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perrytex967
Posted on: A Tour of Xi'an
December 29, 2011 at 3:11 PMJust after the 3 min. mark in the podcast, Jenny is talking about Cháng' ān and she says something like "...tingqilai hao xiao feichang 'auspicious'...", but I'm not sure I have the mandarin right and I certainly don't get what the auspiciousness is here that is being referred to. Sorry to be so dense, but could someone clarify this? Xièxie nǐ.
Posted on: Visiting the Hospital with a Fever
December 28, 2011 at 3:52 PMTàidù = Attitude
Guānchá = Observation
Jiāoliú = To communicate
Yuēhuì = Appointment
In the podcast at the 10:10 mark the 'kāi''s meaning is mentioned, so I looked it up in my large dictionary. Admitedly this dictionary can leave something to be desired but it gives 10 different meanings for 'kai1'. One of course is 'to open'. But the next-to-last is 'to make a list' or 'to write out'.
Posted on: Visiting the Hospital with a Fever
December 28, 2011 at 3:30 PMNǐn xiě le: tángniàobìng de niào shì ? ? ? ? de yìsi. Wǒ de shūfá bù hǎo. Qǐng, nǐ néng xiě niào de yìsi zài yīngwén ma? Xièxie nǐn.
Posted on: Plane Ticket Prices
December 28, 2011 at 2:48 PMI guess you're a bit unclear because I was. But I'm not now because I see that huí can mean all 3 of these meanings: to return, and to go/come back.
No need for 'to return back'. Thanks a lot for clearing this up for me.
Posted on: Marriage and Divorce
December 27, 2011 at 7:45 PMDilu, don't let society, your friends, etc. pressure you. It's you that has to live your life, not they. They can never live it. Be happy. If you aren't happy, time to look to other horizons. Find out what does or will make you happy. If it's possible to have it or get it, and still be happy and secure, then go for it. But what that happy thing is, you decide. Not me or anyone else, but you, and you alone. Because you are the one that will live that wonderful, happy thing called your life. And when you come to the end of it, you won't be happy if you've let yourself be pressured into something that made you unhappy. The older I get, the more certain I am of these words because I remember the happiest times for me came when I chose freely, wisely, securely, and healthily.
Posted on: Cell Phone Connectivity Issues
December 27, 2011 at 5:55 PMDǎdetōng would be better translated as 'to get through' as well as 'to connect'. We don't say 'to go through' in English although you do hear "I/you/etc. got through".
Posted on: Visiting the Hospital with a Fever
December 27, 2011 at 4:53 PMQǐng wèn, zài tángniàobìng lǐ niào de yìsi shì shénme? Xièxie.
Posted on: Traditional Chinese Medicine
December 27, 2011 at 4:39 PMThanks very much for the great job you do, lujiaojie. I did find a few of these in a big dictionary during shèngdànjié, but by no means all. So thanks again. I really misheard on yóuqí. Btw, 'jīshí' = cornerstone; foundation stone. Dàjiā zài Chinesepod xīnniān kuàilè!
Posted on: Plane Ticket Prices
December 27, 2011 at 3:46 PMI'm wondering about the translation of huí in this lesson. In the vocabulary it is given as 'to return' but nothing about 'to go back' as in the 1st sentence of the dialogue. I know in English it is redundant and a bit cumbersome to say 'to return back', but isn't that also sort of what huí means here in Mandarin, and one brings in qù or lái just to specify whether one is going back or coming back, respectively? Or is this another example of vagueness? If not, I'd be grateful if you'd clear up how these words are being used.
Posted on: A Trip to Nanjing
December 29, 2011 at 5:02 PMI have a question about what Jenny says at the 11 min. 25 sec. mark of the podcast, to wit, she says "...zuì zhòng yòng de yī ge 'dapei-?'. Dǎoyóu jiǎngjiě..." I may have it wrong here but what is 'dapei'? Xièxie nǐn.