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Chinese Vocabulary Power (T99-52)
Vocabulary Cards: 23

CEDICTJan 01, 2010 12:00 AM

1.
- 五角
- wu3 jiao3
- pentagon
2.
- 低谷
- di1 gu3
- valley
- trough (as opposed to peaks)
- fig. low point
- lowest ebb
- nadir of one's fortunes
3.
- 兵馬
- bing1 ma3
- troops and horses
- military forces
4.
- 卷髮
- juan3 fa4
- to curl hair
5.
- 喜不自勝
- xi3 bu4 zi4 sheng4
- unable to contain one's joy (idiom)
6.
- 大禍臨頭
- da4 huo4 lin2 tou2
- facing imminent catastrophe
- calamity looms
- all hell will break loose
7.
- 寧陽
- Ning2 yang2
- Ningyang county in Tai'an 泰安[Tai4 an1], Shandong
8.
- 弓弦
- gong1 xian2
- bowstring
9.
- 成功鎮
- Cheng2 gong1 zhen4
- (N) Chengkung (town in Taiwan)
10.
- 擇日
- ze2 ri4
- to fix a date (for an event)
- to select an auspicious date
11.
- 月色
- yue4 se4
- moonlight
12.
- 正室
- zheng4 shi4
- first wife
- legal wife
13.
- 海上花列傳
- hai3 shang4 hua1 lie4 zhuan4
- The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing 韓邦慶|韩邦庆, long novel of lower life in classical Chinese and Jiangsu vernacular
- translated into Putonghua as 海上花 by Iris Chang
14.
- 煉鋼廠
- lian4 gang1 chang3
- steel mill
15.
- 畚箕
- ben3 ji1
- a bamboo or wicker scoop
- dustpan
16.
- 老爺爺
- lao3 ye2 ye5
- paternal great-grandfather
- (informal) father's father's father
17.
- 自愛
- zi4 ai4
- self-love
- self-respect
- self-regard
- regard for oneself
- to cherish one's good name
- to take good care of one's health
18.
- 裁剪
- cai2 jian3
- to cut out
19.
- 超我
- chao1 wo3
- superego
20.
- 週期性
- zhou1 qi1 xing4
- periodic
- periodicity (math)
- cyclicity
21.
- 鋒利
- feng1 li4
- incisive
- to the point
- sharp (e.g. knife blade)
22.
- 電貝斯
- dian4 bei4 si1
- electric bass (guitar)
23.
- 馬蹄
- ma3 ti2
- horse's hoof
- horseshoe
- Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis or E. congesta)