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Myriam -

fireball9261, 一日 means one day and 万 just means an infinite number.



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wannaknowitall -

One day, ten thousands of destinies.
Is this a chinese phrase? if you google "一日万命" this site is the only site that's got it!!
It's gotta mean something like that in one day there are 'myriads' of different destinies (things
happening in peoples' lives)... Like that people experience so much different things.. ?










Myriam -

yeah that's what it's supposed to mean.
--
no, wait, I'm not sure I understand "Like that people experience so much different things.. ?"










wannaknowitall -

by 万命 you mean 'myriads of destinies'?
- so i suppose you don't talk about one person, i mean, what happen to one person in one day
(because it doesn't happen that much to one person), but rather that every day 'consists of'
myriads of destinies (that people all around experience so much different things/destinies...) ??










heifeng -

一日 you say....hmmmm

I won't write the first thing that came to my mind.










Quest -

Myriam, you probably wouldn't want to hear and you wouldn't accept this, but 一日万命 is
gibberish, and if forced to be interpreted literally, it would mean that ten thousand lives are
lost in one day. The "ten thousand destinies" interpretation never crossed my mind.










fireball9261 -

heifeng,

You have a dirty mind! I thought you are a gentleman!










fireball9261 -

Sorry, I am a native Chinese speaker, and I have never heard of this term. Is it a new phrase? I
don't get some of the newer phrases and some of the ones from regional dialects. It does have a
Buddhist feel to it, too. It feels like "multiple destinaties existed in one (short) day."










imron -



Quote:

I thought you are a gentleman!

I guess there's still another surprise coming then










fireball9261 -



Quote:

I guess there's still another surprise coming then

OK. I got it -- I thought heifeng is a gentle woman (or a lady)!












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