https://www.tstigers.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi ... using Blosxom to retrace my steps en https://www.tstigers.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/11/08#chinese_words_08nov2007 <p> 民间组织 min2jian1zu3zhi1 humanitarian organisation<br /> 联合 lian2he2 unite, join, combine </p> https://www.tstigers.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/11/08#amazon_2nd_volume <p> I even got round to sending an e-mail to amazon.com, asking why I received just 1 volume when in the description of the item I ordered it says "2 Volumes". To be sure, the Princeton "Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese" is nice to have even without volume 2 (vocabulary index and exercises), but US$ 52 seems an awful lot of money for it. </p> https://www.tstigers.net/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2007/11/07#chinese_words_07nov2007 <p> 暂时离开 zan4shi2 li2kai1 temporarily absent<br /> (离 leave, go away; from)<br /> 离奇 li2qi2 odd<br /> 离弃 li2qi4 abandon v.<br /> 奇怪 qi2guai4 strange, odd<br /> (奇 also ji1 odd [number])<br /> 寄 ji4 send, post, mail </p>