Taivo A Taiwan Mandarin dictionary

過得去

guòdéqù

ㄍㄨㄛˋ ㄉㄜˊ ㄑㄩˋ

Simplified 过得去

  1. 1lit. can pass through (an opening)
  2. 2fig. can get by (in life)
  3. 3tolerably well
  4. 4not too bad
  5. 5How are you getting by?
  6. 6How's life?
Example

以英語唱的歌劇,大致上和以意大利語玩的棒球般過得去。

yǐ Yīngyǔ chàng de gējù dàzhì shàng hàn yǐ Yìdàlìyǔ wán de bàngqiú bān guòdéqù

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Keep 過得去 and it comes back until you know it.

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