to taste; to try (food) / to experience / (literary) ever; once
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Charlie Chaplin (ch) is cooking some aloe vera (⺌) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). As he lifts the lid (冖) to try (尝) the aloe, a cloud (云) of steam fills the area, making everything smell like aloe.
Sherlock Holmes (sh) assumed his new post inside of the anglepod's bathroom (ang4) at the border control checkpoint (冋). His first client is a buddhist monk (尚) who wants to import some aloe vera (⺌). Sherlock asks him what he thinks how large the value (尚) of his goods is, but the buddhist monk has no idea.
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James II of England (zh) received an imperial decree (旨) to read it to all the other inhabitants of the space station (Ø3). He reads to the sun (日) that from now on they'll have to wear a ladle (匕) as a hat, so both of them immediately put ladles on their heads.
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Charlie Chaplin (ch) is cooking some aloe vera (⺌) in the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). As he lifts the lid (冖) to try (尝) the aloe, a cloud (云) of steam fills the area, making everything smell like aloe.
lit. to sleep on brushwood and taste gall (like King Gou Jian of Yue 勾踐|勾践[Gou1 Jian4]), in order to recall one's humiliations) (idiom) / fig. to maintain one's resolve for revenge