Mandarin Slang with Johnny: To Live Off Past Merits | ChinesePod
Join our host Johnny Nie as he teaches us some Mandarin Slang that you often encounter in every day modern Chinese conversations.
We all have that one friend who we admire due to their financial and academic success that everyone has high expectations of. But we don't want our friend to dwell on the past and stop growing. There's a Mandarin Slang for that! Learn the Mandarin phrase for "To Live Off Past Merits" in this episode.
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We all have that one friend who we admire due to their financial and academic success that everyone has high expectations of. But we don't want our friend to dwell on the past and stop growing. There's a Mandarin Slang for that! Learn the Mandarin phrase for "To Live Off Past Merits" in this episode.
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Transcript
00:00Hey! Johnny here.
00:02And welcome back to Mandarin Slang.
00:03We all have that friend that we admire
00:05because of their financial and academic success
00:08And we definitely would not want our friend
00:10to stop growing and live off their past merits
00:13Which in Mandarin we call,
00:20means "to eat", whereas
00:23means "financial capital," "assets" or "past merits"
00:28And even though this expression literally means
00:30"to eat your financial capital or assets"
00:32What it really means is
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