Ok, I’m hoping to grow a bit of a list of favourite hymns here (all linked to the best hymns website I know - Cyberhymnal).
Here’s a few to begin with:
Our God, our help in ages past
All things bright and beautiful
If anyone can advise me of other versions of the below (or advice as to which version is the most useful) please let me know:
Oral:
善有善报，恶有恶报，不是不报，时候未到
or
Written:
善有善报, 恶有恶报，不是不报，时辰未到
I also don’t really understand the 未到 at the end.
关于“阝”，如果在左边是阜，在右边是邑。
Today Asher & I are home sick. Asher’s watching Chinese Teletubbies and I’m at a bit of a loss for something productive to do.
The above is a picture of Asher in Japan.
Recently I’ve been using Supermemo to memorise stuff I need to know for work. It’s a pretty cool program, but it has a learning curve in itself. Very powerful for those who know what they’re doing, unlike me.
[Feel like you’ve read this before? I’ve brought this old post back to the front of the blog because I’ve added a new idiom to the list.]
I’d be interested to hear from anybody who knows of Chinese idioms which correspond with events or stories from the Bible.
Examples are:
肉中刺
Paul’s thorn in the flesh, 2 Corinthians 12:7.
开天辟地
The creation of the heavens and the earth, Genesis 1:1.
良莠不齐
See the parable of the weeds, Matthew 13:24-30.
泥足巨人
See Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, particularly Daniel 2:31-35.
把珍珠丢在猪
Do not cast your pearls before swine, Matthew 7:6.
I don’t know whether these idioms actually originated from the Bible or not. But there is definitely an uncanny similarity.
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