{"id":92,"date":"2016-04-29T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T06:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duchinese.net\/blog-wp\/2016\/04\/29\/27-the-boat-of-friendship\/"},"modified":"2016-04-29T08:50:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T06:50:35","slug":"27-the-boat-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/29\/27-the-boat-of-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boat of Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the phrase \u201d\u53cb\u8c0a\u7684\u5c0f\u8239\u8bf4\u7ffb\u5c31\u7ffb [y\u01d2u y\u00ec de xi\u01ceo chu\u00e1n shu\u014d f\u0101n ji\u00f9 f\u0101n]\u201d, meaning \u201cThe Boat of Friendship Suddenly Tips Over\u201d, went viral in China and spread through WeChat&#39;s moments and friend circles. In this lesson, we learn where this phrase came from and how you can use it.<\/p>\n\n<p>The origin of the phrase is the classic American sitcom \u8001\u53cb\u8bb0 [l\u01ceo y\u01d2u j\u00ec]\uff08Friends\uff09, where the male nanny Sandy teaches Joey:<\/p>\n\n<p>Q\uff1aAnd what&#39;s the one kind of boat they can never, ever sink?<br>\nA\uff1aA Friendship.<\/p>\n\n<p>Friendship in Chinese is \u53cb\u8c0a [y\u01d2u y\u00ec], and ship (literal) is \u5c0f\u8239 [xi\u01ceo chu\u00e1n], so the literal translation of friendship becomes \u53cb\u8c0a\u7684\u5c0f\u8239 [y\u01d2u y\u00ec de xi\u01ceo chu\u00e1n]. This interesting joke originally appeared in a series of comics published by a cartoonist named \u5583\u4e1c\u5c3c(Nandongni) on <a href=\"http:\/\/weibo.com\/zld8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his\/her Weibo<\/a>. Let\u2019s look at some of them.<\/p>\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/duchinese\/blog\/images\/Friendship-1.jpg\" alt=\"Friendship comic\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-du-interactive-example\" data-du-interactive=\"27c87e815\"><\/div>\n\n\n<h4>\u8bf4\u2026\u5c31\u2026 [shu\u014d \u2026ji\u00f9 \u2026]<\/h4>\n\n<p>\u8bf4\u2026\u5c31\u2026is a grammar pattern literally meaning \u201cas soon as you say x, x happens\u201d, and is used to express that something occurs easily and suddenly. So \u8bf4\u7ffb\u5c31\u7ffb [shu\u014d f\u0101n ji\u00f9 f\u0101n] means the friendship boat will quickly tip over. Here are some other examples of how this grammar pattern can be used:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>\u4ed6\u603b\u662f\u8bf4\u5e72\u5c31\u5e72 [t\u0101 z\u01d2ng sh\u00ec shu\u014d g\u00e0n ji\u00f9 g\u00e0n] &#8211; He&#39;s always been a man of action.<\/li>\n<li>\u8bf4\u8d70\u5c31\u8d70\u7684\u65c5\u884c [shu\u014d z\u01d2u ji\u00f9 z\u01d2u de l\u01da x\u00edng] &#8211; A suddenly decided trip.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>\u53cb\u8c0a\u7684\u5c0f\u8239\u8bf4\u7ffb\u5c31\u7ffb means that the friendship is not strong and can break over the tiniest thing. Let\u2019s look at two more comics:<\/p>\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/duchinese\/blog\/images\/Friendship-2.jpg\" alt=\"Friendship comic\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-du-interactive-example\" data-du-interactive=\"3ce2a068c\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/duchinese\/blog\/images\/Friendship-3.jpg\" alt=\"Friendship comic\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-du-interactive-example\" data-du-interactive=\"e3c5d3c03\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Now if your friendship is very strong on the other hand, how can you describe it in Chinese?<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>\u95fa\u871c[gu\u012b m\u00ec] &#8211; best friend (between females)<\/li>\n<li>\u597d\u57fa\u53cb [h\u01ceo j\u012b y\u01d2u] &#8211; bro, bromance<\/li>\n<li>\u77e5\u5df1[zh\u012b j\u01d0] \u2013 best friend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>So do you have a best friend? And have you ever experienced the boat of friendship tipping over for the smallest thing? Feel welcome to tell us about your experience on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DuChinese.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the phrase \u201d\u53cb\u8c0a\u7684\u5c0f\u8239\u8bf4\u7ffb\u5c31\u7ffb [y\u01d2u y\u00ec de xi\u01ceo chu\u00e1n shu\u014d f\u0101n ji\u00f9 f\u0101n]\u201d, meaning \u201cThe Boat of Friendship Suddenly Tips Over\u201d, went viral in China and spread through WeChat&#39;s moments and friend circles. In this lesson, we learn where this phrase came from and how you can use it. The origin of the phrase is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/723e3c180b0ebac918de2dcae1377be36542f824-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/duchinese.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}