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Slumming it with nciku

I recently looked up the word 贫民窟 (meaning “slum”) in nciku. The definition included this example of usage: She decided to slum it for a couple of months. 她决定去贫民窟待几个月。 The Chinese sentence, trans... ...full story at Sinosplice

from Sinosplice on Tue, Oct 20 2009

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