斯大林格勒

Stalingrad, former name of Volvograd 伏爾加格勒|伏尔加格勒 (1925-1961)

Slovakia / Slovak / abbr. for 斯洛伐克[Si1 luo4 fa2 ke4]

(phonetic) / this

see 大夫[dai4 fu5]

big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)

Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Soviet dictator

Dalin or Talin Town in Chiayi County 嘉義縣|嘉义县[Jia1 yi4 Xian4], west Taiwan

woods / forest / CL:片[pian4] / circle(s) (i.e. specific group of people) / a collection (of similar things)

square / frame / rule / (legal) case / style / character / standard / pattern / (grammar) case / (classical) to obstruct / to hinder / (classical) to arrive / to come / (classical) to investigate / to study exhaustively

(onom.) laughing sound / glug-glug haha!

to rein in / to compel / to force / to carve / to engrave / (literary) to command / to lead / bridle / (physics) abbr. for 勒克斯[le4 ke4 si1], lux

to strap tightly / to bind

Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943) / also called 斯大林格勒戰役|斯大林格勒战役

Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces