Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #36
{马|mǎ}{上|shàng}
Literally: “on horseback”
Figuratively: “right away; soon”
Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #36
Literally: “on horseback”
Figuratively: “right away; soon”
you could also just use the player hotkeys to cycle through subtitles and secondary subs
felt lazy, might post details later
Yeah I should have explained it a little more in depth, haha. It’s hard to reduce these words to simple translations. All parts are weird enough on their own.
{如|rú} means “follow” more in the sense of “follow orders”, go along, comply, accord, be like, as if, etc. {果|guǒ} means fruit in a very broad sense as the “effect” of a tree or seed, think like “bear fruit”, “fruitless”, “the fruits of one’s labor”, etc. So in combination they mean, what happens if the results of a situation are according to some description.
The other variant I think is a bit simpler. {要|yào} means “ask for”, “demand”, “request”, “want”, “need”, “must”, sort of the inverse of the above {如|rú} here. So a hypothetical demands that a situation {是|shì} be a certain way. It places a restriction on the possible outcomes.
Sorry if this is nonsense, I might post other compounds with {果|guǒ} and delve deeper ... whenever I feel like™ 😎
Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #35
Literally: “follow fruit / need be”
Figuratively: “if”
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From the name of the now filled river {上|shàng}{海|hǎi}{浦|pǔ} which meant something like “[high / upper / rise / go to] sea delta”
Different names for the historical event:
April 12 Incident
April 12 counterrevolutionary coup
Southeast party purge
Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #34
Literally: “powder pen”
Figuratively: “chalk”
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I have a confession to make. I am actually {~~based~~|~~cringe~~} {cringe|based}.
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Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #33
Remember {上|shàng} and {下|xià} (up and down)? If your {心|xīn} (heart) was going up and down, how would you feel? Perhaps perturbed, fidgety, upset, on edge, uneasy, nervous?
This is a 2-syllable word where neither {忐|tǎn} nor {忑|tè} make sense on their own, they are strictly parts of this word. I’m also 99% sure that the characters were invented specifically for this word.
Posting neat Chinese phrases whenever I feel like #32
(nǎo dài)
Literally: “brain bag”
Figuratively: “head” (informal)
维基百科? more like 危机百科 amirite?