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clowder
Posted on: 小太监进宫六
October 10, 2009 at 2:29 AMHey, just to chip in, I'm pretty sure I've studied before that 将 also carries with it a more polite or literary connotation. I never hear it in 口语 as a substitution for "把". On the other hand, 把 falls on the opposite catergory where I hear it way more in informal speech and see it a little less often in really 书面 texts.
Posted on: It's Stopped Raining
September 30, 2009 at 8:13 AMBodawei, you could also try:
外边的大风呼啸着，好像快下雨了。
呼啸 is a pretty good word for this kind of intense wind sound effect that you're trying to get at. You don't really need to specify that it's where YOU are, because you wouldn't say this ordinarily. Everyone knows that its outside of your own window, because it would be weird to talk about the wind somewhere else. Also, it doesn't really make sense to say that you "hear" the wind, because if you're talking about it, then there's really no other way that you could be perceiving it.
As far as trying to say "sounds like rain", I would really stay away from these English idioms when speaking Chinese. You will quickly find that in studying foreign language it's not enough to say what you want to say in Chinese, but you also need to adapt yourself to the sentence structure used by people speaking the target language. Your best bet is just to keep your ears and eyes open to try and adapt the grammatical habits of the native Chinese speakers around you. Only after doing this can you sound super 地道。
p.s. the sample sentences at nciku.com are awesome if you want great examples of the way natives use the vocabulary you're studying.
good luck!!!
Posted on: It's Stopped Raining
September 30, 2009 at 8:11 AMBodawei, you could also try:
外边的大风呼啸着，好像快下雨了。
呼啸 is a pretty good word for this kind of intense wind sound effect that you're trying to get at. You don't really need to specify that it's where YOU are, because you wouldn't say this ordinarily. Everyone knows that its outside of your own window, because it would be weird to talk about the wind somewhere else. Also, it doesn't really make sense to say that you "hear" the wind, because if you're talking about it, then there's really no other way that you could be perceiving it.
As far as trying to say "sounds like rain", I would really stay away from these English idioms when speaking Chinese. You will quickly find that in studying foreign language it's not enough to say what you want to say in Chinese, but you also need to adapt yourself to the sentence structure used by people speaking the target language. Your best bet is just to keep your ears and eyes open to try and adapt the grammatical habits of the native Chinese speakers around you. Only after doing this can you sound super 地道。
p.s. the sample sentences at nciku.com are awesome if you want great examples of the way natives use the vocabulary you're studying.
good luck!!!
Posted on: Battling Internet Addiction
December 8, 2008 at 11:16 AMI live in Beijing, and there is a 网吧 across the street where I go to play pool. There are no less than 300 computers all packed with people playing WOW, Warcraft 3, etc. It is absolutely unreal. Great lesson, by the way!
Posted on: 混合动力车
October 19, 2009 at 1:05 PM哎哟。。。叫“环保”的这个话题怎么又来了？对我们在中国留学的学生来说，“保护环境”的这四个字我们都听腻了！实话实说，我现在只要摇头而可以看到外边的什么关于环保的横幅。我也读过不少关于这个话题的课文。上课是空气污染，下课是路上垃圾，这个才叫“被洗脑”的呀！
哈哈哈