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wayside shrine, a small place of worship by the side of the road.
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absurd, silly; weak-minded; foolish.
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old residents, foreigners who have lived in our country for many years. Sometimes they are called Old China Hands, although, strictly speaking, the term ought to apply to business men who have been here for a long time.
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with a tolerant shrug of the shoulders, as if you had said something that was absolutely wrong, but that they were making allowances for your being a newcomer to China, and were going through all this bother, really unnecessary bother, of getting you to see the truth of the whole matter.
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yoke, a frame fitted to a person’s shoulders and back for the carrying of heavy packs; also a pole used for the carrying of suspended baskets.
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staggering, tottering, swaying, unable to remain steady in walking and standing, because of the heavy loads they were carrying.
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wears on, continues on and on; drags on.
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stripped to the waist, naked, without any covering, from head to waist.
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crouched, bent low or stooped over, with bent legs.
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out-patients’ room of a hospital, the room in a hospital where the out-patients (outside patients; sick persons who do not live or remain in the hospital) receive treatment.
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distressing, causing severe physical or mental strain to the onlooker.
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scars, marks remaining on the body after the wounds or ulcers have been healed.
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open sores, places where the skin and flesh are ruptured, broken apart, bruised, or diseased, so as to be open to view.
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bandages, flexible strips of cloth used in wrapping up wounds.
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dressing, treatment of a wound with remedies, bandages, and other things.
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the wood of the pole.
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an odd malformation, an unusual, abnormal growth on the body.
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hump, an out-swelling protuberance, sometimes swelled or pushed beyond the adjacent or near-by surface. In the case of these coolies, this hump is a deformity, a malformation, caused by using that part of the human body too much for the carrying of excessively heavy burdens; but with camels these humps are regular features. Our Chinese camels have two humps while those of Arabia are one-humped and are called dromedaries.
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wizened, of shriveled or dried-up appearance.
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wrinkled . A wrinkle is a furrowlike crease or depression or ridge in the skin, generally that in the brow, and especially of the kind produced by age.
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apelike, like an ape or monkey. The faces of monkeys are very much wrinkled and wizened.
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totter, walk unsteadily because of the heavy burdens; stagger.
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to the edge of the grave, until they die.
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sidling, moving with one side foremost; moving sidewise.
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strained, stretched tight, as if in pain, laboring under hardships.
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