FSI-Chinese/Temp/FSI-Chinese/7-ref-5.csv

1.	A:	"Zhèi liǎngnián, nǐmende
shōurù zěnmeyàng?"	"What has your income been like
the past couple of years?"
	B:	"Zhèi liǎngnián, nongyè
shēngchǎn qíngkuàng bú
cuò, shōurù yě hái hǎo."	"The past couple of years, agricul-
tural production conditions have
been pretty good, and our income
has been all right, too."
2.	A:	"Tāde shuōfǎ wō méi ting-
dong, nǐ tīngmíngbai
le ma?"	"I didn’t understand the way he said
that. Did you understand it?"
	B:	"Meiyou, wo yě méi tingmíngbai,
érqiě zhèige tímu yě tài
nan le."	"No, I didn’t understand it either.
Moreover this topic is too hard."
3.	A:	"Xue pinyin yě hǎo, bù xué
pinyin yě hǎo, Zhōngguo zì
zong děi xué."	"Whether you study romanization
or not, you’ll always have to
study Chinese characters."
	B:	"Shi a, zhèiyang Zhōngguo
wénhuà cái néng bǎochíxiàqù."	"Yes, this is the only way Chinese
culture can continue to be
preserved."
U.	A:	"Jiǎli laodònglì duō, shēnghuo
yě jiù huì hǎo yìdiǎnr."	"If a family has more manpower,
then it follows that life will be
a little better."
	B:	"Kěshi xiànzài rénkōu duō
bù yídìng you shénme
hǎochù."	"But now it’s not necessarily an
advantage to have a lot of
people."
5-	A:	"Zài nàr xiě zìde nèige rén
shì bu shi tǎ zhàngfu?"	"Is that person writing over there
her husband?"
	B:	Zheng shi tǎ!	That’s him all right!
6.	A:	"Gōngshāngyè fādá you shénme
haochù? Nali dōu name
zāng!"	"What benefit is there in having a
flourishing industry and commerce?
It’s so dirty everywhere!"
	B:	"Zhèi yìdiǎn wō bù tōngyì,
gōngshāngyè fādá you bù
shǎo hǎochù."	"I don’t agree with that. There are
a lot of benefits to having a
flourishing industry and commerce."
7.	"A: Tā weishénme zǎohūn?
B: Qùnián tā fùqin sǐ le, méi
rén zhàogu ta, zhǐ hǎo
jiehūn le."	"Why did she get married early?
Last year her father died and there
was no one to take care of her.
All she could do was get married."
8.	A: Duōshù rén dōu xǐhuan zìyou.	Most people like freedom.
	"B: Kěshi, bú shi hěn duō rén néng
dédao zìyou."	"But not many people can obtain
freedom."
9.	"Weile néng hùxiāng zhàogu,
tāmen yìjiā sāndài zhù zai
yiqi."	"All three generations live together
so that they can take care of each
other."
10.	"A: Tīngshuō congqián, nǐmen
zhèli you hěn duō you
yìside fēngsú."	"I’ve heard that in the past you had
a lot of interesting customs here."
	"B: Shi a. Hòulāi gōngshāngyè
fādá le, fēngsú yě gǎibiàn
le."	"Yes. Later, when industry and
commerce developed, customs
changed, too."
11.	láodòng	to labor; labor
12.	láolì	labor force, labor
13.	gōngyè	industry
1U.	shāngyè	business, commerce
15.	dàduōshù(r)	the great majority
16.	huó	"to live; to become alive; to survive;
to be live/alive/living; to be
movable/moving"
17.	xíguàn	"habit, custom, usual practice; to be
accustomed to, to be used to"
18.	ting	to heed, to obey (someone’s orders)