Chinese Vocabulary Power (T99-68)
Vocabulary Cards: 20
- 2.
- to spin a cocoon around oneself (idiom)
- hoist by his own petard
- enmeshed in a trap of one's own devising
- 3.
- pointless trip
- not worth the trip
- 7.
- to shoot at a target
- 8.
- Zhang Yizhi (-705), Tang dynasty politician and favorite of Empress Wu Zetian 武則天|武则天[Wu3 Ze2 tian1]
- 11.
- organism
- 12.
- the Wuchang Uprising of 10th October 1911 that led to Sun Yat-sen's Xinhai revolution and the fall of the Qing dynasty
- 13.
- sea lily
- crinoid
- 16.
- (N) Checheng (village in Taiwan)
- 17.
- degree of reduction (in prices, numbers etc)
- 18.
- two legs
- both legs
- biped
- 19.
- early warning aircraft system, e.g. US AWACS
- 20.
- morin khuur