Chinese Vocabulary Power (S99-51)
Vocabulary Cards: 20
- 1.
- May Fourth Movement
- Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
- 2.
- Inner Mongolia autonomous region, abbr. 内蒙古, capital Hohhot 呼和浩特市
- 3.
- lit. use others' strengths to make up for one's weak points (idiom from Mencius)
- to use this in place of that
- what you lose on the swings, you win on the roundabouts
- 4.
- to fortify defenses and raze the fields (idiom)
- to leave nothing for the invader
- scorched earth policy
- 5.
- great scholar respected for learning and integrity
- 8.
- Jingdezhen prefecture level city in Jiangxi province 江西, famous for porcelain
- 10.
- famine
- natural disaster
- 12.
- private car
- 14.
- cluster of flowers
- inflorescence
- flowering shrub
- 16.
- thoroughly
- out-and-out
- 18.
- loud
- famous
- resounding
- well known
- 19.
- extremely disturbing
- shaking one to the core
- hair-raising (idiom)