Chinese Vocabulary Power (T99-79)
Vocabulary Cards: 23
- 1.
- to serve
- 2.
- to play dirty tricks
- to be up to mischief
- 3.
- ice sculpture
- 4.
- timely rain
- fig. timely assistance
- 6.
- Mt Tiantai near Shaoxing 紹興|绍兴 in Zhejiang, the center of Tiantai Buddhism 天台宗
- Tiantai county in Taizhou 台州[Tai2zhou1], Zhejiang
- 7.
- General Wei Chigong (585-658), famous military man instrumental in founding the Tang dynasty
- 8.
- to force
- to compel
- 9.
- seen
- what one sees
- 11.
- overwhelming
- intimidate at the first glance (idiom)
- awe-inspiring
- terrifying
- 12.
- with one's heart set on speeding home (idiom)
- 13.
- hoisin sauce (barbecue sauce)
- seafood sauce
- 15.
- territory
- 20.
- stoop
- patio
- veranda
- portico
- parvis
- 21.
- swiftly
- to float in the air
- nimbly
- easy and relaxed
- 23.
- the yellow earth (of China)