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Posted on: Picking things up: 拿、带、取

ewong:

  yes, your understanding is correct.

Posted on: Picking things up: 拿、带、取

timlb:

  you are right, :)

  man '娶' woman, women '嫁' man(a women living in a man's home, I am smart too)

Posted on: Picking things up: 拿、带、取

'着' looks like to emphasise the state of preceding verb. I am chinese, so I deeply know it is very hard to learn well by foreigner. It is being used in many idiomatic phrases and verbals. Here are some different usages which you might first seeing:

Don't try to understand followings in that way we have talked on the '着', because it is totally different meanings.

着装  - means dressing, is often used in formal chinese

着笔 - start to write

着火 -  afire

着陆 - landing, land

着落 - whereabouts, often used in verbals

着想 - consider

着重 - emphasise

Posted on: Picking things up: 拿、带、取

Q: I enjoyed this QW! I always hear 來一碗- is this 帶來一碗or 拿來一碗? both sounds correct!

A: I do understant what's your meanings this time, it is absolutly not 'take a bowl' , but tells somebody wanna a dish/ a course, not an empty bowl. The point is the dish(it could be noodle, soupe, etc) is omitted. You might often heard :

来一杯(茶/咖啡, tea/coffee) , 来一盘(沙拉, salad)

When the drink/dish is omitted in chinese upon, it must has been mentioned in the previous conversation or the guys in the conversation all have known the omitted stuff.

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Q: I enjoyed this QW! I always hear 來一碗- is this 帶來一碗or 拿來一碗? both sounds correct!

A: '來一碗' means 'give somebody a bowl (of meal)', you can see the meal most probably is noodle, soup, rice etc. I often use this sentence for noodle. :)

帶來一碗 - I think it should be '再来一碗'

There is a little different in '來一碗' and '再来一碗', you can see the different on '再' which means one more.

Q:How do you say "pick-up line"- 取人詞？

A: I can't exactly understand 'pick-up line' in english,  it might be '交友热线'？

Posted on: Picking things up: 拿、带、取

yeah, john's said make it more cleared. :)

Posted on: Picking things up: 拿、带、取

In your last question:

Why is it 拿着 means "hold it" instead of "holding"?

My understand is holding means keep back or reserve.

'holding' most properbly is '保留' in chinese

Posted on: Picking things up: 拿、带、取

my understand is 'hold something' more often means 'keep something [to do]', it looks like have a picture/an action of still stopping.

John said bring your questions to the discussion board, and here's mine.

My translation is :

John 说带着/拿着你的问题到讨论区上讨论，这是我的问题

The best translation(not a translation word for word) is:

John说把你的问题拿到/带到讨论区上去讨论，顺便带上我的问题

I guess you confuse the '着' and '这', they were pronounced a little different.  '着'  is pronounced 'zhe' first tone, '这'  is  pronounced 'zhe' four tone. The two words have different meanings at all. '这' means here. '着' is hard to translate in english and often following a verb in chinese, for examples:

骑着: ride or riding

挨着: border upon

If you could use '着' well, you have learned chinese very well.

Posted on: Picking things up: 拿、带、取

this is a very very famous free e-dictionary called '金山词霸' and being widely used in china, you can install it to translate any word or sentence between chinese and english. Unfortunately it can only pronounce english word. It would be much better if it could pronounce chinese. This is not a trojan and is very safty to use.

http://download.iciba.com/pwl/powerwordPE_F.25269.3022.exe

Posted on: Picking things up: 拿、带、取

yeah, '拿手' is a very common word in life, but it seems you have to remeber it by rote.