Chinese Vocabulary Power (T99-24)
Vocabulary Cards: 26
- 1.
- human shape
- in human form
- of human appearance
- doll
- puppet
- 2.
- to imitate
- to copy
- 3.
- public holiday
- official leave (e.g. sabbatical)
- 4.
- Nanshan district of Shenzhen City 深圳市, Guangdong
- Nanshan district of Hegang city 鶴崗|鹤岗[He4 gang3], Heilongjiang
- 5.
- antiphon (i.e. solo voice answered by chorus)
- sung reply (in agreement with first voice)
- to reply with a poem in the same rythm
- 8.
- magnanimity
- measure
- breadth
- tolerance
- 11.
- lit. to restring one's bow
- to reform and start over again
- 12.
- Yokohama, major port city in Kanagawa prefecture 神奈川縣|神奈川县[Shen2 nai4 chuan1 xian4], Japan
- 14.
- ashamed and unable to show one's face
- 15.
- estate
- lands
- 16.
- Shennong's compendium of materia medica, a Han dynasty pharmacological compendium, 3 scrolls
- 17.
- lit. military tactics on paper (idiom)
- fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice
- armchair strategist
- idle theorizing
- cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC
- 18.
- unheard of
- an extremely rare and unprecedented event
- 21.
- damp proof
- moisture proof
- protection against tides
- 23.
- difficult to understand
- 24.
- paper napkin
- serviette
- 25.
- high school
- abbr. for 高等學校|高等学校
- 26.
- Yellow Emperor, mythological emperor of China, reigned c. 2697-2597 BC