Xiaowen's E-mail to Teddy -- Chinese English Vocabulary -- Ting

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并

bing4

certainly, actually (gives negative verb emphasis)

(particle to place before a negative verb to show it is unexpected -- actually, although, at the same time -- it didn't do something)

并不

bing4bu4

not, actually not

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操作

cao1zuo4

working, able to be manipulated; to manipulate, to handle, to operate

(usually used with mechanical things -- machinery)

出名

chu1ming2

famous, well-known

倒霉

dao3mei2

unlucky, unfortunate, meet a lot of trouble; to have bad luck, to be unlucky

罚

fa2

to punish, to penalize

跟。。。一样

gen1. . . yi2yang4

the same as. . .

简直

jian3zhi2

virtually, really, simply

警报器

jing3bao4qi4

siren

酷

ku4

cool, neat, great, fantastic

酷

ku4

cool

(Nowadays, more and more youth use the English word "cool" directly. If they translate it to Chinese, they use "酷", because it has similar pronunciation. But it does not have actual meaning.)

扩音器

kuo4yin1qi4

microphone, mike, PA system

(kuo4yin1qi4 can refer to just the microphone or to the entire PA system or recording system -- mai4ke4feng1, a sound translation from the west, refers only to the microphone)

铃

ling2

bell