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The green and white mermaid has me puzzled... Read more
Thank you both. Let me just rephrase what I understand Jenny to say: neither of my guesses, which both interpreted 给打 as being in the active voice... Read more
Try Elementary - Ordering Xiaolongbao and •Elementary - Hungry Traveler: Shanghai. Read more
Try : Intermediate - Discussing Contract Renewal •Upper Intermediate - Getting Tough on Employees •Upper Intermediate - Negotiating a Deadline Read more
Don't know if we have those in China. Time to coin a new word I guess. Read more
让 here functions in a similar way as 被 and it means an action was done to the subject, e.g. 钱被我花光了 is the same as 钱让我花光了。In the semple sentence, we us... Read more
太+adjective+了 is a structure used for exclamation. It's incomplete to leave out 了. Read more
For what it's worth, I'd say you've got it right, "his swearing caused someone to give (him) a beating." The Chinese names the agent, 人, (who acted up... Read more
Starbuck's...and that doesn't bode well for their marketing strategy since they decided to lose the "Starbuck's Coffee" around it. Read more