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Animal Farm (1945), novel and famous satire on communist revolution by George Orwell 喬治·奧威爾|乔治·奥威尔[Qiao2 zhi4 · Ao4 wei1 er3]; also translated 動物農場|动物农场[Dong4 wu4 Nong2 chang3]

holiday cactus

volleyball; CL:個|个[ge4]

late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty

inspection post; checkpoint

citric acid cycle; Krebs cycle; tricarboxylic acid cycle

to lock down

to experience for oneself

to invigorate the country

few; rare

sexual taboo

collectivization of agriculture (in Marxist theory)

Wantan township in Pingtung County 屏東縣|屏东县[Ping2 dong1 Xian4], Taiwan

whispering sound

bud; sprout; germ

short of money; hard up

Guizhou Province (abbr. for 貴州省|贵州省[Gui4 zhou1 Sheng3])

Tieguanyin tea (a variety of oolong tea)

acquired; learned

Ascension Day (Christian festival forty days after Easter)

to fit (data to a model); a (close) fit

Luhuo, a county in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州[Gan1 zi1 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Sichuan

cannot compare to; to be no match for

single set