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我今天听你的安排,你让我做什么我就做什么。 For today, I will listen(obey) to your arrangement(s). I’ll do whatever what you let me do. The above English translation was made by me. I’ve been stuggling to understand the …
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TLDR Background In his text 此生或彼生 Lu Xun takes apart a proponent of literary Chinese (named, I think, Wang Maozu). Wang had attempted to argue the superiority of Literary Chinese by pointing out that …
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Paraphrase(From Baidu Baike): “White Moonlight” usually refers to a person or thing that is elusive in the heart, has always been loved, but cannot be touched. Source(From Baidu Baike): …
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For example 我不去 could mean “I don’t go” or “I’m not going”. Is the rule that verbs without any time information like this, it either means present simple or present continuous tense? Could it mean …
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冖 + 与 = 写。how does mi and yu become xie? Mi is the cover radical and Yu means and; with; to; for; give, grant according to Pleco.
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I think I understand the difference, but I know that 穿 is passes through something (one of the meanings), but 穿出 is also..I saw the sentence: 看到喜欢的都想把它穿出来 (this is a phrase from a video where a girl …
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I thought something like: 我打算工作在一个网站会完了在四月十五. Pinyin Wǒ dǎsuàn gōngzuò zài yīgè wǎngzhàn huì wánliǎo zài sì yuè shíwǔ. English: I’m working on a website that will be finished by April 15th. Even …
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I work in a group where I am the only person that does not speak Chinese, thus I hear Chinese conversations all day every day. I’ve noticed that there’s a word which is used extremely frequently, in …
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I’m just reading a book about China and Chinese customs from Heike Barai. She says that Chinese only has around 300 different syllables, whereas modern German has about 10 000 and I suppose English is …
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This cropped up on my Facebook: It says: you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about… 我草 我操 wǒ cǎo wǒ cāo I get the impression that this is rude, but anyway… Question: Why is …
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我们 [wǒmen] and 咱们 [zánmen] both means: we, but when I should use 咱们, 我们? What is the difference?
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What’s the difference between all these five words? They mean all “to do”, they’re driving me crazy! I write some example sentences with some of them (hoping that’s the right one), just to understand …
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From what I understand: 4 or 四 means death 8 is similar to 发 as in 发财 9 is somehow related to the emporer or is the emporer’s number Can someone please provide the meanings (if they exist) for each …
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Many dictionaries translate it to “ambiguity”,but it looks so indefinitely. I’m looking for more expressive answer.
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