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Friday, November 16, 2012

Hokudai/Cast 250: Transparent or Opaque?


The words in Word/Play are:

opaque - 不透明 - 不透明的

transparent - 透明 - 透明的

see-through - 透けて見える -  透明的

obtuse - 鈍い - 迟钝的

These same words show up in your Trilingual Lesson. Along with the following sentences - the Japanese & English sentences (Chinese is coming soon) are:

外から見て不透明な窓がある。

Some windows are opaque to keep people from looking in.

ほとんどの窓は透明である

Most windows are transparent.

彼女の透けたブラウスは教会で好まれなかった。

Her see-through blouse was not popular in church.

彼はわざと鈍感になっている。

He is being obtuse on purpose.


彼はわざと鈍感になっているの?

Is he being obtuse on purpose?

Music is

花と太陽 (Flowers and Sun) by Koo from GBUC.net

我只在乎你 (I Only Care About You) by 曲婉婷 from Last.fm

See you next week.


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