拆除 chāichú

calkins
 May 19, 2009, 12:03 PM posted in General Discussion


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chāichú

 

拆除

 

拆   

 

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Example Sentence

T 工人們上週六在重慶一座未開張的性主題公園內拆除一座雕塑。在人們的抗議聲中﹐公園尚未對外開放就被叫停了。
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S 工人们上周六在重庆一座未开张的性主题公园内拆除一座雕塑。在人们的抗议声中，公园尚未对外开放就被叫停了。
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Gōngrénmen shàng Zhōuliù zài Chóngqìng yī zuò wèi kāizhāng de xìng zhǔtí gōngyuán nèi chāichú yī zuò diāosù.  Zài rénmen de kàngyì shēng zhōng, gōngyuán shàngwèi duìwàikāifàng jiù bèi jiàotíng le.
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Workers dismantled a statue last Saturday in an unopened sex theme park in Chongqing, China.  Amid people's protests, the park is being called to a halt before it can open.


Example Sentence

T 建築違章建築市政府将拆除。
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S 建筑违章建筑市政府将拆除。
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Jiànzhù wēizhāng jiànzhù shìzhèngfǔ jiāng chāichú.
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The city will demolish buildings that are against building codes.

 

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bababardwan
 May 19, 2009, 12:29 PM

Breakdown:

拆...chai1...tear down/tear apart/tear open

除....chu2....to get rid of/to remove

The larger than life size of the statue reminds me a little of the proliferation of all the "Big" attractions around Australia,like one of my favourites,the "Big Banana" at Coffs Harbour:

大香蕉

mdbg gives 香蕉 as the most common way to say banana but I prefer the less common 芭，however I would like to see it in a longer transliterated form which I would have as :

芭拿拿

..banana,hold it,hold it...the darn thing can be mighty slippery.

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bodawei
 May 19, 2009, 01:33 PM

@barbs

what about 拆拿 .. (China)

拆 is a word rich in meaning - I remember some classic photos of buildings in the vicinity of the Three Gorges dam project bearing a single character.  Then I realised that the character is everywhere.  It is code for 'A new shopping mall is opening here soon'.

BTW.  We are thinking of giving the Big Banana to France - a French architect wants to build a replica of the Sydney Opera House in the outer suburbs of Paris to raise the tone of the locality.  But surely the banana would make people happier? 

 

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bababardwan
 May 19, 2009, 01:53 PM

bodawei,

 

How about 茶拿 ？...hold onto your Chai tea.

I don't know that mate about giving the Big Banana to France.I don't think we have a big frog to offer,but I wonder if they'd come at the Big Cane Toad we have up North Queensland ?