User Comments - bodawei

Posted on: Second-hand Bicycle

toianw

That is impressive research! I hope you didn't have to look through 50 + years of Spring Festival galas. :)

But thanks for the info - and the original line. Don't you hate it when you are mis-quoted?

Posted on: Second-hand Bicycle

I think this is one of your funniest dialogues in quite some time.. had a good laugh thanks.

But this raises an interesting point .. if you didn't make this line up, shouldn't you attribute authorship? Or are you saying that it is so famous it's in the public domain? I don't think so; I'd not heard it before, and something 'famous' normally has an equally famous author's name beside it, or 'anon'.

Posted on: Blind Massage

jenny

这是健康的健，对吧？你把拼音写错了吗？ 应该写'jiàn'吗？

Posted on: Blind Massage

我也很喜欢这个电影，真不巧现代这种浴室很少。

Posted on: Blind Massage

Hi azzote

I don't want to disagree with you at all - it is sad when you see cripples begging etc. Don't disagree. I just want to respond to 'it reveals one of the saddest aspects of Chinese society'. This suggests that what we have here is a window to a much wider problem in China where the disabled are banished to a life of misery. Well, I agree that people that are different are often the subject of scorn or at least curiosity. But I want to throw a few things in on both sides of the ledger so to speak. (Yes, I know that is what I am prone to do - I am often criticised here for my rose-coloured glasses.)

First, I observe that the universities accommodate many people with physical disabilities - on casual observation I would say that the accommodation of people with physical disabilities here is similar to what I observed in Australia. So this information should be taken into account when considering 'one of the saddest aspects of Chinese society' - it is not as though the entire modern Chinese society ignores or penalises physical disability. Some might argue that there may be class-ism at work here. Let me just add that a remarkably high proportion of my students come from poor family backgrounds, from the most remote parts of the country - my student population at least mirrors the wider population. (How do I know? I casually interview each and every student about their life in their home towns, family, etc. (My educational justification is that this is something that they like talking about, and know something about - they are experts about their own lives. I tire of listening to students who theorise about stuff they have read in books or been told by their mates, or see on the Internet.) In fact, the minorites (traditionally the poorest in China) are over-represented; 12% of my students declare themselves as minority nationalities.

Second, yes, a lot of blind people do massage. I understand from what I have read that they have a heightened sense of touch, but my point is that they have employment, they are not begging. Also, not all cripples beg - I am regularly served at a restaurant I go to by a cripple - okay, it is not a high paying job, but being a cripple has not resulted in him being banished to washing dishes or even worse begging. So .. the treatment of/attitudes towards physical disability in China is different to the West, true, but in many respects it is not too different to my experience in Australia. Maybe what I am observing here is indicative of changes taking place in Chinese society. (Disclaimer: there is a good argument to be made that the people in my province of Yunnan are amongst the most tolerant of differences in China. A whole other discussion.. :) ）

Posted on: Second-hand Bicycle

第二次来 。。二手的 。。

Posted on: Second-hand Bicycle

第一次来。。 初次的。。新手 ？？

Posted on: What does she look like?

This guy Jiabin (Sunix) has long been my favourite voice actor at ChinesePod. From the first time I heard him. If there was vote he would be number one. Okay, Connie would be a close second. Maybe Jiabin and Connie in a photo finish. Such an authentic voice - I have heard/known lots of Chinese men who talk like this (not to undermine his obvious personality.) Please tell him he has a fan club!

PS. I love this 'tech guy doing the voice acting'. So Chinese. I have a mate in TV and this is so common in the industry. So completely multi-skilled. Well it is usually done to maximise profits but in this case we all appreciate his voice acting.

Posted on: What does she look like?

This guy Jiabin (Sunix) has long been my favourite voice actor at ChinesePod. From the first time I heard him. If there was vote he would be number one. Okay, Connie would be a close second. Maybe Jiabin and Connie in a photo finish. Such an authentic voice - I have heard/known lots of Chinese men who talk like this (not to undermine his obvious personality.) Please tell him he has a fan club!

PS. I love this 'tech guy doing the voice acting'. So Chinese. I have a mate in TV and this is so common in the industry. So completely multi-skilled. Well it is usually done to maximise profits but in this case we all appreciate his voice acting.

Posted on: Nothing more than 而已 (eryi) and 罢了 (bale)

到目前为止，好的。 (so far so good)

It's a guess! I know there is the collocation 到目前为止 for 'so far' - your translation of 'so good' is a matter of judgement. There is no doubt a much better colloquial expression - hopefully someone will come along to help.