Friday, May 29, 2009

popup chinese vocab-- Playing with Fire

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[update -- with corrections as per comments by ji village news]

有火儿吗? -- you huor ma? -- got a light/match?
复员 服员 -- fu yuan -- waiter/waitress
不能吸烟 -- buneng xiyan -- smoking is not allowed.
抽烟 -- chou yan -- smoke (v)
玩儿火儿 -- war huo -- play with fire

打火机 -- dahuoji -- lighter

玩儿火儿尿炕 -- war hour niao kang -- play with fire wet the bed (guessing more traditional, since kang is a traditional brick/fire warmed bed -- which fits with lesson topic)

玩儿火儿尿床 -- war huor niao chuang -- play with fire wet the bed

玩儿命 -- war ming -- “on thin ice," taking ones life in hand

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工作很玩儿命、很玩儿命得工作 -- gongzuo hen warming/ hen warming de gongzuo -- work hard like crazy (work yourself to death) Echo says laoban (bosses) like that kind of ?? (?-gong) (effort/employee -- I couldn't hear the 2-character word)


说坏的 -- shuohuaide -- naughty speach (children)

不好说 -- buhaoshuo -- hard to say -- (don't want to say)

禁止吸烟 -- jinzhi xiyan -- smoking forbidden

公共 公共长 公共场-- gonggongchang -- public place

吸烟区 -- xiyanqu -- smoking section/area
非吸烟区 -- feixiyanqu --no smoking section
无吸烟区 -- wuxiyanqu -- no smoking section

少抽烟注意身体 -- shaochouyan zhuyi shenti -- smoke less pay attention to/ emphasize health

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Anonymous Ji Village News said...

复员 -> discharge from the armed service
服务员 -> waiter/waitress
公共场所 -> public place

9:48 AM  

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