Example Sentences
宰，你怎么把这件事给忘了？
zǎi, nǐ zěn me bǎ zhè jiàn shì gěi wàng le?
Brother, why have you forgotten this?
按照中国北方很多乡村延续千百年的迎新春民俗，农历腊月二十六这天乡亲们都会忙着宰猪宰牛、熏制腊肉香肠，为除夕丰盛年夜饭备足原料。
àn zhào zhōng guó běi fāng hěn duō xiāng cūn yán xù qiān bǎi nián de yíng xīn chūn mín sú, nóng lì là yuè èr shí liù zhè tiān xiāng qīn men dū huì máng zhe zǎi zhū zǎi niú, xūn zhì là ròu xiāng cháng, wèi chú xī fēng shèng nián yè fàn bèi zú yuán liào.
According to the folk custom of welcoming the New Year that has lasted for thousands of years in many villages in northern China, on the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, villagers will be busy slaughtering pigs and cows, smoking bacon and sausages, and preparing enough ingredients for the sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner.
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Related Words & Compounds
to slaughter / (fig.) to ride roughshod over / to take advantage of (others)
to slaughter (an animal for meat) / to butcher
prime minister (in feudal China)
(coll.) (typically used hyperbolically) to kill (sb)
to cheat customers / to overcharge
to overcharge / to rip sb off
to rule / to dominate
Zai Yu (522-458 BC), disciple of Confucius
see 古爾邦節|古尔邦节[Gu3 er3 bang1 jie2]
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