Chinese Vocabulary Power (T97-6)
Vocabulary Cards: 24
- 2.
- (telecom or network) switch
- 3.
- prepared against war
- to prepare for war
- warmongering
- 5.
- since ancient times
- since times immemorial
- 7.
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- also written 多米尼加|多米尼加
- 8.
- reticent
- lit. to guard one's mouth like a closed bottle (idiom)
- tight-lipped
- not breathing a word
- 9.
- to rapidly go up in the world
- meteoric rise (of a career, social position etc)
- 12.
- to prophecy with supernatural accuracy (idiom)
- incredible foresight
- 13.
- to try in vain
- to waste (one's breath, one's energy etc)
- 16.
- Budweiser beer
- 22.
- (med.) impotence
- 23.
- porch
- balcony
- 24.
- Marco Polo (1254-c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Ma