English Communication

小叮当

Originally posted by maggiexs at 2007-1-26 04:08 PM:
what i wanted to ask was how to express if the potential words is " it will be better if i can get more"? can i say" that's life. i don't want anyting else / more"? in chinese  与我不需要更多are totally different. what about in english?

haha is the thread taken a turn for the worst

我不需要更多: If you said "that's life. I don't expect anything more." then you would mean that life is somewhat negative/average, but it could be better. Saying "that's life. I don't need much more." is pretty much the same.

Does that help?

Also, if someone says "is taking a turn for a worse," it means that something bad is happening. In this case, the thread was filling up with annoyed people, and the conversation was heading in a negative direction, so therefore I said that it was taking a turn for the worse.

janalbeckham

Adam!
"Assuming the computer"
what's the potential meaning in chinese will be better?

小叮当

Originally posted by janalbeckham at 2007-1-28 07:09 PM:
Adam!
"Assuming the computer"
what's the potential meaning in chinese will be better?

"Assuming the computer" is not a complete sentence, but if you want to know what it probably means (given the rest of the sentence),  then here is an example:

Assuming the computer doesn't explode,  I will go to work today
如果电脑不爆炸，那我今天去上班。

To assume something is to think of something as a certain way without proper proof.  In this case, he is assuming the computer won't explode, although he is not entirely certain.

maggiexs

Originally posted by 秋意浓 at 2007-1-26 09:15 PM:

  Ithink ,i am crazy  when  i read these sentences of above .

why?

maggiexs

Originally posted by 小叮当 at 2007-1-27 05:08 PM:



我不需要更多: If you said "that's life. I don't expect anything more." then you would mean that life is somewhat negative/average, but it could be better. Saying "that's life. ...

Thanks a lot Adam. It's so patient of u!!!

janalbeckham

Originally posted by 小叮当 at 2007-1-29 04:37 AM:


"Assuming the computer" is not a complete sentence, but if you want to know what it probably means (given the rest of the sentence),  then here is an example:

Assuming the compute ...

Complete sentence！
“Assuming the computer at the
recipient’s end is turned on,the...............!”
THX Adam!

小叮当

Originally posted by janalbeckham at 2007-1-29 06:45 PM:


Complete sentence！
“Assuming the computer at the
recipient’s end is turned on,the...............!”
THX Adam!

Then yes, it pretty much means "if the computer at the recipient's end is turned on..."

janalbeckham

Originally posted by 小叮当 at 2007-1-30 03:11 AM:


Then yes, it pretty much means "if the computer at the recipient's end is turned on..."

Oh!yeah!
I see! In this sentence "assuming=if"

maggiexs

i'm going to the english party this sunday!~

小叮当

What English party would that be?