to seek / to look for / to request / to demand / to beseech
求
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永
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Mnemonic symbol: a service request bell. You know, the kind you find in a hotel on a service counter.
求
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永
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In the outhouse's kitchen, the Queen of Hearts sees a diamond ring and wants to have it immediately. Determined she rings the service bell endlessly to request the immediate handover.
to learn / to study / to imitate / science / -ology
学
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小
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冖
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子
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Xu Xian wants to study scienceology and learn more about daisies. Just inside the elevator's kitchen, he put some daisies into a prize cup and covered them with a cooking top. He wants to study the growth rate of the daisies depending on the pH of the water in the prize cup.