peaceful / to pacify / to visit (one's parents etc)
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would rather / to prefer / how (emphatic) / Taiwan pr. []
to store / to stand / space between the door and the entrance screen
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abbr. for Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 寧夏回族自治區|宁夏回族自治区[] / abbr. for Nanjing 南京[] / surname Ning
would rather ... (than ...)
preferably / one would prefer to...(or not to...) / would rather / (would) be better to / (to pick) the lesser of two evils
tranquil / tranquility / serenity
peaceful / tranquil / calm / composed / free from worry
would rather... / it would be better... / would prefer
to feel ill at ease
quinine (loanword)
(in such circumstances) there will be no peace / one can never breathe easy
lit. would rather be a chicken's head than a phoenix's tail (idiom) / fig. to prefer to be a big fish in a small pond rather than a small fish in a big pond
(of one's political views) to prefer left rather than right (idiom during the Cultural Revolution)
rather destroy ten temples than a single marriage (idiom)
rather die than submit (idiom)
Better broken jade than intact tile. / Death is preferable to dishonor. (idiom)
see 寧做雞頭，不做鳳尾|宁做鸡头，不做凤尾[]
same as 寧缺毋濫|宁缺毋滥[]
better to have nothing (than substandard choice) (idiom) / would prefer to go without than accept shoddy option
tranquility yields transcendence (idiom) / quiet life of profound study / cf Still waters run deep.
give me liberty or give me death
(loanword) denim / tannin
chlordiazepoxide / (trade name) Librium (loanword)
(loanword) tannin
tannic acid (loanword)
to be restless
tonic water / quinine water
meprobamate
hospice
unquiet state of mind
to keep the peace / to patch up a quarrel (idiom)
not as good as / would rather
bephenium, anti-parasitic worm medicine
(Tw) gin and tonic
lit. not even the chickens and dogs are left undisturbed (idiom) / fig. great commotion / pandemonium
see 安寧區|安宁区[] / see 安寧市|安宁市[]
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader
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