User Comments - zhuimi

Posted on: Lhasa

@ gaojian & alexlexilu : it's true that people who are from Taiwan and Hong Kong at times write it a lazy short-hand sort of way, and it's also true that sometimes that character is even printed out without the 口， but it's still the most proper for it to be 唸。 This is just like in English , where a lot of times people mix up "your" and "you're" , or just refuse to write/type it the proper way. The same goes when people write something like, "Thats my moms car" , instead of "That's my mom's car" .

By the way ( not to be disagreeable ), but I used to see both 台and 臺 quite frequently when I lived in Taiwan.

Posted on: Lhasa

the traditional version of 念经 should be 唸經. Click on the link for proof http://tw.dictionary.yahoo.com/dictionary?p=%E5%94%B8%E7%B6%93

Posted on: Going to the Gas Station

I think it's great that gas stations are state-owned in China. That's one of the ways Communism is working. In the US, gas companies made more profit when they had to buy their product at a higher price,  which is the  opposite of how most industries work. (usually when a salesman buys goods from his supplier for X dollars and then then next day has to pay 2X for those goods, he ends up making much less money/profit than he did when he was buying the goods for X dollars.) 

Posted on: Going to the Gas Station

so, on average, how many minutes do people have to drive to get to a gas station in Shanghai? I realize some people are going to live closer to gas stations then others, but on AVERAGE, do people have to drive 10 minutes? 15 minutes? About how long?

Posted on: Negotiating a Deadline

thanks for the reply!!!

Posted on: Negotiating a Deadline

There are 3 mistakes in the expansion section. In the first and third sentences, 国外is translated as \"U.S.\". In the ninth sentence, 底限 is translated as \"minimum\", when it should be deadline.

(I have to say that it's ironic that this lesson topic is about a translation assignment)

Also, I have a question:  the sixth sentence \"远在天边， 近在眼前， 你就是我要找的那个人”， what's the deal with this sentence? Is this some kind of a Chinese proverb or something? \"I thought you were far away, but here you are. You're just the person I was looking for\" ... I don't get it. It's so random. Is this some kind of classic Chinese expression or something? Please explain in detail.