Chinese Vocabulary Power (T30-41)
Vocabulary Cards: 24
- 1.
- hills
- 2.
- inverted reflection in water
- 3.
- enemy
- foe
- in opera, sweetheart or destined love
- 4.
- shady business
- 5.
- to present
- to submit
- 7.
- Olympia (Greece)
- 9.
- refuse
- garbage
- waste products
- good-for-nothing (derogatory)
- 10.
- to scream
- blood-curdling screech
- miserable shriek
- 12.
- Slovakia
- Slovak
- Slovak republic (from 1992)
- 13.
- forest of apricot trees
- fig. honorific term for fine doctor (cf Dr Dong Feng 董奉, 3rd century AD, asked his patients to plant apricot trees instead of pa
- Xinglin district of Xiamen city (renamed Haicang 海沧区 in 2003)
- 15.
- deep or shallow
- depth (of the sea)
- limits of decorum
- 17.
- general
- broad
- in general terms
- broadly speaking
- 18.
- to produce clouds and rain with a turn of the hand (idiom)
- fig. to shift one's ground
- tricksy and inconstant
- 20.
- good
- 21.
- Shi Jing, the Book of Songs, early collection of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism 五經|五经[Wu3 Jing1]
- 22.
- to escape without trace (idiom)
- to make one's getaway (from the scene of a crime)
- to show a clean pair of heels
- 23.
- to begin a lecture
- to start on a story