| 掊斗折衡 | pǒu dǒu zhé héng | to break the measure and destroy the scales so as to prevent wrangling (a political philosophy advocated by 莊子 |庄子 [Zhuang1 zi3]) (idiom) |
| 1 | The sun's magnetic poles sometimes reverse, causing massive solar flares that lash out into the solar system. | |
| 2 | Iron truncheons with large square heads weighting twelve catties, and shafts more than five feet long, twelve hundred of them. Also termed 'Heaven's Truncheon'. | |
| 3 | Profile control of that scoop, then the gourd off nothing Yung ⑥. not that I do Hao-Ran of China also ⑦, I and the break up of their useless ⑧. | |
| 4 | Or kneeling by the little plot of dirt around the mailbox, the cemetery of all the flowers she'd tried to grow. | |
| 5 | The doctor tells her to go behind the screen and disrobe. She does so, and the doctor goes round to see her when she is ready. |