Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above 2013
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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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| 资源 資源 | Ziyuan county in Guilin 林, Guangxi | |
| 阻止 阻止 | to prevent; to block | |
| 盖 蓋 | lid; top; cover; canopy; to cover; to conceal; to build | |
| 女士 女士 | lady; madam; Miss; Ms | |
| 量 量 | capacity; quantity; amount; to estimate; abbr. for 量词, classifier (in Chinese grammar); measure word | |
| 措施 措施 | measure; step | |
| 付出 付出 | to pay; to expend; to invest (energy or time) | |
| 呼吸 呼吸 | to breathe | |
| 依然 依然 | still; as before | |
| 然而 然而 | however; yet; but | |
| 切 切 | to cut; to slice; to carve; (math) tangential | |
| 提醒 提醒 | to remind; to call attention to; to warn of | |
| 抽 抽 | to draw out; to pull out from in between; to remove part of the whole; (of certain plants) to sprout or bud; to whip or thrash | |
| 土地 土地 | land; soil; territory | |
| 巨大 巨大 | huge; immense; very large; tremendous; gigantic; enormous | |
| 稳定 穩定 | steady; stable; stability; to stabilize; to pacify | |
| 圈 圈 | to confine; to lock up; to pen in | |
| 竟然 竟然 | unexpectedly; to one's surprise; in spite of everything; in that crazy way; actually; to go as far as to | |
| 承认 承認 | to admit; to concede; to recognize; recognition (diplomatic, artistic etc); to acknowledge | |
| 空间 空間 | space; room; (fig.) scope; leeway; (astronomy) outer space; (physics, math.) space | |
| 伤害 傷害 | to injure; to harm | |
| 或许 或許 | perhaps; maybe | |
| 根 根 | root; basis; classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings; radical (chemistry) | |
| 于是 於是 | thereupon; as a result; consequently; thus; hence | |
| 投 投 | to cast; to send; to throw oneself (into the river etc); to seek refuge; to place oneself into the hands of | |
| 而是 而是 | rather | |
| 几乎 幾乎 | almost; nearly; practically | |
| 似乎 似乎 | it seems; seemingly; as if | |
| 单 單 | bill; list; form; single; only; sole; odd number | |
| 之一 之一 | one of (sth); one out of a multitude; one (third, quarter, percent etc) | |
| 历史 歷史 | history | |
| 包括 包括 | to comprise; to include; to involve; to incorporate; to consist of | |
| 严重 嚴重 | grave; serious; severe; critical | |
| 未来 未來 | future; tomorrow; approaching; coming; pending | |
| 法 㳒 | France; French; abbr. for 法国; Taiwan pr. [Fà] | |
| 根据 根據 | according to; based on; basis; foundation | |
| 首 首 | head; chief; first (occasion, thing etc); classifier for poems, songs etc | |
| 自 自 | self; oneself; from; since; naturally; surely | |
| 以及 以及 | as well as; too; and | |
| 是否 是否 | whether (or not); if; is or isn't | |
| 曾 曾 | once; already; ever (in the past); former; previously; (past tense marker used before verb or clause) | |
| 政府 政府 | government | |
| 之前 之前 | before; prior to; ago; previously; beforehand | |
| 甚至 甚至 | even; so much so that | |
| 之间 之間 | (after a noun) between; among; amid; (used after certain bisyllabic words to form expressions indicating a short period of time, e.g. 弹指之间) | |
| 无 無 | not to have; no; none; not; to lack; un-; -less | |
| 之后 之後 | after; behind; (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then | |
| 却 卻 | but; yet; however; while; to go back; to decline; to retreat; nevertheless; even though | |
| 而 而 | and; as well as; and so; but (not); yet (not); (indicates causal relation); (indicates change of state); (indicates contrast) | |
| 历历在目 歷歷在目 | vivid in one's mind (idiom) | Idiom |