Chinese Vocabulary Power (S28-15)
Vocabulary Cards: 22
- 1.
- to stand side by side
- to be juxtaposed
- 2.
- everyone present
- the whole audience
- across-the-board
- unanimously
- whole duration (of a competition or match)
- 4.
- roads open in all directions (idiom)
- accessible from all sides
- 5.
- bureaucracy
- officialdom
- 7.
- to demur
- to retort
- to plead
- to counter accusations
- to protest
- to remonstrate
- a plea (of not guilty)
- a defense (against an allegation)
- to enter a plea to a charge (in a law court)
- 8.
- countless
- innumerable
- 12.
- intelligentsia
- intellectual
- 14.
- to take orders
- to obey an order
- to accept a state of affairs
- 16.
- ugly
- 18.
- to run a red light
- failing to stop at a red traffic light
- 19.
- collecting opinions is of wide benefit (idiom)
- to pool wisdom for mutual benefit
- to profit from widespread suggestions
- 20.
- lit. to paint holding two brushes (idiom)
- fig. to work on two tasks at the same time
- to attack one problem from two angles at the same time
- 21.
- lit. an easy drive on a familiar path (idiom)
- fig. experience makes progress easy
- a task that is so familiar one can do it with one's hand tied behind one's back
- 22.
- (sport) violation warning sign
- yellow card