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changye
Posted on: 小太监进宫四
August 13, 2009 at 12:24 AM"装蒜"的由来挺有意思，看起来中国虚报现象已经有悠久的历史！
Posted on: Art Museum
August 13, 2009 at 12:01 AMHi ivor88
A seasoned swindler doesn't let you realize that you've been deceived. Here is a good discussion about Chinese tea scams in a Chinesepod forum. Please be alert.
Posted on: 小太监进宫四
August 12, 2009 at 7:35 AMHi xiaophil
当做/当作 (dang4zuo4) means "consider/regard～as", but not "make, become".
Posted on: 小太监进宫四
August 12, 2009 at 6:47 AMHi Jenny
“梦到茄子很吉祥”的由来主要有三个说法。你觉不觉得这些有说服力？你觉得哪个说法最有说服力？三个都是半斤八两吗？
1. 一年中最早上市的茄子好吃，很受欢迎，但是比较贵。
2. “なす(茄子)”和“成す(成就)”都有一样的日语发音
3. 过去日本的一个大王很爱吃最早上市的茄子。
Posted on: 小太监进宫四
August 12, 2009 at 6:04 AM我只知道一句有关富士山的日本俗话，那就是“一富士，二鹰，三茄子”。这意味着“在梦中看到富士山最吉祥，其次是老鹰，然后是茄子”。听说这句俗语的由来好像有好几个，但是还没有定论。我这个人从小就很喜欢吃茄子，不过很奇怪，其实我一次都没做过“茄子梦”。我想，如果“戒茄子”的话我会在梦里看到这个吉祥蔬菜！茄子为什么那么吉祥呢？大家猜得出来吗？
Posted on: Pair, Set, Match 双, 副, 对 , 套
August 10, 2009 at 2:54 PMHi lotsofwordsandnospaces
It takes "a long time" to type your ID name, hehe!
Contrary to what you feel, 第三者 sounds more humorous to me than 情妇. "Mistress" is certainly "a third party" or "outsider" from the standpoint of a wife/husband. You can use 第三者 for both a man and a woman, but 二奶 is only for a woman. A little surprisingly, both 第三者 and 二奶 are already listed in 现代汉语词典 (2005), but there is no 二奶 in the 1998 edition.
Posted on: Pair, Set, Match 双, 副, 对 , 套
August 10, 2009 at 1:23 PMHi lotsofwordsandnospaces and tal
爱人 indicates both wife and husband (and sometimes even indicates your sweetheart) in the PRC, while it means "mistress/concubine" in Taiwan and Japan, as you said above. There is the song titled "爱人" sung by Teresa Teng (邓丽君), and the image of this song people hold in the PRC must be very different from that in Taiwan. There are several Chinese words for "mistress" used in the PRC, such as 情人，情妇，情夫，第三者，and 二奶.
Posted on: Is China Scary?
August 10, 2009 at 9:22 AMHi kimiik
There is the term "批斗大会" frequently used during so-called "Cultural Revolution" (1966-1977) in the PRC, which should be a Chinese counterpart of "Stalinist Trial". The PRC also has a tradition of political "forced confession" called "自我批评" (self-criticism). Two peas in a pot think alike.
http://www.hudong.com/wiki/%E6%89%B9%E6%96%97
http://www.chinaelections.org/NewsInfo.asp?NewsID=154094
皇上！冤枉啊！
Posted on: Lili and Zhang Liang 6: An Old Flame
August 9, 2009 at 1:50 PMHi aprilwhite
"以为" also means "regard, suppose", but in reality native speakers usually use the word to mean "(mistakenly) recognize", like "我以为你已经回美国去了，没想到你还在中国！".
I remember, a native Chinese, who teaches Chinese to foreign people, even insisted here in Chinesepod forums before that 以为 only means "(mistakenly) recognize" in Chinese.
Interestingly enough, 现代汉语词典, a sort of bible of modern Mandarin, only shows "认为 (regard, suppose)" as a definition of 以为. There are no perfect dictionaries, of course.
Posted on: Washing Dishes
August 13, 2009 at 12:38 AMHi pete
That's an unamusing joke if you see how workers wash dishes at a local restaurant here in China!