Chinese Vocabulary Power (S98-21)
Vocabulary Cards: 18
- 1.
- to spread falsehoods
- to increasingly distort the truth
- to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)
- 2.
- to have a good talk
- 3.
- the least bit
- 4.
- to punish severely
- 5.
- Heaven's net is wide meshed, but nothing escapes it (idiom, from Laozi 73).
- 6.
- to discuss sth on its own merits
- to judge the matter as it stands
- 8.
- wall clock
- 9.
- not (yet)
- 10.
- lit. enough books to make a pack-ox sweat or to fill a house to the rafters (idiom)
- fig. many books
- 11.
- unconscious
- involuntary
- 13.
- safflower (Carthamus tinctorius)
- 14.
- rigorous schemes and deep foresight (idiom)
- astute and circumspect
- 15.
- fantastic
- incredible
- beyond belief
- preposterous
- 18.
- disheartened
- dejected
- listless