Did Oliver bow twice to Mr. Bumble? “Make a bow to the gentleman, Oliver,' said Mrs. Mann. Oliver made a bow, which was divided between the beadle on the chair, and the cocked hat on the table. 'Will you go along with me, Oliver?' said Mr. Bumble, in a majestic voice.” From: Dickens，Charles. “Oliver Twist.” iBooks. A question bothers me here that Oliver bowed to bumble twice? It is weird if he bowed to a hat.

Rude or not? What does "Do what you like" mean exactly? Is it rude? Why?

中文口语练习 Practice for Oral Chinese

I am a native Chinese student. I want to help people with their Chinese. If you have problem with oral Chinese, you can contact me. We can arrange some time to practice. I can speak English. 

 

Send me a message if you need help.

A Question.... Can any English expert explain the sentence in picture? I am quite sure he said "went" instead of "go". But is that right? Why?

汉语学习中的阅读材料的选择 作为一位中国人，看到很多学习中文的人想阅读一些中文名著，来提高自己的中文水平。很多人应该知道，中文跟英文类似，不同时期都有不同的词汇、写法、叫法。但是中文的名著中大多数都是古汉语写的，古汉语是历史上的标准的文章用语，古代中国人说话和写作是区分用词和造句的格式的。于是中国古代有古白话文和书面语。其中，古白话文也是和现在的白话文有区别的。现在的中文，书面语和口语基本一致。 对于那些对中文和中国文化有特别兴趣的，并且能正常和中国人交流的中文学习者而言，可以从读古白话文的名著开始，如明清时代的三言二拍、《三国演义》、《西游记》、《水浒传》、《红楼梦》，最好从有注释的、或者有译文的开始。因为这些作品中虽然主要是古白话文，但是仍然有大量的词汇是属于古代书面用语的。 对于那些对中国古文化感兴趣，汉语水平还不能达到高阶的朋友，可以读一些已经翻译成白话文的著作，或者直接读二十世纪及以后的作品。有很多当代名家的作品，及能提高语言的水平，又可以丰富知识。 如果觉得这些都比较难，不要强求，可以读一些儿童文学，儿童文学的特点和好处就是，语言简单凝练，可以直接拿过来用。而且可以从简单的用词中体会到深刻的含义。加深对常用词句的理解。 我觉得如果没有很强的天赋，那就需要一步一步，自然而然的学习。

The Search for A Way of Maintaining Friendship for Years I watched the Friends recently. The friends were falling out because of difference of their finance. The three got fine jobs with good money, while the other three barely had a job. They all wanted to maintain the friendship but the money thing made the relationship in danger. Joey was supposed to be an actor. Phoebe was an singer in the Center Perk, and she didn't earn much. Rachael was a waitress but she couldn’t pay for the dishes she broke. However , Chandler, Monica and Ross were having excellent job, so every time they had an event they wanted to go some place nice with all six of them. Joey, Phoebe and Rachael were embarrassed while telling their friends the money thing when all of them were celebrating Monica’s new job at the advance restaurant. You know, once you step out the college you definitely have a different life from your classmates. Of course, different people have different job with different wage. How do you deal with the friendship after your graduation? I think it is better to maintain friendship with your friends without involving money. If you want to hang out to have a dinner or watch movie with your friends, it must involve matters such as who pay the bill. People in western countries used to go dutch, but people in China would like give a treat. If you don’t know your friend’s financial situation, there is someone would feel embarrassed when he cannot afford the money. But if you know it, your treat is more like charity though you are out of goodness. For the sake of friendship, it is easy for you to do the right thing and hard for your friend to get the right idea and feel good. This would make you or your friend to fall out. The difference would do the serious damage on the friendship eventually. When it comes to money, losing face becomes more important than friendship, just because money hits right on people’s mind than other thing.

Writing practice 5 Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay 1.describe the picture and interpret its meaning 2.explain its intended meaning 3.give your point of view I can’t share you the picture here. But I will try my best to depict it clearly. There is a big tree with four branches. On each branch, there is a kid who is watering the leaves of the branch. The four kettles are mark with four Chinese characters respectively. The Chinese means devotion to study. At the slim bottom of the big tree, there is a kid watering the root of the tree with a kettle named psychological guide. From the picture, we can easily get the ironic idea that the prevailing education for children stresses the importance of study and gives less attention on psychological problems of children. What is the consequence? The big tree with slim bottom would fall eventually. That illustrates us that lacking of something fundamental like psychological guide will lead to everything built on education falling down. Personally, it’s a currently trend that people are devoting more to something realistic. However, they are blind to the name and money. They never pay attention to the whole picture of their lives, including education of children. Psychological problems are vital to every child. They would have better lives if they were healthy both mentally and physically. Every people needs talent children to have their people and country prosper. Surely they must be strong in mind.

What does “wear one's learning lightly” mean? Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about. What does “wear one's learning lightly” mean?

wear one's learning lighting？？？ Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly, like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman, could be trusted to know what they were about. What does “wear one's learning lighting” mean?