{"id":4599,"date":"2019-11-20T15:05:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-wordsvocabulary\/a-bad-day-word-chinese-idiom-ai-sheng-tan-qi\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T15:05:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:05:10","slug":"a-bad-day-word-chinese-idiom-ai-sheng-tan-qi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/a-bad-day-word-chinese-idiom-ai-sheng-tan-qi\/","title":{"rendered":"A bad day word: Chinese idiom \u54c0\u58f0\u53f9\u6c14"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>If you&rsquo;re a sports fan, think a<em><\/em>bout the day that your team lost big in the arena. If you&rsquo;re a student, think a<em><\/em>bout the day you failed an im<em><\/em>portant exam. If you have a job, think a<em><\/em>bout the day your boss unfairly blamed everything on you. Those are the bad days, you felt depressed and sighed a lot. You held your head low and lost your spirit.<\/p>\n<p>  That is exactly the picture that a Chinese idiom \u54c0\u58f0\u53f9\u6c14 (\u0101i sh\u0113ng t&agrave;n q&igrave;) describes. Literally it means &ldquo;moan and sigh in despair&rdquo;. It is used to describe the depressed and low status of people.<\/p>\n<p>  You&rsquo;ll see how I use it in the three aforementio<em><\/em>ned situations in the following examples:<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; t\u0101 y\u012bnw&egrave;i D&eacute;gu&oacute; du&igrave; z&agrave;ish&igrave; ji&egrave; b\u0113i sh\u016b le b\u01d0s&agrave;i, y\u012b zh\u011bngti\u0101n d\u014du \u0101i sh\u0113ng t&agrave;nq&igrave; de.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4ed6\u56e0\u4e3a\u5fb7\u56fd\u961f\u5728\u4e16\u754c\u676f\u8f93\u4e86\u6bd4\u8d5b, \u4e00\u6574\u5929\u90fd\u54c0\u58f0\u53f9\u6c14\u7684.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He was all depressed that day because Germany lost in the world cup.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1. ai-sheng-tan-qi-e1 <\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; xi\u01ceo s\u016bn \u0101i sh\u0113ng t&agrave;nq&igrave; d&igrave; shu\u014d: &rdquo; \u0101i! w\u01d2 de Zh\u014dngw&eacute;n k\u01ceosh&igrave; m&eacute;iy\u01d2u j&iacute;g&eacute;&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u5c0f\u5b59\u54c0\u58f0\u53f9\u6c14\u5730\u8bf4: &ldquo;\u54ce! \u6211\u7684\u4e2d\u6587\u8003\u8bd5\u6ca1\u6709\u53ca\u683c&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I was all depressed the whole day since I failed my Chinese exam.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 2. ai-sheng-tan-qi-e2 <\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  Can you use this ex<em><\/em>pression in your own Chinese co<em><\/em>nversation as well? Go tell your friend a story that you did \u54c0\u58f0\u53f9\u6c14. Or you can tell me in the comment area &hellip;<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2054859986\"><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>If you&rsquo;re a sports fan, think about the day that your team lost big in the arena. If you&rsquo;re a<\/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":[101,54],"class_list":["post-4599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-words-phrases","tag-chinese-conversation","tag-chinese-idiom"],"views":332,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}