Chinese Vocabulary Power (T99-110)
Vocabulary Cards: 24
- 1.
- hero (of a novel or film)
- main protagonist
- 2.
- guarantor
- bailor
- 3.
- turned out other than expected (idiom)
- unexpected
- 4.
- old town
- 6.
- miscalculation
- to miscalculate
- 7.
- infantile paralysis
- poliomyelitis
- 8.
- back
- behind
- rear
- 9.
- to return home
- to go home (in a ceremonial procession)
- 10.
- government organization
- 11.
- source
- origin
- 12.
- toxology
- 13.
- light yellow
- 14.
- the Lantern Festival (15th of first month of lunar calendar)
- 15.
- infatuation
- 16.
- general shareholders' meeting
- 17.
- Fan Zhongyan (989-1052), minister of Northern Song, led failed reform of 1043
- also writer and author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记
- 18.
- to be flexible and take advantage of the situation
- lit. see the wind and set the helm (idiom)
- fig. to act pragmatically
- 19.
- to disparage
- to mock
- to belittle
- 20.
- rim
- frame
- 21.
- frontier defense
- 23.
- indirect tax
- 24.
- Dragon boat (used at 端午, the Dragon boat festival)