Who can tell me what's the meaning of this sentence
lovveu
March 04, 2009, 06:53 AM posted in General DiscussionA friend of mine tell me to find some learning materials from internet. I faild to find it, and post a article in baiduzhidao to find some help. I send a message my friend. The message is " I didn't find what you want, and I post a posting for help, but still there is no person answer me" Then she replied " wait or turn the stones over"
Who can tell me what dose her message mean?
lovveu
March 06, 2009, 02:11 AMThanks a lot to all your help
tvan
March 04, 2009, 12:53 PMTo turn over every stone (roughly) means you have looked everywhere/tried everything. However, taken in the context above, I'm baffled.
RJ
March 04, 2009, 02:40 PMChangye,
I would say it is a standard expression in english. Was rather common but maybe not so much in modern days. It is still used though, just the way Tvan has said it.
sushan
March 04, 2009, 07:03 PMI don't understand it either.
RJ
March 04, 2009, 08:01 PMI would think that she meant either wait and see if you get a response to the posting, or go back and look some more.
lovveu
March 04, 2009, 09:35 AMThank you very much Changye, I think your interpretation is reasonable.
changye
March 05, 2009, 12:09 PMHi flibberdie
Yeah, I've found the phrase leave no stone unturned in the online dictionary I mentioned above!
tengwenwu
March 05, 2009, 02:41 PM
flibberdie
March 05, 2009, 06:12 PMHi, Changye:
Whew. The thought occurred to me after posting that perhaps I had only ever heard that phrase from my mother!
changye
March 06, 2009, 12:35 AMHi flibberdie
Don't worry. Actually, a lot of "fossil-like" old-fashioned English expressions, e.g. "it rains cats and dogs", are still often used in Asian countries, just like arcane Chinese words are still used in Japanese.
flibberdie
March 04, 2009, 08:44 PMThere is an English phrase, "leave no stone unturned." It means to look everywhere possible for what you seek.
changye
March 04, 2009, 09:25 AMMaybe it means "search thoroughly" (just like looking under stones one by one), however I don't know if it's a "standard" expression in English. At least, it's not listed in the largest online English dictionary in Japan, which contains more than one and a half million words and expressions.