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現在流行事物時候成為明日黃花
What is fashionable now will be passe after some time.

This sentence is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, it cannot be used in Cantonese.

  Level: 3
現在流行的事物,過些時候都成為明日黃花。

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現在  jin6 zoi6  xian4 zai4  -  now; currently; the present
流行  lau4 hang4  liu2 xing2  -  pop, popular
 dik1  de5 di2 di4  - possessive suffix
事物  si6 mat6  shi4 wu4  -  thing; object
 gwo3  guo4 guo5  - pass through; across
 se1  xie1  - some; a bit
時候  si4 hau6  shi2 hou4  -  (point in) time, moment
 dou1  dou1 du1 zhu1  - all, together; city, metropolis
成為  sing4 wai4  cheng2 wei2  -  to become; to turn into
明日黃花  ming4 jat6 wong4 faa1  ming2 ri4 huang2 hua1  -  things or issues of the past
This sentence was added by bernard and last edited on 30th Oct 2008
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