Chinese Vocabulary Power (T99-28)
Vocabulary Cards: 20
- 1.
- people are gone, the tower is empty
- cf Yellow Crane Tower 黄鹤楼, Tang poem by Cui Hao 崔顥|崔颢, with theme the past will never return
- nostalgia for old friends
- 3.
- metric system
- 4.
- Nanyang Siang Pau (Malay's oldest newspaper), www.nanyang.com
- 5.
- Shangke corporation, PRC IT company (since 1994)
- 6.
- Dabu county in Meizhou 梅州, Guangdong
- 8.
- Cambridge (city), from a poem by Xu Zhimo 徐誌摩|徐志摩
- 9.
- to comply with
- to assent
- 11.
- calligrapher and painter
- 12.
- to traverse
- 13.
- exile (as form of punishment)
- 14.
- unintentionally
- unexpectedly
- accidentally
- 15.
- field
- farm
- village
- farming area
- 17.
- humiliation
- lit. forced to crawl between sb's legs as humiliation (idiom)
- 19.
- transit visa
- 20.
- sour and sweet