Chinese Vocabulary Power (T97-19)
Vocabulary Cards: 24
- 1.
- the authorities
- higher competent body
- 2.
- personal attack
- 3.
- the Yuan or Mongol dynasty (1279-1368)
- 4.
- Liu Bang (256 or 247-195 BC), bandit leader who became first Han emperor Han Gaozu 漢高祖|汉高祖 (reigned 202-195 BC)
- 7.
- thumb
- 10.
- pity
- mercy
- 11.
- sergeant
- platoon leader
- 14.
- lit. not one drop can trickle through (idiom)
- fig. impenetrable (crowd, traffic)
- 15.
- water skiing
- to water-ski
- 16.
- aristocracy
- 17.
- to shake
- to swing
- to fling one's arm
- to lash
- 18.
- laissez-faire
- to let things happen
- 19.
- submachine gun
- tommy gun
- assault rifle
- 20.
- treasurer
- head of finances
- minister of finance
- 21.
- over many years
- successive years
- 22.
- unreliable
- 24.
- pebble
- cobblestone