Vocabulary: 繁花
- to rush over
- if it were not for; but for
- (formal) to honor with one's presence; to attend
- rice with meat and vegetables
- to drink a toast; Cheers! (proposing a toast); Here's to you!; Bottoms up!; lit. dry cup
- to have a smile on one's face
- nowadays; now
- disastrous; to turn into a disaster
- an electric current; (old) current intensity
- each other; mutual
- to flatter; to laud sb's accomplishments; adulation
- to have no sense of shame
- handsome guy; lady-killer; handsome (form of address)
- a beautiful woman; young beauties; youths; rosy cheeks
- to drink (alcohol)
- stingy; miserly; narrow-minded; petty
- lotus seed
- thick soup
- crystal sugar; rock candy
- edible bird's nest
- handleless cup; goblet
- husband's father; father-in-law; grandpa; grandad; (old) form of address for a eunuch
- mooncake (esp. for the Mid-Autumn Festival)
- military dependents' village (community established in Taiwan for Nationalist soldiers and their dependents after the KMT retreated from the mainland in 1949)
- cannot bear to see; to hate; to dislike; to disapprove
- shark fin
- this side; here
- attractive young man (usually derog.); pretty boy; gigolo
- personal; private; selfish
- lifelong; all one's life; marriage
- slender and supple waist; lithe body; feminine pose
- frequency with which people turn their heads to look; degree of attracting attention; percentage of repeat customers (catering, hospitality etc)
- green onion; spring onion