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the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime

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三大纪律八项注意

sān dà jì lǜ bā xiàng zhù yì

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the three spring months

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三春

sān chūn

the Three Su's (famous Song dynasty writers Su Xun 蘇洵|苏洵[Su1 Xun2] and his sons Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼[Su1 Shi4] and Su Zhe 蘇轍|苏辙[Su1 Zhe2])

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三苏

sān sū

the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America

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三个世界

sān gè shì jiè

the time after one's death

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身后

shēn hòu

the time is right, geographical and social conditions are favorable (idiom)

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天时地利人和

tiān shí dì lì rén hé

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the top four

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四强

sì qiáng

the twenty seven days after the Winter Solstice, reputed to be the coldest days of the year

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三九天

sān jiǔ tiān

the twenty-eight constellations

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二十八宿

èr shí bā xiù

the Twenty-Four Histories (25 or 26 in modern editions), collection of books on Chinese dynastic history from 3000 BC till 17th century

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二十四史

èr shí sì shǐ

the two cannot exist together (idiom)

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势不两立

shì bù liǎng lì

the two cannot exist together (idiom)

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誓不两立

shì bù liǎng lì

the two equinoxes

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二分点

èr fēn diǎn

the two eyes

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双眼

shuāng yǎn

the two mass scuttling operations carried out by the German navy: the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919 and Operation Regenbogen, the scuttling of U-boats in 1945

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彩虹行动

cǎi hóng xíng dòng

the two of us

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咱俩

zán liǎ