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kimiik
Posted on: 为 and 为了
May 22, 2011 at 2:12 PMIn this lesson, I liked how you managed to bring Jason's "outing" off. ;o)
Btw, ChinesePod get mentioned in the following weekly french radio show about China (at 25:00) :
Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 2: Welcome to the Team
May 19, 2011 at 8:28 AMAccording to Google Ngram Viewer, the word 团队 was seldom used before the 90s. Is there an older word with the same meaning or is 团队 a foreign concept ?
Posted on: I don't smoke
May 19, 2011 at 7:14 AMApparently, the right way to say "smoking without inhaling" would be :
抽烟不吸进肺里
Posted on: I don't smoke
May 16, 2011 at 9:29 AMI thought that it was possible to use 吃烟 in association with 抽烟 :
只抽烟不吃烟 (smoking without inhaling)
Posted on: 英国皇室婚礼
May 14, 2011 at 10:02 AM其实在这句中文翻译"souillon"的意思被误解了。
"Souillon" (slattern) comes from "souiller" (to soil) and mostly means "untidy woman" (邋遢女人).
Posted on: 英国皇室婚礼
May 13, 2011 at 3:09 PM好像关于灰姑娘的灰这一课缺得了文化阐释。
名字由来
Cendrillon是灰姑娘的法文名字，但它其实不是此人物真正的名字，而是一个外号。 Cendrillon一词由cendre和souillon这两个法文单词合成而来。构成Cendrillon的第一部份的“cendre”在法文中是 “灰”的意思，这样取名是因爲灰姑娘工作后躺在炭灰上休息，总是脏兮兮的；souillon是“贱人”的意思，是两位姐姐对灰姑娘的蔑称。灰姑娘还有另外一个外号，叫Cucendron（cu是cul的意思，即中文的“屁股”；cendron跟上述的cendre的意思一样，即“灰”），也是她俗气的姐姐所取的。而至于灰姑娘的真正名字，我们无从得知。[5]
灰姑娘的这两个外号皆来自于一直象征着羞辱与苦修的灰（cendre）一词：《圣经》、《奥德赛》与教会父老都曾使用过。
Posted on: A Notification Notification, and Other Happenings
May 10, 2011 at 6:38 AMThank you for this explanation baba.
Posted on: A Notification Notification, and Other Happenings
May 9, 2011 at 12:24 PMI'm not sure to get the exact meaning of "A Notification Notification":
Notification (countable and uncountable; plural notifications)
1. (uncountable) The act of notifying.
2. (countable) A specific piece of information that serves to notify.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/notification
Posted on: 5000 Years of History
May 6, 2011 at 2:48 PMActually, archeology only proved that the history of the chinese characters could be 5000 years old.
But, how the "chinese civilisation" could be linked to the early chinese characters ? That's the key question !
As the first tool (stone tool) was created 2 millions years old, does it means that engineering started 2 millions years ago ?
Posted on: Three's Company
May 23, 2011 at 7:47 AM在中文里三个人是一群吗?
3 is a crowd / a group / a human herd ?