lit. the rear waves of the Yangtze River drive on those before (idiom) / fig. the new is constantly replacing the old / each new generation excels the previous / (of things) to be constantly evolving
长
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乛
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丆
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丿
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Charlie Chaplin sped into the anglepod riding his longboard, but in the kitchen he doesn't know how to stop. He manages to make a u-turn by hooking him to the pole of a wind wheel with a sickle, but after the turn he can't help but bump into a giant banana.
chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance
长
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乛
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丆
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丿
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The chief (长) is asking James II of England (zh) for help, because his wind wheel (丆) in the anglepod's living room (丆) isn't performing very well. After finding out that there's too much friction, James II of England uses a sickle (乛) to cut open a banana (丿) and uses the pulp to grease the wind wheel and enhance (长) its performance.
江
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工
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氵
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A rive has flooded the area around the anglepod, but Joan of Arc was able to save herself on a makeshift raft made of a steel beam and a lot of empty bottles to make it float. She's floating just in front of the anglepod.
江
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工
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氵
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A rive has flooded the area around the anglepod, but Joan of Arc was able to save herself on a makeshift raft made of a steel beam and a lot of empty bottles to make it float. She's floating just in front of the anglepod.
back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
后
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⺁
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𠮛
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Mnemonic symbol: Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra. Zenobia (后) and Hamlet (h) want to bake banana bread in the outhouse's bathroom (ou4), but they don't know how. Behind (后) a banana tree (⺁) they study a scroll (𠮛) on which the recipe is written.
wave / breaker / unrestrained / dissipated / to stroll / to ramble
浪
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氵
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良
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In the past, waves (浪) used to break (浪) out of the anglepod's toilets (ang4) in an unrestrained (浪) way and dissipate (浪) through the while temple complex. But one day, Sir Lancelot (l) saw this misery and decided to help. He put up wave breakers (浪) which guide the waves into bottles of water (氵) so that the water can be poured back into the toilet. The high temple priest was so thankful that he gave Lancelot a thank you card (良).
to push / to cut / to refuse / to reject / to decline / to shirk (responsibility) / to put off / to delay / to push forward / to nominate / to elect / massage
推
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扌
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隹
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Tommy Turtle is very romantic and proposes to the sparrow in front of the Eiffel Tower. He holds the little box with the ring up to the sparrow with a toy claw, but sadly, the sparrow refuses and rejects to take it.
front / forward / ahead / first / top (followed by a number) / future / ago / before / BC (e.g. 前293年) / former / formerly
前
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䒑
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刖
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The Queen of Hearts is smoking some weed just inside the anthill's kitchen. She's so high that she thinks the lamp in front of her is the moon which wants to stab her with a kitchen knife.