Twenty years on

The lesson’s vocabulary

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• 班长
  bānzhǎng

  class monitor; squad leader; team leader

• 同学
  tóngxué

  fellow student; classmate; to study at the same school

• 聚会
  jùhuì

  to meet; to get together; party

• 总算
  zǒngsuàn

  at long last; finally; on the whole

• 群
  qún

  group; crowd; flock, herd, pack etc

• 喊
  hǎn

  to yell; to shout; to call out for (a person)

• 声
  shēng

  sound; voice; tone

• 打扮
  dǎban

  to decorate; to dress; to make up

• 镜子
  jìngzi

  mirror

• 迟到
  chídào

  to arrive late

• 番
  fān

  (classifier) a kind; foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian

• 就算
  jiùsuàn

  (coll.) even if

• 认得
  rènde

  to recognize; to remember sth (or sb) on seeing it; to know

• 订
  dìng

  to agree; to conclude; to draw up

• 趟
  tàng

  classifier for times, round trips or rows; a time; a trip

• 请客
  qǐngkè

  to give a dinner party; to entertain guests

• 抄
  chāo

  to make a copy; to plagiarize; to search and seize

• 作业
  zuòyè

  school assignment; homework; work

• 复习
  fùxí

  to review; revision

• 功课
  gōngkè

  homework; assignment; task

• 着急
  zháojí

  to worry; to feel anxious; to feel a sense of urgency

• 宿舍
  sùshè

  dormitory; dorm room; living quarters

• 聊
  liáo

  (coll.) to chat; (literary) to depend upon

• 经历
  jīnglì

  to experience; to go through; experience

• 交代
  jiāodài

  to transfer (duties to sb else); to give instructions

• 调皮
  tiáopí

  naughty; mischievous; unruly

• 通知
  tōngzhī

  to notify; to inform; notice

• 机票
  jīpiào

  plane ticket; airline ticket

• 做生意
  zuò shēngyi

  to do business

• 倒
  dào

  to invert; to place upside down or frontside back

• 干杯
  gānbēi

  to drink a toast; Cheers! (proposing a toast)

• 即便
  jíbiàn

  even if; even though; right away

• 保证
  bǎozhèng

  to guarantee; to ensure; to safeguard

• 提前
  tíqián

  to shift to an earlier date; to do sth ahead of time

• 打招呼
  dǎ zhāohu

  to greet sb by word or action; to give prior notice

• 老家
  lǎojiā

  native place; place of origin; home state or region

• 当年
  dāngnián

  in those days; back then; to be in the prime of life

• 合适
  héshì

  suitable; fitting

The lesson’s grammar

• 番, 声, 趟: verbal measure words

  V + 一番 | V + 一声 / 几声 | V + 一趟 / 两趟

• 就算 / 就是……也……: even if (spoken)

  就算 / 就是 + hypothesis, (Subject) + 也 + result

• V + 什么(就)是什么: whatever you say goes

  S + V + 什么 + (就) + 是 + 什么 | V + 什么 + 就 + V + 什么

• 你一句我一句 / 东一句西一句: back and forth, here and there

  A + 一 + M，B + 一 + M | 东 + 一 + M，西 + 一 + M

• 即便…也… / 纵然…也…: even if, even though

  即便/纵然 + extreme hypothesis，(S) 也 + V