Chinese Vocabulary Power (S98-7)
Vocabulary Cards: 24
- 1.
- portable
- 2.
- temporary transfer (of personnel)
- 3.
- to budge
- 4.
- to sing the high part
- to speak fine sounding but empty words (idiom)
- 5.
- in the dead of night (idiom)
- 6.
- special
- dedicated
- 7.
- lit. win an inch, want a foot (idiom)
- fig. not satisfied with small gains
- give him an inch, and he'll want a mile
- 9.
- time
- one of the 12 two-hour periods of the day
- 15.
- Chinese peony (Paeonia lactiflora)
- common herbaceous peony
- peony used in traditional Chinese medicine
- 16.
- to remain fresh in one's memory (idiom)
- 17.
- owl
- 19.
- media
- commentators
- 22.
- thunder
- very loud sounds