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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?
Not sure about "passed people"!
As user2249675 says: 过人 here means 超过常人,非同一般, so we might translate: almost super-human.
他雇了20来个当地人为他带路和搬运行李。
He hired 20 locals as guides and porters.
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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?
脚力过人 = 脚力(超)过(常)人 = legs strength (superior to) (average) people
过人 (superior to average people = extraordinary) is a common adjective for a personal attribute in Chinese
Example: 才智过人,胆色过人,反应过人 (...
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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
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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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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What is the meaning of 重重 in 尽管他们背着重重的行李?
重重 in this sentence means heavy, and the whole clause is 重重的, 行李 and it is an adjective, which is talking about heavy luggage.
Hope this helps you.
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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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信息 vs 資訊: what's the difference?
Both 信息 and 资讯 mean information, but the former is an abstract concept that refers to something/event that carries a central message to inform the recipient; the latter is a collection of knowledge/...
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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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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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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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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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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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What is the meaning of 却 in 却可以使我们不会在错误的道路上走得太远?
却 feels normal to me here (but I'm a student of Putonghua myself so that means little). I think 却 corresponds to "still" in this rough sketch of a translation:
Nowadays, we cannot be ...
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What is the meaning of 却 in 却可以使我们不会在错误的道路上走得太远?
却 means but or however. The reason that you feel difficult to understand the sentence is because the speaker did not put all of the context explicitly. The word 反省, 总结 implys that we made some ...
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