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"ref": "2014 July 25, Paul Rees, “‘We got off the coach and the National Front was there … People spat at us’”, in The Guardian",
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "symbol of an era",
"word": "時代的標誌"
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"roman": "shídài de biāozhì",
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