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Posted on: Sex Education Class
July 26, 2010 at 11:51 AMI don't know if anyone can answer this question. The Chinese translation of ovary is: 卵巢. No one in premodern China would know this was the ovary's function without a microscope, therefore this word would not come about until contact with the West. What was the word used for ovary before this relatively recent time?
Posted on: 电影故事 3
July 12, 2010 at 2:32 AMHow about as David Xuzhou was suggesting: The cat's out of the bag
Posted on: 电影故事 3
July 10, 2010 at 11:45 PM这课太棒！真刺激
Posted on: NGO Guy
June 29, 2010 at 10:57 PMOne day I MAY plan to go horse riding. Maybe learning terms like bridle, trot and gallop will come in handy. In the meantime, politics, religion and philosophy are hugely fertile ground.
Posted on: 朝鲜巴西血战
June 25, 2010 at 12:54 PMJasonSch: To me, 殺雞儆猴 or 殺雞嚇猴 are the analogies which comes to mind which are less subtle.
Posted on: 朝鲜巴西血战
June 24, 2010 at 9:16 PMI liked the Chinese actors who were being paid to cheer for North Korea. Ha ha ha! You would think they would have a prepaid squad of lackeys who are paid to cheer the country internationally!
Posted on: 人类的起源
June 19, 2010 at 12:56 AMThankfully, we live in a time period where we can clearly differentiate between a religious belief and a scientific belief. BTW, I know this is very common among nonscientists, David makes a common mistake thinking Darwin addressed the origins of life. Contrary to his statement that we will be debating the origins of life for a long time, this research is making huge headway and I confidently predict we will have at least several strong tested theories about how life arose without resorting to fables, idle speculation or seeding from the stars.
I find it also fascinating how many religions (Islam, Greek Prometheus) believe man was fashioned from mud/clay and had life blown in.
Posted on: Love Tangle 8: The Good Husband
June 10, 2010 at 10:26 PMAs an ethnic Chinese, “儿子” in the dialogue completely passed by me without notice. What a sad comment on Chinese family expectations. My father congratulated my wife when my first born was a son.
Posted on: 壹周立波秀
May 30, 2010 at 2:37 AMI find 周立波's sound effects extremely annoying. It seems like I am watching a sped up version of the 1930's Three Stooges. I could not take it any more and edited out the ridiculous sound effects. Could I ask CP to remove this in the future?
Can someone offer up a link to the tiger's starving since it is not showing up in my Google searches? Thanks!
Posted on: Sex Education Class
July 26, 2010 at 9:17 PMBababardwan,
Thanks for taking the time to investigate this subject. I read the pdf from Northwestern which interestingly omits a book in my personal library, the History of Pathology, which details the Western history of human dissection. The Chinese knew how many holes there were in the heart; perhaps you know of the famous story of the emperor who had someone put to death with this question. But I suspect there were enough carnage in the Chinese internecine wars for people to observe internal organs, as even Traditional Chinese Medicine practioneers have the major organs delineated. I doubt anyone can miss the ovaries on examining an abdomen. Let's see what the CPod hosts have to say.