snow blowers

[ganyuehan]

How do you explain to people in Taiwan, who rarely see snow, what snow blowers are. My pathetic but best shot at it would be to say 他們用一個機器把路上的雪吹走.

[chrix]

My dictionary has 氣爆式剷雪機, which doesn't have many hits, but if you just look for 剷雪機, you get plenty of pics on the image search...

[trien27]

Chrix is correct:

You can use 剷雪機, which literally means "snow shoveling machine"

or

You could also translate "snowblower"/"snow blower" directly from English into Chinese: 吹雪機.

他們用一個機器把路上的雪吹走.

Use either:

1. 他們用一個剷雪機把路上的雪吹走. [Replacing 機器 with "剷雪機".]

2. 他們用一個吹雪機把路上的雪吹走. [Replacing 機器 with "吹雪機".]

PS I'm a bit confused - In English, is it one word or two? nciku & google lists it as both "snow blower" and "snowblower".

Source:

http://www.nciku.com/search/all/snowblower

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=snowblower&aql=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Edited January 24, 2010 at 03:13 PM by trien27
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[BrandeX]

I'd just use a picture, even to show someone in English who has never lived in a snowy region.