{"id":103,"date":"2009-06-15T03:32:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T07:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=103"},"modified":"2009-06-15T03:32:56","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T07:32:56","slug":"winning-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/winning-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other night I was at a conference which had organized a <strong>\u62bd\u5956<\/strong> (prize drawing) activity.\u00a0 I bought 9 tickets at the time, trying to improve my chances of winning.\u00a0 Win I did.\u00a0 There were KTV (karaoke) passes and <strong>\u9910\u5377<\/strong> (food coupons), which could be used another night.\u00a0 Given that the tickets were 10USD or 100RMB, I went with the 10USD tickets, saving between 30-40RMB per ticket just by paying in US bills- very <strong>\u5212\u7b97<\/strong> (good deal).\u00a0 The highlight of the night was when I won a <strong>\u7a7a\u6c14\u51c0\u5316\u5668<\/strong> (air purifier) valued at over 1500USD!\u00a0 I ran up to the stage while <strong>\u72c2\u7b11<\/strong> (laughing crazily) and was very <strong>\u5f97\u610f\u6d0b\u6d0b<\/strong> (smug) at a <strong>\u591c\u603b\u4f1a<\/strong> (nightclub) following the event.\u00a0 The only drawback is that my <strong>\u55d3\u5b50<\/strong> (throat) is still rather <strong>\u54d1<\/strong> (scratchy) from all the yelling.<\/p>\n<p>\u62bd\u5956 chou4jiang3 &#8211; prize drawing<br \/>\nKTV pronunced like &#8220;kay-tay-way&#8221; by most &#8211; Karaoke<br \/>\n\u9910\u5377 can1juan3 &#8211; food coupon<br \/>\n\u5212\u7b97 hua2(4)suan4 &#8211; economical, good deal<br \/>\n\u7a7a\u6c14\u51c0\u5316\u5668 kong1qi4jing4hua4qi4 &#8211; air purifier<br \/>\n\u72c2\u7b11 kuang2xiao4 &#8211; laughing crazily<br \/>\n\u5f97\u610f\u6d0b\u6d0b de2yi4yang2yang2 &#8211; self-satisfied<br \/>\n\u591c\u603b\u4f1a ye4zong3hui4 &#8211; nightclub<br \/>\n\u55d3\u5b50 sang3zi &#8211; throat<br \/>\n\u54d1 ya3 &#8211; scratchy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night I was at a conference which had organized a \u62bd\u5956 (prize drawing) activity.\u00a0 I bought 9 tickets at the time, trying to improve my chances of winning.\u00a0 Win I did.\u00a0 There were KTV (karaoke) passes and \u9910\u5377 (food coupons), which could be used another night.\u00a0 Given that the tickets were 10USD or&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/winning-prizes\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-chinese-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}