The Sight of Father’s Back by Zhu Ziqing is a text that we are very familiar with.

Original text: I went home and sold the pawns, and my father repaid the shortfall; I borrowed money to pay for the funeral. These days, the family situation is very bleak, half due to the funeral and half due to the father's unemployment.

Translation: After arriving home in Yangzhou

father paid off debts by selling or pawning things. He also borrowed money to meet the funeral expenses. Beeen grandma's funeral and father's unemployment

our family was then in reduced circumstances.

To pay funeral expenses is translated as to meet the funeral expenses. Meet here should mean "to cope with (difficulties, etc.)".

Here I will focus on introducing you to the wonderful uses of meet:

When using meet and meet with, you should pay attention to the following points:

a. Say "meet" Use meet. For example:

I often meet him in this street.

I shall meet him at the station.

I was fortunate enough to meet him at dinner.< /p>

The owners were ready to meet the miners.

John came out to meet Henry in the duel.

b. Say "meet (person) by chance" You can use meet or meet with. When you say "encounter (object) by chance", use meet with. When you say "encounter (word or sentence) by chance (while reading)", you can use meet or meet with. For example:

I often meet (with) him in the library.

I sometimes meet with such fish in the market.

I rarely meet (with) this idiom in literary works.

c. Use meet to say "to cope with (difficulties, etc.)". For example:

I shall do my best to meet this misfortune.

d. Use meet with when saying "encounter (difficulties, etc.)". For example:

I met with this misfortune on the way.

e. When saying "get (agree, etc.)", we usually use meet with, sometimes meet. For example:

My book met (with) a warm reception.

f. Use meet to say "to meet (requirements, hopes, etc.)". For example:

This will meet the market’s demands.

g. Use meet when saying “pay (debt)”, “fulfill (promise)”, etc. For example:

Jack always meets his obligations.

Well, even a word like meet, which is too common and common, has various uses.