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day 63films and books

unit 10 · arts & traditions

    films and books

    Talk about films, books and plays, say who you borrow from or apologise to with 向, and make allowances with 畢竟.

    today’s words

    • 主題 zhǔtí · theme, subject
    • 導演 dǎoyǎn · director (film, play)
    • 影片 yǐngpiàn · film, video (clip)
    • 博物館 bówùguǎn · museum
    • 欣賞 xīnshǎng · enjoy, appreciate (art, views)
    • 角色 juésè · role, character (in a story)
    • 明星 míngxīng · star, celebrity
    • 文學 wénxué · literature
    • 歌曲 gēqǔ · song, piece of music
    • 戲 xì · play, show, drama
    • 戲劇 xìjù · drama, theatre
    • 劇本 jùběn · script, screenplay
    • 風格 fēnggé · style
    • 畢竟 bìjìng · after all
    • 堂 táng · (measure word for lessons); hall
    • 知 zhī · know (in set phrases)
    • 不少 bùshǎo · quite a few, a lot
    • 公克 gōngkè · gram

    sentences

    • 你應該向他道歉。 · You should apologise to him.
    • 我向陳老師借了一本劇本。 · I borrowed a script from Teacher Chen.
    • 別怪他,他畢竟是第一次演戲。 · Don’t blame him: it’s his first time acting, after all.
    • 畢竟是明星,他走到哪裡都有人認得。 · He’s a star, after all: people recognise him wherever he goes.
    • 不少人看了這部影片都哭了。 · Quite a few people cried at this film.