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"ref": "1801, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the state of Virginia, page 144",
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"text": "2005, Jane Egginton, Working and Living Australia, The Sunday Times, Cadogan Guides, UK, page 59,\nIn 1954, Bob Hawke made the Guinness Book of Records for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds."
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"ref": "2005, Stefan Laszczuk, The Goddamn Bus of Happiness, page 75",
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"ref": "2006, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer′s Australia from $60 a Day, 14th edition, page 133",
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"ref": "2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 136",
"text": "After a three-day Torquay-to-Sydney road trip with his hosts, Noll rejoined his American temmates, unshaven and stinking of alcohol, the Team USA badge ripped from his warm-up jacket and replaced by an Aussie-made patch of Disney character Gladstone Gander sculling a frothy mug of beer.",
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"ref": "2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 181",
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"sense": "drink entire contents",
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"word": "一口氣喝完"
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{
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"sense": "drink entire contents",
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"word": "干（了）"
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"ref": "2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 136",
"text": "After a three-day Torquay-to-Sydney road trip with his hosts, Noll rejoined his American temmates, unshaven and stinking of alcohol, the Team USA badge ripped from his warm-up jacket and replaced by an Aussie-made patch of Disney character Gladstone Gander sculling a frothy mug of beer.",
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"ref": "2020, Becky Manawatu, Auē, page 181",
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"word": "down"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "drink entire contents",
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "一口氣喝完"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yīkǒuqì hēwán",
"sense": "drink entire contents",
"word": "一口气喝完"
},
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "drink entire contents",
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"word": "乾（了）"
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"sense": "drink entire contents",
"word": "干（了）"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "drink entire contents",
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"slang"
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"word": "走一個"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "drink entire contents",
"word": "走一个"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "drink entire contents",
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"code": "fi",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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}
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"A shoal of fish."
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