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bababardwan
Posted on: Detective Li 9: Final Mission (Part 3)
October 13, 2011 at 2:34 AMThanks Greg for confirming what I thought it meant. hehe, haoxiang in this situation I had a better grip on the Chinese than the English. Yeah, I did realise that that example doesn't necessarily imply that the support is over and could certainly be used in a case where support was ongoing depending on context or the way it was said, but as all the other examples also seemed to be in past tense it made me start to wonder. Cheers mate :)
Posted on: Detective Li 9: Final Mission (Part 3)
October 13, 2011 at 2:26 AMjiaojie and xuzhou,
Thanks for that. Great explanations. Wanquan mingbai le. Actually I struck it in the exercises and it made sense to me, but I only recalled jietong in the dialogue. I should have gone back and had a listen. Thanks again :)
Posted on: Detective Li 9: Final Mission (Part 3)
October 11, 2011 at 10:17 PMAlso, not sure why, but when entering a comment in the last week or so, the font for some reason is very small, but then it comes out normal size when you actually post it. Is anyone else experiencing this?
Do we need to reupload our avatars?
Posted on: Detective Li 9: Final Mission (Part 3)
October 11, 2011 at 10:13 PM
Posted on: Detective Li 9: Final Mission (Part 3)
October 10, 2011 at 6:48 AM考上。。。to test into
..obviously to pass a test to get into say a school or uni
...can't say you hear it expressed that way much around these parts, but interesting that the Chinese has literally the same expression. Do poddies reckon this "to test into" is more of an American expression, or is it common elsewhere?
Posted on: Detective Li 9: Final Mission (Part 3)
October 10, 2011 at 5:59 AMI'm interested in the examples given in the grammar tab for 始终, such as:
我们始终支持你！
(We have always supported you!)
...they all seem to be translated as being in the past tense [whichin this example could potentially mean the support is over...things have changed...though there is no le in this case]. Could this sentence also mean:
We always have and always will support you
or more simply:
we always support you.
or even:
as always, will we continue to support you to the end
Interesting because of the time nature of the word itself. I guess I'm mainly asking is there definitely a past tense only in all those examples for 始终 in the grammar tab. No present or future? No continuing state?
Posted on: Detective Li 9: Final Mission (Part 3)
October 10, 2011 at 5:19 AMI like your thinking here, but doesn't that produce carbon dioxide and hydrogen?....where does the oxygen come in?
...secondly, I can't imagine this reaction with water vapour is going to occur to a sufficient degree to stop death by CO poisoning. I wouldn't pin too much hope on a damp floor. But that's just my view, you may be right and as I say, I like your thinking. Any other suggestions?
Posted on: Detective Li 9: Final Mission (Part 3)
October 10, 2011 at 12:18 AMI'm trying to get my head around heimao's plan to blow up the police station..to come at a motive. It's sounding like he want's to avenge his baba's death and that Litanzhang was to blame. Well he has litanzhang exactly where he want's him now so what's the point of blowing up the police station? ...to show him up?..to win....finally a case litanzhang couldn't crack? to play cat and mouse with him?...daring him to make the call....and being more interested in setting off the remote if litanzhang gave away his whereabouts and predicament than if he gave away the bombs location?
...or maybe litanzhang wasn't the only one to blame and he has to exact revenge on others back at the station....but in that case, currently it's sounding like xiaoyou is the only one back at the station and she's a new recruit who certainly wasn't around 10 years ago..so once again...what's the point here?...I mean the whole bomb thing may well have originally been a diversion to draw litanzhang out...diaohulishan...but now that he has him, what's the point of continuing with blowing up the police station?...has he just lost the plot? [have I lost the plot, hehe?] ....any thoughts?
Posted on: Detective Li 9: Final Mission (Part 3)
October 9, 2011 at 3:49 AM"If the source of dampness on the floor is water it could be a life saving gift for Li Tanzhang"
..how so?
btw, I was developing a theory that involved litanzhang pointing the red light of the videocam and reflecting it off the damp floor to simulate blood, but the 闪烁 poses a bit of a problem there
Posted on: Detective Li 9: Final Mission (Part 3)
October 13, 2011 at 2:44 AMI guess if he could pull off a convincing 经过处理的声音imitation of 黑猫的爸爸声音 that lured heimao into the room, even if he's just in the next room you could probably consider that a mini reverse 调虎离山
Also, while it still seems most likely XiaoYou well answer his call [and that he's expecting her to have cracked the lock and answer it] I wonder if that phone was actually originally laotanzhang's [heimao's baba] phone and he was hoping it wouldn't be answered and he'd get laotanzhang's recorded voice to try and trick heimao [or maybe the recorded voice will even vindicate him...show him as laotanzhang's most loyal supporter which ironically ended up costing litanzhang his family]. Either way, I hope litanzhang's call both lures heimao out and warns xiaoyou in one fell swoop.