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christine30550
Posted on: Electronic Dogs and Radar Detectors
January 5, 2010 at 8:48 AM我喜欢“三无产品”这个词。好像中国人特喜欢拿数字表示意思。不是还有另外个“三五”吗？世博会之前的什么活动——每个月5、15、以及25号办的...... 但到底是什么内容呢？我只是在银行里看到挂着海报（oh, incidentally, 海宝 appeared first on my computer)。
还有，“一清二楚”，很有意思。
英语中，如果想的不太远，I can only think of "in sixes and sevens"这个说法, 好像数字(in pairs)用得不怎么多。
Posted on: Electronic Dogs and Radar Detectors
January 5, 2010 at 5:55 AMBetter an electronic dog than an explosive one (as seen in Pudong):
Posted on: Audit
December 30, 2009 at 2:29 AM@dubyruby
我以为“这两天”不一定是 "two days", 而是广泛一点： "a few days", 比如，”这两天，我忙死了“ (I've been really busy these last few days/recently)。 那么，here it would be "who could've guessed they were going to attack us like this, during the last few days".
Posted on: Pulling Out all the Stops for Complement 住
December 26, 2009 at 9:59 AM@ gggwffgqeg:
这是因为我们大部分人都是（学习汉语的）外国人。
Posted on: 冬季进补
December 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM我觉得中国人（或者，也许全部亚洲人？）对食物关注与文化很丰富。在欧洲，这方面的关注少得多，比如，没有“热性”和“凉性”食物的概念。不过，人们一般冬季时也会多喝点汤，如南瓜汤，或者在瑞士的话，也会吃瑞士火锅（奶酪火锅，Cheese Fondue），大家吃很热脑。 我估计也是“热性”的菜。
I am curious and amused: 男人看美女的时候会流鼻血吗？是他的血压一下子都上涨了吗？可怜的，如果这种情况下想和美女 strike up a conversation, 也许不太practical （这句话汉语应该怎么说呢？）。
我现在正在熬（or is it 煲）chicken stock (为了煲汤，=汤汁吗？），很期待等会儿吃 ：）
Posted on: 谋杀案4
December 20, 2009 at 8:23 AM@ Xu Zhou
谢谢你的说明，在我理解当中，英语的"formalism"或 "formality"这些词也会带有贬义的意思（比如官僚作风这种意思 —— though I'm not sure if I used 官僚作风correctly here).
Posted on: 谋杀案4
December 18, 2009 at 1:27 PMDavid, 你上面写了“形式化”。意思是不是 "formalistic", 而 “正式“就是 "formal"? 我只学过后者，“形式化”这个词不知道了。
@pretzellogic: in common law countries (like the U.S. GB etc) have the cross-examination as part of the trial, and this involves all the "I object", "overruled" etc. stuff. We don't have this in civil law (e.g. continental European legal systems) proceedings, at least as far as I know. China might have a procedural law closer to continental law, but I have no idea, all I know is that in some private (civil) law areas, China took over some of the European laws.
Posted on: Applying for a Loan
December 18, 2009 at 12:55 PMGreat lesson, thanks!
At the very end, Jenny says "hong1 long2". 这是什么意思呢？
And also "你不要 jiao1 坏大家！" What character is the Jiao1? (or is it 教jiao4 坏？)
Posted on: Starting a Company in China
December 16, 2009 at 11:32 AM@uggsrocker
I set up a subsidiary for a Swiss company (language service industry) here in Shanghai.
Posted on: Electronic Dogs and Radar Detectors
January 5, 2010 at 8:55 AM哦，还是我： 我有个语言问题：
(from the dialogue) 这个就做替补吧。
这里的 zuo4 不是“作为”吗？ 为什么这里用的是“做”而不是“作”？ 这两个 zuo4 我老是搞不清楚…… is there a rule?