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wine shop / pub (public house) / hotel / restaurant / (Tw) hostess club
HSK 2
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wine (esp. rice wine) / liquor / spirits / alcoholic beverage / CL: , , , ,
HSK 2
beer (loanword) / CL: , , , ,
HSK 3
red wine
HSK 3
bar (place to buy drinks) / CL:
HSK 4
(grape) wine
HSK 5
baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒)
HSK 5
drunkard
HSK 5
beverage; drink
HSK 6
heavy drinking / to get drunk / to drink to excess
HSK 7-9
restaurant
HSK 7-9
(coll.) ethanol; ethyl alcohol
HSK 7-9
to toast; to propose a toast
HSK 7-9
wedding feast / liquor drunk at a wedding feast
HSK 7-9
rum (beverage) (loanword)
liquor cabinet
drinking party / wine reception
dimple (on the cheek when smiling)
to drink wine
to drink along (with sb)
sake (Japanese rice wine)
tartaric acid
tavern / pub / wine shop
restaurant / bartender / (old) wineshop / tavern
Jiuquan, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省
wine factory / distillery
good wine / fine liquor
to taste wine / to sip wine
lakes of wine and forests of meat (idiom); debauchery / sumptuous entertainment
to make a fermented drink (i.e. to brew beer, make wine etc)
cocktail (loanword)
to play a drinking game
to mix drinks / cocktail
wine cup
brewer's yeast / yeast for fermenting rice wine
name of a famous Tang dynasty wine / same as 白酒
glutinous rice wine / fermented glutinous rice
bartender
sweet fermented rice / glutinous rice wine
to become drunk
to get drunk
a libation
strong alcoholic drink
words spoken under the influence of alcohol (idiom)
tobacco and alcohol
"yellow wine" (mulled rice wine, usually served warm)
to force sb to drink alcohol
wine pot / wine cup
lit. to refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit (idiom) / fig. to turn down a request only to be forced later to comply with it under pressure
Shaoxing wine a.k.a. "yellow wine", traditional Chinese wine made from glutinous rice and wheat
to play house (Tw)
drinking vessel / wine cup
lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment
sweet liquor
gin
capacity for liquor / how much one can drink
to urge sb to drink alcohol
wine-lover's heart is not in the cup (idiom); a drinker not really interested in alcohol / having an ulterior motive / to have other things in mind / with an ax to grind / accomplishing something besides what one set out to do
to have eaten and drunk to one's heart's content
hops
never to touch a drop of alcohol
alcohol drunk to drown one's sorrows
to dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups / cf Song founding Emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 holds a banquet in 961 and persuades his senior army commanders to go home to their provinces
spirit lamp
to prepare a feast
to drink as the result of having lost a bet
alcoholism / alcohol poisoning
drinking party / to go on a binge / to paint the town red
to get wildly drunk
gin
(Tw) fruit wine
(idiom) to drown one's sorrows
to warm up wine / wine served warm, generally referring to Chinese wine such as 黃酒|黄酒 or 白酒
tip
after wine, spit out the truth / in vino veritas
wine, sex, avarice and temper (idiom); four cardinal vices
tipsy and merry (idiom)
distilled liquor / spirits
realgar wine (traditionally drunk during the Dragon Boat Festival 端午節|端午节)
wine sack, food bag (idiom); useless person, only fit for guzzling and boozing
champagne (loanword) / CL: ,
alcohol addiction
distiller's grain / wine lees
draft beer / unpasteurized beer
wine flavored with Chinese mugwort
brewer's yeast
to live in the moment (idiom) / to live every day as if it were one's last / to enjoy while one can
Port wine
old wine
to drink excessively
aperitif wine
hangover
to pour wine
banquet to celebrate the Spring Festival / wine made in spring and kept until winter, or made in winter and kept until spring
The Drunken Beauty, Qing Dynasty Beijing opera
old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
to raise one's wine cup
smell of alcohol / flavoring of rum or other liquor in food / aroma or nose (of wine)
lit. the best wine is at the bottom of the jug (idiom) / fig. the best is saved for last
to get drunk and act crazy / roaring drunk

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