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unit 7 · study & languagetutors and progress
Talk about a course, its rules and your progress, say something is about to happen with 眼看, and push back with 何必, 何苦 and 何況.
today’s words
- 進度 jìndù · progress, schedule (how far you are)
- 步驟 bùzòu · step, stage (of a procedure)
- 創辦 chuàngbàn · found, set up (a school, a business)
- 朗讀 lǎngdú · read aloud
- 導師 dǎoshī · tutor, mentor; homeroom teacher
- 鞏固 gǒnggù · solid, firm; consolidate
- 優異 yōuyì · outstanding, excellent (results)
- 傳授 chuánshòu · pass on, teach (a skill)
- 紀律 jìlǜ · discipline
- 文獻 wénxiàn · documents, (academic) literature
- 名額 míng'é · places (available), quota
- 選修 xuǎnxiū · take (as an elective)
- 智力 zhìlì · intelligence, intellect
- 學員 xuéyuán · student, trainee (on a course)
- 眼看 yǎnkàn · any moment now; watch (helplessly)
- 皺 zhòu · wrinkled, creased
- 限度 xiàndù · limit, extent
- 短缺 duǎnquē · be in short supply; shortage
- 極端 jíduān · extreme; extremely
- 可行 kěxíng · feasible, workable
- 比率 bǐlǜ · ratio, rate, proportion
- 丈 zhàng · zhang (old length unit, about 3.3 m)
- 何 hé · what, which, why (written)
sentences
- 眼看就要考試了，我的進度還很落後。 · The exam’s nearly here and I’m still behind.
- 只是一個小考，何必那麼緊張？ · It’s only a little quiz: why be so nervous?
- 這個班只有十二個名額，競爭非常激烈。 · This class has only twelve places, so the competition is fierce.
- 學語言跟智力沒有什麼關係，何況你這麼努力。 · Learning a language has little to do with intelligence, and besides, you work so hard.
- 陳老師把自己的經驗都傳授給了學員。 · Teacher Chen passed all her experience on to her students.