{"id":15856,"date":"2020-01-12T00:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T00:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-food-the-pattern-it-s-not-it-s\/"},"modified":"2020-01-12T00:12:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T00:12:42","slug":"chinese-food-the-pattern-it-s-not-it-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/chinese-food-the-pattern-it-s-not-it-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese food: The pattern it&#8217;s not\u2026, it&#8217;s\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tSometimes you want to explain that an object, concept, or event isn&#39;t one thing, but in fact a different thing. This is the perfect structure to convey that in Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure<\/strong><br \/>  \t&quot;\u4e0d\u662f&#8230;, (\u5c31)\u662f&#8230;&quot; (b&uacute;sh&igrave;&#8230;, (ji&ugrave;)sh&igrave;&#8230;) is used to clarify something about a certain noun. What&#39;s being clarified can range from adjectives, verbs and even noun phrases.  \t<\/p>\n<p>  \tAn easy way to remember this pattern is that it roughly corresponds to the English, &quot;Something is not X, it&#39;s Y&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>N&agrave; b&uacute;sh&igrave; y\u012b \u0261&egrave; k&ugrave;nn\u0251n \uff0c sh&igrave; y\u012b \u0261&egrave; j\u012bhu&igrave;.<br \/>  \t\u90a3 \u4e0d\u662f \u4e00 \u4e2a \u56f0\u96be\uff0c\u662f \u4e00 \u4e2a \u673a\u4f1a\u3002<\/div>\n<div>That isn&#39;t a difficulty, it&#39;s an opportunity.<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2894075070\"><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>Sometimes you want to explain that an object, concept, or event isn&#39;t one thing, but in fact a different thing. This is the perfect structure to convey that in Chinese.<\/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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar"],"views":151,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}