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bababardwan
Posted on: International Women's Day
March 7, 2010 at 2:09 AM颠簸
Posted on: Man-to-Man Advice on Women
March 6, 2010 at 2:30 PMOh right,so 红红 is someone's name in this dialogue.I know CPod often like to reinforce recently introduced vocab by bringing them up in subsequent lessons and I was trying to cast my mind back to the recent QW on 红 as I listened and was drawing a blank.I should have realised with the reduplication [seems common in Chinese names,no?] and the context,but the recent 红 lesson threw me,hehe.
Red is a common nickname for a red haired person in the west,but obviously it's Chinese significance are why it would be chosen in China.
Posted on: Man-to-Man Advice on Women
March 6, 2010 at 2:02 PMAh,the penny drops.I was watching ufc the other night and I was wondering why this guy had 月 and 生 tattoed on his back...I was thinking ..hmm ...month ..birth..what's he trying to say？Now I see I should have read it as one character 胜..victorious [he wasn't btw].
Posted on: Man-to-Man Advice on Women
March 6, 2010 at 1:46 PMI love this expression:
蜻蜓点水...sounds so classically Chinese
http://img.sina.com.hk/news//14/2007/0615/1181874786_LzNZnt.jpg
..dragonfly [touching a ] point/speck/dot [on the] water
..a very vivid description as they do touch the water very lightly
Posted on: Man-to-Man Advice on Women
March 6, 2010 at 1:30 PMI'm interested in this expression:
听哥一席话，胜读十年书
..meaning to learn a lot from what someone says.So if we were to look at the literal translation,I suppose it would be:
listening to your older brother's [obviously representing someone more experienced] entire banquet words [what's discussed in a conversation] beats reading books for 10 years
...in other words you can learn more from listening to what someone says than you can from reading books for 10 years.
Posted on: Visiting the Hospital with a Fever
March 6, 2010 at 11:16 AMgo manly,
oh right,I've only just seen this now,nearly missed it except I meant to come and follow up on ousijia's advice. I wasn't aware of that mate,so thanks for the tip. :)
Posted on: Let's Just Be Friends
March 6, 2010 at 10:43 AMhehe, this clip [sorry,it's youtube] seems relevant to your comment...the gentle rejection didn't discourage him enough so something a bit more blunt had to be employed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw5JyXNEwtk
Posted on: New year, new lessons, and a reminder of new prices!
March 6, 2010 at 8:41 AMbodawei,
..actually I'm just giving my recollections as a kid [and of course I'm not sure how accurate that is and how much was just heresay..that is it's what I remember being told and I remember a mate did come back from Sydney with fireworks but whether they were actually illegal down there at the time and gotten from some dodgy source I dunno...but it doesn't seem likely].And of course from a kids point of view ,the view of someone who thought fireworks were cool and exciting it felt the other way around..that we were backward up here and Sydney had the cool stuff.Of course now in retrospect I can more fully appreciate the rationale behind banning them.
Posted on: Meeting ChinesePod's Teachers
March 7, 2010 at 2:17 AM中文播客女人的用户，我祝你们三八妇女节快乐 !!
[ChinesePod women poddies,I wish you Happy International Women's Day [for tomorrow] ]
..how unfortunate 三八 also means foolish...what's the connection here?