Dialogue and Translation for Exercise 4

     At an American university， a student (A)， who has studied in Taiwan, comes to see her professor from China, Professor Tang (B).*
A: Tang Xiānsheng, wo keyi	Professor (Teacher) Tang, may I come
  j inlai ma?	in?
B: Dangran, qǐng jinlai ba! You	Of course, please come in! Is
  shi ma?	there some matter (you want to see
                                            me about) ?
A: Mm, jīntian shang kěde shihou	Um, in class today, you must have
     nin dagai hěn bu shūfu, wǒ lai	felt very bad, so Ifve come to see you. kankan nin.
B: Ou! Hai dāile huār lai!	Oh! You even brought flowers!
  Xiěxie ni.	Thank you.
A: Měi shenme, yīnggāide. Tang	Not at all, it1s only proper. Dr.
     Xiānsheng, nin xianzaide gǎnjuě Tang, how do you feel now, better? zěnmeyāng, hǎo yidiǎnr ma?
B: HǎoduS le, xiěxie ni.	Much better, thank you,
A: You shěnme wo kěyi gěi nin	If there1s anything I can do for
    zuode...nin biě kěqi,	you...donft be polite.
B: Nǐ qu dao liǎngbēi kāfěi lai,	How about going and pouring [us] a
   hǎo bu hǎo?	couple of cups of coffee?
A: Wo xiǎng, Jīntiān shang kěde	I think that during class today
    shihou nin tai jīdong, xianzai you got too worked up. It would be zui hao bu he kāfei.	best if you didn’t have any coffee
now.
B: Hǎo ba, nǐ dao liǎngbēi juzi-	Okay, then get us two glasses of
shuǐ lai. Wo bu yāo bīng.	orange Juice. I donft want any ice.
A: Hāode， wo Jiu lai.	Okay, I111 be right back.
(She gets the orange Juice out of the refrigerator in Professor Tang1s office and brings it over to his desk.)


Professor Tang first studied literature in the early 1930’s in Shanghai and himself belonged to several literary clubs and publications which included some of the authors he now discusses with his students.

SOC, Unit 1
                                        hi
A: Tang Xiānsheng, you yiju hua	Dr. Tang, there’s something I want
     wo bu zhīdao kěyi bu keyi shuo.	to say but I don’t know if I can.
B: You shěnme huā, nǐ jiu shuo	Whatever you have to say, just say
ba!	it!
A: Nin měici jiang Zhongguo	Every time you talk about Chinese
    liūshi niandai wěnxuě dou	literature of the sixties you get
feichang jīdSng, zhěiyangr dui	very agitated.° That1s "bad for your
   ninde shěntī "bu hao!	health!
B: Wo yě zhīdao, kěshi yi tan	I know, "but as soon as I talk
     zhěi fāngmiande wěnti, zongshi	about the topic it always makes
   rang wo hěn jīdong.	me very agitated.
A: Zhongguo wěnxuě de qingkuang	There have "been "big changes in the
    zhěijǐnian youle hěn dade	state of Chinese literature in the
 gǎil3ian> Yǒude shihou hǎo	past few years. Sometimes it1 s "been
    yidiǎnr, youde shihou bū	a little better and sometimes it
   zěnme hao.	hasnft "been too good.
B: Zhongguode shiqing jiu shi	That1 s exactly the way things are
     zhěiyang, he zhěngzhide guānxi	in China; their relationship vith
 tai da. Wo lao le, wo měi	politics is too great. I*m too old,
   banfǎ dong le.	I can1t understand it any more.
A: Nin shi womende lǎoshī. RuguS	But you1 re our teacher. If you
    nin "bū dong, shěi dong ne?	don’t understand，who does?
B: Ěi, yihoude yanjiu, jiu shi	(Sigh) In the future, research will
     nǐmen nianqīng rěnde shi le.	"be the job of you young people.
A: Tang Xiānsheng, nin bū yao	Dr. Tang, don’t think that way.
    zhěiyangr xiang, women dou	All of us hope that the state of
 xīwang yīhou Zhongguo wěnxuěde	Chinese literature will get "better
qingxing hni hǎo yidiǎnr.	in the future. I got a few new "books
 Jīntian wo zai tushǔguSn jiěle	out of the library today which are
jǐběnr xin shu, dou shi bu cuode.	all pretty good. I111 leave them with
   Gěi nin liuxia ba!	you!
B: Hǎo, you shijian wo kanyikan.	Okay, I’ll look through them when I
                                         have time*
A: Wǒ zǒu le, nin duo xiuxi	I*m going to leave now. You get some
   yihuīr. Zaijian.	more rest. Good-bye.
B: Hǎo, zai jian. Xiěxie nǐ	All right，good-bye. Thanks for
   lai kan wo.	coming to see me.
A: Bu kěqi.	You’re welcome.
 Many authors of considerable fame and accomplishment were persecuted
during the Cultural Revolution* One unfortunate instance of this resulted in
Lan She1s suicide.	.