Chinese study notes

[extrapenguin]

I figured I might as well start writing down at least the interesting expression parts of my language exchange on my DW!

First, congratulations seguing into celebration wrt 祝 zhù:

祝贺你 Congratulations!
祝福新人 Congrats to the newlyweds!
祝你生快 Happy birthday!
庆祝 qìngzhù to celebrate
example:
你毕业了，你应该好好庆祝一下。 You graduated, you should celebrate well.

提前很久买，便宜很多 Buy far in advance and prices will be cheap. (提前 tíqián in advance)

焦虑 jiāolǜ anxious
焦虑症 jiāolǜzhèng anxiety
and thence the extremely funny expression for being anxious:
急得像油锅上的蚂蚁 Anxious like an ant on a hot oil pan (probably with 像; the handwriting is a bit messy here) (googling, I also found 急得像热锅上的蚂蚁一般 which removes the oil and emphasizes the heat, and adds 一般 yībān "alike")

拿得起，放得下 being able to pick something up and then put it down; being able to let go and move forward (lit. pick up, put down)

羡慕 xiànmù envy (positive) – "Oh wow, I'm so jealous of you!"
嫉妒 jìdù envy (negative) – "If X has it, why don't I?" (Note the presence of the 疒 radical, which denotes sickness.)

Comments

[trobadora]

像油锅上的蚂蚁

Oh, that's a great one! Thank you for sharing!

[extrapenguin]

IKR? Like an ant on a hot pan, going AAAAA and dancing around.