Gd18 Flashcards
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We are going to bring them up to the boil
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Grated lemon zest
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Fruits in season
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Apple/cherry blossom
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A chicken nugget
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The meal was largely spent on a question-answer volley
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A corn-thresher
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A pane of glass
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9
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It pains you terribly
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It was spoiling the game to arrest my gaze on this detail
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To bare my soul
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My enthusiasm for the venture was somewhat tempered by my knowledge of the work that would be involved
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I learnt to temper my criticism
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14
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Her concept of beauty fueled a daily sense of self-loathing in front of the mirror
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The painting grips us by the collar
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His ideas enjoyed wide currency during the last century
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He just sat there making banal remarks all evening
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I fashioned a hat for myself out of/from newspaper
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I’ve just grown weary of it
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The word seemed to capture the essence that the word love, weary of overuse, simply could not aspire to
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A rugged face of an explorer
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So tell me, are you seeing anyone
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23
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Pull the ripcord
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The audience was enraptured by the soloist’s performance
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There is now incontestable evidence that the killings did take place
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An indication of what lays submerged
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I remained pensive on the drive home through the evening rush hour
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A strand of hair was trapped in the car headrest
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The oasis complex is never a complete delusion
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He took the bull by the horns
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To appease her fears
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Can I trouble you to key in the marks for me please?
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I would like you to leave, preferably today, but by tomorrow at the latest
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First of all, a heartfelt "thank you" to the Asia Club for organizing this get-together
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A flat profits tax fixed at 16.5 per cent
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An unfettered media
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His imagination is unfettered by the laws of logic
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A unique free trade pact with China called CEPA
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Hong Kong and China are separate customs territories
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Hong Kong is the chief offshore Renminbi centre with the largest pool of Renminbi liquidity outside the Mainland
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Burgeoning private banking sector
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Allow me to share with you a few of key trends that make offshore Renminbi business such an exciting prospect for international finance
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I shall also touch on some areas where
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The pace of change began to quicken significantly
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The source of demand for financial products and services denominated in Renminbi is expanding significantly
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The internationalization of the Renminbi gathers pace
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Increase manyfold
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This is a snapshot of the Renminbi trends from the Hong Kong viewpoint
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Capture the opportunities arising from the wider use of RMB to a fuller extent
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Clients from industry seeking to tap Edinburgh's resources of expertise
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As a global financial centre in the Asian time zone with free flow of information and capital, a robust regulatory regime and a simple tax system, Hong Kong is the natural nexus to bridge this two-way flow of capital
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Your support is an essential impetus for us to promote Hong Kong as a premier start-up destination in Asia
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To allow budding entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas to would-be angel investors
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We are not accustomed to looking back, basking in successes of days gone by
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We set the bar high for ourselves
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Provide preferential access for Hong Kong companies
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Enjoy tariff-free access to the Mainland market
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They are guaranteed under the "One Country, Two Systems" principle enshrined in our constitutional document, the Basic Law
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This alone is not enough, not nearly enough
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You will be able to stroll along piazzas, take in open-air performances or relax at cafes and restaurants, and enjoy the magnificent views of Hong Kong
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We have the business network that is unmatched
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We have the first-mover advantage
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Our fashion editor gives you the lowdown on winter coats for this season
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A lot of backbiting goes on in our office
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A gangland feud/murder
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Decidophobia
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Band-aid
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New shoes always give me blisters
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Dress my blister
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A message for lymphatic drainage
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It gives a touch of comic relief to the working day, after all
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He has a scientific bent/a bent for science
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I am tone deaf
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She has considerable financial/business acumen
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A bag lady
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Pack a set of fresh clothes for the next day
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Slide a finger into her nostril to clear an obstruction
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We could risk intervals of silence, we were no longer paranoid talkers, unwilling to let the conversation drop lest tranquility seems unfaithful
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The rumble of her stomach when he was hungry
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The sound of a brush through her hair
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We don't bother with all the social niceties here
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The protest degenerated into an orgy of looting and shooting
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Impersonate a bearded journalist
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In our intimacy, social formalities found themselves rerun in a comic light, like a tragedy which is spoofed by the actors backstage
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The world that Chloe and I lived in had largely been stripped of capacities for epic conflict
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Friendship nourished solely by occasional dinners will never have the depth of those forged on a trek or at a university
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She has collapsed drunk on the pavement
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A handle of a knife stuck out of her stomach
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I felt in awe of her professionalism
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To exorcize our fears
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An elegant man in a pinstripe suit
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Hand her a crumpled note, on which was scrawled in large letters the words:I love you
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She opened the piece of paper, swallowed hard on reading it
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She folded the note and slipped it into her pocket
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It became something of a leitmotif in our relationship, an incident in our story to which we constantly alluded
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We collapsed into giggles
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She gave me a quizzical look/glance/smile
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An unkempt lawn
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It had been a beautiful day, spent largely in Hyde Park, tanning and reading books
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I slid into depression
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Sundays evenings had long saddened me
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You're wearing your lost orphan boy look again
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Oysters are mollusc, as are snails and cuttlefish
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A man can acquire anything in solitude except a character
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Our selves are fluid and require the contours provided by our neighbours
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To feel whole, we need people in vicinity who know us as well, sometimes better, than we know ourselves
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To work the graveyard shift
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A gold/silver ingot
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Plant the evidence
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The argument is so strained
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She was flaunting her tan in a little white dress
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I keep mum all along
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You see him as a serf
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For some unfathomable reason they built the toilet next to the kitchen
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A grassy knoll
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My eyes keep twitching
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No sparks will fly between us
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They were to go down a manhole and then search the sewers
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Manhole cover
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Ouija board
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She is not really a journalist, more a jumped-up PR woman
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As nasty as congealed gravy
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I would be brought face to face with areas of myself that ordinary introspection (in the interests of inner harmony) would be avoided
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A pock-marked moonscape around the old colliery
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Ethereal beauty
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Ethereal, otherworldly visions
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Social contact was like water to a parched survivor
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Piece together stories from fragments, tracing the origins of a murder
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She crept out of bed and driven to a chemist
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A deep-seated fear of failure
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Muted sobs rather than hysterical wailing
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A jumble of cables in his lap
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His boss is stingy and idle
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It has no self-defined shape
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Their stiffness had prevented Chloe from rising above monosyllabicity
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A self-fulfilling prophecy
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A slight wiggle of the hips
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We lived a love story stretching over an expanse of time
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I'd never tried snorkeling before but I had a stab at it while I was in Greece
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