Describing Personalities 2
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ID: 7410
Upper-Intermediate
English Subtitles Coming...
Check out part two of our personalities Qing Wen where we cover some more advanced and more bizarre terms to describe someone's personality in Chinese. Watch Part 1 here. If you want to see some of the language we talked about in action, check out 花瓶总监 . https://chinesepodtv.wistia.com/medias/tfcg955q76 Fiona Tian,Constance Fang
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世故
shìgù 世故
diplomatic; knowing how things actually work and how people actually function in the world; a sense of being wise to how things actually are, especially in terms of relationships.
一个人如果到了三十岁还不懂世故那就很奇怪
yī ge rén 一个人rúguǒ 如果dào 到le 了sānshí suì 三十岁hái 还bù 不dǒng 懂shìgù 世故nā jiù 那就hěn 很qíguài 奇怪
If a person reaches thirty and still doesn't understand the ways of the world, then that's really strange.
人情世故
rénqíng 人情shìgù 世故
the ways of social relationships
有人缘
yǒurényuán 有人缘
to be popular
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