Chinese Vocabulary Power (S99-59)
Vocabulary Cards: 20
- 1.
- pleasant to hear (i.e. agreeable news)
- to one's liking
- music to one's ears
- 2.
- public trial (in a court of law)
- 4.
- dust devil
- 6.
- satisfied just to get through (idiom)
- to muddle through
- without high ambitions, but getting by
- 7.
- to confess
- 8.
- all black, no daylight (idiom)
- a world without justice
- 10.
- foul black smoke atmosphere (idiom)
- fig. everything in a tremendous mess
- pandemonium reigns
- 11.
- productivity
- efficiency of production
- 12.
- praise
- 13.
- chief editor (of newspaper)
- abbr. for 總編輯|总编辑
- 14.
- devour raw meat and fowl (of savages)
- 16.
- lecture
- teach
- 18.
- cheongsam
- long gown
- traditional Asian dress for men or (in Hong Kong) women's qipao
- 19.
- to leave for
- heading for
- 20.
- Qi Baishi (1864-1957), famous Chinese painter