Sabbatical???
user7698
July 21, 2007 at 04:23 PM posted in General Discussion
teapot
July 21, 2007 at 10:33 PM
In my dictionary, it says Sabbatic=Sabbatical which means 安息日的 adj.
sabbatical:休假的 adj,
较长的假，休假 n.
Sabbatism: 严守安息日n.
Sabbatarianism: 严守星期日为安息日，守安息日（星期六）n. I am a Chinese, but i do not use this word so often, because it is kind a word for religion. For me, I think it is a holiday like Saturday or Sunday.
man2toe
July 21, 2007 at 05:33 PM
安息日的 is often used in Christian/Jewish settings for the Sabbath or referring to the Sabbath.
henning
July 21, 2007 at 05:05 PM
Dict.cn gave me
安息日的
and from the respective Google hits it might fit, but I am also not certain.
Lantian
July 21, 2007 at 04:59 PM
TOUGH TO GO - wow, that was not easy, only Google gave back a translation for sabbatical directly. I would defer to a native Chinese speaker for the proper word.
I'm not sure that xiu jia has the clearest connotation for sabbatical which means extended leave, and usually not for a vacation-like purpose.
休假 xiu jia, vacation, leave of absence
http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr
http://ets6.freetranslation.com/
http://translate.google.com/translate_t
man2toe
July 21, 2007 at 04:50 PM
Google translate isn't on target, that engine gives 休假. I've recently come across this word in conversation but I can't come up with the words....休假 does come up as leave of absence in some engines.
dict.cn come up with 公休假 for sabbatical leave.
You need Cpod's word for this.
amber
July 23, 2007 at 03:53 AMhi everyone,
If the leave of absense is for further education, you could say:
去进修 (qù jìnxiū)