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perrytex967
Posted on: Visiting the Hospital with a Fever
December 22, 2011 at 7:53 PMNà shì yī ge 'typo' wèi xuètáng? Shūfá shì xiě, duì ba? Duìbuqǐ, wǒ de wèntí zài zhèr shàng yīnggāi wen4 Connie, bù weibo.
Posted on: Visiting the Hospital with a Fever
December 22, 2011 at 7:02 PMQǐng wèn, niào de yìsi zài tángniàobìng shì shénme? Taidu(dì jǐ shēng?) de yìsi shì shénme? Attitude? Guancha(dì jǐ shēng?) de yìsi shì shénme? Observation? Zhaoliu(dì jǐ shēng?) de yìsi shì shénme? To communicate? Zuìhòu, yuyue(dì jǐ shēng?) de yìsi shì shénme? Appointment? Tài xièxie nǐmen le.
Posted on: Traditional Chinese Medicine
December 22, 2011 at 4:16 PMI really miss one of Mike in Ewshot's podcast vocabularies here, so I'd like to ask if someone could help with some words from the podcast, especially the tones:
to accumulate = jilei -tones-?
curious = haoqi -tones-?
common sense = chang shixin de -tones-?
interrogator = jingcha ne -tones-?
custom = changwei -tones-?
revelation = qifai -tones-?
moisturize = shui3fen -tone-?
Finally, was it 'jishi' said with "...you2qi2 ... Si4chuan1 cai4", and what are its tones? Xie4xie.
Posted on: How to Address Someone
December 3, 2011 at 5:00 PMWould 'Jiāng sījī' also be all right for 'Driver Jiang"? Thanks, miskat for the above remark on why 'ma' must be used since 'zen3me' only refers in the sentence to the way things can be bought on the internet. I've been learning it takes some experience to get used to the ins and outs of using 'ma' correctly.
Posted on: Checking Baggage
October 25, 2011 at 10:35 PMReply to laurarhode in answer to your questions:
1)- Yīxiāng means suitcase, and xínglǐxiāng just means trunk as far as I can tell.
2)- Guānglín means gracious presence(of a guest, etc.); so you can see the link to the word welcome.
3)- Dēng means to ascend/ mount/ board (the platform, etc.). I couldn't find dēngjīpái in my 'zìdiǎn', but I found 'dēngjīkǎ' which of course means boarding card. I hope this suffices for you.
Posted on: Plane Ticket Prices
December 27, 2011 at 3:10 PMFrom what you say it seems that kuài is only used for a number range that approaches the given number and duō only for a number range that exceeds the given number. In which case it makes sense to put kuài before the given number and duō after the given number. To wit, kuài yī qiān or yī qiān duō. To me this means one must not translate duō here as 'about' or 'around' because in English this could mean the number might be below 1,000 while in Mandarin it has to be above 1,000 if duō is used. So, one must translate duō here as 'over' or 'more than', as John did, or even as 'above'. Please let me know if I'm mistaking the uses of kuài & duō. Xièxie nǐn.