Cassandra from Idaho requested the Chinese translation for “happy” as in “Money doesn’t make you happy.  I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.”…  Arnold Schwarzenegger, politician / actor / bodybuilder.  Sheesh, must be nice…  lol.  There are several ways to translate this, but this is first [...]

Lisa from Michigan requested the Chinese translation for “harmony” (also “peace”) as in the following Chinese proverb…
“If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the [...]

Sal from California requested the Chinese translation for “hate” as in “I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me…  he said I was being ridiculous…  everyone hasn’t met me yet”…  Rodney Dangerfield, comedian…  lol.

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Chelsee (again!) from Texas requested the Chinese translation for “health” as in “a man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools”…  words I live by, btw…  (and thanks Chelsee, I was itching to use that quote!  haha.)  And since I’m on a [...]

Ted from Virginia requested the Chinese translation for “heaven” as in that old school Bryan Adams song all the American Idol hopefuls tried to sing last night…  haha.

…  where essentially the first character means “sky” or “heaven” and the second character can mean “room.”  So loosely, “room in the sky.”

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Kristan from Canada (!) requested the Chinese translation for “honesty” as in “people who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty”…  Richard J. Needham, humor columnist.
…  is that a great quote or what??…  and it fits folks like Simon Cowell (American Idol) and that other British judge [...]

Nia from California requested the Chinese translation for “honor” as in “rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud”…  Sophocles, playwright”…  who says I didn’t learn me an edumacation??  haha.

…  where essentially the first character can mean “glory” (i.e. guang1 rong2) and the second character can mean “reputation” (i.e. ming2 yu4)
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Kellie from California requested the Chinese translation for “hope” as in “hope for the best, but prepare for the worst”…  ’tisn’t that true?…  another mantra I live my life by.

…  where the first character is another one of those characters that typically gets paired up with other characters, and can have multiple meanings depending on [...]

Philip from the UK requested the Chinese translation for “horse” as in “straight from the horse’s mouth.”  (Now that got me thinking, anyone know the origin of that phrase?)

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Geneva from Washington D.C. requested the Chinese translation for “horse chief” because she’s Native, and that’s her Native American name.  VERY cool.

…  where the first character means “horse” and the second and third characters together means “chief” (of a tribe).  Both the second and third characters are characters that typically get paired up with other [...]