Chinese Vocabulary Power (T29-8)
Vocabulary Cards: 35
- 3.
- to recreate
- to reconstruct (a historical relic)
- 4.
- lit. ten thousand mile horse
- fine steed
- 5.
- extreme sorrow turns to joy (idiom)
- 6.
- earth science
- 11.
- to deliver (a newborn child)
- 13.
- lit. to return to office after living as a hermit on Mount Dongshan (idiom)
- fig. to make a comeback
- 15.
- antibiotic medicine
- 16.
- to fall over each other in their eagerness to...
- 18.
- completion of a project
- 19.
- keeper
- 21.
- variant of 捆綁|捆绑[kun3 bang3]
- 23.
- to fail the imperial exams
- to flunk
- 27.
- advanced
- to take the lead
- to be ahead of one's time
- to surpass or outdo one's predecessors
- to be ahead of the pack
- 30.
- distant seas
- the open ocean (far from the coast)
- 31.
- acidity
- 32.
- Kinmen or Quemoy islands off the Fujian coast, administered by Taiwan
- Jinmen county in Quanzhou 泉州[Quan2 zhou1], Fujian
- 33.
- unable to make ends meet
- lit. yellow does not reach green (idiom)
- the yellow autumn crop does not last until the green spring crop
- temporary deficit in manpower or resources
- 34.
- black box
- 35.
- to light a fire
- to ignite
- to agitate
- to start an engine
- ignition
- fig. to stir up trouble