Harry Potter4里出现的，想来是一个比较传统的节日，一查果然
Boxing Day
Boxing Day is the day after Christmas, a public holiday in most countries in The Commonwealth. It originated as a day for giving gifts to employees and poor people. It has sporting traditions, especially fox hunting and the famous boxing day round in t ...
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Akbar是Bistami在老虎死后遇见的最关键的人，就是那个国王。查了一下，发现历史上确有其人，是印度莫卧儿（Mughal）王朝的一个皇帝。
还得先对Mughal王朝有所了解，于是查阅英文大百科。
Mughal or Mogul 是印度的穆斯林帝国，1526-1857，帝国是由Babur(Akbar的祖父)建立的，Babur是一个从阿富汗起家的土耳其酋长。1526年，Panipat战役使得Babur全面入侵印度并占领了德里（Delhi ）和阿格拉（Agra）。Babur的儿子Humayun继承了他的王位，不久就被阿富汗的Sher Khan(禽族可汗？)夺走了王权，Humayun的儿子A ...
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New souls are born out of the void, but infrequently, especially at this point in the cycle, for we are in the Kali yuga, the Age of Destruction.
上网查了一下Kali yuga:
Kali Yuga (Devanāgarī: कलियुग, lit. "Age of Kali", "age of vice"), is one of the four stages of development that the world goes through ...
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He had all but drawn them a map and placed an X on the very spot in New Orleans where I slumbered, though what he really knew about that, and what his intentions were, was not clear.
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Sometimes the wealth and the cleanliness everywhere around me became like an hallucination.
在这句话里cleanliness就是干净的意思，不过随手去reference查了查，觉得解释的怪有意思的，记下来。还学了个词组。
Cleanliness
Cleanliness is the absence of dirt, including dust, stains, bad smells and clutter. In more recent times, since the ...
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