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What is the meaning of 重重 in 尽管他们背着重重的行李?
重chong2 means again in the words 重复(chong2 fu4) 重新(chong2 xin1) and so on。
But here is 重zhong4重zhong4的de,they are different.
重的=重重的=heavy.
Use 重的 in the sentence is also correct, but use 重重的 is more ...
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How to literally translate this: 极爱冒险的大导演...?
大 has a number of meanings in Chinese, depending on the context. Some examples:
大石 - a big rock
大陸 - continent (or Mainland China)
大人 - an adult
大人物 - famous person
大官 - a senior government official
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How to literally translate this: 极爱冒险的大导演...?
极爱冒险: your literal translation is fine. I would translate it as "very adventurous."
大 usually takes the sense of "famous" or "great," to express "old" we would ...
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Can anyone tell me what this tattoo means? Please and thanks 😊
the character is 坎 u+574e
the name of the trigram ☵, which represents water
ar the same time, it’s also the name of hexagram ䷜, which symbolises “numerous dangers” (象重重險難之義)
https://dict.revised.moe....
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Meaning of 他希望自己的知識面能更加寬闊
Here, 面 shall be interpreted as "dimension".
More formally, the sentence should be "他希望自己的知識層面能更加寬闊". "層面" is a word for "范围" or "领域" in Chinese, and &...
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Meaning of 他希望自己的知識面能更加寬闊
知识面: range or scope of knowledge
他一向主张大学生的知识面要宽一些。
He has always been of the opinion that university students ought to have a wider range of knowledge.
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Difference between 悠閒 and 優閒
悠閒 - 悠然閒暇
優閒 - 優渥閒暇
Both mean a person in a state of "relaxed without worry". The difference is the former means "without worry spiritually", and the latter means "live well ...
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What is the meaning of 重重 in 尽管他们背着重重的行李?
重 contains the meanings of 1. "重 = layer"/chong2 / 2. "重 = heavy" /zhong4 /
Notice: the two meanings of 重 are read in two different tones
一重重(adj) - one layer after another = many ...
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Can anyone tell me what this tattoo means? Please and thanks 😊
坎 can mean dangers, obstacles, or hurdles.
坎 is very often combined with 坷 to form the term 坎坷. 生命坎坷 is "a life with many obstacles," or simply "a tough life." 前景坎坷 is "the ...
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How to literally translate this: 会因为费用增加而让投资人不高兴?
会因为费用增加而让投资人不高兴
(the delay), because the costs will increase, will make the investors unhappy
大导演非常着急,
The great director is very worried,
一来,
first,
耽误了时间,
(if) the (release) time is delayed,
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How to literally translate this: 会因为费用增加而让投资人不高兴?
(那)会因为费用增加而让投资人不高兴
Because of differences in grammar, word choice, and arrangement, I think the translation should be:
(It/That) will[会] then[因而] make[让/造成] the investors unhappy[投资人不高兴] because of[...
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How to literally translate this: 会因为费用增加而让投资人不高兴?
会因为费用增加而让投资人不高兴。
This sentence has an implicit subject, roughly "this situation" (这样, 这种情况). Let's first delete the 因为 part:
这样会让投资人不高兴。
会 can be used as a auxiliary verb (助动词) to express ...
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If A伴随着B, then is it true that B伴随着A?
伴随(to accompany/ to accompany and follow) is a verb
"A" is the subject in "A 伴随 B"
For example, in "我父親的浪琴錶伴随了他六十年" (My father’s Longines watch has been with him for ...
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If A伴随着B, then is it true that B伴随着A?
闪电常常伴随着雷鸣。
Lightning is usually followed by thunder.
The English sentence would be incorrect if we swapped "lightning" and "thunder".
You are correct, but for this case, "...
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If A伴随着B, then is it true that B伴随着A?
ChatGPT is not a reliable source of grammatical information. I am a PhD candidate and in our department there are routine talks about flaws in the capabilities of ChatGPT and new theories about how to ...
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If A伴随着B, then is it true that B伴随着A?
"A伴随着B" usually means B is the main character who needs to go and A is secondary. For example,
(1) 她陪着她妈妈去医院了. (Because her mom is sick.)
(2) 她妈妈陪着她去医院了. (Because she is going to give birth.)...
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What is the meaning of 脚力过人 in 尽管他们背着重重的行李,但他们的脚力过人,健步如飞?
过 is 超过, it means exceed/beyond / more than / better than
脚力 means strength of one's legs (also means the ability of walking)
过人 means better than average people
So 脚力过人 means they are very good at ...
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What is the meaning of 脚力过人 in 尽管他们背着重重的行李,但他们的脚力过人,健步如飞?
过人 is a positive word meaning 超过常人,非同一般 (surpassed the average person in some aspect, extraordinary). Today we usually use it in the idiom 过人之处 (处 = place, aspect, hence "the aspect in which one ...
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Meaning of 他希望自己的知識面能更加寬闊
知识面 means 智力成果的范围 scope of knowledge, use wide or narrow to describe it.
But I didn't find one answer for sure, so I show all my thought in the following.
面 is 方面 (aspect), 宽阔 means wide. 知识面宽阔 means ...
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信息 vs 資訊: what's the difference?
资讯 is similar to 新闻 (news), in fact 新闻资讯 is often used as a whole. It's a short piece of text that conveys information to people.
信息 can refer to all kinds of information, like 身份信息 (identity ...
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How to literally translate this: 极爱冒险的大导演...?
极爱冒险的大导演
极: 极其: extremely
爱: 热爱: love ardently
冒险: adventure
大导演: great film-director
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What does "現代修真" mean?
修真, is a verb, means that make effort to become a 'god', this kind of novel god has many levels, people 修真 to level up. finally become a 'big boss'
different novel may has different god levels, maybe, ...
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