Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Words of the Day

卑鄙bei1bi3
basemeancontemptibledespicablegrubbysordid

公佈gong1bu4
issue, announce

信函xin4han2
letter envelope

洩/泄xie4
wreak

**Note:  Okay, how do these characters mean the same exact thing and sound exactly the same when they look completely different!!!??

垮kua1
fall, collapse


惠卿卑鄙公佈王安石的私人信函,離間他和皇帝的情感,王安石就垮臺,他晚年常一天寫【福建子】好幾次,以發洩心中的怒氣,呂惠卿就是福建人。

Huiqing contemptibly announced Wang Anshi's private letter, giving distance between Wang Anshi and the emperor's close relations.  Wang Anshi then fell from his position.  In Wang Anshi's later years, he frequently wrote "That Fujianer" during a given day on many occasions to express the rage of his broken hear.  Lv Huiqing was a Fujian person.

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