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Posted on: World Cup Talk
On July 12 at 2:42 AM by xiaophil

我很高兴我没说秦始皇，啊啊。 Read more

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Posted on: World Cup Talk
On July 12 at 2:38 AM by bababardwan

I had great faith that you'd come up with the goods, and to be fair no one knows for sure what he looked like and this is the new Cobbe portrait that... Read more

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Posted on: 电影故事 3
On July 12 at 2:32 AM by tgif

How about as David Xuzhou was suggesting: The cat's out of the bag Read more

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Posted on: 电影故事 3
On July 12 at 2:21 AM by connie

0：33大闹了一番 (dànào le yī fān) ，"番"是量词，"一番"意思是"一场"。 4：14 这个魏导好像完全变了个人一样 5：46 魏导的手下(手下shǒuxià, 意思是下级，部下。) 6：22 最近这个方面管得很严 7：45 地面对着天空 8：04... Read more

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On July 12 at 2:15 AM by danchao

Wow, that's a lot. I read somewhere that Chinese people only use about 4000 - 5000 characters, although there are about 50000 characters total. So, yo... Read more

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On July 12 at 2:13 AM by JasonSch

What I know about 老子 as form of 'I' is that's only used for by men (老娘 for women), that it's somewhat less elegant than 我, and also that it's used mos... Read more

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Posted on: 电影故事 3
On July 12 at 2:08 AM by connie

1. "还不快盯上！" 这是一个反问句。"还不快"不是一个词，要分开理解。 "还"用在这里有责备的语气，"你应该改赶快去盯上她，你怎么还在说话？"。 "快"是赶快去做某事。 "你/还/不/快/盯上/她！" eg. 外面这里冷，还不快进屋去。 别看电视了，还不快去学习。... Read more

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On July 12 at 2:07 AM by zhenlijiang

Hi danchao, dahouxiaohou asked about 老子. My dictionary tells me 老子 (aside from a way of saying "my father"--much like "my old man"), is also a way of... Read more

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Posted on: Chinese Fruits
On July 12 at 1:53 AM by Tal

草原上来了一群羊。猜一种水果 --- 草莓！ 草原上又来了一群狼。猜一种水果 --- 杨梅！ Cǎoyuán shàng láile yī qún yáng. Cāi yīzhǒng shuǐguǒ --- cǎom&eacu... Read more

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On July 12 at 1:49 AM by danchao

Not really, 人家 isn't really gender specific nor cute-specific. 老人 doesn't sound macho either, haha. It means "old people". Maybe other people would... Read more