Chinese Vocabulary Power (T97-25)
Vocabulary Cards: 22
- 2.
- You can't compare the present with the past.
- Nothing is as good as in former times.
- Things ain't what they used to be.
- 3.
- just and honorable
- open and aboveboard
- without tricks (idiom)
- 4.
- Calcutta (India)
- 7.
- Oceania
- 8.
- parasite
- parasitism
- parasitic
- 9.
- to extend
- to stretch out
- ductable
- to scale
- scalable
- 10.
- Huairou rural district of Beijing, formerly Huairou county
- 11.
- searchlight
- 14.
- hydroelectric power plant
- 15.
- unceasing torrent (idiom)
- talking non-stop
- gabbling forty to the dozen
- 16.
- not worthwhile
- 17.
- unable to reach a decision (idiom)
- cannot agree on the right choice
- no unanimous decision
- still a matter of discussion
- 20.
- variant of 周轉金|周转金[zhou1 zhuan3 jin1]
- 21.
- to lower interest rates
- 22.
- to alarm
- to dismay
- to appall