day 109legends and fortune-tellers
unit 16 · history & traditionslegends and fortune-tellers
Talk about temple fairs, legends and fortune-tellers, and build words with the prefixes 反-, 非- and 後- (反效果, 非正式, 後現代).
today’s words
- 傳奇 chuánqí · legend; legendary
- 部落 bùluò · tribe; (indigenous) village
- 教徒 jiàotú · follower (of a religion)
- 老天爺 lǎotiānyé · Heaven (in exclamations)
- 燒香 shāoxiāng · burn incense
- 算命 suànmìng · tell fortunes
- 西洋 xīyáng · the West
- 信徒 xìntú · believer, follower
- 報應 bàoyìng · retribution, karma
- 道士 dàoshì · Taoist priest
- 佛經 fójīng · Buddhist scriptures
- 富貴 fùguì · wealth and rank
- 老子 lǎozi · (rough) your old man, yours truly
- 穿梭 chuānsuō · shuttle back and forth
- 腐朽 fǔxiǔ · rot, decay
- 濺 jiàn · splash
- 雷同 léitóng · identical, the same (too similar)
- 淺顯 qiǎnxiǎn · plain, easy to understand
- 疏導 shūdǎo · direct, channel (traffic, water, feelings)
- 挽 wǎn · take (someone’s arm); roll up
- 遺留 yíliú · leave behind, hand down
- 著眼 zhuóyǎn · focus on
- 聚會 jùhuì · party, get-together
sentences
- 他的一生很傳奇。 · His life was the stuff of legend.
- 過年的時候，很多人會去廟裡燒香。 · At New Year, many people go to the temple to burn incense.
- 罵小孩有時候會有反效果。 · Scolding children can sometimes backfire.
- 這只是一個非正式的聚會。 · It’s just an informal get-together.
- 這棟大樓是後現代的風格。 · This building is in a postmodern style.