{"id":5797,"date":"2019-11-15T01:20:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T01:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-083-attending-a-wedding-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T01:20:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T01:20:06","slug":"lesson-083-attending-a-wedding-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/lesson-083-attending-a-wedding-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 083 Attending a Wedding Ceremony."},"content":{"rendered":"
M: Dà ji\u0101 h\u01ceo. Hu\u0101n yíng n\u01d0 men dào Xiàn zài Xué Hàn y\u01d4. W\u01d2 shì ML.
S: W\u01d2 shì Stuart. Ok, everybody say with ML, ‘today we learn Lesson 83′.<\/p>\n

M: Zh\u01d4n bèi, k\u0101i sh\u01d0. \u4eca\u5929\u6211\u4eec\u5b66\u7b2c\u516b\u5341\u4e09\u8bfe j\u012bn ti\u0101n w\u01d2 men xué dì b\u0101 shí s\u0101n kè.<\/p>\n

S: H\u011bn h\u01ceo.<\/p>\n

M: Stuart, \u4eca\u5929\u6211\u4eec\u5b66\u4ec0\u4e48 j\u012bn ti\u0101n w\u01d2 men xué shén me?<\/p>\n

S: Well, a friend of ours is getting married, \u6211\u4eec\u7684\u4e00\u4e2a\u670b\u53cb\u8981\u7ed3\u5a5aw\u01d2 men de yí gè péng you yào jié h\u016bn, and we’ve got to find out how to get to the restaurant for the reception.<\/p>\n

M: So, let’s get going.<\/p>\n

S: ML, wher is the wedding ceremony being held? \u5a5a\u793c\u5728\u54ea\u513f\u4e3e\u884c? h\u016bn l\u01d0 zài n\u01cer j\u01d4 xíng?<\/p>\n

M: \u5a5a\u793c\u5728\u5317\u4eac\u996d\u5e97\u4e3e\u884c h\u016bn l\u01d0 zài B\u011bi j\u012bng fàn diàn j\u01d4 xíng.<\/p>\n

S: How do we get there? \u6211\u4eec\u600e\u4e48\u8d70? w\u01d2 men z\u011bn me z\u01d2u?<\/p>\n

M: We can take the subway, \u6211\u4eec\u53ef\u4ee5\u5750\u5730\u94c1 w\u01d2 men k\u011b y\u01d0 zuò dì ti\u011b. Or, huò zh\u011b, we could take a bus, \u6216\u8005\u5750\u516c\u5171\u6c7d\u8f66 huò zh\u011b zuò g\u014dng gòng qì ch.<\/p>\n

S: Or a taxi? \u51fa\u79df\u8f66\u884c\u5417? ch\u016b z\u016b ch\u0113 xíng ma?<\/p>\n

M: \u51fa\u79df\u8f66\u4e5f\u884cch\u016b z\u016b ch\u0113 y\u011b xíng.<\/p>\n

S: Subway, bus or taxi. All will do. \u5730\u94c1\uff0c\u516c\u5171\u6c7d\u8f66\uff0c\u51fa\u79df\u8f66\u3002\u90fd\u53ef\u4ee5\u3002 Dì ti\u011b, g\u014dng gòng qì ch\u0113, ch\u016b z\u016b ch\u0113. d\u014du k\u011b y\u01d0.<\/p>\n

M: duì, d\u014du k\u011b y\u01d0.<\/p>\n

S: H\u01ceo. Now let’s go over the new things. I asked ML, wher is the wedding ceremony being held? \u5a5a\u793c\u5728\u54ea\u513f\u4e3e\u884c?<\/p>\n

M: H\u016bn l\u01d0 zài n\u01cer j\u01d4 xíng? Remember ‘get married"? Duì le, \u7ed3\u5a5a jié h\u016bn. Well \u5a5a\u793c HUN LI h\u016bn l\u01d0 1st tone 3rd tone, is wedding ceremony. Zài n\u01cer j\u01d4 xíng. \u4e3e\u884c JU XING j\u01d4 xíng, 3rd tone 2nd tone, j\u01d4 xíng is ‘to hold’, in the sense of hold a meeting, or ceremony, or something.<\/p>\n

S: So, literally, ‘wedding ceremony wher being held?’ H\u016bn l\u01d0 zài n\u01cer j\u01d4 xíng? H\u016bn l\u01d0 zài n\u01cer j\u01d4 xíng?<\/p>\n

M: In the Beijing Hotel. \u5728\u5317\u4eac\u996d\u5e97\u4e3e\u884c. That’s easy.<\/p>\n

S: \u6211\u4eec\u600e\u4e48\u8d70?<\/p>\n

M: W\u01d2 men z\u011bn me z\u01d2u? \u600e\u4e48 ZEN ME ze3me, remember, means ‘how’ or ‘why’. How do we get there? \u6211\u4eec\u600e\u4e48\u8d70 say it, w\u01d2 men z\u011bn me z\u01d2u?<\/p>\n

S: We can take the subway. \u6211\u4eec\u53ef\u4ee5\u5750\u5730\u94c1.<\/p>\n

M: W\u01d2 men k\u011b y\u01d0 zuò dì ti\u011b. \u5750 ZUO zuò, 4th tone, literally means ‘to sit’, as in \u8bf7\u5750 please sit down, q\u01d0ng zuò. Here it means to ‘go by’ or ‘take’ a bus, or plane or something.<\/p>\n

S: \u5750\u5730\u94c1 dì ti\u011b DI TIE diì ti\u011b, is subway, underground. Zuò dì ti\u011b, take the subway, zuò dì ti\u011b, zuò dì ti\u011b.<\/p>\n

M: Or, \u6216\u8005 HUO ZHE huò zh\u011b, or, huò zh\u011b. \u516c\u5171\u6c7d\u8f66 g\u014dng gòng GONG GONG g\u014dng gòng, 1st tone 4th tone, means ‘public’. Gong1gong4 qi4che1. \u6c7d\u8f66 QI CHE qi4che, means ‘car’, ‘automobile’. With g\u014dng gòng it means ‘public bus’. \u5750\u516c\u5171\u6c7d\u8f66, say it, zuò g\u014dng gòng qì ch\u0113.<\/p>\n

S: Finally, \u51fa\u79df\u8f66 CHU ZU CHE ch\u016b z\u016b ch\u0113, means ‘taxi’. Ch\u016b z\u016b ch\u0113. Say it, ch\u016b z\u016b ch\u0113.<\/p>\n

M: ch\u016b z\u016b ch\u0113 y\u011b xíng.<\/p>\n

S: Good. Now we can xià kè. Zài jiàn.
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