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changye
Posted on: My Scooter Won't Start
March 3, 2008 at 7:59 AM看样子中国已经成为了一个摩托车大国。 据中国交通管理局去年发表的统计数据， 中国拥有超过一亿五千万辆的汽摩托车， 可别吃惊其中摩托车就占百分之五十五， 也就是说八千万辆摩托车天天跑在路上。 这是不是意味着自行车王国走向消亡呢? 你根本用不着杞人忧天据海关统计显示 零七年中国自行车出口达到近七千万辆， 岂止如此中国拥有四亿七千万辆自行车。 从这个角度来说中国人很爱护地球环境!
Posted on: Chinese Green Eggs and Ham
March 3, 2008 at 3:41 AMLooks like that everything goes in China. I have found 绿壳鸡蛋 (lv3 ke2 ji1 dan4, green shell eggs) on the Internet. Do you want to eat them? http://images.google.cn/images?hl=zh-CN&q=%E7%BB%BF%E5%A3%B3%E9%B8%A1%E8%9B%8B&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Posted on: London
March 2, 2008 at 8:44 AMHi auntie68, I seem to be teaching “auntie” to suck eggs, but just for the record let me please post an advice. According to my dictionaries, the United Kingdom consists of England, Scotland, Wales (威尔士), and Northern Ireland. Confusingly enough, England as well as Great Britain is often used in referring to the UK. There is a transcription ”英吉利” (ying1 ji2 li4) for “English” in Chinese, but as far as I know it is not frequently used. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/europe/england/ English channel 英吉利海峡 (hai3 xia2)
Posted on: London
March 2, 2008 at 6:45 AMHi auntie68, They are too long! 英国 is the best. 大不列颠 及 北爱尔兰 联合王国 da4 bu2 lie4 dian1 ji2 bei3 ai4 er3 lan2 lian2 he2 wang2 guo2 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Posted on: Chinese Green Eggs and Ham
March 2, 2008 at 6:13 AMToday’s picture (图像, tu2 xiang4) is somewhat terrifying (可怕, ke3 pa2) to me, since it reminds me (让我想起, rang4 wo3 xiang3 qi3) of the eggs (鸡蛋, ji1 dan4) I bought here in China a few years ago (几年前, ji3 nian2 qian2). All their yolks (蛋黄, dan4 huang2) were incredibly dyed deep-red perhaps with Sudan Red (苏丹红, su1 dan1 hong2), which is a banned (禁止使用, jin4 zhi3 shi3 yong4) cancer-causing dye (致癌的染料, zhi4 ai2 de ran3 liao4).
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: History
March 2, 2008 at 5:29 AM秦始皇嬴政是个毁誉参半的中华大英雄。 中国第一个皇帝不仅诉诸武力统一中原 而且又统一文字货币度量衡等社会制度， 试图通过严酷的法律而巩固中央集权制。 秦朝为了改革彻底镇压因循守旧的儒教， 下令全国进行臭名昭著的所谓焚书坑儒， 就是始皇帝被后世儒家称为暴君的缘故， 并且很严厉的法律制度免不得暴敛横征。 因此有些汉族人为了逃避秦朝残暴统治 从山东地区迁移到朝鲜半岛和日本列岛。 这个史实也许可能与徐福传说有些关联， 总之秦始皇的暴政给日本带来中国文化。
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: History
March 1, 2008 at 5:29 AM我总是羡慕崇拜悠久而灿烂的中华历史， 但是同时也对中国学生们有点不胜同情。 上下五千年的中国历史既长久又很复杂， 其中最让人头疼的是南北朝等分裂时期， 特别是五代十国五胡十六国时代很错综。 其实我在学校的时候最讨厌背中国历史。 与中国相比学习日本历史没有那么费劲。 幸亏我母国有史以来仅有两千年的历史， 基本上只沿着一条历史的长河发展下来。 虽然那样我的历史成绩为什么却不理想?
Posted on: Saved by the Gong: History
March 1, 2008 at 3:00 AMHi Chinesepod, Thank you for a great lesson. I love this classroom-style dialogue very much. I believe that you are going to offer us more similar lessons in the future. I would like to listen not only to history-related dialogue, of course they are very interesting, but also to other subjects such as math, geology, and science.
Posted on: 河莉秀
February 29, 2008 at 5:02 PMHi wennytao, The analogy in the last paragraph in your above posting is not very appropriate. Of course, you can freely choose whether or not to smoke and take dope, but you cannot choose not to suffer congenial Gender Identity Disorder. Like it or not, some unfortunate people are destined to struggle with GID in any country, including China.
Posted on: My Scooter Won't Start
March 4, 2008 at 4:36 AMI have just found two transliterations, 速可达 (su4 ke3 da2) and 速克达 (su4 ke4 da2), for a scooter on the Internet, but I am not sure whether or not they are commonly used in China. At least I have never heard local people use them so far.