Chinese Vocabulary Power (S99-28)
Vocabulary Cards: 18
- 1.
- advantageous
- favorable
- to benefit at others' expense
- to take unfair advantage
- 2.
- coming from everywhere
- from all over the place
- gorgeous (of woman)
- to ruin and overturn the state
- 3.
- (in palace construction) center hook and corner link
- locked in constant strife (idiom)
- 4.
- everything steady and stable (idiom)
- overcautious and unimaginary
- 5.
- dowry
- 6.
- geometry
- 7.
- war criminal
- 8.
- to behead
- 9.
- official (government-operated) newspaper
- 10.
- lit. wind and rain through the town (idiom)
- fig. a big scandal
- an uproar
- the talk of the town
- 11.
- material evidence
- 12.
- lit. kept hoodwinked inside a drum (idiom)
- completely in the dark
- 16.
- peroxide
- 17.
- fig. high in the clouds
- 18.
- Lei Feng (1940-1962), young communist killed in an accident in 1962, used as a model in one of Mao's campaigns from 1963