New Practical Chinese Reader Lesson 5.55 - Page 1

vegetarian diet

would; to be going to; preposition used to introduce the object before the verb

religion

nature

food

faith; belief

to play the part of a cool person

cool

oily; be bored with

to keep; to retain

measure word for certain abstract things

frame of mind; mood

mankind; humanity

else; other

to regard as; to take for; as

because of; in view of

along with; as well as

office building

lunch

white-collar

vegetable dish

few; minority

after all; all in all

soon; before long; not long after

reason; ground; argument

to defend; to safeguard

food and drink; diet

to exist; to live

carnivorous; meat

industry

resource; wealth

to use

to use

excretment and urine; night soil

to create; to cause

serious; critical

concrete; specific

to raise; to rear

domestic animal; livestock

domestic fowl; poultry

to discharge; to release

foul (or polluted) waters; sewage

source of a river; waterhead

gas

whole world; global

soil

to corrade; to erode

approximately; about

cereal; grain

to exceed; to surpass