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Idioms (20)

不患寡而患不均

bù huàn guǎ ér huàn bù jūn

1 do not worry about scarcity, but rather about uneven distribution (idiom, from Analects)

之乎者也

zhī hū zhě yě

1 lit. 之[zhī], 乎[hū], 者[zhě] and 也[yě] (four grammatical particles of Classical Chinese) (idiom); fig. archaic expressions

仁者见仁，智者见智

rén zhě jiàn rén , zhì zhě jiàn zhì

1 The benevolent sees benevolence, the wise sees wisdom.
2 Different views are admissible. (idiom)

来者不善，善者不来

lái zhě bù shàn , shàn zhě bù lái

1 He who comes is surely ill-intentioned, no-one well-meaning will come (idiom).
2 Be careful not to trust foreigners.
3 Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!

来者不拒

lái zhě bù jù

1 to refuse nobody (idiom)
2 all comers welcome

Sample Sentences

口罩还不够，要保持一定的社交距离。新闻说病毒的潜伏期很长，有些患者没有症状，但已经受到感染了。

kǒuzhào hái bùgòu ，yào bǎochí yīdìng de shèjiāojùlí 。xīnwén shuō bìngdú de qiánfúqī hěn cháng ，yǒuxiē huànzhě méiyǒu zhèngzhuàng ，dàn yǐjīng shòudào gǎnrǎn le 。

Masks are not enough, you need to keep a certain social distance. The news said that the incubation period of the virus is very long. Some patients are asymptomatic, but they have been infected.

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法国：一家医院为小患者准备电动玩具车，缓解手术压力。

Fǎguó ：yījiā yīyuàn wèi xiǎo huànzhě zhǔnbèi diàndòngwánjù chē ，huǎnjiě shǒushù yālì 。

France: A hospital prepares electric toy cars for young patients to ease the stress of surgery.

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对话双方：患者A与预检人员B/

duìhuà shuāngfāng ：huànzhě A yǔ rényuán

Dialogue Parties: Patient A and Pre-Inspector B

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你不要催我了，我可是重度拖延症患者，不到最后一刻决不动笔。而且据我所知，我们班有一半的同学都拖到现在，我一点儿也不着急。

nǐ bù yào cuī wǒ le ，wǒ kě shì zhòngdù tuōyánzhèng huànzhě ，bùdào zuìhòuyīkè juébù dòngbǐ 。érqiě jùwǒsuǒzhī ，wǒmen bān yǒu yībàn de tóngxué dōu tuō dào xiànzài ，wǒ yīdiǎnr yě bù zháojí 。

You don't need to hurry me, I'm a career procrastinator, I can never write anything until the last minute. And as far as I am aware, half of our class has put it off until now, so I'm not in a hurry.

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我感觉现在身边有越来越多的拖延患者了，你觉得是什么原因导致的？

wǒ gǎnjué xiànzài shēnbiān yǒu yuèláiyuèduō de tuōyán huànzhě le ，nǐ juéde shì shénme yuányīn dǎozhì de ？

I think that there are more and more procrastinators around me, why do you think that is?

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还有一点，现在人们过于依赖现代化设备了，网络占用了人们大量的时间，催化出了大批拖延症患者。

háiyǒu yīdiǎn ，xiànzài rénmen guòyú yīlài xiàndàihuà shèbèi le ，wǎngluò zhànyòng le rénmen dàliàng de shíjiān ，cuīhuà chū le dàpī tuōyánzhèng huànzhě 。

There's also the idea that people nowadays rely so much on modern technology, the internet occupies so much of people's time, which has created a lot of procrastinators.

