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day 66temples and old buildings

unit 10 · arts & traditions

    temples and old buildings

    Visit temples, churches and museums and talk about them, say “any… at all” with 任何……都, and say the opposite happened with 反而.

    today’s words

    • 教堂 jiàotáng · church
    • 廟 miào · temple
    • 人間 rénjiān · the human world, on earth
    • 寺廟 sìmiào · temple
    • 天堂 tiāntáng · heaven, paradise
    • 玉 yù · jade
    • 上帝 shàngdì · God
    • 道教 Dàojiào · Taoism
    • 佛教 Fójiào · Buddhism
    • 基督教 Jīdūjiào · Christianity
    • 民國 mínguó · the Republic (ROC) years
    • 靈魂 línghún · soul
    • 反而 fǎn'ér · instead, on the contrary
    • 在於 zàiyú · lie in, depend on
    • 總而言之 zǒng'éryánzhī · in a word, all in all
    • 對了 duìle · oh, by the way
    • 沒什麼 méishénme · it’s nothing

    sentences

    • 任何人都可以參加這個活動。 · Anyone can take part in this event.
    • 博物館裡,任何東西都不能摸。 · In the museum, you mustn’t touch anything.
    • 下雨了,觀眾不但沒走,反而越來越多。 · It started raining, but instead of leaving, more and more people came.
    • 問題不在於錢,而在於時間。 · The problem isn’t money: it’s time.
    • 博物館裡有一顆用玉做的白菜。 · In the museum there’s a cabbage made of jade.