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wine shop / pub (public house) / hotel / restaurant / (Tw) hostess club
HSK 2
beer (loanword) / CL: , , , ,
HSK 3
bar (place to buy drinks) / CL:
HSK 4
heavy drinking / to get drunk / to drink to excess
HSK 7-9
baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒)
HSK 5
red wine
HSK 3
drunkard
HSK 5
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  *酒* | 酒* | *酒
wine (esp. rice wine) / liquor / spirits / alcoholic beverage / CL: , , , ,
HSK 2
wedding feast / liquor drunk at a wedding feast
HSK 7-9
(grape) wine
HSK 5
drink (on a menu)
beverage; drink
HSK 6
to get drunk and act crazy / roaring drunk
to mix drinks / cocktail
dish that goes well with alcoholic drinks; snack eaten with drinks
to play house (Tw)
to become intoxicated after having only one or two drinks
(coll.) ethanol; ethyl alcohol
HSK 7-9
to live in the moment (idiom) / to live every day as if it were one's last / to enjoy while one can
tavern / pub / wine shop
restaurant
HSK 7-9
formal exchange of cups of wine between bride and groom as traditional wedding ceremony
whiskey (loanword)
digestif
to be appropriate to have with alcohol / to down one's drink
good wine / fine liquor
wine-drinking game
fragrant wine fears no dark alley (idiom) / quality goods need no advertising
brewer's yeast
feast; banquet
to toast; to propose a toast
HSK 7-9
sweet liquor
love hotel
capsule hotel
Beer Festival
to taste wine / to sip wine
lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment
lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework / (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
a few drinks and a nice conversation (idiom)
bistro
to get drunk
Japanese rice wine / sake
strong alcoholic drink
tipsy and merry (idiom)
to drink (alcohol)
to give up drinking / to abstain from drinking
old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
Yanjing beer (Beijing beer brand)
draft beer / unpasteurized beer
to force sb to drink alcohol
Budweiser beer
prohibition / ban on alcohol
wine pot / wine cup
beer belly
fond of the bottle (idiom)
(loanword) rum
liquor
Tsingtao Beer
(idiom) to drown one's sorrows
(loanword) liqueur
tequila
Port wine
drunken fighting / to get drunk and quarrel
to buy liquor
tobacco and alcohol
short speech given in proposing a toast
tavern / wine shop
not a slave to the bottle / able to enjoy alcohol in moderation / able to hold one's drink
glutinous rice wine / fermented glutinous rice
smell of alcohol / flavoring of rum or other liquor in food / aroma or nose (of wine)
absinthe (distilled anise-based liquor)
to sober up
to drink along (with sb)
sparkling wine
craft beer
wine shop / liquor store / bottle shop / bar / pub
maotai (a strong spirit produced in Guizhou) / CL: ,
bar
to make a fermented drink (i.e. to brew beer, make wine etc)
abstaining from liquor and tobacco
short speech given in proposing a toast
Bacchus (the Greek god of wine), aka Dionysus
banquet to celebrate the Spring Festival / wine made in spring and kept until winter, or made in winter and kept until spring
social occasion centered on alcohol; drinking party; drinking session
love hotel
prohibition / ban on alcohol / dry law
the catering industry / the hotel and restaurant business
tip
distiller's grain / wine lees
izakaya (a kind of traditional Japanese pub)
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
to prepare a feast
woman hired to lure men to high-priced bars
drinking culture
winery
food and drink
to urge sb to drink alcohol
vermouth (loanword)
to pour wine or liquor
(loanword) rum

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