Chinese Vocabulary Power (S30-20)
Vocabulary Cards: 28
- 2.
- elder brother
- term of respect for a man of about the same age
- 4.
- lit. name is not in vain (idiom)
- a fully justified reputation
- enjoys a well-deserved reputation
- 5.
- lit. robust years
- prime of life
- summer
- able-bodied (fit for military service)
- mature (talent, garden etc)
- 6.
- (United Nations) Security Council
- 9.
- to support (a person)
- 10.
- volume
- scroll
- 13.
- chimney
- 14.
- to visit sb at home
- 16.
- to ease
- to help relieve (a crisis)
- 17.
- to run in the opposite direction (idiom)
- to run counter to
- 19.
- talk to oneself
- think aloud
- soliloquize
- 20.
- flourishing
- prosperous
- thriving
- 22.
- to regulate
- to control
- 23.
- to throw one's life in for
- to haplessly give one's life for
- to sacrifice oneself torturously working for another or for a group
- to pour in one's utmost effort
- to shed one's last ounce of strength for
- 24.
- Liaoning province (Fengtien) in northeast China, abbr. 遼|辽, capital Shenyang 瀋陽|沈阳
- 25.
- to send information using electronic means (such as fax, telegram, telex etc)
- a message transmitted using electronic means
- telex
- teleprinter
- 26.
- tone
- pitch of voice (high or low)
- pitch (of a musical note)
- 28.
- Xiangyu the Conqueror (232-202 BC), warlord defeated by first Han emperor