【2014/3/5 節目內容】

English Corner 弋果新鮮事

今天弋果新鮮事要討論的主題是: 教外國人中文成語， chengyus or idioms as you might want to call them. So for the uninitiated, chengyus are 4 character traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions. Chengyu were widely used in Classical Chinese and are still common in Chinese writing and in the spoken language today. So today we'll be discussing some of the more common chengyus. You don't necessarily have to incorporate it within your everyday language, but it's good to know so when others use them you understand the meaning.

 (For more about this topic, please listen to the show.)

 

Question of the Day 弋果一點通

1. Effect (Noun) 名詞: 結果，效果，影響
《Example》
His bad travelling experience as a child had a great effect on him.
(他小時不好的旅遊經驗對他的影響很大。)
The rules are in effect as of today.
(這些規定今天開始生效。)

2. Affect (Verb) 動詞: 影響，對。。。發生作用
《Example》
His bad travelling experience as a child affected him a great deal.
(他小時不好的旅遊經驗影響了他。)
The cold weather affected my plants last night.
(昨晚的冷空氣影響了我的植物。)

Eagle Pursuit 弋果腦筋急轉彎

• 1.Which one of these is not a vegetable? Tomato
  2. A thermometer is a device used to measure what? Temperature
  3. True or false? Bats are mammals. True
  4. What is the popular food used to carve jack-o-lanterns during Halloween? Pumpkins
  5. The gemstone ruby is typically what color? Red
  6. What is the closest star to the earth? the sun