day 84new arrivals
unit 13 · family & lovenew arrivals
Talk about births, names and family events, and say “fairly, not bad” with 還算 and 還好.
today’s words
- 代 dài · generation; era
- 卡 kǎ · card; get stuck
- 取 qǔ · take, fetch; withdraw
- 用力 yònglì · with force, hard
- 長輩 zhǎngbèi · elder, older relative
- 誕生 dànshēng · be born (formal)
- 後代 hòudài · descendants, later generations
- 少女 shàonǚ · girl, young woman
- 雙胞胎 shuāngbāotāi · twins
- 吻 wěn · kiss
- 葬禮 zànglǐ · funeral
- 探親 tànqīn · visit one’s family
- 反對 fǎnduì · oppose, object to
- 考慮 kǎolǜ · consider, think over
- 失敗 shībài · fail; failure
- 下去 xiàqù · go on, continue (after a verb)
- 幅 fú · (measure word for paintings)
- 偷偷 tōutōu · secretly, on the sly
sentences
- 這家店的菜還算不錯，價錢也還好。 · The food here is pretty good, and the prices are OK too.
- 爸爸下個星期要回臺南探親。 · Dad is going back to Tainan next week to visit family.
- 我得先去銀行取錢。 · I need to get some money out at the bank first.
- 他用力推了推門，門還是打不開。 · He pushed the door hard, but it still wouldn’t open.
- 失敗了沒關係，你要繼續做下去。 · It’s fine if it fails: keep going.