day 55meetings and business trips
unit 9 · work & technologymeetings and business trips
Follow a work meeting about tasks, documents and a business trip, ask for time off, and link or contrast ideas with 而 (and, whereas, but).
today’s words
- 會議 huìyì · meeting, conference
- 請假 qǐngjià · ask for time off
- 同事 tóngshì · colleague
- 專業 zhuānyè · professional; specialised
- 職業 zhíyè · occupation, profession
- 工廠 gōngchǎng · factory
- 管 guǎn · be in charge of, look after
- 文件 wénjiàn · document, file
- 負責 fùzé · responsible; be in charge of
- 部門 bùmén · department
- 任務 rènwù · task, mission
- 小組 xiǎozǔ · team, group
- 出差 chūchāi · go on a business trip
- 而 ér · and, but, whereas
- 寸 cùn · Chinese inch (about 3 cm)
- 嗨 hāi · hi
- 嘛 ma · (obviously; come on)
- 想像 xiǎngxiàng · imagine; imagination
sentences
- 我喜歡在家工作，而她喜歡去公司。 · I like working from home, whereas she likes going to the office.
- 問題不是錢，而是時間。 · The problem isn’t money; it’s time.
- 離會議開始只有十分鐘了，快一點！ · The meeting starts in ten minutes: hurry up!
- 公司給我們訂了一間雙人房。 · The company has booked us a double room.
- 出差的頭兩天，我們都在開會。 · For the first two days of the trip we were in meetings.