Vocabulary: 过得刚好
- who would have thought; unexpectedly
- 曲 qǔ: 曲 qu3: tune; song; CL:支[zhi1]曲 qū: 曲 qu1: bent; crooked; wrong曲 Qū: 曲 Qu1: surname Qu曲 qū: 曲 qu1: fermentation starter; leaven (molds, yeasts or bacteria used in fermenting soy products or brewing etc); Taiwan pr. [qu2]
- 直 Zhí: 直 Zhi2: surname Zhi; Zhi (c. 2000 BC), fifth of the legendary Flame Emperors 炎帝[Yan2 di4] descended from Shennong 神農|神农[Shen2 nong2] Farmer God直 zhí: 直 zhi2: straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable; frank; straightforward; (indicates continuing motion or action); vertical; vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters
- to bend; bent; a bend; a turn (in a road etc); CL:道[dao4]
- to look after the house; (of skill, ability) special; outstanding
- to dye; to catch (a disease); to acquire (bad habits etc); to contaminate; to add color washes to a painting
- to paint; to whitewash; emulsion; plaster
- food preserved in sugar or honey
- fruit (plural sense); melons and fruit
- sweet; (fig.) pleasant; endearing; lovely
- must; have to; be bound to
- philanthropist; charitable person; well-doer
- ordinary person; mortal; earthling
- temple; ancestral shrine; CL:座[zuo4]; temple fair; great imperial hall; imperial
- to burn incense
- to befall; to be imminent
- hog; pig; swine; CL:口[kou3],頭|头[tou2]
- labor contractor; gangmaster
- fruit; result; resolute; indeed; if really
- karma; cause and effect
- accurate to perfection (idiom); precise to the finest detail
- 召 zhào: 召 zhao4: to call together; to summon; to convene; temple or monastery (used in place names in Inner Mongolia)召 Shào: 召 Shao4: surname Shao; name of an ancient state that existed in what is now Shaanxi Province
- to take the car, bus, train etc
- in a split second
- full of; brimming with; very full; permeated
- hasn't (or haven't); hasn't ever
- is not; has never been; never occurring; unprecedented
- to travel around many countries (idiom); peregrinations; refers to the travels of Confucius
- to pass through; via; by way of
- alternative name for Shandong 山東|山东[Shan1 dong1]
- 凶 xīong: 凶 xiong1: terrible; fearful凶 xīong: 凶 xiong1: vicious; fierce; ominous; inauspicious; famine
- Yan Hui (521-481 BC), disciple of Confucius, also known as Yan Yuan 顏淵|颜渊[Yan2 Yuan1]
- Zi Lu (542-480 BC), disciple of Confucius 孔夫子[Kong3 fu1 zi3], also known as Ji Lu 季路[Ji4 Lu4]
- four seasons, namely: spring 春[chun1], summer 夏[xia4], autumn 秋[qiu1] and winter 冬[dong1]
- Master (old form of address for teachers, scholars); (used sarcastically) pedant
- see 屎蚵螂[shi3 ke1 lang2]
- winter
- egg; CL:個|个[ge4],打[da2]; oval-shaped thing
- to make explosive allegations
- (bound form) marriage; wedding; (bound form) to marry