My two cents

snowbird

It’s too noisy with one big mouth here. Overloaded with that phone number in bold. It’s way too much to see your big title and phone number over and over again.

! S8 O) k. p: K& L9 f7 YIf you want to make an advisement on the front page, as you said you’ve paid, go ahead please. Do it over there. You should get what you paid, that’s your privilege.

You said you enjoy 灌水, that’s your freedom. However, please remove your title from your signature when you’re 灌水.

# j: c$ I8 `3 lI just don’t want this forum to become your business site.
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You’re the celebrity here. Many readers here already knew your User ID. If I need it, we can find your contact information easily. Don’t worry people cannot find your phone number when they need a realtor.
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! |6 @" f' _; W( E. _7 d* [. S6 vAgain, I don’t know you before and never deal with you either, just a reader of this forum, who like read Chinese, but cannot type in Chinese.

BTW, I think professional in Chinese is 职业, not 专业, am I right? 专业 should be Specialty. Also, some your arguments not are logic.

景之白干

1. "BTW, I think professional in Chinese is 职业, not 专业, am I right?"
* t4 Y* K8 `/ [) C  B- W-Unfortunately, I hate to say you are wrong, at least you are not right. Do you think that will be a better way to check your assumption somewhere before giving your two cents? Google is your friend:
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2. "专业 should be Specialty. Also, some your arguments not are logic."
-Your conclusion is based on "your think", so your conclusion is going nowhere.

catty

I am totally mad about your translation of google. Google is famous for Search not for Translation.
, K+ }1 |) H6 T; }Anyway,I mean LZ is more right.

景之白干

If you define a thing and then use it to support your point, you have to be sure that is correct.  Google is famous for searching and also is good for many other areas which you  do not familiar with.  

I can give you two more sources.
www.tigernt.com.
http://www.answers.com/professional&r=67

I also can give you the third paper source: 现代高级英汉双解词典 Oxford University Press, 14th Ed, 1982, P839.

. W7 M. c: R3 {: @: a1 j) o. UWould you please provide your source of translation of the word "professional"?

[ 本帖最后由 景之白干 于 2007-9-8 15:24 编辑 ]

snowbird

Based on the online dictionary you provided (2nd one)

Professional:

1. "A person following a profession, especially a learned profession". In this case, it can be translated to 专业, such as lawyers, doctors, and other professional people -- some engineers. Normally they need extensive education and training.
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8 W; \, c, o) w+ u, C2. "One who earns a living in a given or implied occupation: hired a professional to decorate the house."
* D# z% }5 M+ U2 Y$ X- d& vRealtor should be in this category. It's better to be translated to 职业, such as a professional golf player, a professional to cut your hair.

Realtor is an occupation. Do you agree?. so it should be translated to 职业?
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I agree with the other post. Google is good for retrieving information, not a knowledge authority, although you can list many examples Google can be used for. Translated Professional to two words 专业 is not really helping us to understanding professional.
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I also have an Oxford dictionary at hand and show the same explanation as the online one you suggested.

景之白干

Good point.  Now you realized that there are many means in the word "professional", then let's look back your sentence: "I think professional in Chinese is 职业, not 专业, am I right?".