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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+ T& c: ~; ]# w7 XThe dead lobster is how to attract end users.....
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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。
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[ 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.
Is that make making sense?

I 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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  s/ W0 b& c4 S: V' q. BAm I making sense?
Do I make sense?
Does it make sense?
  E& y; n5 T5 C$ VIt makes sense?（反问）
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That makes sense?( 反问)

) d6 [$ i1 \) T8 ]$ k/ DIf 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。

2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...
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# ]" h0 }7 U4 Z" {. rFrom this sentence, the meaning of dead lobster sounds like the key or the basic thing.
# C" t( ]0 N( a$ K' D- uI 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。

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