Monday, March 9, 2015

5 Chinese Words from Last Week's News (2 March 2015 to 6 March 2015)

从上个星期的新闻学五个中文生词

The week of 2 - 6 March 2015 was the week of Mobile World Congress. Because of that telecommunication equipment companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, and ZTE issued press releases from which the week's 5 terms in telecoms, tech, and finance were extracted.

English
Chinese
汉字
Pinyin
Release / Publish
发布
Fābù
Cellular
蜂窝
Fēngwō
Commercial Contract
商用合同
Shāngyòng hétóng
Methodology
方法论
Fāngfǎlùn
High Definition Video
高清视频
Gāoqīng shìpín

Hanzi in Main Terminology

发
fā
布
bù
蜂
fēng
窝
wō
商
shāng
用 yòng
合
hé
同 tóng
方
fāng
法
fǎ
论
lùn
高
gāo
清 qīng
视
shì
频
pín

Notes

  • 蜂窝 is closer in translation to honeycombed than to cellular. However, since the telecommunication world's cells are octagonal, honeycombed is the more accurate descriptor of a cellular network (蜂窝网络) shape.
  • While 方法论 means methodology, 方法 means method.

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