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不是养老院，是专门的老年康复医院，收治的都是阿兹海默症患者，大多数老人都是不具有自主行为能力的，他们有专业的设施和护理人员。住在那里，可能对你外公的病情更好些。

bùshì yǎnglǎoyuàn ，shì zhuānmén de lǎonián kāngfù yīyuàn ，shōuzhì de dōu shì āzīhǎimòzhèng huànzhě ，dàduōshù lǎorén dōu shì bù jùyǒu zìzhǔ xíngwéi nénglì de ，tāmen yǒu zhuānyè de shèshī hé hùlǐrényuán 。zhùzài nàlǐ ，kěnéng duì nǐ wàigōng de bìngqíng gèng hǎo xiē 。

It’s not a retirement home, it’s a specialist care facility for the elderly, all the patients under treatment there suffer from Alzheimer's, the majority of the elderly people there have no control of their own behaviour, they have specialist facilities and nursing staff. Living there might help your grandfather’s condition.

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是啊，而且这个人还是一个大学教授。他在自己的博客上发表了好几篇文章，说中医是不科学，没有疗效，而且滥用自然资源，欺骗患者等等，呼吁民间告别中医中药。

shì ā ，érqiě zhège rén háishì yī ge dàxué jiāoshòu 。tā zài zìjǐ de bókè shàng fābiǎo le hǎo jǐ piān wénzhāng ，shuō zhōngyī shì bù kēxué ，méiyǒu liáoxiào ，érqiě lànyòng zìrán zīyuán ，qīpiàn huànzhě děngděng ，hūyù mínjiān gàobié zhōngyī zhōngyào 。

Yeah. And this guy is a university professor. He published a bunch of articles on his personal blog saying that Chinese Medicine is not scientific, it's not useful, that it wastes natural resources, and that it scams sufferers. He's calling for people to say good-bye to Chinese Medicine.

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哎！这种病已经越来越年轻化了。各种各样的环境污染，工作压力大，生活作息不规律等因素都对健康造成了极大的危害。前两天我看一篇报道上说，现在白血病的发病率逐年上升，其中一半的患者是儿童。那么一丁点儿大的人，却要承受化疗的折磨，真作孽啊！

ai ！zhèzhǒng bìng yǐjīng yuèláiyuè niánqīnghuà le 。gèzhǒng gèyàng de huánjìng wūrǎn ，gōngzuò yālì dà ，shēnghuó zuòxī bù guīlǜ děng yīnsù dōu duì jiànkāng zàochéng le jí dà de wēihài 。qián liǎng tiān wǒ kàn yī piān bàodào shàng shuō ，xiànzài báixuèbìng de fābìnglǜ zhúnián shàngshēng ，qízhōng yībàn de huànzhě shì értóng 。nàme yīdīngdiǎnr dà de rén ，què yào chéngshòu huàliáo de zhémó ，zhēn zuòniè a ！

Agh! Cancer affects people earlier and earlier. All kinds of pollution, pressure at work, irregular schedules - all of these factors are extremely harmful to people's health. The other day I read a news report that said there are more and more cases of leukemia every year - and that half of them are children. Such young kids having to endure the pain of chemotherapy - it's just wrong!

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你别太难过了。说不定他的病情没你想的那么严重。现在医学这么发达，只要治疗得当，很多早期中期的癌症是可以治愈的。听说国内有一种中西医结合治疗的方法很管用。哪怕到了晚期，只要患者生存意志坚定，也能战胜病魔。

nǐ bié tài nánguò le 。shuōbudìng tā de bìngqíng méi nǐ xiǎng de nàme yánzhòng 。xiànzài yīxué zhème fādá ，zhǐyào zhìliáo dédàng ，hěn duō zǎoqī zhōngqī de áizhèng shì kěyǐ zhìyù de 。tīngshuō guónèi yǒu yī zhǒng zhōngxīyī jiéhé zhìliáo de fāngfǎ hěn guǎnyòng 。nǎpà dào le wǎnqī ，zhǐyào huànzhě shēngcún yìzhì jiāndìng ，yě néng zhànshèng bìngmó 。

Don't feel so bad. You never know, maybe it's not that serious. Medical science is so advanced these days, if it can be treated properly, a lot of early-stage and mid-stage cancer can be cured. I heard there's a really effective treatment in China that combines traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Even if it gets to the later stages, as long as the patient has a strong will to survive, they can still beat such a serious disease.

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