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changye
Posted on: 世界经济危机
October 23, 2008 at 1:59 PMHi lydia1981,
谢谢你的关怀，我当然听你的。明天早上我要好好哄她。我的宝贝已经睡着了，打呼噜很厉害喽！
Posted on: 世界经济危机
October 23, 2008 at 1:19 PMHi lydia1981,
我家的小胖狗这么威胁我，“主人，你真的逼我减肥的话，我只好行使上帝赋予的天生权利。我，一只出生于中国东北的西施犬”芭迪”，在此隆重宣布，现在就要开始绝食抗议，打倒日本小气鬼！” 哈哈，看样子这条胖狗同志没有我想像的那么聪明，竟然自己主动开始减肥了！可是我也没想到世界金融危机会这样影响到我的小家庭，破坏“中日友好关系”！
Posted on: Salt and Pepper
October 23, 2008 at 1:00 PM智者千虑，必有一失
zhi4 zhe3 qian1 lv4， bi4 you3 yi1 shi1
Posted on: 世界经济危机
October 23, 2008 at 5:47 AM转祸为福，我只希望这次金融危机给我家的小胖狗带来减肥的好机会。小狗对饭菜质量有意见的话，我打算跟她这么说，“我们小家庭也得追求经济全球化，并且应该采取最时尚的做法！我绝不会让你一条狗吃苦的。从今天起，我也每天少喝一瓶百威，陪你减肥。为了省钱，咱们互相鼓励，坚持下去！” 那么，我以后在外头多喝一瓶吧，哈哈。
Posted on: 世界经济危机
October 23, 2008 at 3:25 AM美酒都喝完了，满汉全席都吃没了，宴会就结束了，狂欢的节日已过去了。世上没有不会结束的酒宴。那么，大家慢慢开始准备下一场盛宴吧。下次谁要当东道主？
Posted on: Salt and Pepper
October 22, 2008 at 12:00 PMHi helenren,
Thanks for your support.
I admit that Chinese sayings are really worth studying. I love them better than chengyu, because they are always humorous, ironical, and to-the-point.
Furthermore, Chinese sayings are also worth reading from a grammatical standpoint. By the way, I invented a new version of the saying. I hope you like it.
我喝过的酒比你喝过的水还多。
wo3 he1 guo4 de jiu3 bi3 ni3 he1 guo4 de shui3 hai2 duo1.
Posted on: Salt and Pepper
October 22, 2008 at 10:42 AM我吃过的米比你吃过的盐还多。
Quantity-wise, this saying doesn't seem to make sense. Even my chubby dog has eaten more rice than I have salt, hehe. I think the right one should be ....
我吃过的盐比你吃过的米还多。
wo 3 chi1 guo4 de yan2 bi3 ni 3 chi1 guo4 de mi3 hai2 duo1
Posted on: Google vs. Baidu
October 22, 2008 at 2:44 AMHi shalmaneser,
Thanks for interesting examples. As John said above, dictionaries sometimes don't keep up with conversational language.
In Mandarin, for instance, 卑鄙 (bei1 bi3) is often pronounced as "bei1 bi4", which is a well known example of this kind.
As for "下载", to make matters even more confusing, "载" is a multi-reading character (多音字). 载 (zai4) means "carry, lade", and 载 (zai3) "record, write down".
For the record, "上载" (shang4 zai4) is translated as "upload (goods or cargo)" in a dictionary. And "upload" as an Internet term is "上传" (shang4 chuan2) in Mandarin.
Actually, I still don't know which pronunciation HSK examinees should stick to, "xia4 zai3" or "xia4 zai4", hehe.
Posted on: 世界经济危机
October 24, 2008 at 2:58 AMThe authentic reading of "血汗钱" is "xue4 han4 qian2", but the guy in the dialogue pronounced it "xue3 han4 qian2", which is very understandable since "血" is a multi-reading character that has two sounds, i.e. "xie3" and "xue4". The former is more conversational than the latter.
Native speakers, doctors included, sometimes even make it "xue3" or "xie4", of course, you can't find them in any dictionary. But don't worry, you can make yourself understood in any case. Thankfully, native Chinese seem to be very flexible about the pronunciations of the character "血".