All Saints (Christian festival)
1. to solicit a bribe2. to accept a bribe
Passover (Jewish holiday)
1. (coll.) grudge; strife2. (coll.) good manners
(Islam) Eid al-Fitr, festival that marks the end of Ramadan
1. Double Tenth, the anniversary of the Wuchang Uprising 武昌起义[wǔ chāng qǐ yì] of October 10th, 19112. (Tw) National Day
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
Youth Day (May 4th), PRC national holiday for young people aged 14 to 28, who get half a day off
festival of fasting (esp. Eid al-Fitr)
1. to bow and scrape2. to act servilely
to practice strict economy (idiom)
1. polysyllabic word2. Chinese word made up of three or more characters
radio program; broadcast program
to start reading furiously, contrary to previous habit (idiom)
Chinese New Year festivities
(idiom) to tarnish one's reputation in later life; to lose prestige at a later stage
to deliberately complicate an issue (idiom)
pure and high-minded (idiom)
1. twisted roots and intertwined joints (idiom); complicated and very tricky2. knotty and deeply-rooted difficulties
restrain your grief, accept fate (condolence phrase)
1. to retreat again and again in defeat2. to suffer defeat after defeat
1. arthropod, segmented animals with jointed limbs2. same as 节肢动物[jié zhī dòng wù]
erhua variant of 节骨眼[jiē gu yǎn]
1. tiny insignificant details2. niceties
1. to economize on clothes and food2. to scrimp and save (idiom)
memorial arch in honor of a chaste widow
during holidays and festivals; on festive occasions such as New Year
1. lit. to open a water source and reduce outflow (idiom); to increase income and save on spending2. to broaden the sources of income and economize on expenditure
a high-class upright character (idiom)
the 24 solar terms, calculated from the position of the sun on the ecliptic, that divide the year into 24 equal periods
International Women's Day (March 8)
风湿性关节炎 風濕性關節炎 fēng shī xìng guān jié yán rheumatoid arthritis
每逢佳节倍思亲 每逢佳節倍思親 měi féng jiā jié bèi sī qīn doubly homesick for our dear ones at each festive day (from a poem by Wang Wei 王维[wáng wéi])