laser2302

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From :   Lee Kong

Date : 2009-08-29 / 04:13PM

Benny, in Korean TV dramas (with Chinese subtitles) I see some people saying “啊真是的” when they are irritated or something. What does it mean exactly? Is there any equivalence of this expression in English?

Thanks!

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lulanke

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 Roland Parijs yahoo.com 
2009-08-30 / 04:15AM

Hello Li Kong,

According to my dictionary 真是 (what a shame) expresses arrocance or sarcasm like:

你也真是, 怎么来得这么晚?

What a shame! Why ae you so late?

让我先回答,本霓,我尊敬汉语老师

万事如意

陆蓝克

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benny

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-08-30 / 11:35AM

Hi Lee Kong,

This is to express your “saracasmn or disatisfaction of something”

Benny



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laser2302

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 Lee Kong hotmail.com 
2009-08-30 / 12:38PM
To : Roland Parijs

Which dictionary are you using, according to my dictionary I can’t find many words?

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lulanke

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 Roland Parijs yahoo.com 
2009-08-30 / 07:02PM
To : Lee Kong

Hello Li Kong,

I use the;
=========
Concise English-Chinese, Chinese English
Dictionary
by Martin H. Manser
Second Edition
Oxford University press.

精迭英汉。汉英词典
牛津

ISBN 0-19-592584-X
========

You can find it on
http://www.amazon.cn/%E7%89%9B%E6%B4%A5%E5%88%9D%E9%98%B6%E8%8B%B1%E6%B1%89%E5%8F%8C%E8%A7%A3%E8%AF%8D%E5%85%B8/dp/B0011BQ12S

but that is only English Chinese.

If you are not able to find it I can look around for you and have it send to you ….

I have many other dictionaries,( even Chinese-Chinese and Arabic-Chinese /Chinese-Arabic since
I studied Arabic as well).

If you are interrested I can send you their titels as well.

I also use njstar, which hss an build in dictionary
to be downloaded from www.njstar.com or google translator English Chinese.

To check my assumptions I offen typ in th chines characters in Google surge for it on internet and
on google images, this is a great help aswell.

Success

祝你学习顺利

万事如意

陆蓝科

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