Chinese Vocabulary Power (T99-147)
Vocabulary Cards: 33
- 1.
- China CITIC Bank
- 4.
- historical point of view
- historically speaking
- 5.
- gross domestic product (GDP)
- gross national product
- 7.
- cannot do without
- cannot be avoided
- 8.
- big-hearted and serene (idiom)
- contended and easy-going
- 9.
- voucher
- coupon
- 10.
- lit. a brick as a door knocker (idiom)
- fig. a temporary expedient
- to use sb as a stepping stone to fortune
- 11.
- Dongcheng district of central Beijing
- 14.
- alveolar ridge
- 15.
- Tale of the White Snake
- Madam White Snake
- 19.
- vascular plants
- tracheophytes (botany)
- 21.
- attract worldwide attention
- 27.
- the starting line (of a race)
- scratch line (in a relay race)
- 29.
- flat silver (former coinage)
- also written 銀圓|银圆
- silver dollar
- 31.
- to be born
- arrival of newborn
- birth (of a savior or religious leader)
- 32.
- lit. much thunder but little rain
- fig. a lot of talk but little action
- his bark is worse than his bite