{"id":5734,"date":"2019-11-12T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T10:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/business-chinese\/lesson-154-oranges-grapes-peaches-and-pears\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T10:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T10:02:29","slug":"lesson-154-oranges-grapes-peaches-and-pears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/lesson-154-oranges-grapes-peaches-and-pears\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 154 Oranges, Grapes, Peaches and Pears"},"content":{"rendered":"
M: Péngy\u01d2umen h\u01ceo! Hu\u0101nyíng sh\u014dut\u012bng xiànzài xuéhàny\u01d4, w\u01d2shì ML.<\/p>\n

S: Dàji\u0101h\u01ceo! W\u01d2shì Stuart. Today we’ll co<\/em>ntinue to learn the name of those fresh fruits on ML’s table, plus a few new things.<\/p>\n

M: Stuart, why are you so greedily looking at my table?<\/p>\n

S: Y\u012bnwéi, zài n\u01d0de zhu\u014dzi shàng w\u01d2 kàndàole chéngzi, pútao, táozi, hé y\u0101lí. \u5728\u4f60\u7684\u684c\u5b50\u4e0a\u6211\u770b\u5230\u4e86\u6a59\u5b50\u3001\u8461\u8404\u3001\u6843\u5b50\u548c\u9e2d\u68a8\u3002<\/p>\n

M: Oh, \u6a59\u5b50\u3001\u8461\u8404\u3001\u6843\u5b50\u548c\u9e2d\u68a8, they are all my favorites! Chéngzi, CHENG ZI, \u6a59\u5b50\uff0cis orange. Pútao, PU TAO, \u8461\u8404\uff0cgrapes.<\/p>\n

S: Táozi, TAO ZI, \u6843\u5b50is peach; and the last one, y\u0101lí, YA LI, first tone second tone, \u9e2d\u68a8\uff0cis pear. Out of interest, lí itself also means pear, but ‘y\u0101’ itself means ‘duck’. How come these two words came together? Perhaps nobody knows.<\/p>\n

M: Just bear in mind that y\u0101lí and lí both mean ‘pear’, and that will be good enough.<\/p>\n

M: Stuart, \u4f60\u559c\u6b22\u5403\u54ea\u51e0\u79cd\u6c34\u679c\uff1fWhat kinds of fruits do you like to eat? N\u01d0 x\u01d0hu\u0101n ch\u012b n\u01cej\u01d0zh\u01d2ng shu\u01d0gu\u01d2?<\/p>\n

S: Mm, w\u01d2 x\u01d0hu\u0101n ch\u012b b\u014dluó, míhóutáo, xi\u0101ngji\u0101o, hé c\u01ceoméi. I like eating pineapple, kiwi fruit, banana, and strawberry. What else? Wait, wait, I’m sure I still have many kinds to list…<\/p>\n

M: Stuart, your tummy is no smaller than mine!<\/p>\n

S: Perhaps it’s because I was born in the Year of the Monkey!<\/p>\n

S: ML asked me what kinds of fruit I like to eat. Kind is ‘zh\u01d2ng’, ZHONG, third tone, \u79cd\u3002For instance, a kind of fruit, \u4e00\u79cd\u6c34\u679c\uff0cyìzh\u01d2ng shu\u01d0gu\u01d2.<\/p>\n

M: Or, twelve kinds of animals, \u5341\u4e8c\u79cd\u52a8\u7269\uff0cshí’èr zh\u01d2ng dòngwu. So, Stuart, \u4f60\u559c\u6b22\u5403\u54ea\u51e0\u79cd\u6c34\u679c\uff1fYou like eating what kinds of fruit?<\/p>\n

S: I like eating pineapple, kiwi fruit, banana, and strawberry. W\u01d2 x\u01d0hu\u0101n ch\u012b b\u014dluó, míhóutáo, xi\u0101ngji\u0101o, hé c\u01ceoméi.<\/p>\n

M: \u83e0\u841d\uff0cBO LUO, b\u014dluó, first tone second tone, b\u014dluó, pineapple. And \u7315\u7334\u6843\uff0cMI HOU TAO, míhóutáo, all in second tone, is kiwi fruit.<\/p>\n

S: By the way, míhóu means ‘macaque’, those nice mo<\/em>nkey like animals, and ‘táo’, we’ve learnt in last lesson, means peach. Maybe the Chinese believe macaques really like kiwi fruit, so they give the fruit such a name.<\/p>\n

M: The following two kinds of fruit are really delicious – \u597d\u5403\u3002They are banana, xi\u0101ngji\u0101o, XIANG JIAO, \u9999\u8549\uff0cand strawberry, c\u01ceoméi, CAO MEI, \u8349\u8393\u3002<\/p>\n

M: Wow, we really taught our listeners a lot of fruit names, let’s quickly go through them.<\/p>\n

S: ML, on your table I saw oranges, grapes, peaches and pears. \u5728\u4f60\u7684\u684c\u5b50\u4e0a\u6211\u770b\u5230\u4e86\u6a59\u5b50\u3001\u8461\u8404\u3001\u6843\u5b50\u548c\u9e2d\u68a8\u3002
M: Oh, chéngzi, pútao, táozi, he y\u0101lí. They are all my favorites!<\/p>\n

S: En, w\u01d2 x\u01d0hu\u0101n ch\u012b b\u014dluó, míhóutáo, xi\u0101ngji\u0101o, hé c\u01ceoméi. W\u01d2 x\u01d0hu\u0101n ch\u012b b\u014dluó, míhóutáo, xi\u0101ngji\u0101o, hé c\u01ceoméi.<\/p>\n

M: Let’s call it a day here and have some fruit right now.<\/p>\n

S: H\u01ceozhúyì! See you tomorrow!<\/p>\n

M: Zàijiàn!
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