I'm only reading the scraps on news on the Internet, but, well, I get the general picture.
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
Mandarin
第二天早上,他就平安无事的回来了,我们都大大的松了一口气。
第二天早上,他就平安無事的回來了,我們都大大的鬆了一口氣。
dì èr tiān zǎo shang , tā jiù píng ān wú shì de huí lai le , wǒ men dōu dà dà de sōng le yī kǒu qì 。
The next morning, to our great relief, he returned home safe and sound.
The peasants are working with a will, and last year there was an increase in the country's grain output despite the worst floods, droughts and gales in years.