L7 Flashcards
小
SMALL// three small drops, repeated thrice in order to emphasise, small small small
少
FEW // the extra drop further belittles the smallness, making even fewer
吵
NOISY // when lots of people talk it becomes noisy, and everyone’s vocabulary (coming out their gobby mouths) becomes few; “oi!!”
孙
GRANDCHILD // not grand actually, but very small child (comparatively speaking)
大
LARGE // a whole person takes up one entire character
尖
TIP // the small tip at the end of something big, think pagoda
夕
EVENING // think of ‘moon’ tilted sideways and partially obscured (by a passing cloud). Classy sky for an evening party-breakaway romance.
多
MANY // “many moons ago”, but we’re only going as far as 2, so not thaaaat many
够
ENOUGH // the sentence “enough is enough”, repeated many times over, is punishment for one who has crossed many lines, like Bart Simpson.
外
OUTSIDE // in the evening, magic performed outside carries a much greater degree of effect, under the magical mood
名
NAME // before formal naming, some African fathers follow a tradition of whispering their newborn baby (quiet mouth) in the middle of the night, before the actual ceremony
罗
SILK GAUZE // a hair net, a classy one, for one’s nighttime stroll, or for protecting hair overnight. Too silky for non-night wearing.
厂
FACTORY // streamlining production efficiency has been taken to such an extreme that now there’s only the wall and roof left!
厅
HALL //not like the Carneigie or Albert, this hall is full of nail based instruments, nail bed bass, naiola, nailimba
厉
STERN // in the regimented grammar school, like a factory line, students are made to learn thousands of facts by the stern headteacher
厚
THICK // a child, abandoned on wild cliffs, under the heat of the sun, doomed to a thick life by their thick parents.
石
STONE // below the cliff, a cave of unknown treasures. With the unusual over-hang its a steep descent but be sure to use that phrase at the bottom, “open…”
砂
GRAVEL // a few stones for the garden path, that’s all you ordered, but instead they’ve delivered a truck load of gravel. That’s not a few!
妙
WONDERFUL // when a lady is described as ‘wonderful’ we mean she’s few and far between
肖
RESEMBLE // like a father’s ‘chip off the old block’, this is a small bit of old mans flesh /// SPARKS //// CANDLE
削
PEEL // for want of a peeler, you can chuck an apple in the air, then slice its skin off with a sabre. Watch the sparks fly!
光
RAY // forget middle stroke, it’s just for aesthetics. Know those
Particles that accompany a sunny day, the ‘dust’. They’re actually little legs floating towards you.
太
OVERLY // eugh, too much, the st Bernard dog (huge) is slobbering everywhere
省
ECONOMIZE // a head covered in eyes has ‘eyes too big for its stomach’ so to save cash, economy calls for fewer eyes
奇
STRANGE // “strange but true” column has the story of a massive st Bernard dog got mouth sealed with nails because he was rummaging around in the brandy store
