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jìng

actually; unexpectedly

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没想到分别数十年的老同学，竟会在千里之外的异国机场偶遇。

méi xiǎng dào fēn bié shù shí nián de lǎo tóng xué, jìng huì zài qiān lǐ zhī wài de yì guó jī chǎng ǒu yù.

Unexpectedly, old classmates who had been separated for decades would meet by chance at an airport in a foreign country thousands of miles away.

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yet, however

to dare to

(literary) all day long

Jingling, former name of Tianmen 天門|天门, Hubei

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