Chinese Vocabulary Power (S98-5)
Vocabulary Cards: 20
- 3.
- strong contingent
- elite squad
- 4.
- to seek nothing but profit (idiom)
- personal profit before everything
- self-seeking
- 5.
- lit. doors not locked at night (idiom)
- fig. stable society
- 6.
- monopoly
- special trade
- 7.
- track events (athletics competition)
- 8.
- broken line (continuous figure made up of straight line segments)
- polygonal line
- dog leg
- 9.
- the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods
- 10.
- libel
- slander
- 12.
- thyroid gland
- 14.
- to bring to justice
- to punish according to the law
- 15.
- panacea
- good medicine
- fig. a good solution
- a good remedy (e.g. to a social problem)
- 16.
- alarm bell
- call signal
- 17.
- to electrify
- to send a telegram
- to set up an electric circuit
- to switch...on
- to be connected to electricity grid
- to circular telegram
- 18.
- to look into the distance
- to gaze afar
- 20.
- attendant