User Comments - bodawei
bodawei
Posted on: Working in the Countryside
September 21, 2010 at 2:25 AMhaha, 你在开心网可以放牛，对吧！
Posted on: Giving Instructions to the Ayi
September 21, 2010 at 2:12 AMJason, do you have a 保姆 or 阿姨 or both? :) Does the 保姆买东西还有做饭？
I'll try not to let my envy get in the way of learning Chinese.
Posted on: Giving Instructions to the Ayi
September 21, 2010 at 2:05 AMHey, leave the 'breakfast gruel' alone, I like my 玉米糊, and 黄豆粉.
Yeah - I'm sure you're right, it is an East-West thing, and I'm sure that there are employers of maids and cleaners here. I'm guessing that at least the Maserati drivers have a maid.
Posted on: Giving Instructions to the Ayi
September 21, 2010 at 1:06 AM在这里我当阿姨，
How common is this really? I don't know a single person with an 阿姨. I have never personally met an 阿姨. Different circles?
Chinese families sometimes have an extended family member who is the 阿姨.
Sometimes people have an '阿姨' who does a couple of hours cleaning each week.
Posted on: Getting a Tattoo
September 20, 2010 at 2:02 PM纹身不再是什么丢脸的事。 (tattoos no longer have any stigma attached to them)
Posted on: Set the Alarm Clock
September 20, 2010 at 1:42 PMHi lujiaojie
I was just given these as other uses of 鸣 -
空袭警报鸣了 kōngxí jǐngbào míng le (air raid siren sounded)
汽车喇叭鸣了 qìchē lǎba míng le (car horn blew)
Also, 响鸣 xiǎngmíng - can be used together to represent the sound of a siren?
maybe this is Yunnan useage?
Posted on: Set the Alarm Clock
September 19, 2010 at 11:18 AMlujiaojie
thank you so much for the advice on 鸣 and 响 - I appreciate that. I try to be concious of the limitations of dictionaries but we learners have to rely on them quite a bit. My dictionary gives me writing practice though, that's a plus.
Jason - Rooster Crowing Temple - from a time when roosters were more respected? I have an idea you can't have them in Australia in most places because of the noise! But hens have made a comeback.
Posted on: Set the Alarm Clock
September 18, 2010 at 1:14 PMHi shanghai_rocks
Ha ha - that photo is pretty good, but no, this was a regular looking (classic?) clock design. A quartz mechanism, nothing wrong with keeping time, but the rest of the mechanics and frame were fragile. Pretty styling. It cost about US$2. It didn't have a snooze but the alarm started quite soft and then got louder and louder and LOUDER.
The predecessor was German. A different level of quality. Actually - I just checked - it was about 27 years old when it gave up, I got it in '83.
Posted on: There Is No Try
September 18, 2010 at 5:14 AMYeah, I really thought (like Baba elsewhere) that this was going to be a final kick in guts after last night's game. Rub it in, salt in the wound, 等等。
火上加油， 一再提及令人不快的事，令人伤心的事物。。
Posted on: Set the Alarm Clock
September 21, 2010 at 3:22 AMlujiaojie
oh yeah, thanks, 响鸣 should be 鸣响; I write these down when I get home an hour or two later after hearing them and my memory is not too good! 我猜错了。
在上海九一八空袭警报响了吗？ （因为九一八事变）