User Comments - geiwotangba

Posted on: 人口普查

副本 和 翻译 都 没 有 这种 课 真 难学。挑战呢！

Posted on: 白酒和黄酒

One of the expansion exercises, I find a bit challenging translate, so here's a stab at it:这家店的糕点做得很好吃，香甜可口，入口即化。"This store makes great cakes and the aroma of it alone is able to attract anyone to it." This among a few other sentences...like the one drill that talks of hundreds of Hamlets...this is truly an advanced lesson!

Posted on: Band Practice

多谢！

Posted on: Keen on Clean

对称性

Posted on: What does she look like?

我觉得长得白真美丽不过我太太是佛山人所以她的皮肤比较黑点。我太太都喜欢短发，很舒服，更凉快的当然我喜欢长发。我的太太也有圆圆的脸，不是圆脸。但我的太太眼睛比较大。 只是有四分之一的特色好看的还是真完美！

Posted on: Keen on Clean

I like it when a foreign language teacher chooses to keep their given name of the foreign language that they are currently teaching. Not that I dislike Jenny or Connie or whoever that chooses to be identified in some Anglo sort of way, it just seems more intimate to be able to hear and identify with you in a more culturally direct way when you use and share more fully your Chinese identity with us.

Posted on: Keen on Clean

Maybe some sort of snappy chengyu...one of those four character sets...just hate to see the English out shine the Chinese here. Recently, I tried to explain the phrase 'clean as a whistle' to one of my English classes. Yeah, I guess you are right, KISS is entirely appropriate here.

Posted on: Keen on Clean

nice rhyme in the English title, any way that can translate better as far as the sound or expression goes in Chinese? Something more 'catchy' or is that just not part of the Chinese way of writing? Just curious.

Posted on: Farewell Dinner

我的经验，不要说还是回答 ‘干杯’，有人喜欢喝太多，作威作福地对你说 ‘干杯’，快要醉的厉害， 还有一个 ‘干杯’ 的话，就掉在地上。

Posted on: Hospital Visits and Prescription Medication

My mother-in-law was a teacher, who now resides with my family in America, I broke my hip a few years ago riding a bike and was fully treated for it in America but still had some persistent pain later, so my mother-in-law (po po) had connections with one of her students who was a doctor who agreed to look at my hip as a favor to her...so I went to the hospital and got special treatment...which meant cutting in line and stepping over many a real sick person wating for treatment. yeah, I felt a little guilty, but there were many people waiting that day with more pressing problems than my time to time aching hip...

So, looks like the hospital deal in China, at least from my experience is not one to look forward to. But i will tell you with all surprise and shock of my dental experience...between night and day, the difference between the American and Chinese Systems of dental care, China takes the gold medal and I imagine that America doesn't even finish in sixth place. The Chinese dentist was gentle caring and very careful in handling cavities, and considering my Chinese could barely be described as adequate, she found the root of my problem with the most simplistic of phrases, painlessly drilled and filled my cavity, all doing it with no drugs like novacain...I know some Chinese in America who will gladly spend the thousand or so dollars every year to get on a plane to get to China to get their teeth checked out in stead of subjecting themselves to the sadists that call themselves dentists in America. Up until now I never understood why they'd go to so much trouble, but now I understand how utterly top notch the Chinese system is regarding dental care...!

But, my experiences with American hospitals regarding basic treatment to say a problem like kidney stones is not good either. When one gets a kidney stone it is extremely painful, painful enough to make one double over in futility as the pain soars threw one's torso. The only real treatment is to dull the pain and get one to pass the stone through the kidney naturally and out the drain. So, really, it's as simple as taking a pain-killer and drinking lots of liquids. But, the American hospital makes you wait for an hour, takes an hour to get tests, like X-rays and then gives you the pill...two solid hours of pain to get treated, if you're lucky. next time I get kidney stones, I will just run to the liquor store, buy a bottle of whiskey, drink a large sum of it to get rid of the stone myself in stead of going to all that hospital trouble, to then again be charged an arm and a leg to get a simple pill....LOL