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Posted on: War Zone

冲 chong1-----

I looked it up in my C-E dictionary because I didn't recognize the radical (still don't, if anyone can let me know) and saw alternative uses

Chong1-pour boiling water on, as in chong1 cha2, make tea

Chong1 ce4suo3

rush, charge, as into rush into the house jin2 fang2zi

And also "to develop" for film

Posted on: Microsoft

As for "micro", I note that "Microphone" is not something like wei1shou1 but mài kè fēng 麦克风.   I don't know why.

Posted on: Microsoft

微 wei1 same as wei1la4, which was "little spicy"微辣 in Hungry Traveler: Hunan lesson.

软  ruan3 same as ruan3wo4, or "soft sleeper"    软卧 in Train to Beijing lesson.

Seems to me wei1ruan3 is precisely literal and therefore as good a translation as any...."Microsoft" doesn't make sense in English either.

Posted on: Golf

I suppose that mu3gan1 of golf is more of a stick and bang4 of bang4qiu2 is more of a club.

Posted on: ...都 (dōu): The Bryan Adams pattern

Example: Amber na4er2 dou1 qu4 guo4

Compare to: Amber has been everywhere.

Posted on: ...都 (dōu): The Bryan Adams pattern

Thanks, Auntie68, that's a good suggestion and consistent with the teaching philosphy of the site.

Posted on: ...都 (dōu): The Bryan Adams pattern

I'd like to repeat my request of a Qing3 Wen4 on word order, ordering of clauses.  I can never get the right order in the Exercises.

Posted on: Do You Remember....

BTW, if it's the proper topic for Qing3 Wen4, I could really use some hints on word order.  In the exercises, I never get the order of clauses right.

Posted on: I Can/Can't Afford it (...得起 & ...不起）

From your "I can't find my size" lesson.  Is the unable to afford and unable to buy pattern repeated anywhere else, that is verb de/bu verb?

Posted on: Hiking

In the expansion is 你太胖了.  When would one use 了 in a physical description?  Is it like saying, you've become to fat, like a verb in a perfect tense?