henz988
05-11-2006, 06:38 AM
Hello,everyone
I'll be grateful if you would point out my errors in this paragraph:
Now that I have made so many mistakes, should I be afraid of making more ones?
----- An English learner, Henz
Manzai er gui Vs. A heavy gift
Manzai er gui is a Chinese phrase which means to achieve the goal successfully while a heavy gift is a wrong expression used by a Chinese student to mean an expensive gift. Literally in Chinese, man means fully while zai means to load the truck / cart, etc. with a lot of things and, er gui to come back.
We can use the phrase, for example, on such an occasion: When a sports team comes back with lots of gold medals, we can say the team is manzai er gui.
One morning, Jack, a foreign student studying in China, was asked by his teacher to sell a cart of watermelon to experience Chinese life. And his teacher told him：“If you do well, you shall have a gift.”He accepted it excitedly. However, he came back with nothing sold later that afternoon. He went to the teacher’s office and told him about his experience：
“Sir, I’m manzai er gui today.”
“Really?”
“Yes, you see, I come back with my cart still loaded fully with those watermelons! ”
Would those watermelons be the unlucky Jack’s heavy gifts?
I'll be grateful if you would point out my errors in this paragraph:
Now that I have made so many mistakes, should I be afraid of making more ones?
----- An English learner, Henz
Manzai er gui Vs. A heavy gift
Manzai er gui is a Chinese phrase which means to achieve the goal successfully while a heavy gift is a wrong expression used by a Chinese student to mean an expensive gift. Literally in Chinese, man means fully while zai means to load the truck / cart, etc. with a lot of things and, er gui to come back.
We can use the phrase, for example, on such an occasion: When a sports team comes back with lots of gold medals, we can say the team is manzai er gui.
One morning, Jack, a foreign student studying in China, was asked by his teacher to sell a cart of watermelon to experience Chinese life. And his teacher told him：“If you do well, you shall have a gift.”He accepted it excitedly. However, he came back with nothing sold later that afternoon. He went to the teacher’s office and told him about his experience：
“Sir, I’m manzai er gui today.”
“Really?”
“Yes, you see, I come back with my cart still loaded fully with those watermelons! ”
Would those watermelons be the unlucky Jack’s heavy gifts?