Chinese Vocabulary Power (S99-37)
Vocabulary Cards: 19
- 1.
- lit. to strike a stone with egg (idiom)
- to attempt the impossible
- to invite disaster by overreaching oneself
- 2.
- to repay
- to pay off a debt
- 4.
- gross domestic product (GDP)
- gross national product
- 6.
- party-founding
- 7.
- accordion
- 8.
- lit. to win a victory on raising the flag (idiom)
- fig. to start on sth and have immediate success
- success in a single move
- 10.
- across one's whole face
- (smiling) from ear to ear
- 13.
- cuckold
- 14.
- rise and fall
- prosperity and decline (of a kingdom)
- 16.
- breeze
- light wind
- 17.
- Deng Yingchao (1904-1992), Chinese communist leader, wife of Zhou Enlai 周恩來|周恩来
- 18.
- local conditions and customs (idiom)