Marilyn Monroe and the mean crocodile celebrate Christmas with a Christmas tree inside of the space station. Coincidentally they got each other the same present: each of them is giving the other one a sack of rice.
tree / wood / coffin / wooden / simple / numb / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]
木
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八
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十
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Mnemonic symbol: a Christmas tree. Malte Monkey is putting up a Christmas tree (木) in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). He's using a cross (十) as a base to put the tree on, and decorates the tree with eight-balls (八).
to come / to arrive / to come round / ever since / next
来
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丷
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未
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Mnemonic symbol: mailwoman. Lancelot (l) is super happy that his inflatable crocodile (丷) and live size Ai Weiwei (未) puppet finally arrived (来). The mailwoman (来) delivered them straight to the kitchen of the airplane (ai2).
來
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从
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木
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Mnemonic symbol: mailwoman. Sir Lancelot (l) is visiting the mailwoman (來) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2). As a gift, he brought a Christmas tree (木) decorated with rubber chicken (从).
surname Lou / one of the 28 lunar mansions in Chinese astronomy
娄
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女
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米
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Bessie Coleman (女) invited Sir Lancelot (l) over for dinner in her lunar mansion (娄) in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). Because Lancelot is extremely hungry, he brings a sack of rice (米) as a present for his host.
to break / to snap / to cut off / to give up or abstain from sth / to judge / (usu. used in the negative) absolutely / definitely / decidedly
断
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乚
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斤
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米
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Doggy Dog is working out in the anthill's bathroom. He uses two big barbells, but they are not enough: He attached shovels to the barbells and sacks of rice on them. The load is too much though: Just as he is pushing the barbells up the shafts of the shovels snap.
釆
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丿
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米
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Mnemonic symbol: a sampling tool. Brunhilde (bi) wants to distinguish a huge banana (丿) from a sack of rice (米) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), so she sticks her sampling tool (釆) into each of them and takes a small sample.
kind / type / class / category / similar / like / to resemble
类
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大
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米
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Lancelot (l) wants to save mankind (类), so he plans to breed the perfect rice plant. To find the perfect seed he programmed a robot (大) to classify (类) every corn of a sack of rice (米) in the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4) so he can choose the best one.
精
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米
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青
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Joan of Arc scoops a bit of water from the fountain of youth in front of the engine and pours it into a bowl of rice. The water refines the rice into rice wine, and as Joan of Arc drinks it, she finds her spirit renewed.
to bewilder / crazy about / fan / enthusiast / lost / confused
迷
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米
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辶
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As Marilyn Monroe (mi) is unsuspectingly walking just inside the space station's entrance (Ø2) she is hit by a falling sack of rice (米) so hard that she is knocked out of her gladiator sandals (辶). After she wakes up from a short coma (迷) she wonders where the sack of rice found so much gravity.
to continue / to follow after / to go on with / to succeed / to inherit / then / afterwards
继
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乚
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米
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纟
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Joan of Arc (ji) has to watch how a sack of rice (米) falls on the silk worm (纟) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and squeezes the silk worm to death. Joan of Arc, while burying the silk worm with a shovel (乚) under a heap of rice, swears to continue (继) the silk worm's work. She will take over the silk worm's jacket and earthenware bowl (继) and continue (继) its work to build the ultimate cocoon.
糖
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唐
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米
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Tecumseh (t) was happily eating his Tanghulu (糖) just inside the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) when he fell over a sack of rice (米). Now his Tanghulu is sticking to his tang jacket (唐), which annoys him a lot.
糖
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唐
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米
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Tecumseh (t) was happily eating his Tanghulu (糖) just inside the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) when he fell over a sack of rice (米). Now his Tanghulu is sticking to his tang jacket (唐), which annoys him a lot.
material / stuff / grain / feed / to expect / to anticipate / to guess
料
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斗
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米
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Li Qingzhao sees the matador fighting a sack of rice in the aorta's bathroom. At least she thinks she is fighting the sack of rice as he is repeatedly stabbing it. Truth is that he is working as inspector and taking samples of the rice to inspect the material.
粗
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且
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米
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Kitty Cat (cu) wants to store her sacks of rice (米) in a shelf (且) in front of the space station (Ø1), but the sacks are too thick (粗) and do not fit.
lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom) / fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off / to go for wool and come back shorn