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Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Cutting Open a Frog

..not sure if I'd go as far as PTSD,but I'm sure it got a  flyght

...but perhaps we'd better qingwen the qingwa

Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Cutting Open a Frog

zhenlijiang,

duibuqi.Was it the waist or it's bloated torso that put you off?

...or on second thoughts,was it the swallowed fly the frog was kindly retrieving from the boys stomach?

ribbet

ps re:"eeew"....I think you meant e3xin1 from the recent ellie lesson "expired";whereas the frog and the fly both look pretty fresh to me

Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Cutting Open a Frog

zhenlijiang,

I would have thought the waist was the part just above the hind legs as shown here:

...see how the torso narrows down at that point?

Posted on: Newserino

dunderklumpen,

I think the lesson you are looking for is here:

http://chinesepod.com/lessons/catch-the-train/discussion

I'm not sure what would have brought that up but your best bet I believe is going on the advanced search options and ticking all the boxes.IHTH. :)

ps I've just tested it out for you by typing in the English word train and the right lesson was the first of 3 to come up.If that hadn't worked then you could go to the tab on the right upper corner where you can expand the search and tick all the boxes

Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Cutting Open a Frog

I hope this sentence from the expansion isn't a sign that CPod is contemplating taking a more militant approach with we Poddies:

落后就要挨打

Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Cutting Open a Frog

calkins,

discussed here mate:

http://chinesepod.com/lessons/health-check/discussion

..in the UI lesson "Health Check"..though,while the different pronunciations are discussed,I don't think anyone specifically answers your question in regard to Taiwan.

Calling Changye 叔叔，麻烦你帮我们

Posted on: Stopping at a Friend's Farm -- 过故人庄

bodawei,

No worries mate.Yeah,I love that movie;such a classic.Like many other Aussie movies,I think in the main it is strictly for Aussies though as others just don't get it,particularly in this case.

changye,

Yeah,I've painted the ROK flag before.

Posted on: Stopping at a Friend's Farm -- 过故人庄

bodawei,

"But in other respects we are very advanced..."

...yeah mate,as shown beautifully by these Aussie poets laureate here.Hey miantiao,is that you behind the wheel at 40secs in the vid mate?

Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Cutting Open a Frog

I'm sure I remember being taught in history lessons at school that after the opium wars China became a paper tiger [alternately called a toothless tiger],but the term seems to be most associated with an interview in which Mao Zedong was reported as saying of the US:

"In appearance it is very powerful but in reality it is nothing to be afraid of; it is a paper tiger. Outwardly a tiger, it is made of paper, unable to withstand the wind and the rain. I believe the United States is nothing but a paper tiger"

Khrushchev was reported as saying that while the US may be a paper tiger,it had "nuclear teeth"

Posted on: Saved by the Gong: Cutting Open a Frog

真的好课 ！

Funny and classic stuff.Thanks again for including so much vocab from recent lessons as well as introducing new.Last week we had the 白白的皮肤的美眉和现在我们有绿绿的皮肤的青蛙。hmmm...我很喜欢皮肤的青蛙。

hmm,I wonder how 林峰 would have coped with a hungry Jiang Musheng for a dissection partner,with a penchant for eating 青蛙 alive as shown here:

and discussed here.I suspect we would have heard that amusing thud at the end a lot earlier and may have cut our intermediate lesson short and had no chance that he would be saved by the gong.