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card_zerotoday at 7:21 AM1 replyview on HN

Doesn't that just say "a pair of pants"? Or literally one line pants.


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thaumasiotestoday at 7:40 AM

条 is the appropriate measure word for pants; they're plural in English, but uncountable (like other nouns) in Chinese.

You could translate it as "a pair of pants", and that's the appropriate way to put it in English, but really it says "one pants".

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