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heifeng -

盘根错节pán gēn cuò jié: w/ twisted roots and gnarled branches ~ complicated and difficult
to deal with.. (sounds like an useful chengyu to me)
三七 san1qi1: pseudo ginseng or Sanchi see here and here

怪圈 guai4quan1: vicious circle, but then there is 麦田怪圈 for crop circles...which is nice
and random

oh...and from watching too much random entertainment television...囧 jiong3 suppose to be the
newest most popular character online these days...the expression on the lil' guy's face says it
all for what it means..or just search it...



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Lu -

愛樂 ai4yue4 philharmonic. From the name of one or the other philharmonic orchestra. In a way it
makes so much sense: 愛樂 = love music = phil-harmonic. But at the same time it's rather
tautological in the name of an orchestra: if they didn't love music, they wouldn't be sitting
there playing it now would they.










randall_flagg -

布洛芬释胶囊 bu4luo4fen1shi4jiao1nang2 ibuprofen source: friend with a toothache.










zhwj -

胶囊 is a capsule, 布洛芬 is ibuprofen in any form (which may be useful if they don't have
capsules).










ajax -

I always ask for 芬必得/fen1bi4de2. I guess it's a brand name, but it's kind of like saying
tylenol rather than acetaminophen.

Another one: 环丙沙星/huan2bing3sha1xing1 (Cipro). Resisting the urge to take this right now
(ate some bad 烧烤).










imron -

Not a new word, but an interesting phrase:
人不行,怪路不平 - rén bù xíng，guài lù bù píng - An equivalent of "a poor workman
always blames his tools".










randall_flagg -

售罄 shou4qing4 to be completely sold out.
Source: An article about the tickets for Beijing Games.










Lu -

綱領 gang3ling3 essential guidelines, program, platform, for example of the CCP.
Seen this word before and always read it as wangling (網領) and couldn't find it anywhere. My
coworker just set me right. I feel Chinese tripped me and is now laughing in my face, really loud,
while I am on the ground squeeking: It's not fair!! 誰叫你 to make two characters look exactly
alike!










skylee -



Quote:

exactly alike!












heifeng -

from watching healthy olympics living something or rather today and an interesting segment about
胃病:

幽门 you1men2: Pylorus

and while we are on 幽, let's also go with something funner:

幽会you1hui4: a lover's rendezvous.....I learned this from a former coworker at a dinner when
she announced she was going to go on one so had to hurry up and leave...so now it's forever
branded in my memory and whenever I think of her, it reminds me of this word plus this classic

and since we are still on y's, why not

臃肿 yong1zhong3: so overweight one cannot move...or of an organization being overstaffed, or
even clothing being overly cumbersome. (this one was just from flipping through the dictionary for
another probably more useful word...which of course I don't even remember now)












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