{"id":4557,"date":"2019-11-19T06:55:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T06:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-wordsvocabulary\/distant-water-will-not-quench-a-fire-nearby-chinese-expression-yuan-shui-jiu-bu-le-jin-huo\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T06:55:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T06:55:55","slug":"distant-water-will-not-quench-a-fire-nearby-chinese-expression-yuan-shui-jiu-bu-le-jin-huo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/distant-water-will-not-quench-a-fire-nearby-chinese-expression-yuan-shui-jiu-bu-le-jin-huo\/","title":{"rendered":"Distant water will not quench a fire nearby \u2013 Chinese expression \u8fdc\u6c34\u6551\u4e0d\u4e86\u8fd1\u706b"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Some Chinese ex<em><\/em>pressions are very easy to remember just by it&rsquo;s literal meaning. For example, \u8fdc\u6c34\u6551\u4e0d\u4e86\u8fd1\u706b literally means &ldquo;water from far away could not put out a close-by fire. &ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>  You can&rsquo;t use water from far away to put out fire close-by, can you? No. Therefore this idiom is used to describe the solutions or ways that are far away, no matter how good they are, they can&rsquo;t help with the urgent situation happening right now.<\/p>\n<p>  This ex<em><\/em>pression is widely used in both written and spoken Chinese. As a matter of fact, there are lots of situations that you could use it in. I&rsquo;ll give you two examples here:<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [example 1]<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; w\u01d2men xi&agrave;nz&agrave;i j&iacute;x\u016b y\u012b li&agrave;ng ch\u0113b\u01ce zh&egrave; ji&agrave;n w&ugrave;p\u01d0n s&ograve;ngz\u01d2u\uff0c w\u01d2men n&agrave;xi\u0113 y\u01d2u ch\u0113 de p&eacute;ngyou d\u014du zh&ugrave; d&eacute; t&agrave;i yu\u01cen\uff0c yu\u01censhu\u01d0ji&ugrave;buli\u01ceoj&igrave;nhu\u01d2 \u0101!<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u6211\u4eec\u73b0\u5728\u6025\u9700\u4e00\u8f86\u8f66\u628a\u8fd9\u4ef6\u7269\u54c1\u9001\u8d70\uff0c\u6211\u4eec\u90a3\u4e9b\u6709\u8f66\u7684\u670b\u53cb\u90fd\u4f4f\u5f97\u592a\u8fdc\uff0c\u8fdc\u6c34\u6551\u4e0d\u4e86\u8fd1\u706b\u554a!<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We desperately need a car to send this item away. Those friends who have vehicles all live far away, xxxx!<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [example 2]<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &rdquo; w\u01d2 xi&agrave;nz&agrave;i h\u01ceo xi\u01ceng ch\u012b ji\u0101xi\u0101ng de xi\u01ceoch\u012b!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;\u6211\u73b0\u5728\u597d\u60f3\u5403\u5bb6\u4e61\u7684\u5c0f\u5403!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &rdquo; w\u01d2men zh&egrave; m\u01cen ji\u0113 d\u014du sh&igrave; m&agrave;i xi\u01ceoch\u012b de.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;\u6211\u4eec\u8fd9\u6ee1\u8857\u90fd\u662f\u5356\u5c0f\u5403\u7684.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &rdquo; k\u011bsh&igrave; w\u01d2men g&eacute; d&eacute; n&agrave;me yu\u01cen\uff0c yu\u01censhu\u01d0ji&ugrave;buli\u01ceoj&igrave;nhu\u01d2 \u0101\u3002&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;\u53ef\u662f\u6211\u4eec\u9694\u5f97\u90a3\u4e48\u8fdc\uff0c\u8fdc\u6c34\u6551\u4e0d\u4e86\u8fd1\u706b\u554a\u3002&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;I miss my home town food so much. &ldquo;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;We have them sold on the street everywher.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;But we&rsquo;re so far away, water from far away could not put out a close-by fire.&rdquo;<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1187656250\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Chinese expressions are very easy to remember just by it&rsquo;s literal meaning. For example, \u8fdc\u6c34\u6551\u4e0d\u4e86\u8fd1\u706b literally means &ldquo;water from<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-4557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-spoken-chinese"],"views":239,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}