The Rise of the Great Powers

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An Unstable Situation and a New Path: Soviet Union

S1E9 · 风云新途（苏联） fēngyún xīn tú （ sūlián ）

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4.59 Intermediate

Vocabulary

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新政 新政 xīn zhèng new policy; New Deal (Roosevelt's 1933 policy to deal with the Great Depression) ∼HSK 5
生产总值 生產總值 shēng chǎn zǒng zhí gross domestic production (GDP); total output value ∼HSK 5
国民经济 國民經濟 guó mín jīng jì national economy ∼HSK 5
大炮 大砲 dà pào big gun; cannon; artillery; one who talks big ∼HSK 5
巨大影响 巨大影響 jù dà yǐng xiǎng huge influence ∼HSK 5
未有 未有 wèi yǒu is not; has never been; never occurring; unprecedented ∼HSK 5
无尽 無盡 wú jìn endless; inexhaustible ∼HSK 5
耗尽 耗盡 hào jìn to exhaust; to use up; to deplete; to drain ∼HSK 5
狂风 狂風 kuáng fēng gale; squall; whole gale (meteorology) ∼HSK 5
飞舞 飛舞 fēi wǔ to flutter; to dance in the breeze ∼HSK 5
信仰者 信仰者 xìn yǎng zhě believer ∼HSK 5
领主 領主 lǐng zhǔ feudal lord; suzerain; overlord ∼HSK 5
孤 孤 gū I (used by rulers); alone ∼HSK 5
战时 戰時 zhàn shí wartime ∼HSK 5
富农 富農 fù nóng rich peasant; social class of people farming their own land, intermediate between land-owner class and poor peasant ∼HSK 5
克朗 克朗 kè lǎng krone (currency of Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden) (loanword) ∼HSK 5
婶 嬸 shěn wife of father's younger brother ∼HSK 5
自由贸易 自由貿易 zì yóu mào yì free trade ∼HSK 5
扼杀 扼殺 è shā to strangle; to throttle ∼HSK 5
益 益 Yì profit, benefit; advantage ∼HSK 5
货币市场 貨幣市場 huò bì shì chǎng money market ∼HSK 5
发源 發源 fā yuán to rise; to originate; source; derivation ∼HSK 5
硬度 硬度 yìng dù hardness ∼HSK 5
废止 廢止 fèi zhǐ to repeal (a law); to put an end to; abolition; annulled ∼HSK 5
蹂躏 蹂躪 róu lìn to ravage; to devastate; to trample on; to violate ∼HSK 5
壁 壁 bì partition wall; walls of a house ∼HSK 5
拖拉机 拖拉機 tuō lā jī tractor ∼HSK 5
简讯 簡訊 jiǎn xùn newsletter; the news in brief; (Tw) SMS message ∼HSK 5
敏 敏 mǐn fast, quick, clever, smart ∼HSK 5
居 居 jū reside ∼HSK 5
匮乏 匱乏 kuì fá to be deficient in sth; to be short of sth (supplies, money etc) ∼HSK 5
不均 不均 bù jūn uneven; distributed unevenly ∼HSK 5
衡 衡 héng measure, weigh, judge, consider ∼HSK 5
轻工业 輕工業 qīng gōng yè light industry ∼HSK 5
弊 弊 bì evil, wrong, bad; criminal ∼HSK 5
战火 戰火 zhàn huǒ the flames of war ∼HSK 5
广袤 廣袤 guǎng mào vast ∼HSK 5
不屈 不屈 bù qū unyielding; unbending ∼HSK 5
知晓 知曉 zhī xiǎo to know; to understand ∼HSK 5
陵墓 陵墓 líng mù tomb; mausoleum ∼HSK 5
突袭 突襲 tū xí to raid; to storm; surprise attack ∼HSK 5
隆 隆 Lóng prosperous, plentiful, abundant ∼HSK 5
迎战 迎戰 yíng zhàn to meet the enemy head-on ∼HSK 5
勃 勃 bó suddenly, sudden, quick ∼HSK 5
插上 插上 chā shang to plug into; to insert; to stick in ∼HSK 5
国会大厦 國會大廈 guó huì dà shà capitol ∼HSK 5
无愧 無愧 wú kuì to have a clear conscience; to feel no qualms; to be worthy of (sth) ∼HSK 5
窟 窟 kū hole, cave; cellar; underground ∼HSK 5
各种各样 各種各樣 gè zhǒng gè yàng various kinds; all sorts ∼HSK 5
毫不怀疑 毫不懷疑 háo bù huái yí without the slightest doubt ∼HSK 5