New Practical Chinese Reader Lesson 5.56 - Page 1

to hybridize; to cross

paddy; rice

award; prize

to award; to confer

academy of engineering

engineering; project

academician

to gather news; to interview

to be conscious of; consciousness

intellectual; the intelligentsia

to observe; to watch

at one time; ever; once

ever

lifetime; all one's life

to like; to love; to be fond of

fruit

to attract; to draw

impression

memory

crop

heredity; inheritance; to inherit

to breed

fully; utterly; extremely

sparetime; after-work

doctrine; theory

fruit; achievement; gain

ear of grain; spike

broom

granule (anything small and roundish); grain

peanut

even if

to increase production

one tenth

to decide; to make up one's mind

to determine; decision; determination

to attack; to study

difficulty

thick and strong

wide; thick; coarse

strong; able-bodied

seedling; rice shoot

wild; undomesticated

wild; uncultivated; rude

seed

thoroughbred; purebred

pure; unmixed; simple

to produce; to bring; to come into being

to differentiate; to become divided; differentiation

natural

to break; to smash