吸
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及
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口
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Just when Marie Curie (xi) and Yuwen Huaji (及) were on a space trip in front of the space station (Ø1) they encountered an emergency: the failure of their oxygen supply. Their last hope is a hollow mandarin (口) they brought, out of which they suck (吸) their oxygen.
to use up / to exhaust / to end / to finish / to the utmost / exhausted / finished / to the limit (of sth) / all / entirely
尽
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⺀
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尺
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Someone or something is using up all the blossoms in the encampment's bathroom, each day one more is missing. Joan of Arc wants to find out when they will be used up, so each day, she measures the remaining blossoms with a tape-measure.