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goulnik
Posted on: What's tomorrow?
September 17, 2007 at 9:35 AMsome more day/week-related vocab : 前天 qiántiān the day before yesterday 后天 hòutiān the day after tomorrow 下星期 xiàxīngqī next week 上星期 shàngxīngqī last week 下下星期 xiàxīngqī the week after next 上上星期 shàngxīngqī the week before last
Posted on: Flattery in the Office
September 17, 2007 at 7:10 AMBTW, how do you say 'subtle' - in Europe I think you can't openly 拍马屁， if you want to 夸 your boss it's best to be a little less 明显 (míngxiǎn) about it, even 狡滑 (jiǎohuá) cunning
Posted on: Flattery in the Office
September 17, 2007 at 7:04 AMthis comes in a wee bit too late as we just discussed this exciting topic with Vera this morning ;-) thanks anyway -- as you can see, 我是实话实说的人，无如不是马屁精 （mǎpìjīng） even though I know that 老板总是对的 no matter what!
Posted on: Death by Ninja
September 13, 2007 at 4:44 AM@ChinesePod : I think you may want to add a tag to link all of Peter's Saga together, more specific than just 'business'. Same for Lili and ZhangYang, though they can easily be retrieved with search
Posted on: Death by Ninja
September 12, 2007 at 11:59 AM李管理 got acquainted with the 忍者 when he got abducted by 外星人 / aliens in his childhood, his friends didn't believe him so he wanted to 教训 / teach them a lesson, nothing to do with Peter or 加拿大 really
Posted on: Death by Ninja
September 12, 2007 at 4:13 AMit's all because of that taxi driver who made him believe he was another 大山, he just didn't get his tones right and came to regret he had the nerve to bargain the price of those damn hammers
Posted on: Pushy Insurance Salesman
September 11, 2007 at 4:55 AMpeiruifu, one of the translations Wenlin/ABC has for 后顾 (hòugù) is think of future, so 忧后顾, worry about the future, makes sense. nicolas, how come living in Shanghai you don't have many occasions to practice your Chinese? I don't get it.
Posted on: Identifying Family Members
September 10, 2007 at 6:52 AM这是谁的照片， isn't it one of these cases where meaning depends on the context ?
Posted on: Identifying Family Members
September 10, 2007 at 4:28 AMaccording to the ABC dict., 且 represents 'a picture of shelves, or of a small table. The character was borrowed to represent a conjunction with a similar pronunciation.' but in 姐 (jiě), it's just the phonetic component (qiě)
Posted on: Beauty Pageant Registration
September 17, 2007 at 11:28 AMthose Western names don't even seem to bear any resemblance with the original Chinese names, often sound like they're straight out of (American)-TV series. I know a 伊琳 (Yīlín) called Jessie, not sure why she didn't choose Eileen!