to compete / competition / match / to surpass / better than / superior to / to excel
赛
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宀
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井
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丌
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贝
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Socrates (s) and the crab (贝) are competing in a competition (赛) in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). The competition is about stacking wells (井) as high as possible. After time's up, Socrates is the clear winner. He climbs the winner's pedestal (丌) and receives a honorary PhD and thus a graduation cap (宀).
wheel / disk / ring / steamship / to take turns / to rotate / by turn / classifier for big round objects: disk, or recurring events: round, turn
轮
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仑
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车
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Lenny Lemur (lu) is driving his cabriolet (车) through the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). It is very hard to drive there because all the blackcurrant berries (仑) get stuck in the wheels (轮).
思
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心
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田
:
Socrates is feeling blue in front of the space station. He's thinking of burying his heart under a field. When he finishes, he realizes that he has created some kind of small planet, with his heart at the center.