CLO_302: Climbing Mount Everest
Vocabulary: Numbers
Zhu1mu4lang3ma3feng1
dai4biao3
Vocabulary: Tone Marks
Zhūmùlǎngmǎfēng
dàibiǎo
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January 8th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I don’t really understand the way in which “daibiao” is used here.
Shouldn’t it be something like: “zhumulangmafeng daibiao xuduo ren shenghuo zhong (de) zui da de tiaozhan” ?
January 9th, 2009 at 1:12 am
Hi Jonathan,
Actually both sentences (yours and ours) are correct. Yours sounds like a more direct translation from English whereas our would sound awkward if literally translated:
Zhūmùlǎngmǎfēng shì tāmen shēnghuó zhōng zuì dà tiǎozhàn de dàibiǎo: Mount Everest is their life’s biggest challenge representation.
We like to mix things up once in a while, to give you a better feel for the language. Thanks for your comment!