The captain paced the deck, his salty whip lashing over the heads of the galley slaves, who hunched bent-backed row on row, chained to their desks and scribbling furiously. They may have been cogs in a floating, industrial engine of Dickensian horror, but they sure produced some great test questions....

Gail frowned and paused for a moment before returning to read the introduction again. "I'm not sure I like the way these are developing," she finally said, weighing her words carefully. "Perhaps we can just tell everyone that we have more Intermediate HSK questions for them? And that taking these tests will help them get better at Chinese?"
 said on
May 22, 2009
I can definitely see my improvement on these in the past months. Keep them coming Gail!
 said on
May 22, 2009
……(*^__^*) ……
 said on
November 5, 2010
Q8: 于是,同学们你一句我一句地议论开了。

这个句子里的“开”字是“开始” 的意思吗?

多谢!

 said on
November 7, 2010
@huyilin,

这里“开”是动词的补语,是讨论被“展开”的意思,也有点儿“开始”的味道在里面,更准确的说就是讨论“变大”了。类似的例子可以是“小朋友们一下子玩开了”。

--Echo

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