Chinese Vocabulary Power (S30-19)
Vocabulary Cards: 27
- 1.
- US Central Intelligence Agency, CIA
- 2.
- store
- deposit
- (oil, mineral etc) deposits
- 3.
- one falls, the next follows (idiom)
- stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades
- advancing wave upon wave
- 4.
- peer
- 5.
- revise and enlarge
- 8.
- extremely tragic (idiom)
- with unprecedented brutality
- 10.
- storm wind
- storm (force 11 wind)
- 14.
- patient
- sick personnel
- person on the sick list
- 15.
- Misfortune does not come singly (idiom).
- It never rains but it pours.
- 16.
- Vega, brightest star in constellation Lyra 天琴星座
- Weaving girl of folk tale Cowherd and weaving maid 牛郎織女|牛郎织女
- 17.
- to make public
- to disclose
- 18.
- to charge and break through enemy lines
- 19.
- lit. shocks the eye, astonishes the heart (idiom)
- horrible to see
- a ghastly sight
- shocking
- 20.
- a long journey
- far from home
- 21.
- sonorous
- resounding
- fig. resounding words
- 22.
- expedition
- long march
- the Communist Long March (1934-1935)
- 23.
- to waver
- 24.
- bimonthly publication
- 27.
- regardless of weather conditions
- rain, hail or shine