反美是工作赴美是生活 (fǎn Měi shì gōng zuò fù Měi shì shēng huó) — 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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反美是工作赴美是生活 (fǎn Měi shì gōng zuò fù Měi shì shēng huó) has the following dictionary meaning.

1being 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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反fǎncontrary · in reverse 美Měi(bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 美洲[Mei3 zhou1]) · (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美國|美国[Mei3 guo2])是shìto be (followed by substantives only) · correct; right; true 工gōngwork · worker 作zuō(bound form) worker · (bound form) workshop 赴fùto go · to visit (e.g. another country)生shēngto grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born · to arise; to occur 活huóto live · alive

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反美是工作赴美是生活

fǎn Měi shì gōng zuò fù Měi shì shēng huó

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