Chinese Vocabulary Power (T30-25)
Vocabulary Cards: 32
- 2.
- pedigree
- lit. mountain has a connecting pulse throughout like a dragon (idiom, from fengshui)
- sequence of events
- cause and effects
- the whys and wherefors
- where sth comes from and where it goes
- ins and outs
- 3.
- Public Security Bureau
- 5.
- United Press International (UPI, US news service)
- 7.
- dawn
- daybreak
- 9.
- level
- smooth
- to level off
- to flatten (remove bumps)
- 10.
- emotional
- sentimental
- 11.
- arched door
- 14.
- main text (as opposed to footnotes)
- main body (of a book)
- 15.
- General Administration of Customs (GAC)
- 17.
- to treat
- 18.
- sketch
- comic dialog
- cross talk
- 19.
- to glimpse
- 20.
- lit. settling accounts after the autumn harvest (idiom)
- to wait until the time is ripe to settle accounts
- to bide time for revenge
- 21.
- simplify
- simplification
- 22.
- green water
- crystal-clear water
- 23.
- sternum
- breastbone
- 24.
- refreshments
- tea and cake
- tea and dimsun 點心|点心, traditional Hong Kong lunch
- 25.
- poor and lowly
- 26.
- distribution center
- 27.
- double bed
- 28.
- to look at each other in dismay (idiom)
- 32.
- dragon pool
- dragon pond
- see also 龍潭|龙潭[Long2 tan2]