Chinese Vocabulary Power (T99-23)
Vocabulary Cards: 20
- 1.
- the ways of the world
- worldly wisdom
- to know how to get on in the world
- 3.
- Eight-power allied force (England, America, Germany, France, Russia, Japan, Italy and Austria) that invaded China and took Beiji
- 4.
- the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
- 5.
- voluntarism
- metaphysical view, esp. due to Schopenhauer 叔本華|叔本华[Shu1 ben3 hua2], that the essence of the world is willpower
- 6.
- unnecessary
- need not
- 9.
- to feel indignant
- to feel aggrieved
- 10.
- sincere
- 13.
- a living likeness
- a spitting image of sb
- 14.
- (idiom) "no comment"
- 16.
- to dillydally
- slow-going
- 18.
- silkworm cocoon
- 19.
- to level
- to raze to the ground
- to flatten
- 20.
- irrefutable evidence