Chinese Vocabulary Power (T99-123)
Vocabulary Cards: 25
- 1.
- middle and old age
- 2.
- to renovate
- to repair (a building)
- 5.
- warming up again
- 6.
- to offer
- 7.
- minuet
- 8.
- faithful unto death (i.e. Confucian ban on widow remarrying)
- 9.
- to undertake
- to take on (i.e. to accept a task)
- 11.
- Li Dazhao (1889-1927), early Chinese Marxist and founding member of the communist party
- 12.
- woolen textiles
- 14.
- an upset (esp. in sports)
- unexpected turn of events
- to pull off a coup
- a breakthrough
- 15.
- inventor
- 18.
- glottis
- 19.
- brass band
- 20.
- to try hard to catch up
- 21.
- trapped
- in an impossible situation
- no room to advance or to retreat (idiom)
- without any way out of a dilemma
- 23.
- people killed in battle
- 24.
- lit. for one’s face to reach rock bottom
- to be thoroughly discredited (idiom)