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格林尼治本初子午线

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gé lín ní zhì běn chū zǐ wǔ xiàn

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  1. 1. the Greenwich meridian

Child Words of 格林尼治本初子午线

尼
ní

Buddhist nun

格林
gé lín

Green or Greene (name)

林
lín

woods

午
wǔ

7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse

本
běn

root

子午线
zǐ wǔ xiàn

meridian

线
xiàn

thread

格
gé

square

子
zǐ

son

治本
zhì běn

to tackle a problem at its root; to effect a permanent solution (contrasted with 治標|治标[zhì biāo])

格林尼治
gé lín ní zhì

Greenwich (former location of Greenwich observatory, at zero longitude)

本初子午线
běn chū zǐ wǔ xiàn

the first meridian

初
chū

at first

治
zhì

to rule

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