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- Dialogue and Translation for Exercise 3
- Two sisters talk in the home of a Chinese family in Washington, D.C.
- A: Èrjiě, nǐ kàn shénme hào ne?
- B: Ming Bào, wǒ xǐhuan zhèige
- hàozhǐ, hù zuǒ yě hú you.
- - A: Erqiě, shìjièxìngde xǐnwén tā
- dōu you. Zhèige hào zhēnde hú cuò.
- - B: Wǒ yě xǐhuan tāde guǎnggào, duì
- women zhèixie zhù zai guǒwàide Zhōngguo rén hěn yǒu yòng.
- - A: Nǐ kànjian shénme guǎnggào le,
- zhème yǒu xìngqu?
- - B: Nǐ lai kàn, zhèr yǒu yige
- diànshì guǎnggào.
- - A: Zěnme shuōde?
- - B: Zhèige guǎnggào shuō, zhǐ yào
- women jì yìzhāng zhīpiào dào Xiānggǎng, Jiù kéyi gěi Jiāli rén mǎi cǎisè
- diànshì le.
- - A: Shi ma? Dàlù rén mǎi diànshì
- hù rōngyi. Women lái kànkan, kàn néng hu néng gěi yéye nǎinai mǎi ge
- diànshì.
- - B: Bànfa shi zhèiyangr: Women hǎ
- qian hé yéyede dìzhī Jì dao Xiānggǎng, Xiānggǎngde gōngsī Jì yìzhāng
- dānzi gěi tāmen, tāmen jiu kéyi zài Guǎngzhōude hǎihuò gōngsǐ qǔ diànshì
- le.
- - A: Rúguǒ nèige diànshì hù hǎo
- zěnme hàn?
- - B: Nà shi gōngsǐde zéren, tāmen
- yídìng kéyi gěi° huàn yige hǎode.
- What newspaper are you reading, Sister No. Two?
- Ming Pao. I like it; it's neither too left nor too right.
- And it has all the world news. It's really quite a good paper.
- I like its advertisements too. They are very useful to us Chinese who
- live abroad.
- What ad did you see that you're so interested in?
- Come look, there's an ad for a television here.
- What does it say?
- It says that if we just send a check to Hong Kong, we can huy a color
- television for our family.
- Oh? It's not easy for people on the mainland to huy televisions. Let's
- look and see if we can huy a T.V. for grandpa and grandma.
- This is the way it works: We send the money and grandpa's address to
- Hong Kong, and the company in Hong Kong sends them a receipt,’ and then
- they can pick up the television at a department store in Guǎngzhōu.
- What if the television has something wrong with it?
- That's the company's responsibility. I'm sure they would exchange it for
- a good one.
- Dānzi here refers to a tíhuòdān, bill of lading, hence it may be
- translated loosely as receipt. (The specific translation for receipt
- is shōujù or fāpiào.)
- °°Gěi is a colloquial abbreviation for gěi tamen, for them.
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- | B: Duì, women jǐntiǎn jiù bǎ | Right. Let’s send out the check |
- | | today. |
- | zhǐpiào jìchuqu. | |
- +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
- A: M, nà bú cuò, xiànzài yéye
- nǎinai shēnghuo ǎndìng, shénme dōu hǎo, jiù shi shǎo yige diànshì. Yōule
- diànshì, tāmen yídìng hěn gāoxìng.
- Mm, that’s good. Now grandpa and
- grandma have a settled life, and all
- is well for them; the
- only thing
- they
- lack is a television.
- When they
- have
- a television I’m sure happy.
- they’ll be
- very
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