Sunday, March 30, 2025

MEotW: shíjí

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

Is it bad to become experts at Mandarin, like some around us may imply?


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Sunday, March 23, 2025

MEotW: xīngqiú

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

What can we say to Mandarin-speaking people about why the earth is unique?


Earthrise - This iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon.

Earthrise
This iconic picture shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon.


Pale Blue Dot - This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, taken from a distance of more than 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from Earth,  is a part of the first ever “portrait” of the solar system taken by Voyager 1 (Earth is the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the rightmost band of light.)

Pale Blue Dot
This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, taken from a distance of more than 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from Earth, is a part of the first ever “portrait” of the solar system taken by the Voyager 1 space probe. (Earth is the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the rightmost band of light.)


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Sunday, March 16, 2025

MEotW: zhōngzhǐ

The Mandarin Expression of the Week is:

How can we say in Mandarin that Jesus will end war?


John Lennon and Yoko Ono with a sign saying “WAR IS OVER! IF YOU WANT IT Happy Christmas from John & Yoko”

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Yes, war will be over, although perhaps not exactly in the way they had imagined. [source]


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