Vocabulary: 繁花
- to be capable of; to be able to; can
- gentry; celebrities
- overseas Chinese; (in a restricted sense) Chinese emigrant who still retains Chinese nationality; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- city resident; townspeople
- to receive a visitor
- to estimate; to assess; to calculate; (coll.) to reckon; to think (that ...)
- American dollar; US dollar
- Marlboro (cigarette)
- to see through something at first glance (idiom)
- to go abroad; to leave the country
- manner; style; panache
- Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (1835-1908), regent 1861-1908
- relatives
- (often used in the context of diplomacy) to meet with; to pay a visit to; to call on
- hired car; chartered car
- to insist on doing sth; must do it, despite everything
- to provide for the elderly (family members); to enjoy a life in retirement
- wedding dress
- photographer; cinematographer; cameraman
- double happiness (similar to 喜喜); symbol of good luck, esp. marriage
- to touch; to contact; access; in touch with
- reality; actuality; real; actual; realistic; pragmatic; materialistic; self-interested
- strange thing; curious occurrence
- the eve; the night before
- (coll.) older sister's husband
- to receive in no small measure
- staff; crew; personnel; CL:個|个[ge4]
- see 黃浦江|黄浦江[Huang2 pu3 Jiang1]; see 黃浦區|黄浦区[Huang2 pu3 Qu1]
- to entreat; to implore; to plead
- to supervise; to oversee; to inspect
- song of cicadas; chirping of insects
- high and low; uneven (in height); uneven (of ground)
- at intervals of; every (so often)
- short; low