Vocabulary: 过得刚好
- sincere; honest; cordial
- there; that place
- steps; flight of steps; step (over obstacle); fig. way out of an embarrassing situation; bench (geology)
- to arrive in huge numbers; to flock there
- unlined upper garment
- ladies and gentlemen; all of you present
- 易 yì: 易 yi4: easy; amiable; to change; to exchange; prefix corresponding to the English adjective suffix "-able" or "-ible"易 Yì: 易 Yi4: surname Yi; I Ching; Book of Changes (abbr. for 易經|易经[Yi4 jing1])
- to endure; to suffer; hardships; torments; a hard time; a nuisance
- (of Taoists) to practice austerities; to practice asceticism
- folk art consisting of storytelling to music
- (old) to report to one's master
- theatrical troupe
- to run in the opposite direction (idiom); to run counter to
- secretary (chief official of a branch of a socialist or communist party); clerk; scribe
- government; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to allocate funds; appropriation
- to wrangle; wrangling
- different tunes played with equal skill (idiom); different methods leading to the same result; different approach but equally satisfactory outcome
- thriving; flourishing
- time; era; period of time
- to be at the scene (sitting for an exam, performing, competing, giving directions etc); firsthand (experience); impromptu (remarks etc)
- to weave; to plait; to organize; to group; to arrange; to edit; to compile; to write; to compose; to fabricate; to make up
- 加 jiā: 加 jia1: to add; (math.) plus; to increase; to augment; (used before a disyllabic verb, often after an adverb like 不[bu4], 大[da4], 稍[shao1] etc, to indicate that the action applies to sth previously mentioned, as in 稍加改良[shao1 jia1 gai3 liang2] "make some minor improvements to (it)")加 Jiā: 加 Jia1: Canada (abbr. for 加拿大[Jia1 na2 da4]); surname Jia
- Kang Youwei (1858-1927), Confucian intellectual, educator and would-be reformer, main leader of the failed reform movement of 1898
- to discuss; to talk about
- to make a fool of oneself
- to convert; to turn into (sth else); to adapt (a story to another medium)
- Jin Yong, pen name of Louis Cha (1924-2018), wuxia 武俠|武侠[wu3 xia2] novelist, author of the 1957-1961 Condor Trilogy
- usual; customary
- (main) hall; large room for a specific purpose; CL:間|间[jian1]; relationship between cousins etc on the paternal side of a family; of the same clan; classifier for classes, lectures etc; classifier for sets of furniture
- migrant worker (who moved from a rural area of China to a city to find work); temporary worker enlisted on a public project
- to look down on; to underestimate
- relatively speaking; comparatively speaking
- intelligence test
- in a word; in short; in brief