Learn Chinese: How to say ” Can you do me a favor?” in Chinese:你可以帮我一个忙吗 ni3 ke3 yi3 bang1 wo3 yi2 ge5 mang2 ma5

How to say ” Can you do me a favor?” in Chinese:你可以帮我一个忙吗 ni3 ke3 yi3 bang1 wo3 yi2 ge5 mang2 ma5? ni3 (你you) ke3 yi3 (可以are able to) bang1 (帮help) wo3 ( 我me) yi2 (一one) ge5 (个a measure word for help) mang2 (忙bang1 and mang2 together means  help, bang1 is the verb and mang2 is the object) ma5 (吗is a particle to change the sentence from a statement to a question)? The particle “ma” can be added to the end of any sentence to make it into a question. For example, if you want to ask, “Have you done your homework?” , you would say, “ ni3 zuo4 gong1 ke4 le5 ma5” 你做功课了嗎? ni3 zuo4 gong1 ke4 le5 你做功课了( you have done the homework) is a statement, while ni3 zuo4 gong1 ke4 le5 ma5” 你做功课了嗎 (Have you done your homework?) is a question.

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Learn Chinese song: Upbeat Chinese song 微风往事 wēi fēng wǎng shì Breeze past by 郑怡 Zheng Yi (Jeng Yi): Song, lyrics, pinyin, English translation and quotes about past


微风往事
wēi fēng wǎng shì
Breeze past
by
郑怡
Zheng Yi (Jeng Yi)

早晨的微风 我们向远处出发中
zǎo chén de wēi fēng wǒ men xiàng yuǎn chǔ chū fā zhōng
The breeze in the morning, we proceed to the far away place

往事如烟 不要回首
wǎng shì rú yān bù yào huí shǒu
The past is like smoke; don’t turn back

晨雾迷漫中 音乐在我心里响起
chén wù mí màn zhōng yīn yuè zài wǒ xīn lǐ xiǎng qǐ
In the hazy morning mist, music rings and rises in my heart

幕已开启 别再忧愁
mù yǐ kāi qǐ bié zài yōu chóu
The curtain has lifted; don’t be sorrowful

谁知我行踪 何去何从
shuí zhī wǒ xíng zōng hé qù hé cóng
Who knows my whereabout, Where to go and what should I do

谁令我感动 远离伤痛
shuí lìng wǒ gǎn dòng yuǎn lí shāng tòng
Who touched me, (made me) stay away from wounds and pains

早晨的微风 在心中
zǎo chén de wēi fēng zài xīn zhōng
The morning breeze is in the heart

晨雾迷漫中 多感动
chén wù mí màn zhōng duō gǎn dòng
In the hazy morning mist, I am so touched

不回首 别再忧愁
bù huí shǒu bié zài yōu chóu
Don’t turn back; don’t be sorrowful

Quotes about past:
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~André Maurois

The past is not a package one can lay away. ~Emily Dickinson

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. ~Paul Eldridge

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ~Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953

The Past lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables

The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ~Wendell Berry

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf

Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

I find in old age that it’s possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. ~Golda Meir

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. ~Maurice Maeterlinck

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. ~Pliny the Elder

We need not destroy the past. It is gone. ~John Cage

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now. ~Author Unknown

These quotes come from: http://www.quotegarden.com/past.html

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