九
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丿
+
一
+
乚
:
Joan of Arc is on cloud nine in the outhouse. With a shovel, she dug up a banana: when she peeled it she found a flute inside, with which she instantly fell in love.
校
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交
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木
:
In the aorta's bathroom, Marie Curie and Linus Pauling find their Christmas presents of a lifetime under a Christmas tree. They are given the gift of being able to go to school so that they can become accomplished scientists.
to ally / to unite / to join / (poetry) antithetical couplet
联
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关
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耳
:
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).
oath / pledge / union / to ally / league, a subdivision corresponding to prefecture in Inner Mongolia
盟
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明
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皿
:
Mahatma Gandhi (m) is searching his shallow bowl (皿) in the darkness of the engine's kitchen ((e)ng2) using a search light (明). He swears (盟) that if he ever looses it again he'll go absolutely mad.