Just because Chinese has a word for it, there is no necessity for English to have one, too– that is one of the most difficult things in language learning: the occasional lack of equivalences. I understand the position, but I can think of no

Hi Mister Micawber, Is my second sentence confusing? In Chinese we do have a word for it, but I couldn't it in English. Rougly translated like "Chest down". Would you help me correct the #2.? Thanks. If you're sitting

Hi, He loved to play Chinese lottery. Also, in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness—faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener's helper do not lap over

Hi There's the sentence: Similarly, a scholar has estimated that in nineteenth century China, in some districts as many as a quarter of the female infants were killed at birth. --- Does the "quarter" here mean

Compared Batman TO Superman = you think they are the same. For example, a boy might angrily say to his mother: I am not like my brother! Stop comparing me to him! Compared Batman WITH Superman = you show how they are the same AND how they are

I've been away from this forum for a while, and meantime I've enrolled for a five-year (gulp!) degree in English (which includes grammar, literature, linguistics, and so on) at a distance university. Right now I'm starting to delve

No; nor is the rest of the sentence. Behold, world, the frightening oppression of the Tibetans by the Chinese Communist Party !

Hello, " The world, behold the frightenning oppression of Chinese communist party against on Tibetans ! " Is the red boldlic part grammatically correct? Thanks a lot

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fine its really nice to have a chinese frend no matter from wer u r+i would like to be a frend of urs