Archive for the ‘Vocabulary’ Category
Saturday, February 13th, 2010
We're only a few hours away from the annual Chinese text-message switchboard overload. Just in case you want to contribute your own duǎnxìn 短信 to the 19 billion that will be sent tonight, here are some common options with rough English translations (click on the hanzi for a literal breakdown ...
Posted in Idioms | 7 Comments »
Sunday, December 13th, 2009
The other day in my English Corner (yīngyǔ jiǎo 英语角, basically a club for speaking English), we were talking about publicity stunts and someone used a little electronic dictionary to translate "stunt" as:
xuétóu 噱头
If you click on the hanzi above you'll be taken to MDBG where you see that it's ...
Posted in Stumping | 11 Comments »
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
I just found out about a blogish list of hip, new Chinese words that the ShanghaiDaily puts out called Buzzword.
Here's the editor's purpose statement:
Frequently, readers ask us for help when new Chinese phrases or terms pop up in the press or daily conversations. In an attempt to improve the rendering ...
Posted in Computer, Vocabulary | 3 Comments »
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