{"id":5745,"date":"2019-11-12T20:31:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-143-you-look-better-today\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T20:31:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T20:31:11","slug":"lesson-143-you-look-better-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/lesson-143-you-look-better-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 143 You Look Better Today"},"content":{"rendered":"
M: Dàji\u0101h\u01ceo! Hu\u0101nyíng n\u01d0men dào xiànzài xuéhàny\u01d4, w\u01d2shì ML.<\/p>\n

S: N\u01d0men h\u01ceo! W\u01d2shì Stuart.
M: Hey, Stuart, you look much better today! Stuart, \u4f60\u4eca\u5929\u770b\u8d77\u6765\u597d\u591a\u4e86!<\/p>\n

S: That’s because I followed the doctor’s advice. I took medicine on time, drank a lot of water every day, and had a very good rest for a couple of days. W\u01d2 ànshí ch\u012byào, m\u011biti\u0101n h\u0113 h\u011bndu\u014d shu\u01d0, bìngqi\u011b h\u01ceoh\u01ceo x\u012buxi le j\u01d0ti\u0101n. W\u01d2 ànshí ch\u012byào, m\u011biti\u0101n h\u0113 h\u011bndu\u014d shu\u01d0, bìngqi\u011b h\u01ceoh\u01ceo x\u012buxi le j\u01d0ti\u0101n.<\/p>\n

M: That’s good.<\/p>\n

S: And the doctor also advised me to do more exercises. Y\u012bsh\u0113ng hái jiànyìw\u01d2 du\u014dzuò duànliàn. He said, walking, jogging, and playing tennis are all suitable sports for me. T\u0101shu\u014d, z\u01d2ulù, p\u01ceobù, hé d\u01cew\u01cengqíu d\u014dushì shìhé w\u01d2de yùndòng. T\u0101shu\u014d, z\u01d2ulù, p\u01ceobù, hé d\u01cew\u01cengqíu d\u014dushì shìhé w\u01d2de yùndòng.<\/p>\n

M: Hmm, great doctor! I think he’s absolutely right. You DO need to lose weight! N\u01d0 shì x\u016byào ji\u01cenféi le.<\/p>\n

S: Hèng!<\/p>\n

S: Wow, that’s a lot of new stuff! Let’s look at it.<\/p>\n

M: I said, ‘Stuart, you look much better today!’ Stuart, \u4f60\u4eca\u5929\u770b\u8d77\u6765\u597d\u591a\u4e86\uff01<\/p>\n

S: ‘H\u01ceodu\u014dle’ means ‘much better’. We’ve learnt in previous lessons a<\/em>bout how to make comparison. And here ‘h\u01ceodu\u014dle’ is one of the ways to express that one thing is far… than another.<\/p>\n

M: And kànq\u01d0lái, KAN QI LAI, kànq\u01d0lái, means look, as in look well, look awkward, look ill, or whatever. Kànq\u01d0lái. It’s a fixed pattern in Chinese. So the whole sentence is, Stuart, \u4f60\u4eca\u5929\u770b\u8d77\u6765\u597d\u591a\u4e86\uff01\u4f60\u4eca\u5929\u770b\u8d77\u6765\u597d\u591a\u4e86\uff01<\/p>\n

S: Because I followed the doctor’s advice, \u5efa\u8bae JIAN YI jiànyì, advice, suggestion. I took medicine punctually\/on time w\u01d2 ànshí ch\u012byào, drank a lot of water every day m\u011biti\u0101n h\u0113 h\u011bn du\u014d shu\u01d0, and had a very good rest for a couple of days. bìngqi\u011b h\u01ceoh\u01ceo x\u012buxi le j\u01d0ti\u0101n.<\/p>\n

M: W\u01d2 ànshí ch\u012byào. \u6309\u65f6\uff0cAN SHI, fourth tone second tone, \u6309\u65f6, means on time, punctually. And x\u012buxi, XIU XI, to rest, x\u012buxi. \u597d\u597d\u4f11\u606f\uff0cto have a good rest, \u597d\u597d\u4f11\u606f\u3002<\/p>\n

S: And we’ve learnt that ch\u012byào means to take medicine, and to drink water is \u559d\u6c34\u3002So now you guys at home, repeat the whole sentence with ML again.<\/p>\n

M: W\u01d2 ànshí ch\u012byào, m\u011biti\u0101n h\u0113 h\u011bndu\u014d shu\u01d0, bìngqi\u011b h\u01ceoh\u01ceo x\u012buxi le j\u01d0ti\u0101n. W\u01d2 ànshí ch\u012byào, m\u011biti\u0101n h\u0113 h\u011bndu\u014d shu\u01d0, bìngqi\u011b h\u01ceoh\u01ceo x\u012buxi le j\u01d0ti\u0101n.<\/p>\n

M: \u5efa\u8baeremember, is ‘advise’. So now say, The doctor gave Stuart some more advice, which was?<\/p>\n

S: Méicuò. Y\u012bsh\u0113ng hái jiànyìw\u01d2 du\u014dzuò duànliàn. Y\u012bsh\u0113ng hái jiànyìw\u01d2 du\u014dzuò duànliàn.<\/p>\n

M: The doctor also asked Stuart to do more exercise, \u591a\u505a\u953b\u70bc. \u953b\u70bc\uff0cDUAN LIAN, both in fourth tone, mean ‘exercise’. He said, walking, jogging, and playing tennis are all suitable sports for Stuart. T\u0101shu\u014d, z\u01d2ulù, p\u01ceobù, hé d\u01cew\u01cengqíu d\u014dushì shìhé Stuart de yùndòng.<\/p>\n

S: What does all that mean? Let’s find out next lesson. Don’t forget to review what we learnt today, and try to read out loud everything, very im<\/em>portant. Míngti\u0101njiàn!<\/p>\n

M: Zàijiàn!
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