Chinese Vocabulary Power (T98-20)
Vocabulary Cards: 24
- 2.
- to undertake a task despite criticism (idiom)
- to bear the burden of office willingly
- 3.
- buried and at rest (idiom)
- Resquiescat in pacem (RIP)
- 4.
- teaching assistant
- 6.
- lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom)
- fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face
- to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk
- 7.
- Lord of Heaven
- the Christian God
- abbr. for 天主教, Catholicism
- 8.
- positivism
- empiricism
- 9.
- main line
- trunk line
- 10.
- to contract (an illness)
- to be afflicted with
- to suffer from
- 11.
- to attract
- 12.
- knock on a door
- 20.
- to bribe
- to give bribes
- 21.
- alarm bell
- call signal
- 22.
- to raise the same topic
- 23.
- embarrassing remark
- serious faux pas