Chinese Money|钱
中国人常说,“钱不是万能的,但没有钱却万万不能”,课件人的衣食住行都离不开钱。 A Chinese proverb states, “money is not all-powerful,but you’re powerless without it”. Hence, money remains indispensable for purchasing clothes, food, accommodation, and travel. 人们常常用货币代表钱。中国是世界上最早使用货币的国家,已经有5000多年的历史。中国古代的货币种类很多,其中影响最大、使用时间最长的是用铜等铸造的圆形方孔钱,人们昵称“孔方兄”,后来“孔方兄”也成了金钱的代名词。随着经济的发展,金属货币在流通中原来越不方便,于是又出现了纸币,四川的纸币“交子”是世界上最早的纸币。现在又有了更为便捷、现金的电子货币。 Currency is the most …
Read MoreFamous Phrase of The Analects|论语名句
子曰:“学而时习之,不亦说乎?有朋自远方来,不亦乐乎?人不知而不愠,不亦君子乎?” The Master said, To learn and at due times to repeat what one has learned, is that not after all a pleasure? That friends should come to one from …
Read MoreTraditional sports in China|中国有什么传统运动
在中国,除了跑步、健身房、打球等现代活动外,一些传统运动也被保留下来,成为人们日常锻炼中的一部分,比如:放风筝、踢毽子、抖空竹、打太极等。这些运动你会吗?在你们国家有什么传统运动? In China, apart from modern sports like jogging, working out in gyms, and playing balls, some traditional sports handed down from old times are also practiced as part of …
Read More5 Chinese Common Saying
“不到长城非好汉” “Bú dào zhǎng chéng fēi hǎo hàn ” He who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man. 这句话里“非”的意思是“不是”,“好汉”的意思是“很厉害的人”“英雄”。这句话的意思是没有去过长城的人就不是英雄,常常用来比喻一种积极的精神,遇到困难,要努力想办法克服,解决了问题,那就是“好汉”。 In the saying “不到长城非好汉”, “非” …
Read MoreChinese Pictophonetic Characters(2)| 形声字 2
上下结构的形声字有两种,一种是“上形下声”,也就是形旁在上边,声旁在下边。例如: There are two types of pictophonetic characters which have a top-bottom structure. One has the semantic component on the top and phonetic component at the bottom. For example: …
Read MoreChinese Pictophonetic Characters(1)| 形声字 1
现代汉语中,70%左右的汉字都是形声字。形声字有形旁和声旁两部分组成。形旁提示汉字的意思,声旁提示汉字的发音。 Around 70% of Chinese characters are pictophonetic ones, which are composed of two components, one indicating meaning and the other sound. 左右结构的形声字包括两种,一种是“左形右声”,即形旁在左边,声旁在右边,例如: The pictophonetic characters of a left-right …
Read MoreSentence structure”越 A 越 B”
“越 A 越 B ”表示B随着A的变化而变化。 “越 A 越 B ”(the more A,the more B)means B changes with A. For example: Yǔ yuè xià yuè dà 。 (1)雨越下越大。 Nǐ de …
Read MoreComparison of “又” and “再” in Chinese| 辨析 “又” 和 “再”
副词“又” 和 “再”都可以放在动词前边,表示动作或情况的重复出现。 The adverbs “又” and “再” can both be put before a verb to indicate the recurrence of an action or a situation. “又+V.” 通常表示已发生了的重复动作和情况,“再+V.”表示还没发生的重复动作或情况。 “又+V.” usually …
Read MoreSay no like a Chinese youth.|像中国小年轻一样说“不”
生词 Key words 不行 bù xíng No 不可以 bù kěyǐ You can’t 没门儿 …
Read MoreTulou building| 土楼
“土楼”顾名思义,就是用泥土做的房子,是客家 的民居,主要分布在福建省。中国民居的丰富多样,四合院、蒙古包、窑洞等早以为人所知,而客家人独有的土楼却显得很神秘。土楼是民居中面积最大的,往往一个土楼,可以容纳几百人同时居住。 Tolou literary refers to building makes of the earth. It is a communal residence for Hakka people in Fujian province. China’s residential buildings come out in different …
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