{"id":165,"date":"2009-11-29T20:27:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T00:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-11-29T20:27:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T00:27:05","slug":"the-past-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/the-past-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Past Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I was on my way in a bus to <strong>\u6c55\u5934<\/strong> (shantou) when a <strong>\u4ea4\u901a\u4e8b\u6545<\/strong> (traffic accident) on the road slowed the bus and all other traffic to a near-standstill for roughly 1.5 hours.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t too concerned though, as I was learning about the production of denim jeans and the annoyances of <strong>\u8d85\u6807<\/strong> (exceeding standards) and achieving <strong>\u5408\u683c<\/strong> (meeting standards) from a <strong>\u5b55\u5987<\/strong> (pregnant woman) from Fujian who had just come back from an OB\/GYN visit in Hong Kong.\u00a0 We also discussed the <strong>\u673a\u5236<\/strong> (systems) of both China and the USA, and she asked me what I thought about those who went to the states to <strong>\u6dd8\u91d1<\/strong> (dig for gold).\u00a0 The next morning in Shantou, I rode to a dock with a ferry on a driven <strong>\u6469\u6258\u8f66<\/strong> (motorcycle) as that appears to be the prime method of transportation there aside from <strong>\u4e09\u8f6e\u8f66<\/strong> (tricycles).\u00a0 Although the taxis have meters, you may still find yourself having to <strong>\u780d\u4ef7<\/strong> (haggle over the price).<\/p>\n<p>\u6c55\u5934 shan4tou2 &#8211; a city in eastern Guangdong Province<br \/>\n\u4ea4\u901a\u4e8b\u6545 jiao1tong1shi4gu4 &#8211; traffic accident<br \/>\n\u8d85\u6807 chao1biao1 &#8211; exceeding standards<br \/>\n\u5408\u683c he2ge2 &#8211; meeting standards<br \/>\n\u5b55\u5987 yun4fu4 &#8211; pregnant woman<br \/>\n\u673a\u5236 ji1zhi4 &#8211; systems (can be organizational\/political)<br \/>\n\u6dd8\u91d1 tao3jin1 &#8211; dig for gold<br \/>\n\u6469\u6258\u8f66\u00a0 mo2tuo2che1 &#8211; motorcycle<br \/>\n\u4e09\u8f6e\u8f66 san1lun2che1 &#8211; tricycle (powered\/unpowered)<br \/>\n\u780d\u4ef7 kan3jia4 &#8211; haggle over the price<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I was on my way in a bus to \u6c55\u5934 (shantou) when a \u4ea4\u901a\u4e8b\u6545 (traffic accident) on the road slowed the bus and all other traffic to a near-standstill for roughly 1.5 hours.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t too concerned though, as I was learning about the production of denim jeans and the annoyances of \u8d85\u6807&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/the-past-weekend\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-chinese-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}