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Posted on: Fruit Salad
On August 21 at 3:08 AM by dorothyjunelea

I was just in China this summer. I was told not to eat anything uncooked because it might have been washed in unboiled water. No one there drinks plai... Read more

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Posted on: Translation Tools
On August 21 at 1:59 AM by alanmd

The Google image search technique, and dictionaries, can sometimes lead you astray when an item isn't common in one or the other countries. I think 大黄... Read more

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Posted on: 故宫摔盘事件
On August 20 at 10:32 PM by yarajeev

谢谢! Read more

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Posted on: Words with Heart
On August 20 at 7:58 PM by cowenparkseattle

What is the difference between 别 and 不要? I wonder this a lot. This Qing Wen has "别担心" . Then later on there's "不要为她担心". Read more

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Posted on: Travel Wedding
On August 20 at 6:54 PM by timlb

The final sentence in this dialogue is interesting to me: 那随便你吧, is the context in which this would be used one where there's been some discussion, pe... Read more

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Posted on: Travel Wedding
On August 20 at 6:50 PM by timlb

As Homer Simpson would say, 都! (Okay, that was lame...) Read more

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On August 20 at 5:49 PM by masine145

Though it doesn't say so, doesn't the 7th exercise in the expansion imply "My characters are written badly" or "I write characters poorly" with '... Read more

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On August 20 at 4:09 PM by jennyzhu

Yes 修路 exclusively means building roads or doing repair work to roads. Read more

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On August 20 at 4:07 PM by jennyzhu

施工 means to carry out construction work, e.g. 上海到处都在施工。/There's construction everywhere in Shanghai. You could say 上海到处都在造东西, but 施工 paints a more viv... Read more

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Posted on: Translation Tools
On August 20 at 3:58 PM by zhenlijiang

Thanks for explaining that, so that anyone else who might have noticed would also know my comment was removed by accident. I'm sorry for making assump... Read more