死龙虾 dead lobster

heartbroke2

前一阵公司开会，大家热烈讨论。有个词是dead lobster. 比说
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. A6 j7 X6 C7 TThe dead lobster is how to attract end users.....
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8 O' n. G. s4 `真是莫名其妙啊！问了一下，解释说：你假如把一个死龙虾往屋里一扔，人人都会看到。所以dead lobster意思是显而易见的东西。我问为何不用live lobster或者dead crab呢？回答是因为第一个人这么用了，所以大家也就这么用了。

[ Last edited by heartbroke2 on 2004-12-22 at 02:23 PM ]

zychen1973

According to your explaination, can I make a sentence like this: The reason that a boy shows excessive careness to a strange girl  is a dead lobster.
Is that make sense?

莫迭儿

Originally posted by zychen1973 at 2004-12-22 12:35 PM:
According to your explaination explanation, can I make a sentence like this: The reason that a boy shows excessive careness to a strange girl  is a dead lobster.
$ G7 r7 A4 ]. ]5 O5 f( g% mIs that make making sense?

( K0 {" r. {9 ZI think your sentence makes sense.But there are some little mistake around the sentence.Am I making sense?

By the way, I often hear people use the phrase "make sense"; so I am wondering how to use them. There are some ways to use the phrase:
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Am I making sense?
5 g% |: l3 @6 e+ @7 o  RDo I make sense?
1 l" u  }  T! N2 O1 xDoes it make sense?
2 J5 c2 }! j- y# p0 OIt makes sense?（反问）
Is it  making sense?
That makes sense?( 反问)

' @# J3 i' J; o' h' _8 YIf there 's  anything wrong, please correct it.I would appreciate it very much.
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一叶知秋

最常用的是Does it make sense?  It makes sense？ 很少听到其他几种用法。
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& Y) a! c- _5 d3 u6 P! i5 V0 e2楼的那句，我和Heartbroke2 问了一下老外，老外说觉得这么用很怪，但也不知道该怎么改。有的老外还说，Dead Lobster也不完全是“显而易见“ 的意思。这词我们还是不用了吧，搞不清楚。
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zychen1973

The dead lobster is how to attract end users...

4 S6 _/ K. M1 M( ZFrom this sentence, the meaning of dead lobster sounds like the key or the basic thing.
( g# @0 U5 ^: a' U+ vI never heard this before, maybe Oliveoil knew about it.  We couldn't give it up until we really aware of this slang.  Anyway, I will check it out.

zychen1973

最常用的是Does it make sense?  It makes sense？ 很少听到其他几种用法。

You are right. I was just clerical error.