Chinese Vocabulary Power (T99-14)
Vocabulary Cards: 24
- 1.
- poll tax
- 2.
- a tooth for a tooth (retaliation)
- 3.
- empty-handed (idiom)
- fig. not receiving anything
- 6.
- greater China
- refers to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau (esp. in finance and economics)
- refers to all areas of Chinese presence (esp. in the cultural field), including parts of Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas
- 7.
- family scandal
- skeleton in the closet
- 8.
- cub
- 11.
- brutal
- tyrannical
- 12.
- mechanical
- 13.
- laundry room
- 14.
- clothes dryer
- 15.
- to lay eggs
- 18.
- fine time, beautiful scenery (idiom)
- everything lovely
- 19.
- to rack one's brains (idiom)
- to take great pains to think sth through
- 20.
- Carthage
- 21.
- adventurous
- to leave home to work
- to get away from home
- to wander the world
- well-traveled
- 22.
- broccoli
- 23.
- non-profit
- not for profit