Vocabulary: 过得刚好
- to laugh up one's sleeve
- to fish (with line and hook); to angle; (fig.) to entrap; (Tw) to repeatedly nod one's head while dozing
- boat; vessel; ship; CL:條|条[tiao2],艘[sou1],隻|只[zhi1]
- birthday; CL:個|个[ge4]
- actually; place; classifier for houses, small buildings, institutions etc; that which; particle introducing a relative clause or passive; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 作 zùo: 作 zuo4: to do; to engage in; to write; to compose; to pretend; to feign; to regard as; to consider to be; to be; to act the part of; to feel (itchy, nauseous etc); writings; works作 zūo: 作 zuo1: (bound form) worker; (bound form) workshop; (slang) troublesome; high-maintenance (person)
- one's age, according to the traditional Chinese method of reckoning (i.e. the number of Chinese calendar years in which one has lived) – In this system, a person's age at birth is one, and increases by one at the beginning of the first solar term 立春[Li4 chun1] each year, rather than on one's birthday.; contrasted with 實歲|实岁[shi2 sui4]
- to arrive at (place or time); period; to become due; classifier for events, meetings, elections, sporting fixtures, years (of graduation)
- to destroy; to spoil; to ruin; to injure; cruel; oppressive; savage; brutal; incomplete; disabled; to remain; to survive; remnant; surplus
- words; speech; to say; to talk
- to use it (or do it) for the purpose of (allaying hunger, relieving boredom etc) to some extent
- to encourage oneself
- nature; disposition; innate; natural
- lair; den; stronghold
- to learn a skill or art
- to grow up
- to arrive; to come
- development; growth; to develop; to grow; to expand
- to depart; to leave
- to migrate; to move to a new place of residence
- roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea
- father; also pr. [fu4 qin5]; CL:個|个[ge4]
- police; police officer
- mother
- in one's childhood
- to live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease; (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state)
- 老城区 Lǎo chéng Qū: 老城区 Lao3 cheng2 Qu1: Laocheng, a district of Luoyang City 洛陽市|洛阳市[Luo4 yang2 Shi4], Henan老城区 lǎo chéng qū: 老城区 lao3 cheng2 qu1: old city district; historical center
- nearby; neighboring; (in the) vicinity (of); neighborhood
- theater; CL:座[zuo4]
- sometimes
- to be on duty (of a security guard etc)
- (concept of) time; (duration of) time; (point in) time
- 长 zhǎng: 长 zhang3: chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop; to increase; to enhance长 cháng: 长 chang2: long; (bound form) length; (bound form) strong point; forte; (bound form) to be good at; (literary) surplus; spare (Taiwan pr. [zhang4])
- to arise; to come into being; to come about; to give rise to; to bring into being; to bring about; to produce; to engender; to generate
- interest (desire to know about sth); interest (thing in which one is interested); hobby
- the first time; for the first time
- left and right; nearby; approximately; attendant; to control; to influence
- in other words; that is
- 着 zhúo: 着 zhuo2: to wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply着 zhāo: 着 zhao1: a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to add着 zhe: 着 zhe5: aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state着 zháo: 着 zhao2: to touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in
- 玩 wán: 玩 wan2: to play; to have fun; to trifle with; toy; sth used for amusement; curio or antique (Taiwan pr. [wan4]); to keep sth for entertainment玩 wán: 玩 wan2: Taiwan pr. [wan4]
- to hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried; to be concerned; (dialect) to make a phone call; to register (at a hospital); to make an appointment (with a doctor); (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam); classifier for sets or clusters of objects
- beard; mustache or whiskers; facial hair; CL:撮[zuo3],根[gen1]; (coll.) bandit
- to disguise oneself as; to dress up; to play (a role); to put on (an expression)
- Lord Bao or Judge Bao, fictional nickname of Bao Zheng 包拯[Bao1 Zheng3] (999-1062), Northern Song official renowned for his honesty