day 169innovation and engineering
unit 25 · the workplaceinnovation and engineering
Talk about innovation, engineering and new technology, and give ranges of prices and dates with A 至 B.
today’s words
- 派 pài · send, dispatch
- 創新 chuàngxīn · innovate; innovation
- 薪水 xīnshuǐ · salary, pay
- 上升 shàngshēng · rise, go up
- 推廣 tuīguǎng · promote, popularise
- 工程 gōngchéng · engineering; construction project
- 開發 kāifā · develop (products, land)
- 人工 réngōng · manual work; man-made
- 先進 xiānjìn · advanced
- 應用 yìngyòng · apply, put to use
- 機構 jīgòu · institution, organisation
- 資本 zīběn · capital
- 危機 wéijī · crisis
- 拼命 pīnmìng · with all one’s might, desperately
- 伸手 shēnshǒu · reach out a hand
- 至 zhì · to, until (written); reach
- 塌 tā · collapse, cave in
sentences
- 這種茶一斤一千至兩千元。 · This tea costs one to two thousand dollars a catty.
- 營業時間：早上七點至下午兩點。 · Opening hours: 7 am to 2 pm.
- 很多公司因為經濟危機而減少了員工。 · Many companies cut staff because of the economic crisis.
- 技術人員的薪水這幾年上升了不少。 · Technical staff’s salaries have gone up quite a bit in recent years.
- 公司派他去國外推廣新產品。 · The company sent him abroad to promote its new products.