1. to catch up with
2. to keep pace with

1. recently
2. soon
3. nearest

1. tide
2. current
3. trend

1. fashion
2. fad
3. fashionable

1. to be (followed by substantives only)
2. correct; right; true
3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)

1. item
2. component
3. classifier for events, things, clothes etc

1. very; really
2. unusual; extraordinary

1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 pígéde "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
5. also pr. dì or di in poetry and songs

1. one's employment
2. business
3. matter that needs to be settled
4. (northern dialect) (of a person) demanding
5. trying
6. troublesome
7. erhua variant of 事 shì

classifiers: 件, 樁