反美是工作赴美是生活

fǎn měi shì gōng zuò fù měi shì shēng huó

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1. being anti-American is the job, but life is in America (jocular comment made about public figures who are brazenly xenophobic but whose family live abroad)

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Child Words of 反美是工作赴美是生活

• 作 作 zuō: worker
• 作 作 zuò: to do; to engage in
• 反 反 fǎn: contrary
• 工作 工作 gōng zuò: to work
• 是 是 shì: to be (followed by substantives only)
• 活 活 huó: to live
• 生 生 shēng: to be born
• 生活 生活 shēng huó: to live
• 美 美 měi: beautiful
• 赴 赴 fù: to go
• 反美 反美 fǎn měi: anti-American
• 工 工 gōng: work
• 赴美 赴美 fù měi: to go to the United States