User Comments - Mingmao

Posted on: A Qing Wen to Our Listeners

I would really appreciate a Qing Wen on the character 尽. How to differentiate between jìn and jîn, and especially how it functions as a single character in a sentence.

Posted on: Costume Ball

Interesting, thank you.

I haven't read the book, actually; do you know enough about the story to know why this character, looking in a mirror, would be related to being blamed everywhere?

Posted on: Costume Ball

I looked through these comments, but I didn't see an explanation of the pig character/mirror idiom. 

"猪八戒照镜子，里外不是人"

Could someone please translate and explain? 

Thank you!

Posted on: Suffix Magic

"政府要绿化上海。"

Could you give some specific examples of what policies or actions this would be indicating? 

Does this mean planting more trees and creating more parks?

Implementing a recycling program? 

Limiting cars within the downtown? 

I am confused if this "greenify" is purely indicating "ecofriendliness" or has an implication plants and green spaces as well.

Thanks.

Posted on: Making people do things with 让，令，and 使

你让我发疯了。

I would like to know, can this sentence have the sexual connotation that "You make me crazy" could in English, or only the "you really annoy me" connotation? 

Thanks.

Posted on: Photocopying and Printing

Thank you Lujiaojie!

Posted on: Finding the Office Building

Thank you, Connie!

Posted on: Finding the Office Building

I wasn't trying to give a comprehensive list of all the measure words for "building." But I remember being very confused by 一楼 versus 一号楼 and stevemisch seemed to be too. I just gave the example so there could be "one building; building #1; the first floor."

Posted on: Photocopying and Printing

How would you expand the sentence, "还有，这些帮我复印一下。"

to ask: "Photocopy these for me: I need five copies, collated, and please staple them when you're done." ?

Posted on: Finding the Office Building

stevemisch:

一栋楼: one (m.w.) building

一号楼: building #1

一楼: the first floor