to ally / to unite / to join / (poetry) antithetical couplet
联
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关
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耳
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Li Qingzhao (li) invented a machine able to combine (联) her hair into braids, and she is trying it out for the first time in the anthill's kitchen (an2). Just as the machine starts Li Qingzhao realizes it is going to combine both of her ears (耳) into one braid she quickly hits the machine's off button (关).
to give birth / to reproduce / to produce / product / resource / estate / property
产
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厂
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立
:
Mnemonic symbol: an assembly belt. Can you see the vase soon falling off the assembly belt?
In anthill, Charlie Chaplin is setting up his assembly line. At the one end there is a supply of vases. In the middle of the assembly line, a chocolate factory fills chocolate into the vases. At the other end, the little vases with the chocolate are dumped into a large vase.
household responsibility system, introduced in the early 1980s, under which each rural household could freely decide what to produce and how to sell, as long as it fulfilled its quota of products to the state