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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Vocabulary
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| 世界 世界 | world | |
| 只是 只是 | merely; only; just; nothing but; simply; but; however | |
| 为了 為了 | for; for the purpose of; in order to | |
| 发生 發生 | to happen; to occur; to take place; to break out | |
| 种 種 | seed; species; kind; type; classifier for types, kinds, sorts | |
| 所 所 | actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive | |
| 开始 開始 | to begin; beginning; to start; initial | |
| 需要 需要 | to need; to want; to demand; to require; needs | |
| 时 時 | o'clock; time; when; hour; season; period | |
| 就是 就是 | exactly; precisely; only; simply; just; (used correlatively with 也) even; even if | |
| 被 被 | quilt; to cover (with); (literary) to suffer (a misfortune); used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb); (since c. 2009) (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes (as in 被旅游 to "go on a trip", for example) | |
| 把 把 | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the object before the verb: 把 + {noun} + {verb}) | |
| 人山人海 人山人海 | (idiom) multitude; vast crowd | Idiom |
| 熙来攘往 熙來攘往 | a place buzzing with activity (idiom) | Idiom |
| 海市蜃楼 海市蜃樓 | (idiom) (lit. and fig.) mirage | Idiom |
| 拉 拉 | to pull; to play (a bowed instrument); to drag; to draw; to chat; (coll.) to empty one's bowels | Colloquialism |
| 黑水 黑水 | Heishui County (Tibetan: khro chu rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, northwest Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 宜兰 宜蘭 | Yilan city and county, northeast Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 令人 令人 | to cause one (to do sth); to make one (angry, delighted etc) | |
| 平地 平地 | to level the land; level ground; plain | |
| 波 波 | waves, breakers; undulations | |
| 物 物 | thing, substance, creature | |
| 鱼塭 魚塭 | (Tw) fishpond; fish farm | |
| 地层 地層 | stratum (geology) | |
| 脚下 腳下 | under the foot | |
| 成了 成了 | to be done; to be ready; that's enough!; that will do! | |
| 留给 留給 | to set aside for | |
| 所有人 所有人 | everyone; owner | |
| 小河 小河 | creek; stream; brook | |
| 一只 一隻 | one (measure word for animals, boats, certain objects); a single ... | |
| 汲取 汲取 | to draw; to derive; to absorb | |
| 向西南 向西南 | southwestward | |
| 气流 氣流 | stream of air; airflow; slipstream; draft; breath; turbulence (of aircraft) | |
| 天数 天數 | number of days; fate; destiny | |
| 换句话说 換句話說 | in other words | |
| 时日 時日 | time; auspicious time; time and date; long period of time; this day | |
| 亿万 億萬 | millions and millions | |
| 部落 部落 | tribe | |
| 林 林 | forest, grove; surname | |
| 留住 留住 | to ask sb to stay; to keep sb for the night; to await (classical) | |
| 长出 長出 | to sprout (leaves, buds, a beard etc) | |
| 为的是 為的是 | for the sake of; for the purpose of | |
| 一次又一次 一次又一次 | repeatedly; over and over again | |
| 万顷 萬頃 | large landholding; vast space | |
| 百万 百萬 | million | |
| 所能 所能 | according to one's capabilities; what sb is capable of | |
| 海平面 海平面 | sea level | |
| 复 復 | return; repeat; repeatedly | |
| 面的 麵的 | abbr. of; minivan taxi | |
| 海砂 海砂 | sea sand (sand of the ocean floor or seashore) |