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Posted on: Preparing for the Heat
January 8, 2008 at 5:44 AMHi Jenny, Enjoying the sun for sure. Something pretty funny happened at the hotel restaurant tonight. We always take our daughter, and her family with us to Hawaii, and our grandson who is 3 took his superman family and dunked them in his 冰淇淋 ！Gave them a cold swim so he said. The 服务员 really laughed. Very laid back here. OK. I need to practice 我的中文 (-: Bill
Posted on: Preparing for the Heat
January 8, 2008 at 2:43 AMJohn, 你忘了！Henning和我在夏威夷. 有大会 ... 我今天看见他了。Small world (-: Bill
Posted on: Hawaii
December 30, 2007 at 10:44 PMHey Henning, 太好了！ My workshop by the way is on Monday and is entitled, "Peer-to-Peer Applications." Bill
Posted on: Hawaii
December 30, 2007 at 5:40 PM我们也下礼拜去夏威夷。我们每年两次去那儿。(Is that how I say "we go there two times every year?" Funny, I'm co-chairing a workshop in Kona at HICSS-41. Is this where you are going Henning? I've been doing this for several years now. I always take my family (妻子, 女儿, 女儿的丈夫和他们的孩子). 总是很好玩。 Bill
Posted on: A Present from Santa Claus
December 24, 2007 at 7:55 PM最近在北京听说"同一个世界，同一个做梦." 小朋友们需要一万圣诞老人: http://www.unicef.org/ 圣诞快乐！ Bill and family
Posted on: What does 厉害 (lìhai) mean, anyway?
December 23, 2007 at 4:43 PMSince Christmas is almost here, and we recently took our grandson who is 3 to see Santa Claus, the following occurs to me: 我的外孙觉得圣诞老人很厉害. 小朋友爱礼物和都要喜欢圣诞老人，但是他们经常都怕他！ Bill
Posted on: Handsome Boy
December 22, 2007 at 4:10 PMSeems to me that in the supplementary vocabulary 男的 means "male" and nǚde female, and that 男人 and nǚren2 are more general and can mean man/male and woman/female, respectively. Perhaps, I'm being too literal, and that in the spoken language they are all used interchangeably. 我不知道 （wo3bu4zhi1dao4 - I don't know).
Posted on: What does 厉害 (lìhai) mean, anyway?
December 22, 2007 at 3:43 PMWith respect to "terrible" in French: One can say, "C'est terrible!" This actually means extraordinary, or super in this context, and this case is slang. It's much like saying, "That dude is BAD!" which means really cool. In French "Terrible" like in English literally means horrible, or something that inspires terror. Bill
Posted on: Tennis Anyone?
December 20, 2007 at 6:45 AM晚上好！这里现在是十点十五。网球！我爱网球！Yes, I am a tennis fanatic of sorts. I play 3 times a week and for about 25 years now. This past summer my wife and I had free tickets to Wimbledon for the quarter and semi-finals. Row 15 center court: Roger Federer, Raphael Nadal, the Williams Sisters, Li Na, etc. etc. We saw them all ! 是的。Jenny 对 )-: The real problem is the US Open begins on August 25th, and Olympic tennis is around August 10th. Add to that jet lag and that the winner of the US Open pulls down more than $1,000,000. Our guy, Roger Federer, only needs to win 2 grand slams to break Pete Sampras' record. There's a good chance he'll do this next year. The US OPen is the 4th grand slam. Still, Roger would like to add the 奥运金牌 to his trophy case, and as you said, he is very patriotic too! Also, since it's very important to play tough matches before the US Open to stay in "match form" and the timing of the Olympics is just about right since there is enough time to recover for the US Open, I'd say: 所以Jenny, 别灰心. 好的在后面. 也下个十一月在上海有网球大师杯赛！ Bill
Posted on: Preparing for the Heat
January 8, 2008 at 6:34 AMdavidhshanghai, Try: http://www.mdbg.net/ Use their online dictionary and follow your "nose" so to speak. Look up a character to begin. They animate each character and draw the radical in red. Full definitions are given. 这是免费! But, remember, the Chinese Pod dictionary gives usage examples. I can't find an equivalent on the web. Incredibly valuable learning resource. Bill