User Comments - johnb
johnb
Posted on: Ending, Completing, Finishing
October 2, 2010 at 1:38 AMHey RJ, not sure what's going on there, but I've alerted our publication team to the issue. It's the holiday so it might take a little while to get sorted, but it will get sorted!
Posted on: There Is No Try
September 22, 2010 at 8:29 AMFor the last part of your question, 找 can be used in expresson 找个办法, which means "find a way to" - verb.
Posted on: 我不做剩女
September 16, 2010 at 1:21 AM城市里女人本来比男人多，是不是？我好像曾经听说过深圳男女比例特别离谱了，一比几什么的。
Posted on: How do you fix a boring Chinese course?
September 14, 2010 at 11:04 PM我估计fanboy会被翻成“粉丝”，可是我觉得光说“粉丝”失去了fanboy的一些趣味。
Posted on: 事在人为
September 11, 2010 at 2:04 AM黎主任 is a pretty mannish woman, from what I understand...
Posted on: 事在人为
September 10, 2010 at 10:06 AM在中国这种的问题可太普遍了。我老婆是在服务行业工作，客户不断的要各种各样的回扣什么的。
Posted on: Firing Someone
August 31, 2010 at 11:01 AMOh, sorry, I meant 专业 was right. 专业地 + Verb means to "do something professionally / at an expert level," so they're talking about firing someone "in a professional way."
Posted on: Firing Someone
August 31, 2010 at 9:21 AMYup, I think you're right on both (you have two 各种s in the second sentence, but it's probably a typo).
Posted on: Endless Summer
August 9, 2010 at 4:37 AM+1 Barto. At some point, the only thing you can do is get a good running start and ram that wall as hard as you can, over and over again, until it comes down.
Posted on: City Districts in Shanghai
October 6, 2010 at 4:20 AMYeah, it would kind of like telling a driver in New York that you want to go to Brooklyn, or in London that you want to go to Bromley. It'll get you headed in the right direction, but the driver needs more to go on.