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| Processed by: | richwarm (2023-11-11 04:37:43 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 74994 - submitted by 'becky82' >> I just want to add "to cover" since it's also a verb (in addition to a noun). I encountered this usage in this sentence in The Hobbit: 突然便会有一个臭烘烘的袋子“噗——”地罩住他的头. My dictionaries also list it as a verb. ------------------------------- Editor: Thanks. Yes, "to cover" should be there. I've taken the opportunity to review the whole entry. Notes on the final sense: 罩得住（zhào dé zhù） 1、比喻能充分掌握、控制。 例句：这件事情你到底罩得住、罩不住啊？可不要给我捅纰漏！ 面對突如其來的病毒風暴與有限的防疫物資，我們罩得住嗎？！ "What does 罩得住 mean?" 我看不懂日文，就用中文解释吧，前面的回答好像不大对，不是靠得住的意思。 罩得住之前一般用在一些黑帮电影里，意思是说黑帮头目在这片地方有足够的势力能应付各种挑衅，或者对自己的手下有足够的能力保护他们的安全，也能服得住他们。后来引申出来的意思也类似，有能胜任一个充满挑战的事情，或者能服得住一帮不好管理的人的意思，听上去比较痞，一般不用在正式场合 LA 6. 臺 〈口〉保護。 例 「我罩你」、「大哥罩你」。 7. 臺 〈口〉厲害；出眾（多用於年輕一輩）。 例 「她是旅遊行家，罩得很」。 8. 臺 〈口〉壓制；掌握。 例 「憑他的學養，這間小公司他很罩得住」。 |
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# 罩 罩 [zhao4] /cover/to cover/fish trap (basket)/shade/ # - 罩 罩 [zhao4] /cover/fish trap (basket)/shade/ + 罩 罩 [zhao4] /to cover; to spread over/a cover; a shade; a hood/bamboo fish trap/bamboo chicken coop/(Tw) (coll.) to protect; to have sb's back/(Tw) (coll.) awesome; incredible/(Tw) (coll.) (often as 罩得住[zhao4 de2 zhu4]) to have things under control; to be able to handle it/ |
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| Processed by: | richwarm (2023-07-02 23:26:26 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 74023 - submitted by 'becky82' >> We talked about this at the Chinese Stack Exchange https://chinese.stackexchange.com/q/54720/8099 It seems 气候 doesn't really mean "atmosphere". The closest example was 政治气候 = "political climate" which arguably might also be translated to "political atmosphere". It really is a stretch to say 气候 means "atmosphere", though. ----------------------------------------------- Editor: "atmosphere" has five senses in Merriam-Webster, for example, and the one that best matches 氣候 is #3: "a surrounding influence or environment" (which would be quite apt as a definition for the figurative sense of 氣候). As a matter of fact, Grand Ricci (French-Chinese dictionary) includes in its definition of 氣候 the following sense: "(fig.) ambiance; atmosphère". The problem with our definition is that it doesn't make clear which sense of "atmosphere" is intended. (It's certainly not "the gaseous envelope of a celestial body (such as a planet)".) In addition, a "situation" can be change rapidly, whereas 氣候 refers to conditions that are relatively well-established. |
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- 氣候 气候 [qi4 hou4] /climate/atmosphere/situation/CL:種|种[zhong3]/ # + 氣候 气候 [qi4 hou4] /climate/situation/CL:種|种[zhong3]/ + 氣候 气候 [qi4 hou4] /(meteorology) climate/(fig.) climate; prevailing conditions (in human affairs)/CL:種|种[zhong3]/ |
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| Processed by: | richwarm (2022-05-02 09:51:15 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 70815 - submitted by 'becky82' >> I encountered this 连时间都是从那个奇点开始的 ("even time started with that singularity") when reading The Three Body Problem. ---------------------------------- Editor: Thanks. I'm surprised we didn't have a word for singularity before now. |
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# 奇點 奇点 [qi2 dian3] /(astronomy, math.) singularity/ + 奇點 奇点 [qi2 dian3] /(astronomy, math.) singularity/also pr. [ji1 dian3]/ |
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| Processed by: | richwarm (2020-02-05 21:19:08 GMT) |
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<< review queue entry 65646 - submitted by 'becky82' >> Hi, my first attempt here: apologies if I'm doing anything wrong. We discussed 话不投机 on: https://chinese.stackexchange.com/questions/36706/does-the-chengyu-%e8%af%9d%e4%b8%8d%e6%8a%95%e6%9c%ba-hu%c3%a0-b%c3%b9-t%c3%b3u-j%c4%ab-mean-uncongenial-speech The first change (话不投机半句多): (a) I feel "get sour" is ungrammatical; it should be "go sour". (b) I add a figurative definition. The second change (话不投机): this is my best phrasing based on feedback at Chinese Stack Exchange. I also include "when words go sour" to match the longer phrase, but I don't feel it's precise ["when" implies the concept of time, which is not part of the chengyu]. ------------------------------ Editor: Hi Becky, and welcome! I see from your stackexchange profile (math genealogy link) that you did a PhD in maths at Monash University. It so happens that I also did a degree in pure maths at Monash! 1) I think it's tricky to find the best English wording for 话不投机半句多, and agree our current phrasing is perhaps not the best. 2) Regarding "fig. in an unagreeable conversation, half a sentence is too much" ... that's actually more of a *literal* definition rather than a figurative one. 3) "unagreeable" is not a word that is commonly used, compared to "disagreeable". "unagreeable" is not in any of the following dictionaries: Merriam-Webster Oxford Dictionaries Online American Heritage but "disagreeable" is in all of them. 4) 话不投机 isn't a noun phrase, so a noun phrase translation like "unenjoyable talk" isn't appropriate as a definition. It's more sentence-like: "the conversation is unenjoyable" or some such. 5) Here's an example of 话不投机 from a magazine, along with the magazine's English translation: 2006年，張錫透過一位香港朋友介紹，認識周星馳，這位朋友當時提醒張錫，私底下的周星馳話很少，若話不投機，不到3分鐘，他馬上轉頭走人；結果沒想到兩人一見如故，興趣相投，話匣子一開就是3小時。 In 2006 a Hong Kong friend of Chang’s introduced him to Chow. The friend warned Chang that the private Chow was taciturn by inclination and would leave within three minutes if he didn’t find the conversation to his liking. Yet finding that they shared the same interests, the two hit it off right away, chatting like old friends for three hours. |
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- 話不投機半句多 话不投机半句多 [hua4 bu4 tou2 ji1 ban4 ju4 duo1] /when words get sour, adding words is useless (idiom)/ # + 話不投機半句多 话不投机半句多 [hua4 bu4 tou2 ji1 ban4 ju4 duo1] /when words go sour, adding words is useless (idiom)/fig. in an unagreeable conversation, half a sentence is too much/ # + 話不投機 话不投机 [hua4 bu4 tou2 ji1] /unagreeable or unenjoyable talk (idiom)/when words go sour/ # # Editor: + 話不投機半句多 话不投机半句多 [hua4 bu4 tou2 ji1 ban4 ju4 duo1] /when views are irreconcilable, it's a waste of breath to continue discussion (idiom)/ + 話不投機 话不投机 [hua4 bu4 tou2 ji1] /the conversation is disagreeable (idiom)/ |