day 6grandparents and ancestors
unit 1 · people & charactergrandparents and ancestors
Talk about grandparents, relatives and family history, say what you had to do with 不得不, and compare with A 像 B 一樣.
today’s words
- 離婚 líhūn · divorce
- 失戀 shīliàn · be heartbroken (after a break-up)
- 婚姻 hūnyīn · marriage
- 舅舅 jiùjiu · uncle (mum’s brother)
- 娃娃 wáwa · doll; baby
- 祖父 zǔfù · grandfather (dad’s father)
- 祖母 zǔmǔ · grandmother (dad’s mother)
- 外祖父 wàizǔfù · grandfather (mum’s father)
- 外祖母 wàizǔmǔ · grandmother (mum’s mother)
- 祖先 zǔxiān · ancestors
- 單身 dānshēn · single
- 情人 qíngrén · sweetheart, lover
- 舅媽 jiùmā · aunt (mum’s brother’s wife)
- 仍然 réngrán · still
- 其次 qícì · next, secondly
- 白白 báibái · for nothing, in vain
- 不得不 bùdébù · have no choice but to
sentences
- 他像他祖父一樣，個子很高。 · Like his grandfather, he’s very tall.
- 雨太大了，我們不得不下次再去。 · The rain was so heavy that we had to go another day.
- 她失戀以後，仍然每天笑著去上班。 · After the break-up she still went to work every day with a smile.
- 外祖母做的菜像餐廳的一樣好吃。 · Grandma’s cooking is as good as a restaurant’s.
- 我舅舅和舅媽結婚二十年了，婚姻很幸福。 · My uncle and aunt have been married twenty years and are very happy.