Vocabulary: 过得刚好
- sometimes; now and then
- vast and indistinct; perplexed; bewildered; at a loss
- Republic of China (1912-1949); used in Taiwan as the name of the calendar era (e.g. 民國六十年|民国六十年 is 1971, the 60th year after 1911)
- long gown; cheongsam; traditional Asian dress for men or (in Hong Kong) women's qipao
- 戴 dài: 戴 dai4: to put on or wear (glasses, hat, gloves etc); to respect; to bear; to support戴 Dài: 戴 Dai4: surname Dai
- hat that goes with formal dress; top hat
- to lose; to put aside; to throw
- ocean; (old) silver dollar; (slang) Chinese yuan
- rickshaw
- partner; fellow; mate; waiter; servant; shop assistant
- to call out to; to greet; to say hello to; to inform; to take care of; to take care that one does not
- to step into; to enter
- tavern; pub; wine shop
- (dialect) cabbage
- to join; to fit; to mate; to mix; to match; to deserve; to make up (a prescription); to allocate
- four; 4
- 凉 liàng: 凉 liang4: to let sth cool down凉 Liáng: 凉 Liang2: the five Liang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Liang 前涼|前凉 (314-376), Later Liang 後涼|后凉 (386-403), Northern Liang 北涼|北凉 (398-439), Southern Liang 南涼|南凉[Nan2 Liang2] (397-414), Western Liang 西涼|西凉 (400-421)凉 liáng: 凉 liang2: cool; cold
- prawn; shrimp
- to slice; slice; thin section of a specimen (for microscopic examination)
- noodles served with soy sauce, sesame butter etc
- cooked rice; CL:碗[wan3]; meal; CL:頓|顿[dun4]; (loanword) fan; devotee
- 罢 ba: 罢 ba5: (final particle, same as 吧)罢 bà: 罢 ba4: to stop; to cease; to dismiss; to suspend; to quit; to finish
- inclined; slanting; oblique; tilting
- (loanword) neon lights (abbr. for 霓虹燈|霓虹灯[ni2 hong2 deng1]); (literary) rainbow
- bright; resplendent
- foreign money; flat silver (former coinage); also written 銀元|银元
- to throw; to throw away
- numerous
- beggar
- to hold in one's arms; to embrace; to surround; to gather around; to throng; to swarm; (bound form) to support (as in 擁護|拥护[yong1 hu4]); (literary) to have; to possess; Taiwan pr. [yong3]
- fifteen; 15
- anniversary; annual
- ceremony; collection of classical writings
- to open (a conference); to inaugurate
- a hundred or more
- to join forces; to give full cooperation
- 全 Quán: 全 Quan2: surname Quan全 quán: 全 quan2: all; whole; entire; every; complete
- 坝 bà: 坝 ba4: (used in place names) plain; flatland; (dialect) sandbar; shoal坝 bà: 坝 ba4: dam; dike; embankment; CL:條|条[tiao2]
- although; even though
- a downpour; rain bucketing down
- 注 zhù: 注 zhu4: (bound form) to pour into; to flow into; to inject; (bound form) to focus (one's spirit, gaze etc) on a single point; to concentrate; (bound form) stake (in gambling); classifier for stakes, sums of money, transactions or beams of light注 zhù: 注 zhu4: to annotate; to provide explanatory notes on a written text; an annotation; an explanatory note; (bound form) to put on record; to register
- lit. a banquet with no empty seats; full house; capacity crowd; standing room only
- to brave the rain