反美是工作赴美是生活

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)

contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system

anti-American

(bound form) the Americas (abbr. for 美洲[Mei3 zhou1]) / (bound form) USA (abbr. for 美國|美国[Mei3 guo2])

beautiful / very satisfactory / good / to beautify / to be pleased with oneself

beautiful / very satisfactory; good / to beautify / to be pleased with oneself

variant of 是[shi4] / (used in given names)

to be (followed by substantives only) / correct; right; true / (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well / (adverb for emphatic assertion)

work / worker / skill / profession / trade / craft / labor

to work / (of a machine) to operate / job / work / task / CL:個|个[ge4],份[fen4],項|项[xiang4]

worker / workshop / (slang) troublesome / high-maintenance (person)

to do; to engage in / to write; to compose / to pretend; to feign / to regard as; to consider to be / to be; to act the part of / to feel (itchy, nauseous etc) / writings; works

to go / to visit (e.g. another country) / to attend (a banquet etc)

to go to the United States

to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student

life / activity / to live / livelihood

to live / alive / living / work / workmanship