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- Like in English, there are many ways to express the idea of being confused in Chinese, each with a subtle difference in its meaning. The most common way of saying "I'm confused" may well be to say "我乱了" or "我被搞乱了". Literally, 乱 means chaos or disorder, which is a pretty apt description of the state of being confused. It also avoids specifying which type of confusion the speaker is experiencing, which I'll now explain. Some of the subtle shades of meaning can be seen by examining the characters involved. For example, the difference between 迷惑 and 困惑 is in the first character of each compound. 迷 is usually used to denote disorientation and temptation, while 困 is used to express the idea of being trapped. Thus, "我迷惑了" indicates being confused by moral temptation and thus being unable to distinguish between right or wrong, while "我困惑了" would indicate being confused because one is confronted with a difficult problem. "我糊涂了" has the connotation that the speaker may be going senile or, more generally speaking, becoming dumb, because 糊涂 means being fuzzy or confused about things in general. As for sentence construction, it's usually the case that you don't use a plain structure, unless you wish to be poetic. Instead, you add a verb, like 搞 (literally, "to do/make", but with the connotation of stirring things up for good or evil), 感到 (to feel) or 被 (only for the case of 迷惑/困惑, which then transforms the sentence into the passive voice). Notice that I left out 搞混了 in your third sentence. This is because in this sentence, "confuse" is used in the sense of "to get mixed up", i.e. "Don't mix up Johnson and Jonson". In the Chinese sentence, 混 means "to mix", so 搞混了 means to make something become mixed up.0 votedNovember 12, 20120
- For no. 1, did you mean to say that you fly from Beijing to Hongkong and back again once every month? If so, it'd be 我每个月都会从北京到香港打来回儿。 Here, 打来回儿 means to do a return trip. If you mean to say that you make several trips a month, then say 打几个来回儿 instead, i.e. add 几个 ("a few") in front of 来回儿 to say that there are a few return trips being made. For no. 2, I don't think that the sentence makes sense in English either. Are you saying that "I'm always going back and forth between my school and my home every day"? To suggest the ennui of the student in this statement, I'd say 我每天就是在学校和家里之间打圈圈的。 Here, 打圈圈 means going around in circles. I'd use 家里 instead of just 家, so that the number of syllables matches up with 学校. No. 3 would be: 她一边在等消息,一边在她房间里焦虑地走来走去。 "While she's waiting for the news, she paces back and forth anxiously in her room" This construction uses "一边..., 一边...", which is like the "while" construction in English.0 votedNovember 12, 20120
- In the sentence "我很喜欢这里", 这里 is a direct object of the verb 喜欢, so you don't need the preposition. This should be better translated as "I like this place very much", and not "I like here very much", as implied in your question. This second translation is also weird in English, by the way. In the other sentence "我呆在这里", 在这里 gives the location that modifies the verb 呆. When 这里 is used as a location instead of just an ordinary object, you need the preposition 在. In the case of "liking a place", "a place" is an object taken by "like", not a location, so the preposition is not needed. To put it another way, suppose I replace 这里 with 俄罗斯. Then it's quite clear that 我很喜欢俄罗斯 = I like Russia very much (no preposition, because "like" requires a direct object, "Russia") 我呆在俄罗斯 = I'm staying in Russia (preposition required because "stay" requires a location) As for the example given by bear234 - "这里曾经发生过一个很感人的故事" - 这里 now functions as the subject/topic of the sentence, even though it also gives the location where the "感人的故事" took place, so the preposition 在 is rarely used, if at all. The comma is also superfluous - though it may have stylistic value - in this particular sentence. Hope that helps.0 votedNovember 4, 20122
