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 yǒu méi yǒu (before a noun) Do (you, they etc) have ...? / Is there a ...? / (before a verb) Did (you, they etc) (verb, infinitive)? / Have (you, they etc) (verb, past participle)?
 zěn me huí shì what's the matter? / what's going on? / how could that be? / how did that come about? / what's it all about?
 hé céng did I ever ...? (or "did he ever ...?" etc)
 wèi not yet / did not / have not / not / 8th earthly branch: 1-3 p.m., 6th solar month (7th July-6th August), year of the Sheep / ancient Chinese compass point: 210°
 kuà xià zhī rǔ lit. the humiliation of having to crawl between the legs of one's adversary (as Han Xin 韓信|韩信[Han2 Xin4] supposedly did rather than engage in a sword fight) (idiom) / fig. utter humiliation
 cóng méi never (in the past) / never did
 yīng gāi de you're most welcome / sure thing! / I did what I was supposed to do
 zěn me gǎo de How did it happen? / What's wrong? / What went wrong? / What's up?
 qióng èr dài those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s / see also 富二代[fu4 er4 dai4]
 yì yè zhèng shū certificate of partial completion / certificate of attendance (for a student who did not graduate)
 sù miàn cháo tiān lit. to present oneself confidently to the emperor, without makeup (as did the sister of Yang Guifei 楊貴妃|杨贵妃[Yang2 Gui4 fei1]) (idiom) / fig. (of a woman) to show one's natural features, without makeup / to present oneself just as one is, without artifice
 yǒu zé gǎi zhī , wú zé jiā miǎn correct any mistakes you made, but maintain your good record if you did not make them (idiom)
 duàn piàn r (coll.) to suffer an alcohol-induced blackout / to be unable to recall what one did while drunk
 Dàn chǎo fàn jié Fried Rice with Egg Festival, informally observed annually on November 25 as the anniversary of the death in 1950 of Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying, by people who are grateful that Mao's grip on China did not extend to a second generation (The younger Mao died in an American air raid in Korea, and, according to a popular account, his death was the result of cooking fried rice with egg, which produced smoke detected by US forces.)
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