{"id":1565,"date":"2015-10-23T22:20:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T11:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2017-01-13T13:29:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T02:29:19","slug":"random-word-trivia-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/random-word-trivia-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Word Trivia #11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Test your English and Chinese vocabulary level! See how many of these words you can guess.<\/p>\n

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  1. You take photos with a long stick.<\/li>\n
  2. You make a promise with your shortest finger.<\/li>\n
  3. You demand money for the person you just kidnapped.<\/li>\n
  4. You look cute wearing a loose piece of clothing that covers your entire body.<\/li>\n
  5. You have fallen into a pit that is slowly eating you.<\/li>\n
  6. You take pleasure seeing other people fall into bad luck.<\/li>\n
  7. You were born after your father died, you are a what child.<\/li>\n
  8. Your university gives degrees to students who don\u2019t deserve them.<\/li>\n
  9. Your child carries keys to your home because no one is home when school finishes.<\/li>\n
  10. You wrote some notes on a piece of paper to take into the exam with you to help you cheat.<\/li>\n
  11. You need to wear big glasses to read the text in front of you.<\/li>\n
  12. You follow what others do, you are a kind of animal (English).<\/li>\n
  13. You are dating someone far, far away.<\/li>\n
  14. Your government keeps its people ignorant.<\/li>\n
  15. You keep putting things off, you must have a disorder of some kind.<\/li>\n
  16. You take on a second job without telling your employer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0 \u00a0 . . . . . . . (no looking at the answers until you’ve made some guesses!) Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. English: selfie stick. Chinese: \u81ea\u62cd\u795e\u5668 (z\u00ecp\u0101i sh\u00e9nq\u00ec).<\/li>\n
    2. English: make a pinky promise. Chinese: \u62c9\u94a9 (l\u0101g\u014du).<\/li>\n
    3. English: ransom. Chinese: \u8d4e\u91d1 (sh\u00faj\u012bn).<\/li>\n
    4. English: onesie. Chinese: \u8fde\u4f53\u670d (li\u00e1nt\u01d0f\u00fa).<\/li>\n
    5. English: quicksand. Chinese: \u6d41\u6c99 (li\u00fash\u0101).<\/li>\n
    6. English: schadenfreude. Chinese: \u5e78\u707e\u4e50\u7978 (x\u00ecngz\u0101il\u00e8hu\u00f2).<\/li>\n
    7. English: posthumous. Chinese: \u9057\u8179\u5b50 (y\u00edf\u00f9z\u01d0).<\/li>\n
    8. English: diploma mill. Chinese: \u91ce\u9e21\u5927\u5b66 (\u200ey\u011bj\u012b d\u00e0xu\u00e9); \u5b66\u5e97 (xu\u00e9di\u00e0n).<\/li>\n
    9. English: latchkey kid. Chinese: \u6302\u94a5\u5319\u513f\u7ae5 (gu\u00e0y\u00e0oshi \u00e9rt\u00f3ng).<\/li>\n
    10. English: cheat sheet; crib sheet. Chinese: \u5c0f\u6284 (xi\u01ceoch\u0101o).<\/li>\n
    11. English: reading glasses. Chinese: \u8001\u82b1\u955c (l\u01ceohu\u0101j\u00ecng).<\/li>\n
    12. English: sheep (herd mentality; conformist mentality). Chinese: \u4ece\u4f17\u5fc3\u7406 (c\u00f3ngzh\u00f2ng x\u012bnl\u01d0).<\/li>\n
    13. English: (in a) long-distance relationship. Chinese: \u5f02\u5730\u604b (y\u00ecd\u00ecli\u00e0n).<\/li>\n
    14. English: obscurantism. Chinese: \u611a\u6c11\u653f\u7b56 (\u200ey\u00fam\u00edn zh\u00e8ngc\u00e8).<\/li>\n
    15. English: procrastination (not a real disorder). Chinese: \u62d6\u5ef6\u75c7 (tu\u014dy\u00e1nzh\u00e8ng).<\/li>\n
    16. English: moonlighting. Chinese: \u63a5\u79c1\u6d3b (ji\u0113s\u012bhu\u00f3); \u8d5a\u5916\u5feb (zhu\u00e0nw\u00e0iku\u00e0i); \u526f\u4e1a (f\u00f9y\u00e8).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \u00a0<\/div>\n
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      \u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Test your English and Chinese vocabulary level! See how many of these words you can guess. You take photos with a long stick. You make a promise with your shortest finger. You demand money for the person you just kidnapped. You look cute wearing a loose piece of clothing that covers your entire body. You […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[5,26,158,6,19,148,196,21,10,197],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia","tag-chinese-into-english-translation","tag-concepts","tag-culture","tag-english-into-chinese-translation","tag-nouns","tag-society","tag-trivia","tag-verbs","tag-vocabulary","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlgene.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}