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Posted on: Hot Soup
February 23, 2008 at 11:18 AMNicolas, give you some tips ,maybe useful 1.汤, Soup. you can see the left part of this word, that means "water". Soup is made of water, right? hehe 2. 糖，candy , sweet. Candy is made of rice,corn or wheat (eg, malt sugar), the left part of 糖 is 米， that means rice. 3. your mnemonics is great, in the hotel , we name lobby to" 大堂"， you can picure a wide and high place in hotel. 4.the left part of "躺" is "身”， that means body. 5.烫，the bottom of "烫" is "火"，that means "fire".
Posted on: Time for Class
February 23, 2008 at 10:28 AMI considered a long time to find a good way to explain "打开" and "开" before I saw John's answer. John is right.....hehe, really let me surprise. to be honest, as a chinese I never consider calkins's question before. Just give you guys some example. 1.我打开电视看新闻节目。 2.我打开盒子，里面有一双皮鞋。 3. 我打开冰箱的门。 4. 开灯后，整个房间都亮了。 5. Tom对房间里的人说：“请开门”。
Posted on: Behind the Scenes at the Beauty Pageant
February 22, 2008 at 2:45 AMHi, Amber the 人 (ren) in 男人 (nán rén) is pronounced with second tone. [man]∶男性的人 [menfolk]∶成年的男子 [husband] slang [口]∶指丈夫
Posted on: Equestrian
February 22, 2008 at 1:42 AMhadzipopovska and Jhmulk From a Chinese point of view, I believe 4 is right. 以前你不是经常去医院吗？means from the speaker viewpoint , he think/guess/believe you always go to hospital before. the same expression : eg. hadzipopovska, 你以前不是在休斯顿大学（Houston university）读书吗？ key words are: 不是....吗？that express a positive statement
Posted on: Equestrian
February 21, 2008 at 11:31 AMmama huhu also has a meaning to express you are modest to some extent. and you are also very pleased to hear what he said to you . eg. your wife: hi Tom, 你今天做的菜可真香。 you：马马虎虎...
Posted on: Behind the Scenes at the Beauty Pageant
February 21, 2008 at 11:17 AMYeah.....understood! That's great!
Posted on: Behind the Scenes at the Beauty Pageant
February 21, 2008 at 11:04 AMHehe, interesting.....and I really understand what you mean...hahaha....you are great! it seems some Chinese( of course include me) make a grammar mistake. hehe, in this story, the wording is really likely to lead to ambiguity
Posted on: Behind the Scenes at the Beauty Pageant
February 21, 2008 at 10:51 AMAert, http://www.ourdict.cn/ that's a online chinese dictionary. I search "咱们"， it has two expression, one of these is "do not make the distinction between the inclusive and exclusive 'we' " But I think you are right , sometimes I will also confused by complicated Chinese grammar.
Posted on: Equestrian
February 21, 2008 at 10:30 AMItem 4 is right one. translate into English is: you always wen to hospital before, didn't you?
Posted on: To Love or Be Loved
February 23, 2008 at 11:45 AMJust give my opinion. "自虐狂"： mostly means "sucker for punishment", and also means masochist. '虐待狂" : I think that means sadist. SM is a popular word now, now chinese young man who give it a name"Self-maltreat""自虐"