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I’m Grace.
Today we are going to take a look at five interesting signs
and learn some commonly used Chinese words and expressions
that you might not learn from your textbooks!
Let’s go!
OK, The first one is 禁止放屁
You probably can understand what 禁止放屁 means simply by the picture.
禁止 is to forbid and 放屁 is to fart.
And I want to teach you some expressions about 屁(fart) that are used in our daily life.
放屁 means to do a fart or break wind,
放 is the action, to release, and 屁 is the gas, the fart.
In daily life, 放屁 can not only mean to literally fart,
it can also be used when someone says something
you think it’s obviously not true
and you feel like the thing that person just said is nonsense.
You can say 放屁.
But for the record, 放屁 often sounds a bit angry.
So in Taiwan, you might hear people just say “屁、屁啦、屁咧” to refute their friends
when they feel like their friends are talking nonsense.
and another word related to “屁” is “屁話”,
“話” is “speech” or “words”.
So “屁話” is “nonsense” or “foolish words”
Like:
OK, let’s move on to the next sign:
This is a sign showing the business hours of a store.
And it’s quite funny because it has three different opening times
depending on the state of the owner.
Let’s take a look at this sign,
the red words 營業時間 means “business hours”
and “每日、晨” is equal to “每天、早上 every morning”
If there is nothing wrong, this store opens at 六點 six o’clock.
But if the owner oversleeps 睡過頭, the store would open at 七點 seven o’clock.
Here you can learn 睡過頭、睡過頭, 睡過頭 is to oversleep, like:
But if the owner cannot fall asleep 睡不著,
then the store would open at 五點 five o’clock.
睡不着 is “cannot fall asleep”,
for example, you can say:
OK, let’s see another sign:
This sign says 愛情啊就像是鬼，相信的人多，遇到的人少.
It means “Love just like a ghost. Many people believe in it, but only a few encounter it.”
I want to talk about “像是”, 像是 means “like”.
You can also just say 像. They are used a lot in our daily life.
In daily conversation, if you want to say “比如說 for example”,
you can also say “像是 or 像 like”.
Just like in English, you can say “For example” to give examples,
but you can also say “Like” too. So it’s the same.
OK, let’s move on to the next sign:
This is a sign from a restaurant.
The sign reads “19元把肚子搞大”.
It literally means nineteen dollars to get your belly big.
So if you go to this restaurant,
you can get full by only spending 19 dollars.
But the funny part is that in daily life if you say “把 someone 的肚子搞大”,
it means “getting someone pregnant”.
It’s an informal way to say “讓 someone 懷孕” “to get someone pregnant”.
So here, the sign uses this pun to make people find it funny.
OK, the last one is 再插隊試試
You might have learned that “排隊” is “Line up” 排隊
and here the sign says 插隊, 插隊,
插隊 means “to cut in line”.
So when a person is cutting in line, you can say:
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