Chinese Vocabulary Power (S99-33)
Vocabulary Cards: 19
- 2.
- fig. the price is cheap but the product is beautiful
- lit. a bargain buy
- 3.
- manifold
- absolutely true (idiom)
- true from many points of view
- 4.
- crude but simple methods (idiom)
- use whatever methods you can
- to do things simply and thriftily
- It's not pretty but it works.
- 5.
- to spoil
- to indulge
- 7.
- to incite
- to fan
- to flap
- to instigate (a strike etc)
- 8.
- methodology
- Discours de la méthode by René Descartes 笛卡兒|笛卡儿, 1637
- 9.
- ill-gotten gains
- undeserved fortune
- illegal profit
- 10.
- Manchuria
- 11.
- a pack of rogues
- a gang of scoundrels (idiom)
- 13.
- woven silk fabric
- 14.
- to phone
- to telegram
- 16.
- smooth
- clear and coherent
- 17.
- the wheel comes full circle
- lit. the cycle comes back to the start (idiom)
- to move in circles
- 18.
- misspelt or mispronounced characters
- 19.
- green plum and bamboo hobby-horse (idiom)
- a couple who were friends from childhood
- childhood sweethearts