Lesson Comments

Apologies in advance for using English to respond - not good form on Media threads, I appreciate. However, time is short today and to have replied in... Read more

Grambers, 枪支就是政府权力的基础。没有枪支，政府一点儿都没有控制我们的办法。每一条法律都包括要命的威胁：“你不这样做的话，我们就用枪支杀你了”。这是字面上的实话。譬如：美国政府把我赚的钱来进行“抗毒品战争”，拷问在关塔纳摩的囚徒，用无人的飞机来杀害小孩子*. 政府没任何枪，我就不愿意付钱为... Read more

The sentence might translate like this: "In his comments since last Friday's tragedy, Obama has concentrated more on the grief [being felt across t... Read more

I should also say that I'd guess no such equivalent expression is likely to exist in mainstream Chinese political discourse. That very wonderful aphor... Read more

I'm afraid I can't offer a 'correct' answer, but the 绝对 in your sentence somehow feels wrong in expressing the idea of 'absolute power'. I can't expla... Read more

According to 有道 dictionary, "single knob shower facet" is: 单一旋钮淋浴龙头 单一 dānyī Single 旋钮 xuánniǔ Knob 淋浴 línyù Shower 龙头 lóngtóu Facet Th... Read more

Or about 4 months if you're 4 years old. As we all know, spoken language follows a log base 3 function around the time it takes to learn a new langua... Read more

Vera, I thought longtou is facet... you know, both the two knobs (hot and cold, or one big knob to turn to hot or cold) and then the place where the w... Read more

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The last sentence in the second article discussed reads: “在周五的惨案发生后，奥巴马主要谈到的是悲痛和采取行动的需要，而不都是持有枪支的权利。” I can't figure out the meaning of... Read more