蜡扦 | là qiān | candlestick with a spike, onto which candles are impaled | |
扦脚 | qiān jiǎo | (dialect) pedicure; to trim one's toenails |
1 | If it doesn't, well, then I'm going to get skewered for it. | |
2 | If you have been to Beijing*, you've most likely come across this street scene: a bunch of people crowded around a street vendor, picking out skewers from a bubbling hot red broth. | |
3 | Taking a four bar linkage for example, the KED analysis is conducted. These results yielded by this method are contrasted with those by the finite element method. | |
4 | The method of greeting among the Manchus, known as tach'ien, is also a beautiful thing to look at. | |
5 | In the window there were trays of nuts and bolts, worn-out chisels, penknives with broken blades, tarnished watches that did not even pretend to be in going order, and other miscellaneous rubbish. |