 liu2lan3 - glance over; skim through; browse qi4 - general suffix for implements, etc. yue4du2 - to read Here you are!! Two words for the price of one!! And you thought I was cheap. Here are two different Chinese words that mean browser. |
December 28, 1997Here's one: 
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 kong1zhong1 - in the air; aerial; overhead fei1 - to fly; flying ren2 - man; person One of the greatest acts in The Greatest Show on Earth. Death-defying!! Incredible amounts of strength, skill and courage. Personally, I'm afraid of getting on the roof of my house. I have the utmost admiration for these aerial artists. |
December 27, 1997Check out these links: Imperial Flyers High Flying Trapeze Club, Sport Trapeze Flying in Denver Colorado Since 1928 (with a link to an acrobatics webring) Andrew Oakeley's Web Page Incorporating Andy's Circus Links |
 mu4 - made of wood; wooden qin2 - a general name for certain musical instruments This is one of the main "X" words found in children's ABC books in English-speaking countries. Now you know it in Chinese! |
December 26, 1997Becky Lippmann's LEGO robot xylophone player The Xylophone and its Origin |
 jiao3 - leg; foot zha4 - brake Also known as a backpedalling brake, which works by engaging the brake on a bicycle when the rider pedals in the opposite direction from that used for forward motion. |
December 25, 1997 |
 ning2meng2 - lemon tang2 - sugar; candy This word is really very self-explanatory, and tasty!! |
December 24, 1997 |
 tie3 - iron (the metal - Fe) bing3 - a round flat cake; something shaped like a cake When the next olympics takes place in the year 2000, you'll know the word for this thing. Quite a descriptive word - an iron cake. |
December 23, 1997 |
 tong2 - same su4 - element yi4 - different xing2 - form ti3 - body Here is a word from the wonderful world of chenistry where the Chinese word reads like a definition. Allotropy refers to the quality of certain chemical elements which can assume different physical forms. The classic example of this is the element carbon which can occur as a crystalline form in the case of a diamond, the hardest naturally occurring substance on earth or as a somewhat brittle form in the case of graphite. |
December 22, 1997The Unique Properties of DiamondsThis site discusses diamonds and has a link to allotropes of carbon. Dr M John Plater This site discusses a new allotrope of carbon called fullerite |
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