Ed Jaggard's Chinese Words for Week of 02-09-98
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Sunday
ma3 la1 song1
marathon
ma3 - horse
la1 - to pull; drag
song1 - pine tree
The Chinese word for "marathon",
°¨©ÔªQ or
°¨©ÔªQÁɶ] (marathon race), is phonetic. The individual characters are used for their sound and not their meaning. But it is interesting to note that the word could be interpreted "horse pulling pine tree".
During the years between 1976 and 1992, I ran about 150 marathons in different places in the United States (and Bermuda and Montreal, Quebec) and at times during some of those marathons, I felt something like a horse pulling a pine tree!!!! My PR was 2h 47m 05s in Philadelphia in 1985.
The distance of a marathon is 26 miles, 385 yards. Some are run on flat courses and some on hilly. Then there's the Pikes Peak Marathon in Colorado. I just happen to have a picture on the net of me running that one up above the tree line on my way to 14,110 feet.
This word is also used for the word Marathon as a place name. One of my favorite places is the Florida keys, one of which is called Marathon Key. Check out the cool link to the right. I like the music file attached to the page.
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February 15, 1998
Me running(?) the Pikes Peak Marathon in 1990
Boston Marathon
Florida Keys
incl. Marathon Key
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Saturday
lie4 bao4
cheetah
lie4 - to hunt; chase; hunting
bao4 - leopard; panther; wild cat
The cheetah is not only an extraordinarily beautiful member of the feline family, but is reputed to be the fastest land-dwelling mammal.
Without my rambling on and on, check out the links to the right for info and pix.
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February 14, 1998
Cheetah Systems info about their namesake
A very nice web page with info about the cheetah
Nature-Wildlife Cheetah Page
More great pix and info
PBS
PBS has a nice page dedicated to the cheetah
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Friday
san1 jian1 ban4 xia2 zhai3
tricuspid stenosis
san1 - three
jian1 - point
ban4 - valve
san1jian1ban4 - tricuspid valve (in the heart)
zha2 - narrow
zhai3 - narrow
zha2zhai3 - narrowing; stenosis [med]
tricuspid valve - a valve of three flaps that prevents reflux of blood from the right ventricle to the right atrium (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)
stenosis is the narrowing or constriction of the diameter of a bodily passage or orifice (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)
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February 13, 1998
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Thursday
fen2 shu3
zokor
fen2 - zokor
shu3 - mouse; rat; rodent
Actually, I had never heard of a zokor until I found this word a few months ago. In fact, I couldn't find it in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (my dictionary of choice.)
So I fired up the various search engines and found "Myospalax myospalax - Siberian zokor - C Asia ".
I tried searching a Chinese seach engine( KIMO ) pasting in the characters
ï´¹« which came back with 0 matches.
If anyone reading this has info on a little rodent called a zokor ( or Myospalax) send me an e-mail and I'll update this item.
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February 12, 1998
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Wednesday
cui1 mian2 qu3
lullaby
cui1 - to hasten; urge; press
mian2 - to sleep
qu3 - a piece of music
Common to all cultures in the world are soft, gentle songs that mothers sing to their babies to get them to sleep. In a few cases the songs or tunes have been reworked into great music as in the case of Brahms' Lullaby.
As the Chinese word indicates, lullabies or cradlesongs, are music to hasten sleep.
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February 11, 1998
Brahms' Lullaby
The Words
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Tuesday
hu2 luo2 bo5 su4
carotene
hu2luo2bo5 - carrot
su4 - basic element; element
carotene - any of several orange or red crystalline hydrocarbon pigments that occur in the chromoplasts of plants and in the fatty tissues of plant-eating animals and are convertible to vitamin A. (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)
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February 10, 1998
Ask the Dietitian - Joanne Larsen MS RD LD
Info about Vitamin A and carotene
Molecular Expressions World Wide Web home page
See what beta-carotene looks like under the microscope - also check out the link to their home page - very interesting stuff!!!
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Monday
su4 tiao2 guan3
klystron
su4 - fast, rapid; speed, velocity
tiao2 - mix; adjust; tune
guan3 - tube; pipe
klystron - an electron tube in which bunching of electrons is produced by electric fields and which is used for the generation and amplification of ultrahigh frequency current. (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)
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February 9, 1998
The Cluster Klystron Project of the CENTER for ACCELERATOR PHYSICS
Check out the Cluster Klystron Project
Tube History - Related Links
Links to sites with information about the ENIAC, the Edison effect, diode, triode, tetrode, magnetron, and klystron tubes
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