- Each structure is grammatically correct and an example of the passive voice, but there is a difference between the two. The structure "was + past participle" is in the passive voice and describes something that was happening in the past. So there are usually other events and action that follow, because this is a "narrative" tense. In contrast, the structure "have + been + past participle" is in the present perfect tense, as well as being in the passive voice. The perfect ("retrospective" would be a better description) tense draws your attention to the consequences of a prior action, rather than just simply narrating the past action. Thus, the effect is that it feels more "immediate" than the "was + past participle" structure. Let me give another example, say, using "I was made" vs. "I have been made": - "I was made an officer of the army." (I felt so proud to serve my country, until they deployed us to the war, etc, etc, ...) - "I have been made an officer of the army." (Let's go party!)0 votedNovember 2, 20120
- 1. The pronoun "ihr", when uncapitalised, denotes the nominative familiar second person plural. This is reflected in the conjugation of the verb "sparen" in this sentence, which is "spart", the conjugation for "ihr". 2. Both are equivalent words for "equipment", so it's really a matter of how commonly each is used. I've found that gym equipment can be Fitnessgeräte, Fitnessausrüstung. Gymnastikausrüstung or Gymnastikgeräte. Safety equipment can be either Sicherheitsausrüstung or Sicherheitsgeräte.0 votedOctober 30, 20121
- Ah, this is always an interesting question. Do they have to adapt the tones to the music? In ancient times, yes. There used to be melodies that you would use as a meter for your poetry. One famous example is the lyrics to the pop song Dan Yuan Ren Chang Jiu (但願人長久), sung by pop artistes like Teresa Teng and Faye Wong, which is actually a poem in the cí style written by Su Dongpo. The poet himself actually based the meter of the poem on another melody, known as Shui Diao Ge Tou (水调歌头, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shui_diao_ge_tou), which is not the melody of the pop song. Nowadays, these rules are not observed so strictly, so that is why some people say that they can't understand what the singers are singing. This is actually a well-known consequence, and there are mondegreens that arise from the mismatch between the intended tone of the syllable and what the melody forces the singer to produce. Good songwriters will, in any case, work very hard to make sure the tones in the lyrics match the melody of the music.0 votedOctober 30, 20120
数字化世界
我工作时,有时候会想休息一会儿,跟同事聊一聊。我们最近谈的是三维打印科技。如果有人说“我想买件东西”,我就会建议“买个三维打印机吧,那你就什么都可以自己随意创造了!”在办公室聊天时,这一般是当笑话来说的,然而当今的三维打印机已经不算太贵了。就拿电脑,手机,iPad来说吧,现在人人都有一台了,真是万事起头贵,以后渐渐便宜了。现在买台iPad可说是不在话下了。
依我来看,三维打印的科技将会改变我们的世界。比如说,如果你的洗衣机坏了,而洗衣机公司已经没有你需要的备件,那么你是要买新的洗衣机,还是向公司拿那个备件的编码,以便自己打印呢?如果你想要打死一个人的话,你可以随意地打印出一把枪和子弹。不喜欢商店卖的产品吗?那你可以发挥自己的创造力来打印出自己喜欢的物品。虽然说三维打印的科技现在只能使用塑料为原料,不过它以后一定能使用金属、陶瓷、和其他的材料的。机会可多得很哪!可惜制造业的前景可不看好了,因为哪有比在家里立刻打印出东西来得更好呢?在古代,人们亲手打造自己的日常用品,比如斧头、厨具、等等。后来,产品大多数是由厂家给生产出来的。在未来,最珍贵的东西将会是编码,而这又再一次是亲手打造的。
就如现代科技的发展一样,三维打印科技将会是另一个突破。现在去商店买光盘和光碟的人越来越少了。百科全书的印刷版已经销声匿迹了,而所有的书的数码版比印刷版更受欢迎。美丽的艺术品仍然很诱人,但是数码艺术会更诱人。此外,还有数码相机,电子邮件,和其他替代旧时的发明。不可否认的是,这些发展比所有人所预料到的可能时间还来得早很多,而且这些数码科技已经改变了我们的世界。此外,我们将来可以用计算机来生产自己的化学制剂,甚至自己的药品。我们也可以不用学外语了,而在跟只会说外语的人通电话时,可使用实时自动语音翻译软件。接下来呢?做饭软件吗?《黑客帝国》你看过没有?在那部电影里,女主角需要到学习如何驾直升机,她便给朋友打了一个电话,片刻后驾驶指南就被传输过来了。我不禁要问自己,这样的科幻奇景,有一天会真正地实现吗?
说起新技术,我是又爱又恨。先说这恨:数码技术加速了现代生活的步伐, 现在事事都讲究立竿见影,人们变得越来越没有耐心了,我也是如此。遗憾的是,我们不再重视传统的生活方式了。总的来说,大家的生活都变得越来越忙碌了,没有时间静下来思考。不过话又说回来,我恨不得马上能拥有一台三维打印机。新技术能开拓眼界,节省不少时间,而且能使我们的生活变得更加舒适,开心和有趣。0 votedOctober 30, 20120
