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v. 遊手好閒,混日子 proceed slowly; waste time


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n. 稀缺,缺乏 scarcity; shortage of food; famine from failure or loss of crops


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v. 使虛弱,衰弱 make weak; enfeeble; impair the strength of


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v. 腐爛 decompose; break sown; disintegration; rottenness; decline; worsen; decadence


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v. 殘殺(十個里面殺一個) destroy or kill a large part of; select by lot and kill one in every ten of


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a. 低肩露頸的服裝 having low-necked dress


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v. 使降級,貶低 reduce level; lower grade of something


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n. 三角洲 an area of flat land where a river spreads out into several smaller rivers before entering the sea


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v. 遣散,使復員,從軍隊服務解職 retire from military service


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v. 折舊 lessen price or value of; think or speak of as being of little worth; belittle


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