Chinese Vocabulary Power (S98-35)
Vocabulary Cards: 23
- 2.
- the whole front (in a war)
- the whole length (of a road or railway line)
- 3.
- rebuttal
- disproof
- reductio ad absurdum
- 4.
- park
- gardens
- landscape garden
- 6.
- market economy
- 8.
- to meet by accident
- 9.
- willow tree
- poplar and willow
- name of traditional tune
- 11.
- to burn incense
- 12.
- see 眾所周知|众所周知[zhong4 suo3 zhou1 zhi1]
- 13.
- to form
- to forge (alliances etc)
- 14.
- declare
- profess
- declaration
- pronouncement
- 15.
- bleak
- desolate
- 18.
- to spend effort
- to take trouble
- May I trouble you to...? (as part of polite request)
- Please would you mind...?
- 19.
- shameful performance
- disgraceful situation
- 21.
- to bash one's head against a brick wall
- a wild goose chase
- a blind alley
- to split hairs
- lit. to hone a bull's horn (idiom)
- fig. to waste time on an insoluble or insignificant problem
- 22.
- to flash