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- (of the holder of an official post which no longer exists) the last (incumbent)
- the third of the three annual periods of hot weather (三伏[san1 fu2]), which typically runs over the middle ten days of August
Trad. 末願
- final vows (in a religious order or congregation of the Catholic Church)
- Cherchen nahiyisi or Qiemo county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
- the whole course of an event from beginning to end
- ins and outs
- the fundamental and the incidental
Trad. 戰國末
- late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty
Trad. 且末縣
- Cherchen nahiyisi or Qiemo county in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州[Ba1 yin1 guo1 leng2 Meng3 gu3 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Xinjiang
Trad. 細微末節
- tiny insignificant details
- niceties
Trad. 捨本逐末
- to neglect the root and pursue the tip (idiom)
- to neglect fundamentals and concentrate on details
- the late Qing and early Republic, i.e. China around 1911
- late Ming and early Qing
- around the middle of the 17th century
- The Last Emperor, 1987 biopic of Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪[Pu3 yi2] by Bernardo Bertolucci
- sacking the worst-performing employee
- elimination of the worst-performing contestant
Trad. 戰國末年
- late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty
Trad. 強弩之末
- lit. an arrow at the end of its flight (idiom)
- fig. spent force
Trad. 且末遺址
- ruins of Cherchen, Qarqan or Chiemo, archaeological site in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture 巴音郭楞蒙古自治州, Xinjiang
Trad. 窮途末路
- lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse
- in a plight with no way out
- things have reached a dead end
- lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect
- to stress the incidental over the fundamental
- to put the cart before the horse
Trad. 漢末魏初
- late Han and early Wei (roughly, first half of 3rd century AD)
Trad. 耶穌基督末世聖徒教會
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints