Before I am going out for a long mid afternoon summer jog and walk, I did some search for you about jogging, and these are what I came up with:
Learn Mandarin Chinese – How to say – “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.” Les Brown
Have you ever felt dizzy when you were jogging? I wondered why this belongs to motivational running quotes!! Anyways, jogging is an exhausting sport, exhausts the mind and body. Hope you have good jog every time and drink before you jog. Be safe, be well.
” miáo zhǔn (瞄准 verb, to aim) yuè qiú (月球 noun, moon) shè jī (射击 verb, to shoot) . jí shǐ (即使 conjunction, even though) nǐ (你 pronoun, you) cuò guò (错过 verb, to miss) le (了 particle, show that action occurred) tā (它 pronoun, it, here refers to moon) , nǐ (你 noun, you) huì (会 auxiliary verb, will) jiàng luò (降落 verb, to land) zài (在 preposition, on) qún (群 adjective, group of, or many) xīng (星 noun, stars) zhī jiān (之间 preposition, between) . ” – Láisī Bùlǎng (names for Les Brown)
There is a Chinese idiom called 东奔西跑 dōng bēn xī pǎo
dōng (direction, east) bēn (verb, run fast) xī (direction, west) pǎo (verb, run)
The idiom means run around here and there; bustle about; rush about; rush around.
Sample sentences of using 东奔西跑 dōng bēn xī pǎo.
Click jogging to hear the recording of these three sample sentences —–>
1 她一辈子东奔西跑，非常辛苦。
tā yī bèizi dōng bēn xī pǎo , fēicháng xīnkǔ .
All her life is running around (west and east), very hard.
2 你不能像疯子一样东奔西跑，请停下来。
nǐ bù néng xiàng fēngzi yīyàng dōngbēnxīpǎo , qǐng tíng xià lai .
You can’t be like a nut running around, please stop.
3 我的父母亲是军人，所以我的童年总是在搬来搬去，东奔西跑中度过。
Wǒ de fùmǔqīn shì jūnrén , suǒyǐ Wǒ de tóngnián zǒngshì zài bān lái bān qù , dōngbēnxīpǎo zhōng dùguò .
My parents are in military, so my childhood was spent in moving around and running east and west.
Here are some quotes for you about jogging:
“Running is a mental sport…and we’re all insane!”
“Life is short… running makes it seem longer.”
– Baron Hansen
“The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.”
– Erma Bombeck
“You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming. ”
– Frank Shorter
“I don’t think jogging is healthy, especially morning jogging. If morning joggers knew how tempting they looked to morning motorists, they would stay home and do sit-ups.”
– Rita Rudner
“I love running cross country….On a track, I feel like a hamster.”
“If you never have a ‘bad’ day, you’re probably doing something wrong; if you never have a ‘good’ day, you’re definitely doing something wrong.”
-Mark Remy
“The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you’re not in shape for it, it’s too far to walk back.”
-Franklin Jones
“As I was running this morning I realized to be or not to be was never a question. It is a choice!”
— Jackie
‘You haven’t failed ’till you stop trying’ So true…”
— Bonnie Thomas
Here is my all time fav running song
Viva La Vida by Coldplay Lyrics
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A human being isn’t an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in. — Sara Jeannette Duncan quotes
You are going to have a very classic Chinese essay / article lesson today. The author 陈之藩 Chen Zhi Fan was born on June 19, 1925, and passed away on February 25, this year (2012). He was a hardworking scientist, taught electronic engineering in universities and also a renowned Chinese essayist. I learned 陈之藩’s Rootless orchids when I was in middle school, and till now I still have a lovely memory about its timeless beauty. At the end of the lesson, I attached 10 Chinese idioms about flowers and also example sentence about how to use these succinct idioms. This article is very beautiful, and so I felt it is good to include the full text with my recording at the end of the post for your serious studying.
Based on different abilities of readers, the post is arranged by the following sections:
1 Chinese text with audio
2 Chinese text with audio and pinyin
3 Annotated Chinese text with pinyin
4 Chinese text with pinyin, English translation and audio
5 Useful, succinct Chinese idioms about flowers with definition and sample sentences about how to use them
6 Full Chinese text of Rootless Orchid with audio recording
In water-like seeping cool summer night, having the story of cowherd and weaving girl made the star light more sparkling and brighter. In groups of mountains and ten thousand water-worn ravines, having bamboo fences and straw cottages made poetic meaning abundant. In the raw field of morning early sun, having clumsy and heavy old ox made the field more pure, plain and cute.
zǔ guó de shān hé , bù jǐn shì huā mù , hāi yǒu kě gē kě qì de gù shi , kě yín kě yǒng de shīgē , shì ér tóng de xuān huá xiào yǔ yǔ zǔ zōng de jìng sù mù lú , bǎ tā diǎn zhuì měi lí le .
The mountains and rivers of home country, there are not only flowers and trees, but also those worth singing and crying stories, worth reciting and singing poems. They are the noise and clamor laughter of children and quiet and serious ancestors’ graves decorate them and made them beautiful.
Ancient people say: Life is like duckweed randomly floating on top the water. That is because ancient people never left country’s door, and did not feel the hardship of leaving country. Duckweed still has water to rely on. In my point of view: life is like cotton wadding floating, withering and falling in this ten thousand purple and thousand red spring.
Song Dynasty painter, sī xiāo, drew orchids with roots and leaves floating in the air. People asked him why, and he said: ” Homeland ruined and was gone forever, where can the root attach to?” Country is the land. The people who are without country is grass without roots. There is no need to wait for wind and rains’ torture, for it would be soon withered.
Wǒ shí jǐ suì , jí wújiākěguī , bìngwèi jiào qí kǔ , shí jǐ nián hòu , zǔ guó yǐ pò , què shēn jiào chū ge Zhōng zīwèi le . bù shì yǒu shuō , 「tóu kě duàn , xiě kě liú , shēn bùkě rǔ ma ? 」Wǒ juéde yīnggāi shì , 「shēn kě rǔ , jiā kě pò , guó bùkě wáng .
When I was ten something, I then had no home to return to, but I did not feel the bitterness from it. Ten more years later, home country was broken, on the contrary I deeply felt the sentimental feeling in it. Did not someone say: “Head can be severed, blood can be floating, but body can’t be insulted?” I think it should be: ” Body can be insulted, home can be broken, however, country can’t be lost.”
