Chinese Vocabulary Power (S30-13)
Vocabulary Cards: 26
- 1.
- Asian games
- 2.
- widely known
- on everyone's lips
- 3.
- peer competition
- to function as rivals
- to make claims as an equal
- 4.
- to keep on saying (idiom)
- to repeat over and over again
- 5.
- to bury oneself in work (idiom)
- to be engrossed in work
- to make an all-out effort
- up to the neck in work
- 6.
- between the words and the lines (idiom)
- implied meaning
- connotations
- 7.
- mountain ridge
- 9.
- tottering
- on the verge of collapse
- 10.
- to raise
- to ascend
- 11.
- lit. bashing sideways and colliding straight on (idiom)
- to push through shoving and bumping
- to barge
- to charge around violently
- 12.
- General Administration of Customs (GAC)
- 13.
- black hat (worn by feudal official)
- fig. official post
- 14.
- fresh ginger
- 15.
- destructive force
- 16.
- red star
- five pointed star as symbol or communism or proletariat
- hot film star
- 18.
- to abandon oneself to despair
- to give up and stop bothering
- 19.
- force of impact or thrust
- 21.
- the God of Wealth
- 22.
- Tekken (video game)
- 23.
- cooling
- to cool
- the temperature drops
- to cool down
- fig. loss of interest
- 24.
- accurate
- effective
- efficacious
- 26.
- loess (yellow sandy soil typical of north China)