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Quintessence
Gist
The tale of woe is rehearsed in more detail elsewhere in the paper (see our briefing).
The walk is really little more than a cultural touchstone and a literary conceit, the event around which McCann has assembled his cast.

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Open the tool →精粹 (jīng cuì) means “Essence, Quintessence, Gist”.
精粹 is pronounced jīng cuì in Mandarin Chinese.
“Essence” is 精粹 (jīng cuì) in Chinese.
This page has 2 example sentences using 精粹, each with pinyin and an English translation.