Slang:空手套白狼 To Gain lots of Money Without any Investment

空手套白狼(Kōngshǒu tào báilàng) original meaning is: caught the wolf without any tool but the empty hands.  It's an analogy to someone gained lots of money without any Investment. Mostly those businesses are at a high risk, the ways they used are illegal or from the gaps of the law.

例如：他的公司什么也没有，但他空手套白狼，靠倒卖进口汽车指标赚了第一桶金。
e.g. His company doesn't have any assets but he earned his first budget of god by reselling the imported car quotas. 

Recommended Food：Wonton 推荐食物：云吞

Slang: 有两把刷子

有两把刷子（having tow brushes）, meaning-possession of the means or skill to do something.

比如：公司本来要倒闭了，但新来的经理接手之后，起死回生，这人有两把刷子。
e.g.   This company almost went out of business, but it has been recovered after the new manager took over, he's a competent person.

Only Animals Are Happy Now 现在只有动物最高兴

突然而来的suddenly瘟疫the plague席卷全球has spreading in the whole world，原来it turns out最可怕的the most terrible thing不是isn't大而有形的big and visible物种species，而是but小而无形的the tiny and invisible病毒virus，它it's在短短的两三个月in 2-3 months period就让let整个地球the globe停摆shut down，人类human对其毫无感知时even don't it's approaching就染疫毙命lives gone by contracting this Covid-19，它的恐怖its horror在于is in杀人于无形killing human invisibly。

现在right now也许perhaps只有only野生动物the wild animals是are最快乐的了the most happy one，它们they终于finally收复了occupied失地the lost land，可以can在on空荡的大街the empty street撒欢play，没有no人类的human's噪音noisy和环境污染and environmental pollution，它们的its世界world恢复了is recovered往日的with the past美好good time。

🙏好人平安Be safe to all good guys

没有米粉也能做肠粉——面粉肠 Flour Roll

Chinese Motto 生死有命 富贵在天

Remember Chinese Characters From its Radicals 从偏旁部首记汉字

Express your symptoms when you got sick 自我描述病情

* Matched colors refer related words in each phase.

MD:    Where do you feel uncomfortable?
医生：你 感觉 哪里 不舒服？
Yīshēng: Nǐ gǎnjué nǎlǐ bú shūfú

patient: running nose, fever, cough, sore throat, dizziness.

病人： 流鼻水，发热，咳嗽，喉咙痛，头晕。
Bìngrén: Liú bíshuǐ, fārè, késòu, hóulóng tòng, tóuyūn


MD: You've got the flu, need to get the flu vaccine, take medicine, drink lots of water, and get some rest.
医生：你 得 流感 了，你 需要 打 流感疫苗，吃药，多 喝水和休息。
Yīshēng: Nǐ dé liúgǎnle, nǐ xūyào dǎ liúgǎn yìmiáo, chīyào, duō hē shuǐ, Hé xiūxí

Lunar Year of Rat🐭 鼠年 Learn some words

*Matched colors refer the related words in each phase.

This year is Chinese lunar year of the Rat.
今年是中国 阴历鼠年
Jīn nián Shì Zhōngguó Yīnlì shǔ nián

But it's hard to say---- Happy New Year，
但难以说新年快乐
Dàn nányǐ shuō xīnnián kuàilè

because coronavirus breaks out from Wuhan, China,
 因  为  中国武汉 爆发 冠状病毒
Yīn wéi zhōngguó wǔhàn bàofā guānzhuàng bìngdú

and spreads out speedily,
并且 快速地 传播
Bìngqiě kuàisù dì chuánbò

everyone wear face mask  at public place,
每个人都在公共场所戴口罩
Měi gèrén dōu zài gōnggòng chǎngsuǒ dài kǒuzhào

or self-lockdown at home to avoid the infection。
或 自我关在家以避免感染
Huò Zìwǒ guān zài jiā yǐ bìmiǎn gǎnrǎn

No more new year celebrations at all.
完全没有新年庆祝活动
Wánquán méiyǒu xīnnián qìngzhù huódòng


Pray for health 🙏
为健康祈祷🙏
Wèi jiànkāng qídǎo

Steamed Rice Noodle 蒸肠粉

Steamed Sausage rice 蒸香肠米饭

2 min Microwave Sponge Cake 😋2分钟速食海绵蛋糕

Idiom 一石二鸟，一举两得

一石二鸟 (Yī shí èr niǎo), 一举两得(Yī jǔ liǎng dé)  both meaning: killing two birds with one stone. 一石二鸟 is little bit aggressive than 一举两得.

