路不行不到.pdf

第七課 Dì-qī kè Lesson 7 路不行不到，事不為不成 路不行不到，事不为不成 Lù bù xíng bú dào, shì bù wéi bù chéng. Road not go, not arrive, things not do, not succeed. You won’t get anywhere unless you start out; you won’t achieve anything unless you do it. 7.1 First set 氣 雖然 熱 冷 悶 4+6 8+9 4+8 4+11 2+5 4+8 气 虽 热 闷 4+0 3+6 4+6 3+4 qì suīrán rè lěng mēn mèn air, gas; spirit although hot cold stuffy bored 錯 行 知道 以 但 8+8 6+0 5+3 3+9 2+3 2+4 错 5+8 cuò xíng; háng zhīdào yǐ- dàn- wrong; poor do; be firm; know (‘take’) (‘but’) okay business 79 Notes a) 氣, as in 天氣 tiānqì ‘weather’ and 空氣 kōngqì ‘air; atmosphere’ has 气 as a radical; also found with eg the gaseous elements, such as 氫 qīng ‘hydrogen’, 氖 nǎi ‘neon ’ etc. The internal element in 氣 is 米 mǐ ‘(husked) rice’, so the compound graph suggests ‘steam rising from cooking rice’. b) 雖 suī, with 隹 zhuī as phonetic (cf. 誰 shéi and 推 tuī ‘push’). The graph 然 (no simplified form) was originally used for a word meaning ‘burn; blaze’, which explain