Chinese Vocabulary Power (T28-5)
Vocabulary Cards: 30
- 2.
- Renmin Ribao (People's Daily)
- 3.
- savings rate
- 5.
- to whine on for days (idiom)
- to endlessly grumble complaints
- incessant whining
- 7.
- for the past many years
- 9.
- to employ
- to send for sb promising employment
- 10.
- rate of infection (usu. of a disease)
- 11.
- small hotel
- guest house
- 12.
- important political leader
- government dignitary
- 15.
- a foreigner
- a westerner
- 16.
- making an all-out effort (idiom)
- to try one's heart out
- to do one's utmost
- 22.
- to load
- 24.
- scholar
- intellectual
- 25.
- bitter
- miserable
- pungent (taste)
- fig. sad
- 26.
- sexism
- lit. valuing men and belittling women (idiom)
- fig. the feudal view esteeming men above women
- 27.
- madly in love
- 29.
- grocery store
- emporium
- 30.
- bird's-eye view
- to get a bird's-eye view
- broad overview