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changye
Posted on: I Want a Thick Blanket
December 15, 2009 at 4:29 AMHi shanghai_helios
Do you have a choice of "厚 (thick)" or "薄 (bao)" when ordering a pizza in Shanghai?
Posted on: Voucher Promotion at the Mall
December 15, 2009 at 4:21 AM我刚来中国的时候一直以为“打八折”就是“80%OFF”的意思，后来才知道中国商人没那么大方！
Posted on: I Want a Thick Blanket
December 15, 2009 at 4:00 AMHi jianpuzhai
Chinese newscasters speak very fast, and it's not so easy to catch what they are saying, but don't worry. They rarely say something really important, hehe.
Posted on: Picking Up a Friend at the Airport
December 13, 2009 at 4:14 AMHi architpol
In the case of "搬家真辛苦", the "辛苦" is an adjective "hard/laborious/labor", on the other hand, in "辛苦你了/你辛苦了" both 辛苦 are verbs, and the former is a transitive verb (or, an adjective, anyway no difference) and the latter an intransitive verb, and both "辛苦" are often used when thanking someone for his taking trouble, in reality, regardless of who actually caused the trouble. After all, they are merely a kind of "set expression".
Posted on: Equestrian
December 13, 2009 at 2:30 AM因为我明天没有汽车，所以不能去见你。
yin1wei4 wo3 ming2tian1 mei2you3 qi4che1
suo3yi3 bu4neng2 qu4 jian4 ni3.
Posted on: Hungry Traveler: Hainan
December 13, 2009 at 2:23 AMI hear that Hainan is notorious for "hard-sell" and "rip-offs".
Posted on: Equestrian
December 13, 2009 at 2:17 AMHi asia2010
I recommend you say to your friend,
对不起，我明天没有时间，不能去见你。
dui4buqi3, wo3 ming2tian1 mei2you3 shi2jian1
bu4neng2 qu4 jian4 ni3.
Its literal translation should be
我明天无法去见你。
wo3 ming2tian1 wu2fa3 qu4 jian4 ni3
Posted on: Picking Up a Friend at the Airport
December 12, 2009 at 1:42 PMHi architpol
This "辛苦" is a transitive verb "trouble", and this is the reason the Chinese sentence is translated as "Today I made you guys work hard".
Posted on: Ways to Describe Things that are "Inside"
December 12, 2009 at 9:44 AMHi user25616
五分后我去见你。
再过五分钟我去见你。
I'll meet you in five minutes.
Posted on: I Want a Thick Blanket
December 15, 2009 at 12:00 PMHi Shanghai_helios
I just envy you. I prefer thin and crispy pizza, but here in a small city in northeast China, I can get only thick cushion-like pizza.