L13 Flashcards
辶
ROAD // for traffic, or perhaps a path. approaching from the entrance, turn right, face a junction, then choose the longer road to the left and enjoy one of the world’s best freeway roads.
道
WAY // when companies complain about malpractise, the upshot is that “heads will roll”, and here they are rolling onto the road. mean, but it is the way forward - truly the only way.
达
REACH // driving along a hairy road in the alps, an enormous st bernard with a tommy gun waits for you in the tunnel. “reach for the sky” he barks, while stealing the gold
远
DISTANT // three quarters through the ultra-marathon, somewhere in wyoming, you think you are finally about to rejoin the beginning of the road. but… is it the beginning? It’s too distant to see properly.
适
SUITABLE // washing dirty mouths with soap was outlawed as “unsuitable” by the early 1900s. luckily, with an ever-expanding road network, there was a much more suitable surface to lick. suitable for the punishers, rather than the naughty ones.
过
CROSS (v.) // Why didn’t the chicken cross the road? Because its feet were glued to the pavement.
迈
STRIDE // a canny gentleman, on hearing that 10,000 steps along the roads per day were necessary for good health, did tiny tiny strides down the central reservation, so everyone could see his success. everyone else thought the little strider a cheat.
迅
SPEEDY // Speedy Gonzales has left TV for new work in LA’s underground grand theft auto organisation. This time, though, the police have left nails and needles all over the highway. Not so speedy now!
造
CREATE // In the creation story, God makes stuff by simply declaring “let there be this / that”. Wouldn’t that be handy for the highways agency, “let there be a road”
逃
ESCAPE // the portent in the clouds pointed you down this road, so it is this road you must take… but now there comes an iron fence, and there’s no escape… escape…
巡
PATROL // Bored with simply washing the speeding cars, today’s highway patrol have flooded the entire M1. Why patrol for law-breakers when you can flood the lot of em?
选
CHOOSE // “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood” begins Robert Frost’s poem. At this point, before taking either road, one has a choice. Think carefully before choosing.
逊
MODEST // To get down the road to the post office, nana’s grandson is dragging her in the waggon. It’s a rather more modest offering than her usual Rover.
逛
STROLL // woah!! who the heck was that?? That crazy man in his dressing gown was just out taking a stroll in the middle of the motorway. Only a crazy old codger would take a stroll there.
车
CAR // Note the back and front axels, both connected to the drive shaft. Oh yes, this pictograph car is no less than four wheel drive, folks.
连
ONE AFTER ANOTHER // at this crosswords, right of way is given to the tiny dirt road, but there’s a convoy, and one-after-another, trucks are streaming past. it’s been 15minutes without a gap.
莲
LOTUS // forming a perfect floral symphony, the monks enjoy a morning of lotus flowers popping open one after another on the lake. lotus flowers kick ass.
刖
> BUTCHER // the new chef at Tony Roma’s used to work in a butchers, so he brought his old sabre. so good was he, that he sabred all the flesh off the meat and created their infamous ‘sabre tooth sandwich’
前
IN FRONT // the new butchers in downtown new york didn’t know what to put in front of his shop to make the passers by notice. so he got a collosal pair of rams horns, and put them infront of the window, literally pulling people off the street.
butcher’s shop //
剪
SHEARS // the butcher’s shop recieved a massive shipment of sheep on tuesday. to make it into lamb chops, they need a super-speedy tool. the head butcher suggests welding together two daggers, and hey presto - sheep meat shears
俞
SLAUGHTERHOUSE // butchers rarely see each other, but once a year, these meat men meet together in the slaughterhouse, and have a massive piss up with the soon-to-be-steak animals.
输
TRANSPORT // “Crap it” said the farmer, “the refrigeration truck will never make it here in time for the supermarket opening. There’s nothing for it, I’ll just have to tug the entire slaughterhouse by car”. Not the most efficent of transportation methods, but it did the job.
逾
EXCEED // The road to the slaughterhouse is a one-way, two-lane thoroughfair, but since the smaller chickens can’t go too fast, there’s a strict 2mph limit. A speed camera punished anyone who exceeds the limit… with death.
夂
WALKING LEGS // In a swishing motion, Morecambe and Wise criss cross their legs as they descend the steps. It’s a sublime movement, until Ernie crosses his too far and tumbles. [Note the first strokes of this is like a stylised 7]
条
STRIP (n.) // the big trick in the big top, is the man who walks over a suspended wooden pole suspended 60ft in the air. but the audience aren’t to know about the strip of velcro on the pole!
处
LOCATION // water must be found, but where is it. A dowser is called, and he waves his magic rods, walking to and fro, before finally finding the right location.
各
EACH // “Suum cuique” latin “To each his/her own”. Each person carries a little mouth between their legs, each talking a different talk. Each to their own upper-leg mouth.
格
PATTERN // true, trees have their own pattern. but to distinguish each individual tree, growers in hawaii dress them in hawian shirts - now the patterns are impossible to confuse
略
ABBREVIATION // each field has its own abbrv.s (chemistry, philsphy, sprt). field each, it should be, but then the dominant field would be in the wrong place.
客
GUEST // guests should feel at home in each house. truly welcoming hosts make each individual house on your trip a home.
额
FOREHEAD // One should not look an important guest straight in the eyes, the head maid told the manor’s new recruit. But don’t slouch either, look them in the forehead.
夏
SUMMER // in summer, it’s best to kill many birds with one stone. olympic training athletes need a cool gym, but also need to run. so here they’ve had their noses stuck to the ceiling, and their running motion creates a fan
洛
L.A. // in this sprawling megacity, each drop of water finds its own pollutant, creating a smoggy haze
落
FALL // flowers in LA, well, with all that smog, they are naturally bound to fall. and with the fall of flowers, brings the success of crappy artificial flower factories. it’s a never-ending cycle that will end in overall downfall
备
PREPARE // rocky XIII or whatever, this time he’s in china. walking the walk all the way through the epic rice fields of yunnan. go rocky, go rocky!
