| Change log entry 77686 | |
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| Processed by: | richwarm (2023-02-21 04:42:38 UTC) |
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Ex. (from the original sub) 尽管有特许销售合同的约束，但是我们的权利还是多得可以装满一辆运钞车。 Notwithstanding a franchise agreement, I could load a Brinks vehicle with [rights] I've got so many of them. 今天我坐在帐篷外，脸上早已没有了妆容，头发干枯，感觉自己像个小矮人，皮肤像鳄鱼一样粗糙，眉毛乱得可以藏进一台拖拉机。 Today I sit outside my tent, makeup long gone and hair fried, with feet like a hobbit, the skin of an alligator and eyebrows you could lose a tractor in. Other examples: 她嫁给一位老得可以当她祖父的男人时 ，人们都觉得那似乎是鲜花插在牛粪上 。 When she married a man old enough to be her grandfather, everyone thought it was like Beauty and the Beast． 到了饭田桥，她向右一拐，来到御堀端，之后穿过神保町十字路口，登上御茶水坡路，随即进入本乡，又沿着都营电车线路往驹湱走去。路程真长得可以。 * * * I suppose the 得可以 in the previous examples originated as an abbreviation of something like what we have in the following example, where 得可以 is followed by an explicit action (in this case 開進一輛大卡車). 在楊浦區有一座倉庫，倉庫裡有一座電梯，大得可以開進一輛大卡車， "There's a warehouse in the Yangpu District with a 100-year old elevator inside of it that was so big you could drive a truck into it." If so, then it's like the usage of "as" at the end of the following sentence: "This blade is as sharp as." (where the full expression — perhaps "as a razor" — is truncated to just "as"). |
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- 得可以 得可以 [de5 ke3 yi3] /(coll.) very/awfully/ + 得可以 得可以 [de5 ke3 yi3] /(coll.) (stative verb suffix) very; awfully/ |