Chinese Vocabulary Power (S98-17)
Vocabulary Cards: 25
- 1.
- busy (telephone)
- 2.
- lit. build a high desk of debt (idiom)
- heavily in debt
- 5.
- Temple in Heaven (e.g. of the Jade Emperor)
- 6.
- trumpet
- 7.
- to feel ill-at-ease
- 8.
- lit. chasing the wind and clutching at shadows (idiom)
- fig. groundless accusations
- to act on hearsay evidence
- 9.
- Preparedness averts peril.
- to be prepared, just in case (idiom)
- 11.
- to create something from nothing (idiom)
- 13.
- refined
- 14.
- to turn over
- to surge
- to churn
- to rummage
- raging (torrent)
- 18.
- to pay back in full
- to redeem a debt
- 20.
- steel (as raw material)
- steel sheets, bars, tubes, ingots, wire etc
- 21.
- treacherous
- sinister
- 22.
- sky clears after rain
- new hopes after a disastrous period (idiom)
- every cloud has a silver lining (idiom)
- see also 雨過天青|雨过天青[yu3 guo4 tian1 qing1]
- 23.
- (do sth) in passing
- incidentally (while doing sth else)
- 25.
- hominid