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Posted on: Hard of Hearing
November 20, 2007 at 12:34 PM-- theory verified : lesson comments are listed in (reverse) chronological order of comment posting, non-lesson comments by creation date.
Posted on: Hard of Hearing
November 20, 2007 at 12:32 PMit felt like vehicle were blowing their horns 喇叭 (lǎba) non-stop in Shanghai -- also testing my theory about conversation listing order :-)
Posted on: That's enough tea
November 20, 2007 at 12:26 PMfor movies, try TV series 电视剧 (diànshìjù) can be boring but lots of repeats and daily language, if a little mellow
Posted on: Sydney, Australia
November 20, 2007 at 10:46 AMhtm file still not very good :-(
Posted on: Sydney, Australia
November 20, 2007 at 7:14 AMhtml has numbered pinyin in subtitles (rather than accented) and twice hanzi under vocab (rather than hanzi+pinyin). also missing lesson number in title
Posted on: Editing a Document
November 19, 2007 at 5:28 PMpulosm, here we have 让我自由发挥 (ràng wǒ zìyóu fāhuī), so how would you translate 发挥 in this context ? Wenlin has (1) to bring into play; give free rein to and (2) develop (an idea/etc.); elaborate. I guess 'freely express myself' does capture the latter.
Posted on: Pricey Beer
November 19, 2007 at 9:44 AMwas the subject of my practice plan today. some more relevant vocab: 无酒精啤酒 (wújiǔjīng) alcohol-free beer 黑啤酒 (hēi) brown beer -- e.g. Guinness 白啤酒 (bái) weissbier -- high malt content I guess 品脱 (pǐntuō) pint 厘升 (líshēng) centiliter 酒厂 jiǔchǎng) brewery <家> 蒸馏 (zhēngliú) distillation 酿造 (niàngzào) to brew 冰凉 (bīngliáng) ice-cold 大麦 (dàmài) barley 麦芽 (màiyá) malt 花生米 (huāshēngmǐ) shelled peanut -- served with your beer! 爆米花 (bàomǐhuā) popcorn -- ditto
Posted on: 白酒和黄酒
November 18, 2007 at 4:45 PMExpansion 的词语： 哈姆雷特 (Hāmǔléitè) Hamlet
Posted on: 白酒和黄酒
November 18, 2007 at 4:21 PM法文的hangover（gueule-de-bois）翻成‘木嘴’,哈哈
Posted on: That's enough tea
November 20, 2007 at 2:48 PMagreed with RonInDC, Not One Less (一个都不能少) is great, quite moving too. As far as I remember wasn't too difficult to follow. Don't try Hou Hsiao-Hsien, most of the movies are in dialect. There's also The Wedding Banquet 喜宴 (xǐyàn) from Ang Lee's (李安) which is good fun and I think not too difficult.