Chinese Vocabulary Power (S98-20)
Vocabulary Cards: 17
- 1.
- to undertake a task despite criticism (idiom)
- to bear the burden of office willingly
- 2.
- a downpour
- rain bucketing down
- 3.
- not much to choose between the two
- tweedledum and tweedledee
- 5.
- natural gas
- 6.
- same as 書經|书经 Book of History
- a high official in ancient China (esp. in combinations such as 戶部尚書|户部尚书)
- 7.
- favorite
- 8.
- ostentation
- a show of extravagance
- grand style
- red tape
- 9.
- Korean Joseon or Chosun dynasty 1392-1910
- North Korea
- Korea as geographic term
- 10.
- seek proof
- seek confirmation
- 13.
- erythema (pathol.)
- rash in red patches
- 14.
- to play the same old tune (idiom)
- unoriginal
- 15.
- Jingzhou prefecture level city on Changjiang in Hubei
- 16.
- to appear in the news
- in the papers
- 17.
- Yellow Sea