{"id":15741,"date":"2020-01-07T05:38:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-grammar\/chinese-grammar-lai-used-to-connect-two-verb-phrases-2\/"},"modified":"2020-01-07T05:38:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:38:26","slug":"chinese-grammar-lai-used-to-connect-two-verb-phrases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/chinese-grammar-lai-used-to-connect-two-verb-phrases-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese grammar: &#8220;lai&#8221; used to connect two verb phrases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \tThe word \u6765 (l&aacute;i) can be used to connect two verb phrases, relating the actions to each other in Chinese grammar. It can be translated as &quot;in order to&quot; or &quot;so that&quot; and it can help in explaining reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Structure<\/strong><br \/>  \tConnecting two verb phrases is very easy. All you need to do is place \u6765 in between them. This has the meaning of doing the first verb to achieve the second verb. Often used with words expressing a way or a method, e.g. &quot;\u901a\u8fc7&quot;&quot;\u7528&quot;  \t<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Examples<\/strong>  \t<\/p>\n<div>N\u01d0 zh\u01d0 n&eacute;n\u0261 t\u014dn\u0261 \u0261u&ograve; z&igrave; j\u01d0 n\u01d4 l&igrave; l&aacute;i zh\u01ceo d&agrave;o h\u01ceo \u0261\u014dn\u0261 zu&ograve;.<br \/>  \t\u4f60 \u53ea\u80fd \u901a\u8fc7 \u81ea\u5df1 \u52aa\u529b \u6765 \u627e \u5230 \u597d \u5de5\u4f5c\u3002<\/div>\n<div>You must work hard in order to find a good job.&nbsp;<\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1204152951\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word \u6765 (l&aacute;i) can be used to connect two verb phrases, relating the actions to each other in Chinese grammar. It can be translated as &quot;in order to&quot; or &quot;so that&quot; and it can help in explaining reasoning.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-15741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-grammar","tag-chinese-grammar"],"views":203,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}