Chinese Vocabulary Power (S99-27)
Vocabulary Cards: 18
- 1.
- What can you have against it? (idiom)
- We should do this.
- Go for it!
- 3.
- conciliation
- mediation
- to mollify
- to propitiate
- to reconcile
- 4.
- Four Asian Tigers
- East Asian Tigers
- Four Little Dragons (East Asian economic powers: Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong)
- 5.
- International Women's Day (March 8)
- 7.
- written war challenge
- 10.
- boiling
- scalding
- 12.
- to cross the sea under cover
- to escape by a clever vanishing act (idiom)
- 13.
- unique skill
- unexpected tricky move (as a last resort)
- masterstroke
- finishing blow
- 14.
- to massacre one another (idiom)
- internecine strife
- 15.
- dressmaker
- tailor
- 16.
- to watch the fires burning across the river
- to delay entering the fray until all others have been exhausted by fighting amongst themselves (idiom)
- 17.
- debt
- famine
- crop failure
- difficulty
- 18.
- rarely known to anyone (idiom)
- almost unknown
- secret to all but a few