Chinese sentence – How to say “There are so many Christmas presents under the Christmas trees” in Chinese: 圣旦树下面有很多圣旦礼物。sheng4 dan4 shu4 xia4 mian4 you3 hen3 duo1 sheng4 dan4 li3 wu4. Sheng4 dan4 shu4 xia4 mian4 you3 hen3 duo1 sheng4 dan4 li3 wu4. Sheng4 dan4 shu4 (圣旦树 noun; shu4 means tree, sheng4 dan4 shu4 means Christmas tree) xia4 (下 preposition word, under or below) mian4 (面 a suffix for position words) you3 (有 verb, have) hen3 duo1 (很多 adjective, many) sheng4 dan4 li3 wu4 (圣旦礼物 Christmas gifts or presents).
Direction words 上 shang4 top／下 xia4 bottom／前 qian2 front／后 hou4 back, often combine with suffixes, such as 边 bian1, 面 mian4 or 头 tou2. These suffixes bian1, mian4, tou2 can be pronounced in the neutral tone or their original tones.
What presents you received this Christmas? Are those something you like or not? No matter it is a gift you wish for or not, don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Which means don’t be ungrateful when you receive a gift. So, when you receive a gift, be grateful for your good fortune and don’t look for more by examining it to assess its value.
As horses age their teeth begin to grow further forward each year and so their age can be estimated by checking how prominent their teeth are. So, checking a horse’s teeth, you can figure out a lot of information about the horse.
In Chinese there is an idiom called 马齿徒长 ma3 chi3 tu2 zhang3 means although we got aged, like the horse’s teeth got longer, but our wisdom did not progress. It is a saying that people can use to modestly mention about himself or herself only aged physically, but not gained wisdom as years go by.
So, when you received an ipod touch 8GB, don’t look into the ipod’s robot mouth and complain it is not the 32 GB that you desire. When you got a notebook, don’t flare your eyes and look into the mouth of the electronic book and complain it is not the Macbook your dream for. As long as it is a gift of love, it would be the best gift of all.
Let’s listen to a very old Chinese song. It is called 爱的礼物 ai4 de5 li3 wu4 the gift of love by a lovely Chinese singer called Cai xing juan 蔡幸娟. Enjoy the lovely song and wish you got your dream gifts from 圣旦老公公 sheng4 dan4 lao3 gong1 gong5 Old man santa …..
Gifts of love with a Japanese tune