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<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">Units 7<br /><span>1<br />Shall I buy a few pieces of silk to use as clothing material?<br />我买几块绸缎做衣料好不好？<br />It wouldn’t be good for clothing, that’s not as good as using it to make a quilt cover<br />做衣料不好，不如做被面子<br /><br /><span></span>2<br />Xiao Wang’s wedding is next week. Let’s all 10 or so of us buy her a new sewing machine<br />小王下个星期办喜事儿。 我们十几个人给她买个缝纫机吧<br />But she’s never used a sewing machine. We’d better buy her something else<br />她从来没用过缝纫机。还是给她买点儿别的东西吧<br /><br /><span></span>3<br />What did your daughter go off to do?<br />您女儿干什么去了？<br />The Bai Huo Da Lou is selling domestically produced black and white television sets, she went to stand in line<br />百货大楼卖国产黑白电视机，她排队去了<br /><br /><span></span>4<br />Just now as I was passing the furniture store, I saw that this piece of furniture was pretty good so I bought it for you <br />刚才我经过家具店，看见这件家具不错，就给您买了<br />Oh no, I’ve caused you to spend money again<br /> 真是的，又让你花钱<br /><br /><span></span>5<br />Did you go to buy wool yarn?<br />你买毛线去了？<br />Yes, New Year’s is almost here, I’m buying a little present for my daughter<br />是啊，过元旦了，给我女儿买点儿小礼物<br /><br /><span></span>6<br />Your daughter is graduating from college, we should celebrate<br />您女儿大学毕业了，我们应当庆贺庆贺<br />Yes, she’s really grown into an adult<br />是啊，他可真长成大人了<br /><br /><span></span>7<br />The government again has a new policy towards relations overseas now<br />现在，政府对海外关系又有新的政策了<br />Yes, so I’ve heard. Now they’re taking better care of family members of overseas Chinese<br />我也听说了。现在对侨眷挺照顾的<br /><br /><span></span>8<br />This piece of Chinese satin of yours is really pretty, where did you buy it?<br />您这块中国缎子真漂亮，在哪儿买的？<br />I picked it out at the overseas Chinese store<br />在华侨商店挑的<br /><br /><span></span>9<br />I want to buy some bedding for the children but I’m out of cotton ration coupon <br />我要给孩子买点儿床上用品，没有布票儿了<br />Don’t worry; I have plenty of cotton ration tickets which I haven’t used up. You take them<br />您别急，我这儿还有不少布票儿没有用diao。您拿去吧<br /><br /><span></span>10<br />Uncle, older sister is leaving the military next month, isn’t she?<br />姨夫，我姐姐下个月就该转业了，是不是<br />This isn’t some big thing. You don’t have to treat it as news and tell all your classmates<br />这不是什么了不起的事。不要当做新闻去讲给同学们听<br /><br /><span></span>11<br />It just occurred to me that my certificate which shows I was sick and staying in the hospital can be used to buy eggs<br />我想起来了，我那张生病住医院的证明可以用来买鸡蛋<br />They’re already bought, don’t you worry<br />已经买了，你放心吧<br /><br /><span></span>12<br />Look, my flowers are so easy to grow, it’s been only two months and most of them have bloomed<br />您看，这些花儿可好重了。才两个月的功夫，多数都开花儿了<br /></span></div>
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<div class="paragraph" style="text-align:left;">Unit 8<br /><span>1<br />During the Tangshan earthquake, was your house affected?<br />唐山地震的时候，你们家的房子受到影响没有？<br />Our place is pretty good, there weren’t any big problems<br />我们的房子不错，没有什么大问题<br /><span></span><br />2<br />I’ve heard that after they got their marriage certificate, they waited only a short time before their housing problem got solved<br />听说他们领了结婚证以后，等了不长的时间住房问题就得到解决了<br /><span></span><br />3<br />Is the place where you’re living managed by your organisation or by the urban housing authority?<br />你住的房子是机关管理的还是房管所管理的<br />The place I live in is one that belongs to my organisation<br />我住的房子是属于我们机关的<br /><span></span><br />4<br />In order to solve the problems of city residents in a comprehensive way, it’s necessary to build some apartment buildings<br />为了全面解决城市居民的住房问题，必须兴建一些公寓楼<br /><span></span><br />5<br />Your health has been really good during this recent period<br />最近这段时期，你的身体可真不错呀<br />Yes, since things got reorganised at work, I haven’t been so tired, and my health has been a lot better<br />是啊，调整工作以后，我没有那么累了，身体好多了<br /><span></span><br />6<br />During the period when the Gang of Four was causing trouble, work in the areas of industry, agriculture, culture, and foreign relations were all greatly influenced<br />四人帮横行的时期，工业，农业，文化，外交，各方面的工作都受到很大影响<br /><span></span><br />7<br />I may be going to China next year<br />明年，我可能到中国去<br />I wonder if you have to wait a long time when going through the procedures<br />不知道办手续是不是得等很长的时间 <br />I’ve heard that the procedures for applying to go to China have become much simpler now. You can try<br />我听说，现在申请去中国的手续已经简单的多了。你可以试试<br /><span></span><br />8<br />With the vigorous efforts of a vast number of workers and cadre members, the difficulties we now have at our plant can surely be resolved<br />在广大工人，干部的积极努力下，我们厂现在的困难一定能够解决<br /><span></span><br />9<br />According to the rules, we can assign you another room<br />根据规定，我们可以再给你分配一间房子<br />Thank you so much. With this arrangement, I’ll have a lot fewer difficulties<br />太谢谢了，这样儿以来，我的困难就少得多了<br /><span></span><br />10<br />What do young people in the city do after they’re married if they want to have a child?<br />城市青年结婚以后，如果他们想要一个孩子，怎么办呢？<br />They should submit applications by the woman to her place of work, and her residential committee<br />他们应该由女方向她的工作单位和街道居民委员会提出申请<br /><span></span><br />11<br />Many residents are enthusiastically taking part in our area’s capital construction <br />许多居民都积极参加了我们这个地区的基本建设<br />Because of this, our housing problem here can be solved sooner<br />因此，我们这儿的住房问题可以早点儿解决<br /><span></span><br />12<br />After the earthquake, these buildings were basically still safe, but they still need to be checked once again<br />这些大楼经过地震以后，基本上还是安全的，可是还要再检查一次<br />Ok, hand this work over to us <br />行，这个工作就交给我们吧<br /></span></div></div>
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