bq) / abbr. to 貝克|贝克
(Tw) Dresden, capital of Saxony, Germany
St Helena
Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)
Ptolemy, kings of Egypt after the partition of Alexander the Great's Empire in 305 BC / Ptolemy or Claudius Ptolemaeus (c. 90-c. 168), Alexandrian Greek astronomer, mathematician and geographer, author of the Almagest 天文學大成|天文学大成 / see also 托勒玫
Kaliningrad Oblast
to force sb to give up (a drug) / to enforce abstinence / to break drug dependence
blackmail
to throttle / to strangle
Palestinian National Authority
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Empedocles (490-430 BC), Greek Sicilian pre-Socratic philosopher
Bielefeld (city in Germany)
Helen Keller (1880-1968), famous American deaf-blind author and activist (whose story is told in biopic The Miracle Worker)
Kingdom of Naples (1282-1860)
Volgograd, Russian city on the Volga River 伏爾加河|伏尔加河
Association of Caribbean States
to strangle
ransomware (computing)
Levinas (philosopher)
Whistler (name)
Mandalay, province and second city of Myanmar (Burma)
Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus Rex
Marcus Aurelius (121-180), Roman Emperor
Qizilsu or Kizilsu River in Xinjiang
Caribbean Sea
wagon (yoked to beast of burden)
Le Havre (French town)
Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), French mathematician and astronomer who predicted the position of Neptune
to strangle or throttle to death
Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean)

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