Vocabulary
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| 如此 如此 | like this; so; such | |
| 唯一 唯一 | only; sole | |
| 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) | |
| 可 可 | (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very | |
| 烧 燒 | to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head | Colloquialism |
| 河西走廊 河西走廊 | Hexi Corridor (or Gansu Corridor), a string of oases running the length of Gansu, forming part of the Northern Silk Road | Proper Noun |
| 玉门 玉門 | Yumen, county-level city in Jiuquan 酒泉, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 金川 金川 | Jinchuan County (Tibetan: chu chen rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, northwest Sichuan | Proper Noun |
| 丝绸之路 絲綢之路 | the Silk Road | Proper Noun |
| 兰州 蘭州 | Lanzhou, prefecture-level city and capital of Gansu Province | Proper Noun |
| 戈壁滩 戈壁灘 | Gobi desert | Proper Noun |
| 孙 孫 | Sun (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 金昌 金昌 | Jinchang, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province | Proper Noun |
| 甘肃省 甘肅省 | Gansu Province, capital Lanzhou | Proper Noun |
| 中亚 中亞 | Central Asia | Proper Noun |
| 中国人民解放军 中國人民解放軍 | Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) | Proper Noun |
| 青海 青海 | Qinghai Province, capital Xining | Proper Noun |
| 李 李 | Li (surname) | Proper Noun |
| 国民政府 國民政府 | Nationalist government (the government of the Republic of China 1925-1948) | Proper Noun |
| 大庆 大慶 | Daqing, prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang Province | Proper Noun |
| 永昌县 永昌縣 | Yongchang county in Jinchang, Gansu | Proper Noun |
| 中原 中原 | Central Plain, the middle and lower regions of the Yellow river, including Henan, western Shandong, southern Shanxi and Hebei | Proper Noun |
| 西域 西域 | Western Regions (Han Dynasty term for regions beyond Yumen Pass) | Proper Noun |
| 彭德怀 彭德懷 | Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution | Proper Noun |
| 宁夏 寧夏 | Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, capital Yinchuan | Proper Noun |
| 西宁 西寧 | Xining, prefecture-level city and capital of Qinghai Province | Proper Noun |
| 工业革命 工業革命 | Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830 | Proper Noun |
| 威斯康星 威斯康星 | Wisconsin, US state | Proper Noun |
| 西晋 西晉 | Western Jin dynasty (265-316) | Proper Noun |
| 张华 張華 | Zhang Hua (232-300), Western Jin writer, poet and politician; Zhang Hua (1958-1982), student held up as a martyr after he died saving an old peasant from a septic tank; other Zhang Hua's too numerous to mention | Proper Noun |
| 寿县 壽縣 | Shou County or Shouxian, a county in Huainan, Anhui | Proper Noun |
| 唐朝 唐朝 | Tang dynasty | Proper Noun |
| 抗日战争 抗日戰爭 | (China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945) | Proper Noun |
| 日产 日產 | Nissan, Japanese car make; also transliterated | Proper Noun |
| 中共中央 中共中央 | Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, abbr. for | Proper Noun |
| 中国社会科学院 中國社會科學院 | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) | Proper Noun |
| 北京科技大学 北京科技大學 | University of Science and Technology Beijing | Proper Noun |
| 藏族 藏族 | Tibetan ethnic group | Proper Noun |
| 永昌 永昌 | Yongchang county in Jinchang, Gansu; ancient prefecture in Yunnan, modern Baoshan | Proper Noun |
| 坑口 坑口 | Hang Hau (area in Hong Kong) | Proper Noun |
| 精工 精工 | Seiko, Japanese watch and electronics company | Proper Noun |
| 方毅 方毅 | Fang Yi (1916-1997), senior party apparatchik | Proper Noun |
| 神舟 神舟 | Shenzhou (spacecraft); Hasee (computer manufacturer) | Proper Noun |
| 金昌市 金昌市 | Jinchang, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province | Proper Noun |
| 嘉峪关 嘉峪關 | Jiayu Pass in Gansu, at the western terminus of the Great Wall | Proper Noun |
| 青藏高原 青藏高原 | Qinghai-Tibetan plateau | Proper Noun |
| 三峡 三峽 | Three Gorges on the Chang Jiang or Yangtze, namely: Qutang Gorge, Wuxia Gorge and Xiling Gorge; Sanxia or Sanhsia town in New Taipei City, Taiwan | Proper Noun |
| 戈壁荒滩 戈壁荒灘 | barren sands of the Gobi desert | Proper Noun |
| 怀仁堂 懷仁堂 | Huairen Hall or Huairentang, a building inside Zhongnanhai, used as the main meeting place of the Politburo of the CCP | Proper Noun |
| 毛主席 毛主席 | Chairman Mao; Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader | Proper Noun |