Chinese Vocabulary Power (S99-10)
Vocabulary Cards: 25
- 1.
- fuse
- 2.
- to give unequal emphasis to
- doing some things at the expense of others
- 5.
- to serve
- to look after (elderly parents)
- to support
- 6.
- glancing to left and right (idiom)
- to look all around
- 8.
- form of government
- system of government
- 9.
- person able to bear heavy responsibility
- mainstay (of organization)
- pillar (of state)
- ridgepole
- ridgepole and beams
- 10.
- mulatto
- person of mixed blood
- half-breed
- 11.
- marketing
- 12.
- allied forces
- 13.
- lit. military tactics on paper (idiom)
- fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice
- armchair strategist
- idle theorizing
- cf Zhao Kuo 趙括|赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰|长平之战 in 260 BC
- 15.
- locust
- 16.
- severance
- to buy out
- buyout
- 17.
- to offer credit
- credit transaction
- to buy or sell on account
- 18.
- to exceed a production goal
- 19.
- pay last respects
- 20.
- lightning rod
- 21.
- irrefutable evidence
- 22.
- to breakdance
- breakdancing
- 23.
- memorial tablet
- 25.
- oatmeal
- rolled oats