Questions from a Chinese children's story.
I have finished studying a children's story and have some questions I couldn't solve alone.
1：How best to translate 大力士 into English?
2: What does 全程 mean in 这是蚂蚁国的全程。 the only translation i can come up with is entire journey but that does not make sense in the context 一次，哈利居然抱着一只死蜻蜓，走了八百里（这是蚂蚁国的全程）， 连蚂蚁国国王都夸他力气大。
3: From the above sentence am I right in thinking 连 means including here连蚂蚁国国王都夸他力气大。Everyone including the kingdoms king praised his great strength. Is this correct?
4: This sentence has me very confused 垛顶一个大米包顺势落了下来。I dont understand A: why 顶 is here. B: 顺势落 is confusing me I know 落is like to drop or fall yes but 顺势 is confusing me and I cant work what it means or how it works, it is not in my dictionary and google etc gives me Homoeopathic??? Is it one word or two, please can you explain how to read and understand those two words please?
Many thanks!
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two chinese answers above me are right. you can beilive that
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1. strongman,... i think , I also learning Chinese~ but other look not to understand~~ sorry
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i don't know the whole story but i guess what you read is quite possible translation of a western children's story.so it will be much easier for you to understand if you could find the story just from tales books of your language i think.
for the question, 大力士 in chinese is actually people of unusual strength,also with strong muscle as well.whatever he's beautiful or ugly,bad or not,this guy usually looks kinda big :p. and such a word is mostly seen in fairy tales,heard in children's talk,and it's not always a big person in that kind stories,but also characters with great strength like the 蚂蚁.
全程 in the story should be taken by territory,domain,stuff like that.you can't guess a word not with the whole article or sentence when learning chinese,although your understanding are mostly right with the single word itself.
for question 3 i think you are right.but i'm gonna tell you Everyone EVEN(including) the king...is better.is not only just including,but including incredibly,surprisingly and amazingly in chinese.
垛顶 here is a whole word which cannot be understood by breaking it apart.just the same as you can't understand hayrick by hay and rick.and 顺势 is quite simply as then(usually closingly after something happened) or as a result.so this whole sentence could be "The hayrick THEN fell down"or "Because Of That,the hayrick fell dowm" or "sb removed something,SO the hayrick fell".guess you should know how the word works with the 3 sentences by now.
oh,by the way,you're really doing good with this.and GL! :)
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1. muscled guy or strong man.
2.全程 here means all the way of the 蚂蚁国. its like from beginning all the way till the end. thoughout the whole country.
3.yea thats right, that the kind praised he is so strong. 连 here can mean even. Even the king praised that he is so strong.
4.垛 means a pile of things, like a pile of wood.顶 means above. above a pile of something.
顺势，it basically means take advantage of a circumstance or a trend.so it means something that drops off from the above of a pile of something. in this sentence, you can understand it as 于是，便.
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