New Practical Chinese Reader Lesson 4.42 - Page 1

foreign

rural area; countryside

family reunion dinner on the lunar New Year's Eve

the lunar New Year's Eve

healthy

to get rich; to make a fortune

to make a fortune

wealth; money

realize all one's wishes

on the contrary

to taste, to try the flavor

fish braised in brown sauce

to braise in brown sauce

fish

meat; pork

used in a rhetorical question for emphasis

to pronounce

surplus

surplus

mobile phone

dumpling

New Year's Eve

to stay up all night on New Year's Eve

casual; informal; random

to set off firecrackers

to set off

firecrackers

to prohibit, to ban

no wonder; so that's why

parts of the country other than where one is

Spring Festival Couplets

paper-cut for window decoration

especially

a close neighbor means more than a distant relative

traditional residential compound with houses around a square courtyard

courtyard

to load; to pack

lorry; truck

wood; log

cement

to fit up; to renovate

neighbor

to unload; to discharge

to work

measure word for trips

to laugh at somebody/joke

hesitate

to push

wheelbarrow

to pat