Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above 2013
看见台湾
Documenting Taiwan from an aerial perspective offering a glimpse of Taiwan's natural beauty as well as the effect of human activities and urbanization on our environment.
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Vocabulary
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| 全都 全都 | all; without exception | |
| 随着 隨著 | along with; in the wake of; following | |
| 不足 不足 | insufficient; lacking; deficiency; not enough; inadequate; not worth; cannot; should not | |
| 使得 使得 | usable; workable; feasible; doable; to make; to cause | |
| 当年 當年 | in those days; then; in those years; during that time | |
| 矛盾 矛盾 | contradiction; conflicting views; contradictory | |
| 不幸 不幸 | misfortune; adversity; unfortunate; sad; unfortunately | |
| 之下 之下 | under; beneath; less than | |
| 库 庫 | warehouse; storehouse; (file) library | |
| 缺乏 缺乏 | to lack; to be short of | |
| 必 必 | certainly; must; will; necessarily | |
| 剩 剩 | to remain; to be left; to have as remainder | |
| 辛苦 辛苦 | exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s) | |
| 物质 物質 | matter; substance; material; materialistic | |
| 全世界 全世界 | worldwide; entire world | |
| 高度 高度 | height; altitude; elevation; high degree; highly | |
| 尝试 嘗試 | to try; to attempt | |
| 之外 之外 | outside; excluding | |
| 屋 屋 | (bound form) house; (bound form) room | |
| 欧洲 歐洲 | Europe (abbr. for 欧罗巴洲) | |
| 接触 接觸 | to touch; to contact; access; in touch with | |
| 剩下 剩下 | to remain; to be left over | |
| 记忆 記憶 | to remember; to recall; memory | |
| 难以 難以 | hard to (predict, imagine etc) | |
| 加上 加上 | plus; to put in; to add; to add on; to add into; in addition; on top of that | |
| 邀请 邀請 | to invite; invitation | |
| 建筑 建築 | to construct; building | |
| 俱乐部 俱樂部 | club (the organisation or its premises) (loanword) | |
| 拒绝 拒絕 | to refuse; to decline; to reject | |
| 分享 分享 | to share (let others have some of sth good) | |
| 一旦 一旦 | in case (sth happens); if; once (sth happens, then...); when; in a short time; in one day | |
| 享受 享受 | to enjoy; to live it up; pleasure | |
| 放弃 放棄 | to renounce; to abandon; to give up | |
| 拥有 擁有 | to have; to possess | |
| 将 將 | will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) | |
| 人定胜天 人定勝天 | man can conquer nature (idiom); human wisdom can prevail over nature | Idiom |
| 互通有无 互通有無 | (idiom) mutual exchange of assistance; to benefit from each other's strengths and make up each other's shortfalls; to reciprocate with material assistance; to scratch each other's back | Idiom |
| 无法 無法 | unable; incapable | Xiehouyu |
| 垃圾 垃圾 | trash; refuse; garbage; (coll.) of poor quality; Taiwan pr. [lè sè] | Colloquialism |
| 高达 高達 | Gundam, Japanese animation franchise; (Tw) Gouda (cheese) | Proper Noun |
| 屏东 屏東 | Pingtung city, county and military airbase in south Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 滚滚 滾滾 | nickname for a panda | Proper Noun |
| 大武 大武 | Dawu or Tawu township in Taitung County, southeast Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 小岛 小島 | Kojima (Japanese surname and place name) | Proper Noun |
| 村落 村落 | village | Proper Noun |
| 新台币 新台幣 | New Taiwan dollar (NTD) | Proper Noun |
| 鱼池 魚池 | Yuchi or Yuchih Township in Nantou County, central Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 云林 雲林 | Yunlin county in Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 桃园 桃園 | Taoyuan city and county in Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 观音 觀音 | Guanyin (Goddess of Mercy) | Proper Noun |