渐
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斩
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氵
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Joan of Arc (ji) didn't dispose of her empty water bottles (氵) for a long time. Instead, she just hoarded them in the anthill's bathroom (an4). Today she wants to get rid of the bottles: step by step (渐), little by little (渐) she cuts them down using a lawn mower (斩).
慢
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忄
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曼
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The fight between Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela has been very slow, so the audience decided to help them a bit and hands each of them two flails.