User Comments - toianw

Posted on: Working in the Countryside

Hi bababardwan,

Coming back to your first question, I think 拔 can describe the action of pulling something in order to (try and) extract it, regardless of whether you're successful or not.

I've heard it used with different complements to indicate success or failure, for example 我拔也拔不出来 (e.g. if your key gets stuck in the door).

This raises another question. I've come across both of these but can't tell what (if any) the difference is

拔出来 / 拔不出来

拔下来 / 拔不下来

Can anyone help?

Well I'm at it, there's a well-known 儿歌 called 拔萝卜. It uses the complement 拔不动. If anyone wants to sing along, you can use the link below:

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjAzMTQ2MzQ4.html

Posted on: It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity

Wow, thanks for the quick response Connie! Good to know before I try to comit to memory.

Posted on: It's Not the Heat, It's the Humidity

Nice lesson.

In the supplementary vocab, there's 广泛 guàngfàn. Is the 广 really 4th tone? The recording on the vocab page sounds like 3rd to me.

Posted on: Calling an Ambulance

Hi,

In the expansion and exercise there's this expression:

我吃了药，头不痛了。

but in the audio I hear 我吃了药了，头不痛了。

Am I hearing correctly and if so is there a difference in meaning?

Posted on: The last news and features of 2009!

Maybe a silly question, but is there any reason I can't buy a voucher for myself to take advantage of this deal?

Posted on: Ways to Describe Things that are "Inside"

Hi Tal,

I also haven't been able to access the site (from Beijing) for the last couple of days. Using a proxy now, but it's too slow to do anything useful. What VPN do you use? Is it free or do you pay?

Posted on: The North Has Central Heating

Expansion sentence:

房间里的空气不太好，开一下窗吧。
The air conditioner in this room isn't very good. Open the window for a bit. 1 (The air conditioner in this room isn't very good. Open the window for a bit.)

Does 空气 imply air-conidtioner or does it just mean the air isn't good? smelly???