User Comments - alexyzye

Posted on: Excuses for Being Late

I thought 送 is only used if you send someone to a place where you are not going yourself, i.e. send someone to the entrance then drive off. However, in the case when you are accompanying someone to see a doctor in a hospital, shouldn't 陪 be used?

Can we replace 工资  with 薪水 in the dialogue?

I think there is another usage of 了, as in 了解.

Posted on: Kungpao Chicken

@miantiao

I'm sure in the Renting a Bike episode,  怎么租 was used to ask how much to rent a bicycle. It was explained that 怎么 can be used to ask the price, not just "how to do something". I'm a bit curious myself about its usage, because I've never heard anyone using it like so.

Posted on: Kungpao Chicken

The episode on "renting bicycle" said one can use 怎么 to ask the price of something instead of 多少钱. So, is it common to ask something like this in a restaurant:

宫保鸡丁怎么卖 ?

Posted on: Kungpao Chicken

Will definitely try to order 宫保鸡丁 when I visit Shanghai this coming July. Anyone know where is a nice restaurant to try this and other nice food in Shanghai?

Posted on: Pregnancy Series 5: Super Babies and Ultrasounds

I reckon the gender imbalance can be mostly solved if the government changes the 1-child policy to a 1-son policy. This way:

50% of couples will still only have 1 child (son),

25% will have 1 girl followed by 1 boy,

12.5% will have 2 girls followed by 1 boy,

6.25% will have 3 girls followed by 1 boy, etc

The will be a minute but finite percentage who will have lots of girls and no boy.

End result:- lots of girls for the boys, and the birth rate is still below replacement.

Posted on: Napkins, Facebook, and Ctrip -- What a Combination!

Thanks for introducing ctrip. We're planning a trip to Shanghai in July. Ctrip will definitely help us find a hotel in a specific area we need to go to.

Posted on: Which Finger?

I supposed "给你点儿颜色看看" (show you some colors?) is a generic phrase used to intimidate people? In what situations can it be used?

Posted on: Broken, Busted, and Smashed

破 is far more flexible than its presented in this lesson. It can be combined with the other words and it acts as a verb, like so:

破坏, 破碎

It can be prefixed to a noun in some cases, like so:

破产  (to go bankrupt)

Posted on: Gone Fishing

If catching fish using a net, do I say:

网到鱼

or

用网抓到鱼?

Posted on: Lao Wang's Office 9: Wang Plans Revenge

Starting own business is not my idea of "revenge". I was hoping for some cunning schemes to sabotage his ex-employer or something.