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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
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a lucky and properous colour
0 Red is considered 01 b 00 a lucky and properous colour 02 b 00 in Chinese culture. 02 br
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00 Does "a lucky and properous colour" make sense to you? Thanks. 0-
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00 Yes, though I would think prosperity is in part due to luck. 0-
00 Yes, though I would think prosperity is in part due to luck. 0-
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0 Bad usage of prosperous, IMO. Use 01 i 00 auspicious. 02 i 0-
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01 cite 10 Angliholic 12 cite 10 Does "a lucky and properous colour" make sense to you? 12 blockquote10 Yes, but of course it's not the colour red that is lucky and prosperous! Here we take the expression to mean "colour which represents luck and prosperity". 02 br
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0 CJ brings up a good point.... 02 br
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00 the phrase does not make sense in English, but English speakers are very willing to interpret what we read (if we know it's been translated into English) and assign it the most logical meaning we can come up with. 02 br
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00 In this case, clearly the color itself is not lucky or prosperous. But native English sp
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00 the phrase does not make sense in English, but English speakers are very willing to interpret what we read (if we know it's been translated into English) and assign it the most logical meaning we can come up with. 02 br
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00 In this case, clearly the color itself is not lucky or prosperous. But native English sp
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