day 42a check-up

a check-up

Get through a health check: weight, blood, skin and teeth, and say how lucky you were with 幸虧 (luckily, thanks to).

today’s words

• 牙 yá · tooth
• 檢查 jiǎnchá · check, examine
• 皮膚 pífū · skin
• 躺 tǎng · lie down
• 血 xiě · blood
• 體重 tǐzhòng · body weight
• 差別 chābié · difference
• 當年 dāngnián · back then, in those years
• 改善 gǎishàn · improve
• 僅 jǐn · only, merely (written)
• 可靠 kěkào · reliable
• 年代 niándài · decade; era (the 1980s)
• 弱 ruò · weak
• 無 wú · no, without (written)
• 現實 xiànshí · reality; realistic
• 造成 zàochéng · cause, result in
• 把握 bǎwò · seize; be sure (有把握)
• 幸虧 xìngkuī · luckily, thanks to

sentences

• 幸虧我們早一點出門，要不然就遲到了。 · Luckily we left a bit early, or we’d have been late.
• 幸虧檢查得早，問題不嚴重。 · Luckily it was caught early, so it isn’t serious.
• 請躺下來，我幫你檢查皮膚。 · Please lie down and I’ll check your skin.
• 每到冬天，我的皮膚就很乾。 · Every winter my skin gets really dry.
• 這家醫院是1980年代蓋的，可是設備很新。 · This hospital was built in the 1980s, but its equipment is new.