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jimijames
Posted on: The Night Club Experience
September 28, 2011 at 11:17 AM北京夜店也越来越贵。
Posted on: Resume Revisions
August 30, 2011 at 9:59 PMA good start is to look up the chinese dictionary online using http://www.nciku.com
“好好学习天天向上
Vocab List (1 of 2)好好学习，天天向上[hǎo hǎo xué xí , tiān tiān xiàng shàng]from rkraft's Vocab List
Study hard and things will get better everyday (a famous saying of Chairman Mao)” www.nciku.com (2011年09年01日）
Posted on: Manly Men and Womanly Women
June 18, 2011 at 9:17 PManother good expression for the woman's side is 闺女 guīnü
It a special word that means daughter. And is an endearing term of brillance towards the daughter, that can be used by the mother or father.
In strictess terms, it is used for daughters that are unmarried.
At times if you wish to impress a women indirectly, you can slip in the reference that she is a 公主 gōngzhǔ
Calling your daughter a 公主 gōngzhǔ also is useful to let her now that she is very special to the family.
Posted on: Eating Idioms, Part 1
February 13, 2011 at 3:25 AMIf you have a close friend who is acting silly or talking nonsense in a fun way you can ask your friend.
今天你吃药了没？jīntiānnǐchīyàolemei
This is a way to say to your close friend, "Please calm down" you are acting or talking silly, so you need to take medicine to calm down.
The direct meaning of 吃药 is to take medicine, in solid form, such as tablets or capsules. To drink medicinal soup or liquids is 喝药 hēyào
A way to 骂 mà someone in Chinese, is to say 吃狗屎 chīgǒushǐ to eat dog faeces.
你去吃狗屎。"go to eat dog faeces"
Disclaimer: This expression is really really impolite. This is expression is to be used at your own discretion. The writer of this post does not support the use of this expression. This post is written for educational purpose only.
Posted on: Bringing Pets into China
February 10, 2011 at 10:04 PM打疫苗针 dǎyìmiáozhēn to give vaccination needle.
This way is useful but does not describe the type of vaccination.
注射 can help to be more specific.
静脉注射 jìngmàizhùshè intravenous injection.
肌肉注射 jīròuzhùshè intramuscular injection.
Posted on: Bringing Pets into China
February 10, 2011 at 9:43 PM注射 zhùshè is the verb meaning to inject.
打针 dǎzhēn is a verb and noun together. 针 zhēn means needle. The verb 打 dǎ in this case means to give, literally you coud think of the needle "hitting" the skin or vein. So together means to give a needle. As the usually meaning of 打 dǎ is a striking or hitting motion.
eg 打电话 "hit the phone" "press the buttons" "wind the dial" (not so long ago) to make a phone call.
Within Context:
if you said, 明天我去医院打针. This would mean, Tommorrow I am going to the hospital to have a needle.
It does not really mean that you are going to the hospital to give a needle to someone else. Not unless you are the nurse or doctor talking about yourself going to work tommorrow at the hospital.
Posted on: What's in a name?
January 31, 2011 at 9:25 PMFirst time to China, one of my first friends I made wished to give me a Chinese Name, because I did not have one. He knew I had studied alot of martial arts before outside of China. He wished to call me 李小龙 Bruce Lee's Chinese Name.
At this time, I did not knowBruce Lee's Chinese Name, though of course I knew about Bruce Lee. I could not believe my friend wanted to call me that.
I went home and told my wife...she laughed....and then thought again.....小龙 xiao3long2 simplified characters is easy to write in Chinese. So the 小龙 stuck.
I certainly did not want to have Bruce Lee's name, out of respect that I am not that good in martial arts.....So it was easier to use my wife's family name and then 小龙. The complete name stuck, even my three year old calls me sometimes by my Chinese Name.
Posted on: Switching Seats on a Plane
January 31, 2011 at 9:05 PMThe major definition is that 太太 tàitai can mean Lady where as 老婆 lǎopō more so means wife or old lady.
你太太过来吗？
nǐtàitaiguòláima
Has your lady been there?
This meaning of 太太 can refer to the man's lady partner, and the man and woman are not necessarily married. But infers that the female partner is younger, similar age but not older than the man.
老太太 lǎotàitai can mean old lady, or old women. Where as 太太 is a lady who is younger than a 老太太
to Help make clear use of your meaning if you wish to refer to your wife or someone else's wife, it is best to use the 妻子 qīzi wife
他的妻子很凶
tādeqīzihěnxiōng
His wife is very ferocious
Posted on: Switching Seats on a Plane
January 31, 2011 at 8:49 PMkào 靠 is the verb that means against.
旁边pángbiān means to be next too.
我的学校是图书馆旁边
wǒdexuéxiàoshìtúshūguánpángbiān
My school is next to the library.
My daughter yells out 靠边儿! when she knows a car is coming and she wishes to get off the walkway and move to the side or against the road. To avoid the car.
kàobiān 靠边
In Beijing the 儿 is added for that Beijing Dialect effect.
Posted on: The Night Club Experience
September 28, 2011 at 11:18 AM本来的三里屯南街怎么走的？