Vocabulary
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| 千军万马 千軍萬馬 | magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower; all the King's horses and all the King's men | Idiom |
| 鹤立鸡群 鶴立雞群 | a crane in a flock of chicken (idiom); way above the common; manifestly superior | Idiom |
| 朝夕相处 朝夕相處 | to spend all one's time together (idiom) | Idiom |
| 截然不同 截然不同 | entirely different; different as black and white | Idiom |
| 荒凉 荒涼 | desolate | Xiehouyu |
| 挑剔 挑剔 | picky; fussy | Xiehouyu |
| 窑 窯 | kiln; oven; coal pit; cave dwelling; (coll.) brothel | Colloquialism |
| 宰 宰 | to slaughter; to butcher; to kill (animals etc); (coll.) to fleece; to rip off; to overcharge; (bound form) to govern; to rule; (bound form) (a title for certain government officials in ancient China) | Colloquialism |
| 戈壁 戈壁 | Gobi (desert) | |
| 柏树 柏樹 | cypress tree; Taiwan pr. [bó shù] | |
| 风沙 風沙 | sand blown by wind; sandstorm | |
| 长达 長達 | to extend as long as; to lengthen out to | |
| 朝代 朝代 | dynasty; reign (of a king) | |
| 落差 落差 | drop in elevation; (fig.) gap (in wages, expectations etc); disparity | |
| 牧民 牧民 | herdsman | |
| 水稻 水稻 | rice; paddy | |
| 肥沃 肥沃 | fertile | |
| 边疆 邊疆 | border area; borderland; frontier; frontier region | |
| 支流 支流 | tributary (river) | |
| 长征 長征 | Long March (retreat of the Red Army 1934-1935) | |
| 历代 歷代 | successive generations; successive dynasties; past dynasties | |
| 地势 地勢 | terrain; topography relief | |
| 缆车 纜車 | cable car | |
| 珍稀 珍稀 | rare; precious and uncommon | |
| 耗时 耗時 | time-consuming; to take a period of (x amount of time) | |
| 辽阔 遼闊 | vast; extensive | |
| 枣 棗 | (bound form) jujube; Chinese date (Zizyphus jujuba) | |
| 未知数 未知數 | unknown quantity | |
| 全长 全長 | overall length; span | |
| 盆地 盆地 | (geography) basin; depression | |
| 仿制 仿製 | to copy; to imitate; to make by imitating a model | |
| 河畔 河畔 | riverside; river plain | |
| 有序 有序 | regular; orderly; successive; in order | |
| 依托 依託 | to rely on; to depend on; support | |
| 就餐 就餐 | to dine | |
| 耕地 耕地 | arable land; to plow land | |
| 镶嵌 鑲嵌 | to inlay; to embed; to set (e.g. a jewel in a ring); tiling; tesselation | |
| 火速 火速 | at top speed; at a tremendous lick | |
| 通畅 通暢 | unobstructed; clear; (of writing or thinking) coherent; fluent | |
| 人文 人文 | humanities; human affairs; culture | |
| 交界 交界 | common boundary; common border | |
| 湖泊 湖泊 | lake | |
| 遇上 遇上 | to come across (sb); to run into | |
| 繁重 繁重 | heavy; burdensome; heavy-duty; arduous; onerous | |
| 山脉 山脈 | mountain range | |
| 浓厚 濃厚 | dense; thick (fog, clouds etc); to have a strong interest in; deep; fully saturated (color) | |
| 太极 太極 | the Absolute or Supreme Ultimate, the source of all things according to some interpretations of Chinese mythology | |
| 凿 鑿 | chisel; to bore a hole; to chisel or dig; (literary) (bound form) certain; authentic; irrefutable; also pr. [zuò] | |
| 领略 領略 | to have a taste of; to realize; to appreciate | |
| 风力 風力 | wind force; wind power |