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nnozomi成语
冷酷无情, cold-hearted and unfeeling (lit. cold, cruel, without feeling)
网开一面, lenient, to give an opponent a way out (lit. to open one side of the net, going back to the Xia Dynasty)*
秋后算账, to settle the score at a suitable time (lit. to settle accounts after autumn; accounts seem to vary on whether prisoners were executed in autumn or farmers did their books after harvest)
大驾光临, we are honored by your presence (lit. the light of the imperial chariot has appeared (?))
恰恰相反, on the contrary (lit. exactly the reverse)
三姑六婆, gossipy women (relatives), women in unrespectable professions (lit. three aunts and six grandmothers)
上梁不正下梁歪 bad superiors make bad subordinates
出生入死 risk your life
周而复始 come full circle
不声不响 silent and wordless (lit. no voice, no echo)
相依为命 interdependent, reliant on each other for life
弥留之际 on one's deathbed, on the point of death
口齿不清 inarticulate, slurred, unclear (lit. mouth/teeth unclear)
亡羊补牢 taking action before it's too late (lit. dead sheep fix pen)
为时未晚, better late than never (lit. not late for the time)
遗患无穷 a constant source of trouble (lit. not poor in regrets and ailments)
手无缚鸡之力 weak, physically hopeless (lit. not the strength to truss a chicken)
风平浪静 tranquil, uneventful (lit. calm wind, quiet waves)
( pinyin )
词汇
只, only; 只能, can only; 只要, as long as
纸, paper; 报纸, newspaper
中餐, Chinese food; 中级, intermediate; 中年, middle-aged; 中小学, elementary and middle school; 中心, center/core; 中医, Chinese medicine; 高中, high school; 其中, among; 心中, at heart
重点, key point; 重视, attach importance to/focus on
周, week; 周末, weekend; 周年, anniversary; 上周, last week; 下周, next week
主人, master; 主要, main
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/
玩玩
A couple of related links that came to mind. Swallowing Clouds is a book by A. Zee, a Chinese-American physicist, about learning to read Chinese through Chinese restaurant menus, more or less; it’s very entertaining. How to Order and Eat in Chinese and How to Cook and Eat in Chinese are pretty much what they sound like, both by Buwei Yang Chao, the wife of my 偶像 Chao Yuen Ren (with snarky footnotes by CYR himself. A duck recipe ends with “Very often, we enjoy sucking the bones more than eating the meat.* *That’s fine, darling. I’ll have the meat, please. -Y.R.C.”). The links go to openlibrary.org; I think you have to sign up/sign in, but it’s free of charge and easy to use.
这里春天来了，樱花也快要开花了，都是粉色的。大家过得怎么样？
冷酷无情, cold-hearted and unfeeling (lit. cold, cruel, without feeling)
网开一面, lenient, to give an opponent a way out (lit. to open one side of the net, going back to the Xia Dynasty)*
秋后算账, to settle the score at a suitable time (lit. to settle accounts after autumn; accounts seem to vary on whether prisoners were executed in autumn or farmers did their books after harvest)
大驾光临, we are honored by your presence (lit. the light of the imperial chariot has appeared (?))
恰恰相反, on the contrary (lit. exactly the reverse)
三姑六婆, gossipy women (relatives), women in unrespectable professions (lit. three aunts and six grandmothers)
上梁不正下梁歪 bad superiors make bad subordinates
出生入死 risk your life
周而复始 come full circle
不声不响 silent and wordless (lit. no voice, no echo)
相依为命 interdependent, reliant on each other for life
弥留之际 on one's deathbed, on the point of death
口齿不清 inarticulate, slurred, unclear (lit. mouth/teeth unclear)
亡羊补牢 taking action before it's too late (lit. dead sheep fix pen)
为时未晚, better late than never (lit. not late for the time)
遗患无穷 a constant source of trouble (lit. not poor in regrets and ailments)
手无缚鸡之力 weak, physically hopeless (lit. not the strength to truss a chicken)
风平浪静 tranquil, uneventful (lit. calm wind, quiet waves)
( pinyin )
词汇
只, only; 只能, can only; 只要, as long as
纸, paper; 报纸, newspaper
中餐, Chinese food; 中级, intermediate; 中年, middle-aged; 中小学, elementary and middle school; 中心, center/core; 中医, Chinese medicine; 高中, high school; 其中, among; 心中, at heart
重点, key point; 重视, attach importance to/focus on
周, week; 周末, weekend; 周年, anniversary; 上周, last week; 下周, next week
主人, master; 主要, main
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-2-word-list/
玩玩
A couple of related links that came to mind. Swallowing Clouds is a book by A. Zee, a Chinese-American physicist, about learning to read Chinese through Chinese restaurant menus, more or less; it’s very entertaining. How to Order and Eat in Chinese and How to Cook and Eat in Chinese are pretty much what they sound like, both by Buwei Yang Chao, the wife of my 偶像 Chao Yuen Ren (with snarky footnotes by CYR himself. A duck recipe ends with “Very often, we enjoy sucking the bones more than eating the meat.* *That’s fine, darling. I’ll have the meat, please. -Y.R.C.”). The links go to openlibrary.org; I think you have to sign up/sign in, but it’s free of charge and easy to use.
这里春天来了，樱花也快要开花了，都是粉色的。大家过得怎么样？
