Chinese Vocabulary Power (S27-7)
Vocabulary Cards: 19
- 1.
- lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom)
- fig. to act belatedly
- better late than never
- to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
- 3.
- well proportioned
- well shaped
- 4.
- carnival (loanword)
- 5.
- to be gravely mistaken (idiom)
- 9.
- organic substance
- organic matter
- 10.
- to balance
- to assess
- to consider
- to weigh
- to trade-off
- 11.
- abyss
- 12.
- unconditional
- 14.
- to stand guard
- to serve on sentry duty
- 15.
- to sew
- to make (clothes, bedding)
- 16.
- to drop out of school
- to leave off studying
- to interrupt one's studies
- 17.
- to persevere
- to chip away at a task and not abandon it (idiom)
- to chisel away at sth
- unflagging efforts
- 19.
- romance
- beautiful scenery
- small or petty (of talk etc)