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Excellent joke about Switzerland hehehe Read more
I'm not saying the army/navy is a "collection of people", I'm saying it is a service , an organization which serves the state, an entity. I'm not an... Read more
If I may, I'd like to offer an alternative translation for the ninth expansion sentence ( just for the heck of it). 我爺爺以前是一名海軍. My translation: "... Read more
Hey 你辛苦了~ Yeah Jenny speaks quite fast in this lesson; it's an old Intermediate. Jenny: 对。今天而且呐中级课程 是觉得有一点不那么严肃。这是有一点浪漫的成分在里面对吧？ I think thi... Read more
So are you saying that, since an army is a collection of people, we can use 名 to mean just of of those people? Could you say 一名人群 (yī míng rénqún)... Read more
John, Well, I received the start of Cpod's group activity email today and it looks like it is sufficient to alert members of a group when there i... Read more
Just: 见附件 jiàn fùjiàn Read more
The measure word 名 here indicates a person. So, a direct (albeit a bit unnatural) translation of 我爷爷以 前是一名海 军 would be "My grandfather used to be a s... Read more
I think it's short for “一名海军（军人/士兵）”. The same is true for “一名公安（人员）”. They are idiomatic usages. Read more