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Questions about understanding words or phrases within a given context.
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What does "单表" mean in the following context?
Your understanding is good. In the story there are many people, but here we only select one specifically to talk about. It draws focus on the main character and is usually put at the beginning passage …
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What is the implication of 东鄙？
In 《左传》 东鄙 is the eastern bordering regions. Sometimes it refers to the eastern bordering cities/towns (邊邑). It's not their name but a general reference.
It's also not barbaric. Barbaric is normally 化 …
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What exactly is supplied (供) in 供游人休息并欣赏黄浦江两岸的美景?
Appending 的机会 would make it wrong. The structure is sth. 供 sb. do sth.
Here, it is 供游人休息 and 供游人欣赏美景, both 休息 and 欣赏 are verbs.《辞海》interprets 供 in 供人休息 as 使满足需要, so 游人休息 is a 需要, which is satisfied by …
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What does 折枝梅 mean in this context?
Here 枝 is not a classifier, or a measure word in your terminology.
折枝 (break/snap + branch) is a type of Chinese paintings. If I remember correctly, it first appeared as a type in Tang Dynasty and got …
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What algebraic expressions are 列式表示比a的5倍大4的数与比a的2倍小3的数 and 列式表示比x的7倍大3的数与比x的6倍小5的数 asking for?
列式 is a verbal phrase.
列᠄ list
式: a mathematical term that means algebraic expressions (numbers and variables connected by operators)
列式表示比a的5倍大4的数与比a的2倍小3的数，计算这两个数的和；
It first asks what are the alg …
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How does 含金量非常得高 work?
含金量 originally refers to the percentage of gold an object contains. It's now mainly figuratively used to refer to the inner quality or value of something (比喻事物所包含的实际价值). So here it is not about "more …
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Why does 发工资 mean "get paid", such as in 男的现在没发工资?
发工资 can be used actively,
我们公司今天发工资。
老板发工资了。
Or it can be used passively.
我发工资了。
In N + 发工资, whether N is the logical subject or the logical object depends on N. Normally it doesn't need extra c …
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What does 其 in 不得其死 mean?
It comes from 《论语·先进》, 若由也，不得其死然. That is 像仲由这样，恐怕会不得善终啊！得死 is 得以善终, thus 不得死 is the same as 不得好死, 其 is a modal particle for 恐怕.
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What is the difference between 我 and 我们 as "we"?
Quite contrary to other peoples' answers, in 敌强我弱, the usage of 我 as plural is not a short form, but rather is its original pronoun usage.
The glyph 我 was created as a hieroglyph for a type of weapon. …
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What about the meaning "actually" for 所 mentioned in many dictionaries?
I couldn't recall any in either Modern or Literary Chinese. Consulting a bunch of authoritative dictionaries confirms it (see the entry screenshot in the next section).
I really recommend against thos …
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