{"id":10819,"date":"2019-11-19T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/spoken-chinese\/lesson-138-in-the-office\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T20:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:02:16","slug":"lesson-138-in-the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/lesson-138-in-the-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 138 In the Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p align=\"left\">Yajie:&nbsp; Cam, you can be disorganized sometimes, so we  are talking a<em><\/em>bout organization and the office on this week&rsquo;s Chinese  Studio. Welcome to the show, listeners, Wo shi Yajie.<br \/>  Cam: And wo shi Cam. One item that comes in useful is a filing cabinet&hellip; but how do I say that in Chinese?<br \/>  Yajie: ok, you&rsquo;ll know it after the key words of the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Words of the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>filing cabinet \u6587\u4ef6\u67dc(wen2jian4 gui4) printer. \u6253\u5370\u673a(da3yin4ji1) drawer.  \u62bd\u5c49(chou1ti)&nbsp; shelf. \u67b6\u5b50 (jia4zi) Put it in the filing cabinet.  \u628a\u5b83\u653e\u5230\u6587\u4ef6\u67dc\u91cc(ba3 ta1 fang4 dao4 wen2jian4 gui4 li) All in today&rsquo;s Chinese  Studio.<\/p>\n<p>  YJ: Now Cam, you may know the Chinese for filing cabinet&hellip; do you? <br \/>  Cam: eh&hellip;. wen&hellip; gui&hellip;<br \/>  YJ: Almost, Cam. Filing cabinet in Chinese is \u6587\u4ef6\u67dc(wen2jian4 gui4)<br \/>  Cam: \u6587\u4ef6\u67dc(wen2jian4 gui4), right. <br \/>  YJ: \u6587\u4ef6(wen2jian4) is file. <br \/>  Cam: \u6587\u4ef6(wen2jian4)<br \/>  YJ: \u67dc(gui4), is short for \u67dc\u5b50(gui4zi), which means cabinet. <br \/>  Cam: \u67dc(gui4)<br \/>  YJ: \u6587\u4ef6\u67dc(wen2jian4 gui4), filing cabinet.<br \/>  Cam: \u6587\u4ef6\u67dc(wen2jian4 gui4) Yajie, I didn&rsquo;t catch the Chinese for printer. Could you please remind me of that again? <br \/>  YJ: sure. It&rsquo;s\u6253\u5370\u673a(da3yin4ji1)<br \/>  Cam: \u6253\u5370\u673a(da3yin4ji1).<br \/>  YJ: \u6253\u5370(da3yin4) means to print.<br \/>  Cam: \u6253\u5370(da3yin4)<br \/>  YJ: \u673a (ji1), as we mentio<em><\/em>ned before, it&rsquo;s short for (ji1 qi4), which means machine. <br \/>  Cam: \u673a (ji1)<br \/>  YJ: \u6253\u5370\u673a(da3yin4ji1)printer. <br \/>  Cam: \u6253\u5370\u673a(da3yin4ji1).<\/p>\n<p>  Conversation1:<\/p>\n<p>Cam: Yajie, how do you say drawer in Chinese? <br \/>  YJ: Drawer is \u62bd\u5c49(chou1ti)<br \/>  Cam: \u62bd\u5c49(chou1ti)<br \/>  YJ: Right. the first tone and the light tone.<br \/>  Cam: \u62bd\u5c49(chou1ti) then how do you say &ldquo;shelf&rdquo; in Chinese? <br \/>  YJ: It&rsquo;s\u67b6\u5b50 (jia4zi)<br \/>  Cam: \u67b6\u5b50 (jia4zi)<br \/>  YJ: Right. For the one you put books on, it&rsquo;s \u4e66\u67b6 \uff08shu1 jia4\uff09. \u4e66\uff08shu1\uff09means book. <br \/>  Cam: Got it. \u4e66\u67b6 \uff08shu1 jia4\uff09<br \/>  YJ: so you may the shelf you put CDs on is&hellip;<br \/>  Cam: I know, I know , it must be &ldquo; CD\u67b6\uff08jia4\uff09&rdquo;<br \/>  YJ: Very good.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  Conversation2:<\/p>\n<p>Cam: Yajie, how do I tell my Chinese colleagues to put the file in the filing cabinet when they return it to me? <br \/>  YJ: You can tell them \u628a\u5b83\u653e\u5230\u6587\u4ef6\u67dc\u91cc(ba3 ta1 fang4 dao4 wen2jian4 gui4 li)<br \/>  Cam: \u628a\u5b83\u653e\u5230\u6587\u4ef6\u67dc\u91cc(ba3 ta1 fang4 dao4 wen2jian4 gui4 li)<br \/>  YJ: \u628a (ba3), here it sends a signal that we are going to do something. We&rsquo;ll mention more a<em><\/em>bout it in future programs. <br \/>  Cam: \u628a (ba3)<br \/>  YJ: \u5b83 (ta1), a pronoun, here it stands for file. <br \/>  Cam: \u5b83 (ta1)<br \/>  YJ: \u653e\u5230 (fang4dao), put something to somewher.<br \/>  Cam: \u653e\u5230 (fang4dao)<br \/>  YJ: \u6587\u4ef6\u67dc(wen2jian4 gui4), filing cabinet. <br \/>  Cam: \u6587\u4ef6\u67dc(wen2jian4 gui4)<br \/>  YJ: \u91cc(li3), means inside of&hellip;<br \/>  Cam: \u91cc(li3)<br \/>  YJ: \u628a\u5b83\u653e\u5230\u6587\u4ef6\u67dc\u91cc(ba3 ta1 fang4 dao4 wen2jian4 gui4 li)<br \/>  Cam: \u628a\u5b83\u653e\u5230\u6587\u4ef6\u67dc\u91cc(ba3 ta1 fang4 dao4 wen2jian4 gui4 li), Put it in the filing cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>Conversation3:<\/p>\n<p>Key Words Reminder<\/p>\n<p>filing cabinet \u6587\u4ef6\u67dc(wen2jian4 gui4) printer. \u6253\u5370\u673a(da3yin4ji1) drawer.  \u62bd\u5c49(chou1ti)&nbsp; shelf. \u67b6\u5b50 (jia4zi) Put it in the filing cabinet.  \u628a\u5b83\u653e\u5230\u6587\u4ef6\u67dc\u91cc(ba3 ta1 fang4 dao4 wen2jian4 gui4 li) All in today&rsquo;s Chinese  Studio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1110184238\"><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>Yajie:&nbsp; Cam, you can be disorganized sometimes, so we  are talking about organization and the office on this week&rsquo;s Chinese  Studio. Welcome to the show, listeners, Wo shi Yajie.<br \/>\n  Cam: And wo shi Cam. One item that comes in useful is a filing cabinet&hellip; but how do I say that in Chinese?<br \/>\n  Yajie: ok, you&rsquo;ll know it after the key words of the day.<\/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":[2853],"tags":[370],"class_list":["post-10819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoken-chinese","tag-chinese-for"],"views":172,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}