Chinese Vocabulary Power (S97-14)
Vocabulary Cards: 20
- 1.
- talented people are extremely useful (idiom)
- 2.
- to pour down in torrents
- 4.
- four legs facing the sky (idiom)
- flat on one's back)
- 5.
- aunt
- wife of father's younger brother
- 8.
- ruined
- to forfeit (future profit, one's life etc)
- 9.
- mortal danger, escape alive (idiom)
- a narrow escape
- to survive by the skin of one's teeth
- 10.
- to seep out
- to exude
- 13.
- outline
- essential points
- 15.
- complicate
- complicating
- 16.
- rivet
- 18.
- what ails one is hard to discuss (idiom)
- sth too embarrassing to mention
- an embarrassing illness
- to have a secret
- to refuse to talk about sth
- reluctant to broach a topic
- 19.
- pension