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- shield
- (currency) Vietnamese dong
- currency unit of several countries (Indonesian rupiah, Dutch gulden etc)
Trad. 護盾
- (historical weaponry) shield
- (gaming, sci-fi) shield; damage-absorbing barrier
- (fig.) protective safeguard
Trad. 陸港矛盾
- tensions between mainland China and Hong Kong (since 1997)
- Golden Shield Project, information system for censorship and surveillance, thought to include the Great Firewall of China 防火長城|防火长城[Fang2 huo3 Chang2 cheng2] as a component
- to contradict oneself
- self-contradictory
- inconsistent
Trad. 敵我矛盾
- contradictions between ourselves and the enemy
- Either you are for us or against us.
Trad. 茅盾文學獎
- Mao Dun Literature Prize, PRC prize for novel writing, awarded since 1982
Trad. 人民內部矛盾
- internal contradiction among the people (pretext for a purge)
Trad. 宙斯盾戰鬥系統
- Aegis Combat System (weapons system developed for the US Navy)
- lit. use sb's spear to attack his shield (idiom, derived from Han Feizi 韓非子|韩非子); turning a weapon against its owner
- fig. to attack an opponent using his own devices
- hoist with his own petard