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Knuffy

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Posted: Apr 30, 2006 - 06:14 PM
Post subject: Help with some Chinese sayings

Can someone help me translate the following sayings:

1) Tian chang di jiu

I assume it means something like long life, on earth and in heaven, but I can't make out what the exact meaning is.

2) Yi fan feng shun

Something about the wind blowing your sail in the right direction??

lemongrass
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Posted: Apr 30, 2006 - 09:30 PM

1) Tian chang di jiu
You kinda got its meaning. It is supposed to describe the spirit including love en friendship en so on could last forever, as long as it could be.

2) Yi fan feng shun
This is to wish someone could have a bright en smooth future on some certain thing. Like I would say to a friend who is going to be on a trip "Yi fan feng shun" to wish him have a nice trip. Or some friend changes a new job then I would use this to wish him that everything of his new career would be all right.

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Knuffy

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Posted: Apr 30, 2006 - 09:55 PM

Thanks for that!
I also have some more which I'm trying to figure out:

3) Xin xin xiang yin

4) Yi ming jing tian

lemongrass
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Posted: Apr 30, 2006 - 10:49 PM

All right...

3) Xin xin xiang yin
It means to describe that 2 people understand each other very very very well. Like "he" is my soulmate who knows me so much without hearing me say one word.

4) Yi ming jing tian
It is to say that someone behaves normally but some day he/she makes out an unbelievably fantastic thing. Like Jack is the most stupid student in the class but some day he wins the first prize of Olympics Math game. We would call Jack is Yi ming jing tian. (or yi ming jing ren sounds more reasonable.)

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