"Occasion" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 jī huì opportunity / chance / occasion / CL:個|个[ge4]
 chǎng miàn scene / spectacle / occasion / situation
 shí jī fortunate timing / occasion / opportunity
 chǎng hé situation / occasion / context / setting / location / venue
 jì border / edge / boundary / interval / between / inter- / to meet / time / occasion / to meet with (circumstances)
 hǎo shì good action, deed, thing or work (also sarcastic, "a fine thing indeed") / charity / happy occasion / Daoist or Buddhist ceremony for the souls of the dead
 shì shí timely / apt to the occasion / in due course
 měi féng every time / on each occasion / whenever
 dé tǐ appropriate to the occasion / fitting
 yìng yùn ér shēng to emerge to meet a historic destiny (idiom) / to arise at an opportune time / able to take advantage of an opportunity / to rise to the occasion
 shèng kuàng grand occasion
 shèng shì grand occasion
 xǐ shì happy occasion / wedding
 bù hé shí yí out of step with current thinking / outmoded / inappropriate for the occasion
 xǐ táng sweet given on a happy occasion (esp. wedding)
 yùn shì poetic occasion / elegant situation / in literature, the cue for a poem
 yìng yùn to conform with destiny / as the occasion demands
 shì féng qí huì to just happen to coincide with the occasion (idiom) / to be present just at the right time
 bù rù shí yí out of step with current thinking / outmoded / inappropriate for the occasion
 yìng fu yù rú handling any occasion smoothly (idiom) / equal to any situation
 bù duì chá r not proper / not fit for the occasion
 bù zhǐ yī cì many times / on more than one occasion
 xǐ qian tip given on a happy occasion (traditional)
 jiā huì auspicious occasion / grand feast
 tóu huí for the first time / on the previous occasion / last time (something occurred)
 lián hé guó wǔ shí zhōu nián jì niàn xuān yán Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations
 shì qíng kuàng for all pertinent purposes / as occasion shall or may require
  Special Commemorative Meeting of the General Assembly on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations
  Declaration on the Occasion of the Sixtieth Anniversary of United Nations Peacekeeping
  Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of United Nations Peacekeeping
  Declaration on the Occasion of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the United Nations
  Declaration of the Council of Presidents of the General Assembly on the occasion of the Millennium Summit of the United Nations
  Decree on the General Amnesty on the Occasion of the Declaration of National Reconciliation
 fèn zi qián gift money (on the occasion of a wedding etc)
 xīn féng on the happy occasion of
 zhí cǐ on this (occasion) / at this time when ... / on this occasion
 zé rì bù rú zhuàng rì lit. carefully setting an auspicious date does not beat seizing an opportunity (idiom) / fig. seize the occasion
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