Chinese Vocabulary Power (S98-24)
Vocabulary Cards: 21
- 1.
- Great Hall of the People, at Tiananmen Square
- 2.
- leading light
- founding father
- principal proponent
- 4.
- Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of
- 6.
- malicious and duplicitous
- with treacherous intent (idiom)
- two-faced
- 8.
- to hold a welcoming dinner or reception
- 9.
- lit. a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood (idiom)
- fig. an utterly inadequate measure
- 10.
- chauvinism
- 12.
- to linger
- to stay on indefinitely
- 13.
- purebred
- 15.
- central China
- 16.
- booty
- stolen goods
- 18.
- long life
- 19.
- make a cart behind closed doors
- work behind closed doors
- divorce oneself from the masses and from reality and act blindly
- 20.
- lit. windswept and battered by rain
- to undergo hardship (idiom)
- 21.
- toady
- boot-licker