User Comments - jennyzhu
jennyzhu
Posted on: Lucky Duckies
January 18, 2009 at 4:00 AMmonica5,
I'm glad you like it. We have a same saying in Chinese too! “赌场得意，情场失意”/du3 chang3 de2 yi4, qing2 chang3 shi1 yi4. 赌场 means 'the gambling world', 情场 means 'the departemnt of love'. 得意 means to feel good about something, 失意 means disappointment. You can also flip the order. 赌场失意，情场得意。Either way, you just can't have it all.
Posted on: 敬老院之争
January 15, 2009 at 1:52 AMtylersjzu,
谢谢你的鼓励！在国外，成人以后还和父母住好像挺被歧视。是不是因为你们崇尚独立（经济、生活等等）？在中国，我们很接受和父母住。一个是传统家庭观念，还有就是以前没有经济和住房条件让大家搬出来，只好都挤在家里。再后来（现在），是家里一个孩子，父母很宝贝，不舍得他们离开。还有就是我们觉得没必要花冤枉钱，应该存钱买房结婚。这点也非常有中国特色。我们觉得买房是结婚的前提，就算经济条件不好的人也会想尽办法买自己的房子。
Posted on: 敬老院之争
January 14, 2009 at 6:37 AM这是理智与情感的斗争。外国有一些专为老人开发的小区，定位介于养老院和家之间，好像不错。上海现在也有一个这样的楼盘，叫“孝贤坊”。意思是儿女给父母买这里的房子，就是很孝顺。
Posted on: Happiness Candy
January 13, 2009 at 12:47 PMxueqiu,
There's a popular brand of cigarettes called 红双喜/hong2 shuang1 xi3. No surprise that it's the choice of cigarettes given out at Chinese weddings. Oh, yes, besides candies, we also offer ciggies at weddings. Unhealthy but practical. However, many young people have stopped doing it.
Posted on: Happiness Candy
January 13, 2009 at 6:15 AMWe also have 喜蛋/xi3 dan4 to celebrate the birth of a baby. 
Posted on: Buying Jade
January 13, 2009 at 12:57 AMIs room divider 屏风/ping2 feng1? .jpg)
Posted on: Buying Jade
January 12, 2009 at 2:56 AMI have a friend who started to wear a jade bangle when she was quite young. And now her wrist is trapped in it.
Posted on: Stop in the Name of the 法 (fǎ)
January 11, 2009 at 5:18 AMmonica5,
说法 is quite colloquial. It often implies an explanation regarding some injustice. It's sometimes interchangeable with 解释, which is the most general and safest word to use if you want to mean 'explanation'. 说明 is instruction or even a munual.
infusiastic,
Thanks a lot for your support! 我们想办法不断进步/we think about ways to improve all the time.
Posted on: Stop in the Name of the 法 (fǎ)
January 11, 2009 at 5:08 AMMore 法：
Grammar is 语法/yu3 fa3.
Calligraphy is 书法/shu1 fa3.
Posted on: Lucky Duckies
January 18, 2009 at 4:08 AMchanelle7,
It's called 招财猫/zhao1 cai2 mao1. 招means to call for something, 财 means money, wealth. Yes, it's Japanese. It was only imported to China in the past 10 years or so.