{"id":172,"date":"2009-12-25T16:45:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T20:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=172"},"modified":"2009-12-25T16:45:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T20:45:57","slug":"christmas-at-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/christmas-at-the-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas at the Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was at the London <strong>\u673a\u573a<\/strong> (airport) on my way back out to China.\u00a0 When I went into downtown London, it was truly a scene of <strong>\u4eba\u70df\u7a00\u5c11<\/strong> (barely having a trace of human activity).\u00a0 I saw a <strong>\u65c5\u884c\u56e2<\/strong> (tour group) including people from <strong>\u5c71\u4e1c<\/strong> (Shandong province in China).\u00a0 While going to Big Ben in a cab, I asked the driver how long it takes to <strong>\u8003\u8bc1<\/strong> (pass the test for [a] certificate) to be a London cab driver.\u00a0 Without missing a beat, he replied that it usually takes 4 years.\u00a0 I also learned that many Englanders do not consider themselves grouped with the European<strong> \u5927\u9646<\/strong> (mainland), despite being a part of the EU and European Economic Area. \u00a0 With another cab driver, I spoke about the rights guaranteed by the <strong>\u5baa\u6cd5<\/strong> (constitution) of the US.\u00a0 I went to a restaurant boasting authentic cuisine from <strong>\u5df4\u57fa\u65af\u5766<\/strong> (Pakistan), but I was not as impressed as the review writers had been.\u00a0 Later on at the airport, I wanted to communicate with my family on Skype, but I had to update the <strong>\u9a71\u52a8<\/strong> (drivers) for my sound card before my microphone would work.\u00a0 <strong>\u5723\u8bde\u8282\u5feb\u4e50!<\/strong> (Merry Christmas!)<\/p>\n<p>\u673a\u573a ji1chang3 &#8211; airport<br \/>\n\u4eba\u70df\u7a00\u5c11 ren2yan1xi1shao3 &#8211; lit. people smoke sparse few. meaning &#8220;barely any traces of people&#8221;<br \/>\n\u65c5\u884c\u56e2 lv3xing2tuan2 &#8211; tour group<br \/>\n\u5c71\u4e1c shan1dong1 &#8211; Shandong province in China<br \/>\n\u8003\u8bc1 kao3zheng4\u00a0 &#8211; to get the certificate by testing<br \/>\n\u5927\u9646 da4lu4 &#8211; mainland<br \/>\n\u9a71\u52a8 qu1dong4 &#8211; drivers for software or hardware<br \/>\n\u5baa\u6cd5 xian4fa3 &#8211; constitution<br \/>\n\u5df4\u57fa\u65af\u5766 ba1ji1si1tan3 &#8211; Pakistan<br \/>\n\u5723\u8bde\u8282\u5feb\u4e50 sheng4dan4jie2kuai4le4 &#8211; Merry Christmas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was at the London \u673a\u573a (airport) on my way back out to China.\u00a0 When I went into downtown London, it was truly a scene of \u4eba\u70df\u7a00\u5c11 (barely having a trace of human activity).\u00a0 I saw a \u65c5\u884c\u56e2 (tour group) including people from \u5c71\u4e1c (Shandong province in China).\u00a0 While going to Big Ben in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/christmas-at-the-airport\/\">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-172","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\/172","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=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}