Vocabulary: 过得刚好
- Otto Braun (1900-1974), Comintern adviser to the Chinese communist party 1932-1939
- ornaments on headstall of horse
- 尹 Yǐn: 尹 Yin3: surname Yin尹 yǐn: 尹 yin3: (literary) to administer; to govern; (bound form) governor; prefect; magistrate (official title in imperial times)
- abbr. for 泰山北斗[Tai4 shan1 Bei3 dou3]
- 大王 dà wáng: 大王 da4 wang2: king; magnate; person having expert skill in something大王 dài wang: 大王 dai4 wang5: robber baron (in opera, old stories); magnate
- prosperous; henry (unit of inductance)
- 魏 Wèi: 魏 Wei4: surname Wei; name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States; Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操[Cao2 Cao1], one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty; the Wei dynasty 221–265; Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history魏 wèi: 魏 wei4: tower over a palace gateway (old)
- to come forth in large numbers
- slack; in a slump
- 保 Bǎo: 保 Bao3: Bulgaria (abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚[Bao3 jia1 li4 ya4])保 bǎo: 保 bao3: to defend; to protect; to keep; to guarantee; to ensure; (old) civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system
- et cetera; and so on ...; wait a minute!; hold on!
- to earn a living by performing (typically in informal or public settings)
- mountain stream
- mouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc); classifier for bites or mouthfuls
- previously; before
- market; city; municipality (administrative unit); (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods
- early morning; also pr. [zao3chen5]
- to make a living doing manual labor; to give sth all one's got
- spade; shovel
- carrying pole; shoulder pole; CL:根[gen1]
- to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together
- Yongdingmen, front gate of the outer section of Beijing's old city wall, torn down in the 1950s and reconstructed in 2005
- train station
- to unload; to unhitch; to remove or strip; to get rid of
- wagon; freight car
- to shed; to take off; to escape; to get away from
- bare upper body; bare-chested; to bare one's chest
- 西 Xī: 西 Xi1: the West; abbr. for Spain 西班牙[Xi1 ban1 ya2]; Spanish西 xī: 西 xi1: west
- bath
- 铺 pù: 铺 pu4: store铺 pù: 铺 pu4: plank bed; place to sleep; shop; store; (old) relay station铺 pū: 铺 pu1: to spread; to display; to set up; (old) holder for door-knocker
- soft; flexible
- quick-fry; sim. to stir-frying, but with cornstarch added; also written 溜
- meat slice
- blank (e.g. for a coin); unburnt earthenware; semifinished product; Taiwan pr. [pei1]
- to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon
- second part; the equinox
- on the body; at hand; among