For example:

• 川普总统打贸易战，是想要公平的关税和提振美国经济，一石二鸟。

President Trump’s trade war is to want fair tariffs and boost the US economy, killing two birds with one stone.

• 废纸回收，既能重新造纸，又能节省资源，一举两得。

Recycling waste papers can not only re-make papers, but also save resources, killing two birds with one stone.

Idiom 开门见山

开门见山 -- speak  the point directly, no any irrelevant words.

For example:
请别绕弯子，开门见山讲吧。Please don't beat around the bush, speak directly.

Bean Cake👍Non-Skin Moon Cake 懶人月餅

Conditional Clause假设从句

1，将来发生的 (for the future，real or unreal, likely or unlikely)

    

常用假设词Common conditional words:

·        如果……就or会 or就会……  (If…will…)

·        假如......就or 会or就会……(if…will…)

For example:

如果我中了乐透，我就环游世界。

如果我中了乐透，我就会环游世界。

假如 我中了乐透，我会环游世界。

(If I win the lottery, I’ll travel around the world.)

These tow forms below are usually used to predict bad things that will happen.

·        一旦……就……( Once …then; in case…then) ;

·        万一……就……  (In case…then…)

For example:

万一飞机误点，你就赶不上下一班飞机了。(In case the plane is delayed, you will not be able to catch the next flight.)

一旦飞机误点，你就赶不上下一班飞机了。（Once the plane is delayed, you will not be able to catch the next flight.）

2，过去或现在都没有发生的 (It didn’t happen in the past and present)

                                 

Common conditional words

·        如果……就......了

·        假如......就......了

·        要是……就……了

要是我中了乐透，我就去环游世界了。

If I won the lottery, I would travel around the world.

如果我中了乐透，我就去环游世界了。
If I had won the lottery, I would have traveled around the world.

Polishing Your Chinese by Using Idiom 成语让你有文采

Idiom could make the sentences more concise, precise and profundity.

For example, if you describe a green mountain, if you said 这座山郁郁葱葱instead of 这座山很绿，that would wow your Chinese listener.

滔滔不绝(good in talk and could be endless)——这人很能讲，一开口就滔滔不绝。This person is very good in speech, once he opens his mouth, he could talk forever.

神采奕奕（looks good in spirit and physic，usually for aged people) ——这老人家看起来神采奕奕。This old person looks good in spirit.

大海捞针（searching for a needle in a sea, means in vain.)——如果你想找几年前丢的东西，简直是大海捞针。If you want to find your things that lost few years ago, it would be in vain.

Multi-Pronounced Word 多音字

There are few words have multi-pronunciation.

For example: 

车（che) tone 1
坐车，乘车

车（ju) tone1
车马炮

重（zhong) tone 4

重量，体重，举重

重（chong) tone 2

重复，重新，重来

乐（le) tone 4

快乐，享乐，乐呵呵

乐(yue) tone 4

乐章，乐曲，乐谱

骑(qi) tone 2

骑马，骑车，

骑（ji) tone 4

一骑红尘妃子笑，无人知是荔枝来

漂(piao) tone 4

漂亮，漂泊，

漂(piao) tone 1

漂泊，漂移

盛 (cheng) tone2

盛饭，盛水，

盛（sheng) tone 4

昌盛，旺盛

薄（bao) tone2

皮薄，薄纸，薄如蝉翼

薄（bo) tone2

薄饼，薄膜，

簿（bu) tone4

练习簿，笔记簿

系（ji) tone4

系鞋带，系上

系（xi) tone4

科系，关系，系列

Grammar: Concession clause 让步从句

• 即使……还是/依然
• 即使……也要
• 纵然……还是/依然/也……

although/even...but/still...

(click the sentence to listen the pronunciation on google translate)
e.g.
即使天气很冷，大家依然在黑色星期五去抢购商品。
Although the weather was cold, we still went shopping at Black Friday.

即使下雨，他也/还是/依然要出去跑步。
Even it rains, he persists go jogging.

即使困难再大，他也要赢。
Although the challenge is tough , he still wants to win.

纵然天塌下来，(也会）有我顶着。
Even the sky falls, I'll stand up.

Cantonese Fried Tender Chicken😋 粤式炒嫩鸡脯

Tender and tasty, easy recipe. 嫩滑可口，简单美味.

After cooking, a easiest way, non-chemical way to clean up a burned pan.

最简单清洁焦锅的方法