Vocabulary: 过得刚好
- knitting wool; wool yarn
- to weave; to knit
- underpants; panties; briefs
- (idiomatic usage) with great difficulty; to have a hard time (convincing sb, relinquishing sth etc); (literal usage) so easy
- slippers; sandals; flip-flops; CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]
- unlined trousers; summer trousers
- cotton-padded jacket
- cotton
- cuff
- Beijing Evening News
- dark (weather, mood)
- staking a claim to territory; enclosure
- soles of the feet
- bone; CL:根[gen1],塊|块[kuai4]; moral character; bitterness; Taiwan pr. [gu2 tou5]
- (of a city etc) ablaze with lights
- brightly lit
- lit. above are the elderly, below are the young (idiom); fig. to have to take care of both one's aging parents and one's children; sandwich generation
- (coll.) to hold; to grip; to grasp
- evening newspaper; (in a newspaper's name) Evening News
- Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青[Jiang1 Qing1], Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥[Zhang1 Chun1 qiao2], Yao Wenyuan 姚文元[Yao2 Wen2 yuan2], Wang Hongwen 王洪文[Wang2 Hong2 wen2], who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution
- to crush; to smash; to shatter
- neck; collar; to lead; to receive; classifier for clothes, mats, screens etc
- ceremonial robe; formal attire (dinner suit, evening gown etc)
- cloth shoes; slippers
- toothpaste; CL:管[guan3]
- toothbrush; CL:把[ba3]
- to experience for oneself
- upper layer
- side by side; abreast
- behind; the back; the rear; later; afterwards; (in) the future
- dining hall; cafeteria; CL:個|个[ge4],間|间[jian1]
- to set fire to; to burn down; burning hot; baked cake
- (dialect) beef steak
- onion (Allium cepa); bulb onion
- Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD)