昨
昨 – Zuo2 – Yester-
昨天 – Zuo2 Tian1 – Yester- Day — Yesterday
昨晚 – Zuo2 Wan3 – Yester- Night — Last Night
Archive for May, 2006
睡
睡 – Shui4 – Sleep
睡覺 – Shui4 Jiao4 – Go To Bed, Go To Sleep
刑
刑 – Xing2 – Punishment
刑事 – Xing2 Shi4 – Punishment Matter — Criminal, Penal
But it appears that 刑事 means Detective, for some reason, in Japanese. We spent part of this weekend watching スケバン刑事 – Sukeban Deka — Delinquent Detective, and the sequel. They’re both pretty old movies about teams of Japanese schoolgirls who fight crime using weapons you’d imagine schoolgirls would have handy, like yoyos and origami cranes and marbles. Despite how AWESOME that sounds, they just weren’t that good. It is interesting to find out that they’re making a new movie, coming out later this year. I guess Japan is just as out of new ideas for movies as the US.
國
國 – Guo2 – Country, State, Nation
Another word I’ve mentioned a lot but has never officially been Word of the Day.
草
草 – Cao3 – Grass, Straw, Draf
草地 – Cao3 Di4 – Grass Earth — Sod
Pulling up sod is harder than you might think. Or harder than I might think…. or thought. Whatever.
信
信 – Xin4 – Letter, True, To Believe, Sign, Evidence
信息 – Xin4 Xi1 – Letter News — Information
信息時代 – Xin4 Xi2 Shi2 Dai4 – Information Time Era — Information Age
電
電 – Dian4 – Electric, Electricity, Electrical
Strange, I’ve mentioned 電 so many times, but it has never officially been “Word of the Day”.
When is a comment not a comment?
A brief exercise using GNU Make:
| Makefile | subMake.sh | Submakefile |
submake : ./subMake.sh |
#!/bin/sh make -f Submakefile |
STUFF = a b c d e all : $(STUFF) $(STUFF) : @echo making $@ @sleep 1 |
Run ‘make’. You’ll see a, b, c, d, and e get made serially, one per second. Want to parallelize? You’d think ‘make -j5′ would do it, right? You’d be wrong. The Submakefile complains that there is no jobserver available, and still makes them serially. The reason is that the toplevel Makefile doesn’t “think” that subMake.sh is a sub-make, and doesn’t pass along the necessary magic environment variables and file descriptors for the jobserver stuff to work. But, by merely adding a COMMENT:
| Makefile |
submake : ./subMake.sh |
IT WORKS!
出
出 – Chu1 – To Go Out, To Come Out, To Occur, To Produce, To Go Beyond, To Rise, To Put Forth
I always, always pronounce this wrong. I tend to say it as “Choo” but the “oo” is really is an unpronouncable sound, like the middle part of “Eeeeewwwww!”