06:26 Feb 6, 2008 |
Chinese to English translations [PRO] Furniture / Household Appliances | |||||||
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5 +1 | communal bed |
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5 | collective bed |
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3 +1 | big sleeping board |
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3 | Large, undivided sleeping platform |
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big sleeping board Explanation: 这只是一个想法。睡觉的铺子一般称为 sleeping board,但若让许多人同时睡同一个铺子,那就得是大铺子,或称“大通铺”,所以应该可以称为 big sleeping board for many people。 http://hrichina.org/fs/view/downloadables/pdf/downloadable-r... I lived upstairs and it was never quiet on the ground floor. The beatings occurred very frequently. There was always crying and shouting down there. An iron gate separated the two floors and it was usually kept locked. In the rooms on the ground floor, which I was able to see into when they brought me in for interrogation, there were big sleeping boards where many people slept. |
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communal bed Explanation: Collective bed refers to a group of beds, which doesn't make sense. Example: http://books.google.com/books?id=C_Y0IjeVOLUC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 18 hrs (2008-02-07 01:20:08 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- An excerpt from the link: "He had slept on the ground at the reform-through-labor farm in a big communal bed: the ground was spread with straw and people slept one next to the other, ..." |
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