{"id":167,"date":"2009-12-06T01:41:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T05:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=167"},"modified":"2009-12-06T01:41:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T05:41:32","slug":"a-big-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/a-big-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"A Big Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a plan when I was returning from Shenzhen to Boston.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t tell anyone of my plan prior to doing it, but I planned to stand at my house&#8217;s <strong>\u95e8\u53e3<\/strong> (entrance) and <strong>\u6309<\/strong> (press\/[ring]) the <strong>\u95e8\u94c3<\/strong> (doorbell), as this would <strong>\u80af\u5b9a<\/strong> (definitely) be a great <strong>\u60ca\u559c<\/strong> (surprise).\u00a0 Previously I had arranged for my parents to have a <strong>\u7f51\u7edc\u89c6\u9891<\/strong> (internet video) chat.\u00a0 I rang the house doorbell and watched my dad leave the room to go up the <strong>\u697c\u68af<\/strong> (stairs) <!-- ======================================================= --> <!-- Created by AbiWord, a free, Open Source wordprocessor.  --> <!-- For more information visit http:\/\/www.abisource.com.    --> <!-- ======================================================= --> where he came to the front door and saw me- startled at where I was.\u00a0 The whole affair seemed like a recent television <strong>\u5e7f\u544a <\/strong>(advertisement) for a wireless telecommunications company.\u00a0 Although it is my impression that I crossed more <strong>\u65f6\u533a<\/strong> (time zones) than did the female protagonist in the ad.\u00a0 No matter what, I continually <strong>\u9519\u8fc7<\/strong> (miss) that commercial, so I cannot make a judgment or comparison between our two surprises yet.<\/p>\n<p><!-- ======================================================= --><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u95e8\u53e3 men2kou3 &#8211; doorway<br \/>\n\u6309 an4 &#8211; press<br \/>\n\u95e8\u94c3 men2ling3 &#8211; doorbell<br \/>\n\u80af\u5b9a ken3ding4 &#8211; definitely, surely<br \/>\n\ufeff\u60ca\u559c jing1xi3 &#8211; (pleasant) surprise<br \/>\n\u7f51\u7edc wang3luo4 &#8211; network (internet here)<br \/>\n\u89c6\u9891 shi4pin2 &#8211; video<br \/>\n\u697c\u68af lou2ti &#8211; stairs<br \/>\n\u5e7f\u544a guang3gao4 &#8211; advertisement<br \/>\n\u65f6\u533a shi2qu1 &#8211; time zone<br \/>\n\u9519\u8fc7 cuo4guo4 &#8211; to miss (something you were expecting)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a plan when I was returning from Shenzhen to Boston.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t tell anyone of my plan prior to doing it, but I planned to stand at my house&#8217;s \u95e8\u53e3 (entrance) and \u6309 (press\/[ring]) the \u95e8\u94c3 (doorbell), as this would \u80af\u5b9a (definitely) be a great \u60ca\u559c (surprise).\u00a0 Previously I had arranged for my&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/a-big-surprise\/\">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-167","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\/167","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=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}