Chinese Vocabulary Power (T99-134)
Vocabulary Cards: 29
- 1.
- Miocene (geological epoch from 24m-5m years ago)
- 2.
- to go against the tide (idiom)
- to try to turn back history
- a perverse way of doing things
- to do things all wrong
- 3.
- keenly felt pain
- bitter anguish
- 4.
- wretch
- pitiful creature
- 5.
- to profit from a disaster (idiom)
- some good comes out of a setback
- It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good.
- 7.
- cranberry
- 10.
- instructive
- educational
- 12.
- the people's livelihood is reduced to destitution (idiom)
- a time of famine and impoverishment
- 13.
- as fresh and clean as nature (idiom)
- 14.
- scramble for power and profit (idiom)
- power struggle
- 15.
- blank exam paper
- 16.
- digestive tract
- 17.
- self-important
- to think too much of oneself
- arrogant
- 19.
- universal exposition
- world expo
- 20.
- druggist
- 21.
- shock wave
- blast wave
- fig. having wide repercussions
- 23.
- keratin (protein forming nails and feathers etc)
- 24.
- registered trademark