day 192qipao and wedding banquets
unit 29 · culture & historyqipao and wedding banquets
Get ready for a wedding banquet, talk about customs and beliefs, and draw conclusions with 可見 and 看來.
today’s words
- 喜酒 xǐjiǔ · wedding banquet
- 旗袍 qípáo · qipao, cheongsam
- 俗 sú · tacky, vulgar; common
- 許願 xǔyuàn · make a wish
- 正月 zhēngyuè · first month of the lunar year
- 神聖 shénshèng · sacred, solemn
- 神仙 shénxiān · immortal, fairy (in legends)
- 信仰 xìnyǎng · belief, faith; believe in
- 搖頭 yáotóu · shake one’s head
- 擱 gē · put, leave (somewhere)
- 失掉 shīdiào · lose
- 途徑 tújìng · way, channel
- 系列 xìliè · series
- 原則上 yuánzéshàng · in principle, as a rule
- 正方形 zhèngfāngxíng · square (shape)
- 丙 bǐng · C, third (in a series)
- 成天 chéngtiān · all day long
- 丁 dīng · D, fourth (in a series)
sentences
- 這個星期六我們要去喝喜酒。 · We’re going to a wedding banquet this Saturday.
- 她穿著一件紅色的旗袍，非常漂亮。 · She was wearing a red qipao and looked lovely.
- 來了三百多個客人，可見朋友很多。 · Over three hundred guests came: they must have lots of friends.
- 原則上，紅包要用新的錢。 · As a rule, the money in a red envelope should be new notes.
- 學中文有很多途徑。 · There are many ways to learn Chinese.