Chinese Vocabulary Power (S99-14)
Vocabulary Cards: 20
- 1.
- guard home, defend the country (idiom)
- national defense
- 2.
- sturdy
- robust
- healthy
- 3.
- to fail within sight of success (idiom)
- last-minute failure
- to fall at the last hurdle
- snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
- 4.
- single parent family
- 5.
- to compete for first prize
- 6.
- (idiom) just passable
- barely satisfactory
- 7.
- to feel indignant
- to feel aggrieved
- 8.
- teaching and administrative staff
- 9.
- to return home with honor
- 12.
- fare
- travel expenses
- traveling allowance
- 14.
- out of control
- lit. a horse that has thrown off the reins (idiom)
- runaway horse
- 17.
- tomb (of king or emperor)
- 18.
- dangers spring up all around (idiom)
- surrounded by perils