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"干杯！生日快乐！"
Translation:Cheers! Happy Birthday!
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干杯 (cheers) is literally "dry cup" and of course referring to a drink (toast) not "cheers" as a casual greeting.
干杯 literally means "to empty the cup", so the correct translation should be "bottom up" or something that conveys the idea of having the cup empty. "Cheers" is too superficial a translation.
Yes. I think it stems from traditional Chinese drinking culture using smaller cups/glasses and not with pint glasses.
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2020.7.17
干杯 is basically said when toasting. If you have a pint of beer or a glass of wine, obviously that does not mean "bottoming up" all that in a single swig. The characters' literal meaning may be that however
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Actually they really are the same, in the original Traditional Chinese characters and in their meaning. 乾杯!
Duolingo doesn't accept spaces in Chinese, so you'll have to try using actual punctuation, without spaces.
