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- Peking:
- A conversation at the Post Office.
- M: Láojià, wàng Shànghǎi jìde hángkōng xìn yào tiē duōshao qiánde yóupiào? Excuse me, how much postage do you need to put on an air mail letter to Shanghai?
- F: Yìmáo. Guónèide hángkōng xìn dōu shi yìmáo. Ten cents. All air mail within the country is ten cents.
- M: Guówài hángkōng xìn ne? And if you send outside the country?
- F: Jì dào guówài qùde hángkōng xìn shi qīmáo. Hángkōng yóujiǎn shi sānmáowǔ. Air mail letters going out of the country are seventy cents; aerograms are thirty-five cents.
- M: Jì dào guówài qùde míngxìnpiàn ne? And post cards mailed out of the country?
- F: Hángkōngde liǎngmáoèr. Air mail ones are twenty-two cents.
- M: Guónèide píngxìn shi duōshao? How much is regular mail within the country?
- F: Běnshìde sìfēn. Wàidìde bāfēn. Within the city, it’s four cents. Outside the area (city), it’s eight cents.
- M: Qǐng ni gěi wǒ shízhāng yìmáode yóupiào, wǔzhāng hángkōng yóujiǎn, hái yào shízhāng qímáode hángkōng yóupiào. Please give me ten ten-cent stamps, five aerograms, and ten seventy-cent stamps.
- F: Hǎo. Yígòng jiǔkuài qímáowǔ. Okay. Altogether it's nine dollars and seventy-five cents.
- M: Zhèi shi shíkuài qián. Here's ten dollars.
- F: Zhǎo ni liǎngmáowǔ. Here’s twenty-five cents change.
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