New Words
From Lesson: Maths is much harder than history| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 方便 | fāngbiàn | convenient; to help out; to make things easy for people; convenience; suitable; having money to spare; (euphemism) to go to the toilet |
| 自行车 | zìxíngchē | bicycle; bike; CL:[[輛|辆<liàng>]] |
| 骑 | qí | to ride (an animal or bike); to sit astride; classifier for saddle-horses |
| 旧 | jiù | old; opposite: new [[新]]; former; worn (with age) |
| 换 | huàn | to exchange; to change (clothes etc); to substitute; to switch; to convert (currency) |
Text 3
Raw Text (Chinese • Pinyin • English)
你最近比以前来得早多了，搬家了？ 是啊，你不知道？我上个月就搬家了，走路二十分钟就到。 那很方便。 我还打算买辆自行车，骑车七八分钟就能到。 你不是有一辆吗？ 那辆太旧了，要换一辆，很便宜，两三百块钱。
nǐ zuìjìn bǐ yǐqián lái de zǎo duō le, bānjiā le? Shì a, nǐ bù zhīdào? Wǒ shàng gè yuè jiù bānjiā le, zǒulù èrshí fēnzhōng jiù dào. Nà hěn fāngbiàn. wǒ hái dǎsuàn mǎi liàng zìxíngchē, qí chē qī bā fēnzhōng jiù néng dào. Nǐ bú shì yǒu yí liàng ma? Nà liàng tài jiù le, yào huàn yí liàng, hěn pián yi, liǎng sān bǎi kuài qián.
You've been coming much earlier lately. Did you move? Yeah, you didn’t know? I moved last month; it’s only a twenty-minute walk. That's very convenient. I also plan to buy a bike; it only takes seven or eight minutes to get there by bike. Don't you have one? That one is too old; need to get another one. It’s very cheap, two or three hundred yuan.