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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The 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。

[ 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:
3 a, q+ {* k* TAccording 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?
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4 j4 r8 L' c& k  qBy 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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: q2 i) J8 C- v, @: D9 b* z5 C  ^Am I making sense?
3 n! @. o# c% O; x1 ~0 Y7 j2 y' sDo I make sense?
" S( Z( W* s' y# Y8 o0 VDoes it make sense?
It makes sense?（反问）
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9 {: O  X: y3 _' GThat makes sense?( 反问)

. e0 P  V$ N) F8 TIf 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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[ Last edited by 一叶知秋 on 2004-12-24 at 03:26 AM ]

zychen1973

The dead lobster is how to attract end users...
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2 c9 {4 ?0 t0 a! Y' o0 x% b  HFrom this sentence, the meaning of dead lobster sounds like the key or the basic thing.
6 o$ n6 R$ v* A' @; W: U3 PI 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.