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HSK
to search (a place, a database, online etc); to search for (sth)
HSK 5
trail / clues / thread (of a story)
HSK 5
to explore; to probe
HSK 6
to ask for compensation / to claim damages / claim for damages
HSK 7-9
to feel about / to grope about / to fumble / to do things slowly
HSK 7-9
to think deeply / to ponder
HSK 7-9
to ask / to demand
HSK 7-9
you might as well (do it) / simply / just
HSK 7-9
fuse (for explosive)
HSK 7-9
nimble
HSK 7-9
Somalia
Burkina Faso
(Tw) Somalia
Ethiopia (Tw)
dull / dry
Caucasus / Caucasian
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surname Suo / abbr. for 索馬里|索马里, Somalia
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to search / to demand / to ask / to exact / large rope / isolated
to retrieve (data) / to look up / retrieval / search
to demand sb's life
to blackmail / to extort
Picasso (Tw)
Sony
index
Aesop (trad. 620-560 BC), Greek slave and storyteller, supposed author of Aesop's fables
Soria, Spain
Thor (Norse god of thunder)
George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist
rope
(Tw) (loanword) peso (monetary unit)
Burkina Faso (Tw)
Lesotho (Tw)
extortion and blackmail (idiom)
dull / insipid
Braşov, Romania
Sofia, capital of Bulgaria
Solomon (name) / Solomon (Islands)
Soros (name) / George Soros or György Schwartz (1930-), Hungarian American financial speculator and millionaire philanthropist
Gasol (name) / Pau Gasol (1980-), former Spanish professional basketball player (NBA) / Marc Gasol (1985-), Spanish professional basketball player
Picasso
chordata
to ask a price / to charge / asking price
to exact bribes / to solicit bribes / to demand bribes / to extort
Mesopotamia
Roseau, the capital of Commonwealth of Dominica
bleak / desolate / melancholy
cable / hawser / mooring rope
search warrant (Tw)
(Tw) Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau
(loanword) peso (monetary unit)
to search for sth / to seek / to quest / to explore
trembling
to search for subtle traces / to ponder
Lesotho
Guinea-Bissau (Tw)
a noose for hanging criminals
(idiom) to act without taking time to think; to react instantly; to fire from the hip
a lasso / noose
Transcaucasia, aka the South Caucasus
Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek tragedian, author of Oedipus the King
tightrope walking
to ask for / to request / to demand
to inquire into / to ascertain
Thorpe (name)
to seek / to demand
Caucasus Mountains
Transcaucasia, aka the South Caucasus
lit. looking for a fine horse using only a picture (idiom) / fig. to do things along rigid, conventional lines / to try and find sth with the help of a clue
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain 馬克·吐溫|马克·吐温
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian fascist dictator, "Il Duce", president 1922-1943
to demand payment / to extort / to trace / to seek / to pursue / to explore
ropeway
search party
to have no interest in sth
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765), Russian polymath and writer
sling; hoisting rope / suspension cable
to rack one's brains (for apt wording etc) (idiom)
Yamoussoukro, capital of Ivory Coast (Tw)
to mull over (idiom) / to think long and hard
notochord (anatomy)
(Dirk) Kempthorne (US Senator from Idaho)
Sofia (capital of Bulgaria)
Kosovo
axon (long thin axis of nerve cell)
spermatic cord (anatomy)
suspension bridge
exploratory
search engine
François Hollande (1954-), French Socialist politician, president of France 2012-2017 / also written 奧朗德|奥朗德
Luxor, city in Egypt
Curaçao
space exploration
zip line
Chordata, phylum containing vertebrates
Nassau, capital of The Bahamas (Tw)
Sodom
zip line
to crowdsource information about sb or sth (typically as a form of vigilantism resulting in doxing)
varicocele (medicine)

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