treat; receive; entertain

chance; opportunity; luck

meet; encounter; come across

(verb) To bump into (a friend or someone)

in case, if encountered

(of a woman) be married to a scoundrel; have a good-for-nothing as a husband

to be married to a bad husband; to encounter indecent people

to be attacked by an assassin; a stabbing attack

grasp/seize the opportunity; catch at an opportunity

circumstance

fortuitous; priceless; unique

can be found only by accident, not through seeking

meet by chance; have a chance encounter

to encounter a tragedy; to meet disaster

ill-fated; dead

batter; attack

to meet one another; to become acquainted with

fortunes; luck; turns in life; spells of good or bad fortune

run into an old friend in a foreign place:

他鄉 literally means "other township/countryside", refering to somewhere foreign, not your hometown.

故知literally means "history-knowing", refering to someone who knows your history and story, thus an old friend.

victims of a tragedy such as an accident or murder etc.

to rub up against

to come across; to meet; to encounter; to rub up against

special treatment

have one's talent go unrecognized

drowning, near-drowning, almost got drown

to drown

describes the situation where if someone has tried his/her luck for many times (normally in doing unpleasant things), then one day, he/she most probably will get caught or encounter a negative outcome; literally 'if you go up the mountain often you'll eventually encounter a tiger'

Preferential treatment

when a flirtatious woman meet with a promiscuous man [colloquial]

chance upon; meet unexpectedly; encounter by chance; run into by accident

verb; to come across or run into one unexpectedly

to meet

to meet; to run into; to bump into; to come across | Spoken Cant. alt.: 撞到

(verb) Bump into (someone)

an encounter