Chinese Vocabulary Power (S99-17)
Vocabulary Cards: 18
- 2.
- paratrooper
- 5.
- fig. beautiful purples and brilliant reds (idiom)
- lit. beautiful flowers
- 8.
- neat and tidy
- 9.
- muzzle of a gun
- at gunpoint
- 10.
- to fish in troubled water (idiom)
- to take advantage of a crisis for personal gain
- 11.
- scramble for power and profit (idiom)
- power struggle
- 12.
- condescending
- to consider everyone else beneath one (idiom)
- so arrogant that no-one else matters
- to go about with one's nose in the air
- 15.
- to deceive
- to cheat
- 17.
- misfortune turns to blessing (idiom)
- to turn an inauspicious start to good account
- 18.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher