As you've heard from the lesson, 白 means (do something) in vain, mainly there is no special relationship between its meaning-in vain and its meaning-white color, however, if you'd like to remember this word easily in this lesson, you could imagine to draw a picture on a piece of white paper with a white crayon, finally, you could not see anything, since it's all white, so it is in vain to draw the pic,we call it 白画了(bái huà lè). And more phrases develop after it, such as
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February 11, 2009 at 4:28 AMHi bababardwarn,
As you've heard from the lesson, 白 means (do something) in vain, mainly there is no special relationship between its meaning-in vain and its meaning-white color, however, if you'd like to remember this word easily in this lesson, you could imagine to draw a picture on a piece of white paper with a white crayon, finally, you could not see anything, since it's all white, so it is in vain to draw the pic,we call it 白画了(bái huà lè). And more phrases develop after it, such as
白学了(learn something in vain),
白看了(see something in vain),
白听了(hear something in vain), and so on.
Hopefully, the explanation could help you.