似曾相识 - Déjà Vu

似曾相

Sì céng xiāng shí

I’m always interested in Chinese idioms that have English equivalents, and was pleased when I came across this one. It means “similar to something seen in the past”, or déjà vu.

It is quite appropriate for me, as this week I’m required to read three chapters of a text book that I had to read last year, for a prerequisite course. I know it doesn’t techinically fit the core meaning, as I can explicitly rememer reading these chapters, but I couldn’t think of a recent déjà vu experience. Actually, all I could think of was that cat from the Matrix.



Although this book is familiar to me, I still have to read it again.

虽然我觉得这本书有一点似曾相识,但是我还要再读一遍。



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