Wanxian

American  

[wahn-shyahn] / ˈwɑnˈʃyɑn /

(Wade-Giles) Wanhsien

noun

Pinyin.

1. a city in eastern Sichuan province, in southern central China, on the Chang Jiang.

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Wanxian British  

/ ˈwænˈʃjɛn /

noun

1. an inland port in central China, in E Sichuan province, on the Yangtze River. Pop: 1 963 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

From high on the hill in the riverside town of Wanxian, Gu Xiaoli looks out over the boat dock from her kitchen window and sighs.

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From Wanxian, the river grows narrower, hemmed in by mountain ridges that tower above the boats.

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"My generation had the worst luck," says Zhang Shixun, the 48-year-old captain of Feizhang No. 3, a ferry that makes the daily trip from Chongqing downstream to Wanxian.

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Farther down the river, at Wanxian, a young woman stevedore, of the same age as the oscilloscope workers, bends and stoops; all her muscles quiver as she heaves and finally lifts two huge buckets of pig livers for the third-class passengers.

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