Lesson Comments

在美国，这样的事情都由警察负责。 从一个美国人的角度来看，课文里的情况有点儿难理解。在美国我们有一句话：The law is king。律法就是国王。警察没有权利让非法的行为继续，同情不同情没关系。 但我知道美国和中国的情况非常不一样；这里农民工的问题是很严重的。 Read more

...or not that easy. Who won the most gold medals at the Beijing Olympics? Just one measure, but enough not to talk about 'light years' difference. Read more

No problem - I learned a new chengyu from it. :) Read more

Mate, you are good. :) This reminds me that chengyu (like English idioms) can be frequently misinterpreted and mis-used. I imagine in Chinese al... Read more

Definitely wouldn't see 一下 in formal writing. But there are other ways of softening tone of suggestions that are analogous - statements like 不妨 'it w... Read more

The audio review is still broken... Read more

Hi Bodawei, My first guess was 言近意远 - which was lucky in that it is a chengyu derived from a song dynasty rephrasing of the quote you mentioned, so... Read more

Thanks so much for that - I kind of suspected that 书面语 would be the way to go. I will also have a talk to my tutor about it - he works in the media a... Read more

Ah, great, thanks! Read more

Hi Bodawei, I imagine it would indirectly prove helpful (and certainly fun) - but if newspapers are your goal, it would probably be more direct and... Read more