to disappear / to vanish / to eliminate / to spend (time) / have to / need
消
=
氵
+
肖
:
In front of the aorta, Marie Curie tells the Little Prince that she knows a neat trick how to let the water in his little water bottle disappear. The Little Prince is curious and lets her show her trick, but she just drinks the bottle empty. The Little Prince thinks that this trick is not only a Little Lame.
enclosure / (variant of 閒|闲[xian2]) idle / unoccupied / leisure
闲
=
木
+
门
:
In her free time (闲) Marie Curie (xi) likes to sit in the anthill's kitchen (an2) to watch her trap door (门). She installed it right under a Christmas tree (木) so whenever someone puts a present under the Christmas tree, shortly afterwards it will fall through the trap door in Marie's secret chamber.
闲
=
木
+
门
:
In her free time (闲) Marie Curie (xi) likes to sit in the anthill's kitchen (an2) to watch her trap door (门). She installed it right under a Christmas tree (木) so whenever someone puts a present under the Christmas tree, shortly afterwards it will fall through the trap door in Marie's secret chamber.