2019年5月7日 · Some has translated it into "say something with sarcasm", but it lost the connotation of the literal meaning of this idiom, the strange, unnatural, ugly-sounding and a bit sissy tone.

2022年9月15日 · A colleague described a situation (or maybe something a person said in that situation) as "sarcastic," but it didn't really make sense. I asked if she meant "ironic," and she said yes, they're the same word in Chinese, which I found really interesting. I don't know any Chinese. Can someone describe in English how the 2 notions are connected by one word?

2024年2月3日 · In verbal conversation, "你不 ()有钥匙吗?" = "你不" 是 "有钥匙吗? - Don't you have the key?" It implies that you supposedly have one, but for some reason, usually because of carelessness, you didn't carry it. While similar to the above, the question "你没有钥匙吗?" sounds milder and less accusative.

I normally hate overused catchphrases in English, like "paradigm shift" and "out of the box thinking". But I was recently chatting (in Chinese) with a friend about an earlier situation in which so...

I'm trying to find information (including the original Chinese) on an idiom that seems to be gaining popularity recently, related to surveillance (unsure whether this is a traditional phrase or not...

2022年1月23日 · I know this may be an absurd question. It's just a silly curiosity of mine. If I have a sentence like "the horse walks to the mountain to eat apples," which I very clumsily translate (probably very wrongly) as 马走山吃苹, what prevents the set of Chinese characters from being mapped one-to-one to emoji, so that the same sentence gets written as 🐎🚶⛰️🍴🍎? And if a small ...