{"id":7114,"date":"2019-10-28T01:26:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T01:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-words-phrases\/chinese-language-vocabulary-han-yu-ci-hui-yi-yan-nan-jin-yi-yan-nan-jin\/"},"modified":"2019-10-28T01:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T01:26:54","slug":"chinese-language-vocabulary-han-yu-ci-hui-yi-yan-nan-jin-yi-yan-nan-jin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/chinese-language-vocabulary-han-yu-ci-hui-yi-yan-nan-jin-yi-yan-nan-jin\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese language vocabulary \u6c49\u8bed\u8bcd\u6c47 \u4e00\u8a00\u96be\u5c3d\uff1ay\u00ec y\u00e1n n\u00e1n j\u00ecn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What does it mean?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Yì yán<\/span><\/em> nán jìn<\/span><\/em> means it’s a long story to tell. Here yì yán<\/span><\/em> means one word. Nán jìn<\/span><\/em> means hard to tell. The whole phrase means it’s hard to tell the whole story in one word. It’s usually used while someone asks a<\/em>bout a complicated situation.  <\/p>\n

How to use? <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The usage of this idiom is like a sentence and an adjective. For example:<\/p>\n

\uff081\uff09A\uff1a\u4ec0\u4e48\uff1f\u4f60\u548c\u5b89\u5a1c\u5206\u624b\u4e86\uff1f<\/p>\n

            Shén me? N\u01d0 hé Annà f\u0113n sh\u01d2u le?<\/p>\n

            What? You broke up with Anna? <\/p>\n

        B\uff1a\u54ce\uff0c\u4e00\u8a00\u96be\u5c3d<\/span><\/em><\/span>\u3002 <\/p>\n

             \u0101i, yì yán nán jìn<\/span><\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

             ai, it’s a long story<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

\uff082\uff09\u6628\u5929\u53d1\u751f\u7684\u4e8b\u60c5\u771f\u662f\u4e00\u8a00\u96be\u5c3d<\/span><\/em><\/span>\u3002<\/p>\n

       Zuó ti\u0101n f\u0101 sh\u0113n\u0261 de shì qin\u0261 zh\u0113n shì yì yán nán jìn<\/span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

       It’s really a long story<\/span><\/span><\/em> to tell what happened yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n