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ilearnben
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 8: Trimming the Fat at the Office
February 17, 2009 at 10:08 AMhi henning,
if you want to use 不，
then the expression would be 想炒我，不是那么容易的。
or simply,想炒我，不容易。
i am native Chinese, i can assure you, both are correct and perfect Chinese.
the general difference between 不 and 没 is, 不 is used to negate subjective intentions,attitude, while 没 is used to negate objective narrative,fact etc.
for example:
昨天他没来。yesterday he didn't come.
昨天他不来。yesterday he wouldn't come.
明天他不来了。he won't come tomorrow.
you cannot say *明天他没来。
because his coming tomorrow doesn't even occur, it's not a objective fact.
Posted on: Eating Dead Flesh 猪吃死人肉
February 17, 2009 at 8:33 AMseems that the monk poet is pessimistic about the humanity. in the peom above, he says the people in the world is stupid and ignorant,greed, lecherous,cruel like wolf; don't distinguish btween good and evil, just like pig and sheep. don't see his own fault, just like pig lying in the sty; don't know to pay off the debt but laugh at the ox that is working on the grind.
Pete, why not add some beautiful peoms like those about romance, such as Li Shangyin's 此情可待成追忆，只是当时已惘然。“ or Qin Guan's "两情若是久长时，又岂在朝朝暮暮".
anyway, good job.
Posted on: Eating Dead Flesh 猪吃死人肉
February 17, 2009 at 8:01 AMhi Pete,
this is really interesting channel.
I think it would be helpful to attach another one or two similar poems by the poet or other poets to compare them if possible,since there are lots of them and the text is not long.
I agree with changye, the poet's poetry is full or Zen wisdom. the pig probably is a metaphor. you will realize this if you read another poem by this famous monk poet.
三 界 人 蠢 蠢 ，六 道 人 茫 茫 。
Sān jiè rén chún chǔn，liù dào rén mánɡ mánɡ。
贪 财 爱淫 欲，心 恶若 豺 狼 。
Tān cái ài yín yù，xīn è ruò chái lánɡ。
地狱如箭 射 ，极苦若 为 当 。
dì yù rú jiàn shè，jí kǔ ruò wéi dānɡ。
兀兀过 朝 夕，都 不别 贤 良 。
wū wū ɡuò zhāo xī，dōu bù bié xián liánɡ。
好 恶总 不识 ，犹 如猪 及羊 。
Hǎo wù zǒnɡ bù shí，yóu rú zhū jí yánɡ。
共 语如木石 ，嫉妒似颠 狂 。
ɡònɡ yǔ rú mù shí，jí dù sì diān kuánɡ。
不自见 己过 ，如猪 在 圈 卧。
bú zì jiàn jǐ ɡuò，rú zhū zài juān wò。
不知 自偿 债 ，却 笑 牛 牵 磨。
bù zhī zì chánɡ zhài，què xiào niú qiān mó。
Posted on: Drinking Alone Under the Moon 月下独酌
February 17, 2009 at 7:36 AMhi changye,
thank you for your reply.
actually I am a Chinese majoring in Teaching Chinese as a second language.
FYI, as I've learned,春，人，身的“韵”是一样的，因为押韵只跟韵腹和韵尾有关，跟韵头无关，chuen, u is 韵头，e is 韵腹，n 是韵尾，可以不管韵头的。
韵母相近的也可以通押。similar rhymes are allowed.
你的中文知识让很多中国人都自愧不如啊。
Posted on: Drinking Alone Under the Moon 月下独酌
February 17, 2009 at 4:13 AMchangye,
this poem is fully rhymed,
qin,ren,shen,chuen,
luan,san,han
changing the rhyme is ok,
and this poem was composed more than 1000 years ago, the phonetics is also different
Posted on: 学术抄袭
February 17, 2009 at 4:01 AM上大学的时候，我们的写作老师的一句话堪称名言：抄一个人是抄袭，抄大家的叫研究。
if you copy one person, it is plagiarism
if you copy many, it is research
Posted on: Eating Dead Flesh 猪吃死人肉
February 17, 2009 at 3:19 AMhi all:
IMHO,it's about wisdom, buddha, not bloody at all.
probably you've heard that Chinese (especially cantonese) almost eat everything, and nearly most part of pig is edible and delicious for Chinese.
the point is the last sentence. the poet, a monk, hopes for peace, humanity, no blood and cruelty.
Posted on: Expired!
February 19, 2009 at 3:03 AMlet me explain for you.
the fouth tone is used to show that the spitting is unautomatic/unconcious, and mostly used in oral context. the second usage is about giving back the seized property, also used in spoken language.
an example from a popular song
拿了我的给我送回来
吃了我的给我吐出来