I’m not very confident on the breed IDs here, so I welcome your guesses. They look mostly like setters to me. Obviously, they arenotChinese dogs. But in this context, the foreign provenance of these gun dogs is more about fashion, the hunter’s constructed self-image, and a symbolic...
Do you know other interesting tongue twisters in Chinese? Share with us! Are you a newborn calf? 初生之犊 March 18, 2012 in idioms | Tags: suyu, 俗语 | by atypical chinaman | Leave a comment If you were to compare the young generation to an animal, which animal would it be? 初生...
Friday, March 30, 2012 From The Irish Examiner: Shoppers in a Cork city suburb got a bit of a surprise yesterday when an elephant decided to wander around a retail carpark before charging up to a traffic junction. Gardaí were called to the Blackpool area after the animal broke free fro...
We had a vague research plan. In fact, we were treating this trip as a sort of reconnaissance, to check out the area, and hopefully make some contacts. We are both interested in Chinese dialects, language contact, and Chinese language education among China’s ethnic minorities, particularly T...
It’s not just expats and locals who’re being affected by Cyprus’s increasingly tough anti-pandemic measures – it’s also animal rescue centres on the island. Cyprus’s lockdown began last week, at the same time as the Cypriot government announced a... ...
So this animal rights group is trying to breakup an illegal live pigeon shoot. In order to catch the perpetrators in the act, they fly a spy drone over the private land where the shoot is going on — and the hunters shoot down the drone. (You know, allegedly.) Yes, we’re now in...
NHC Key Laboratory of Human Disease Comparative Medicine, The Institute of Laboratory Animal Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China Jia-Nan Gong Beijing Engineering Research Center for Experimental Animal Models of Human Critical Disease, Beijing...
This analysis involves: a) an unexplained morpheme ro (‘one’), not apparently made up of r and o and having a meaning unrelated to their meanings; b) a interpreted as ‘a’, the indefinite article, not as ‘animal’ as provided in Shaver’s list; c) d replaced in spelling by de...
If you don’t know about snow, why would you care about this silly imperialistic animal, that invades us viatheir Marchthat the average Venezuelan, whether adult or kid, should not care about. Let alonehappy feet, a movie abut this animal which is in a state of constant happiness and exh...
6. Natural extract products: plant extracts, animal extracts, fungal extracts, marine organism extracts, Chinese herbal extracts, etc; 7. Biological beauty ingredients: New types of biological beauty ingredients such as microbial polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, oligopeptides, flavonoids, and natural antio...