Chinese Vocabulary Power (T99-118)
Vocabulary Cards: 24
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- traditional Chinese medicine
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- entranced
- Trance (music genre)
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- ancient proverbs
- quotations of ancient origin
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- shed
- hut
- cabin
- lodge
- cottage
- chalet
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- with bare hands
- unarmed
- fighting hand-to-hand
- freehand (drawing)
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- Fusang, mythical island of ancient literature, often interpreted as Japan
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- political law
- politics and law
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- Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130-1200), also known as Master Zhu 朱子, Song dynasty Confucian writer and propagandist, founder of neo-Confu
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- Huaihe River, a main river of east China, between the Yellow River 黄河 and the Changjiang 長江|长江
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- to gain from corrupt dealing
- to engage in graft
- to feather one's nest
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- unending
- silk down
- silky smooth
- cotton (used for 棉)
- to continue uninterrupted
- soft and weak
- weak (e.g. my humble efforts, as humility expr.)
- (dial.) mild-mannered
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- American Express Co. (AmEx)
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- to fade
- to lose color
- to turn pale
- to bleach
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- lit. birdsong and fragrant flowers (idiom)
- fig. the intoxication of a beautiful spring day
