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反美是工作赴美是生活
Mandarin · pinyin fǎn Měi shì gōng zuò fù Měi shì shēng huó
Meanings
- being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad)
Characters in this entry
- 反
- fǎn · reverse, opposite, contrary, anti
- 美
- měi · beautiful, pretty; pleasing
- 是
- shì · indeed, yes, right; to be; demonstrative pronoun, this, that
- 工
- gōng · labor, work; worker, laborer
- 作
- zuò · make; work; compose, write; act, perform
- 赴
- fù · go to; attend, be present
- 生
- shēng · life, living, lifetime; birth
- 活
- huó · live, exist, survive; lively
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Mandarin tones
3–3–4–1–4–4–3–4–1–2 · fan3 Mei3 shi4 gong1 zuo4 fu4 Mei3 shi4 sheng1 huo2
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