to stop / to block / (computing) (coll.) slow / (loanword) card / CL:張|张[zhang1],片[pian4] / truck (from "car") / calorie (abbr. for 卡路里[ka3 lu4 li3]) / cassette
卡
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上
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卜
:
Protesting against capitalism in the ashram (a3), Karl Marx (k) attaches everyone's credit cards (卡) to balloons (上) to send them up (上) and away. He uses a voodoo staff (卜) to summon winds to carry the balloons away.
斯
=
其
+
斤
:
In front of the space station, Socrates is in a peculiar situation. The sphinx, who is sitting on top of a watch tower, posed him a riddle and dares him to solve it. Should he fail he has to lift barbells for the rest of his life in the tower.
斯
=
其
+
斤
:
In front of the space station, Socrates is in a peculiar situation. The sphinx, who is sitting on top of a watch tower, posed him a riddle and dares him to solve it. Should he fail he has to lift barbells for the rest of his life in the tower.
special / unique / distinguished / especially / unusual / very / abbr. for 特克斯[te4 ke4 si1], tex
特
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寺
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牛
:
Tecumseh (t) has a very special (特) mount: In contrast to the other Indians he rides a bull (牛). Moreover, the bull is so special (特) that it meditates in front of the Buddhist shrine (寺) in the elevator's bathroom (e4) together with Tecumseh.
gauze / to collect / to gather / to catch / to sift
罗
=
夕
+
罒
:
Lenny Lemur wanted to catch a few bats with a net hang high across the observatory's kitchen. Instead, two bats catch him in a roll of gauze in a fly-by manoeuvre.