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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Advanced Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 27 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Labels on the Boxes

Pack the Guangzhou tea in the Chens' yard with Little Wu: tell him the label says Yingde black tea, refuse to write Longjing on what isn't Longjing, remind him you promised America, say that what you say you do, and ship per the contract next week.

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THE STORY

The Chens' yard on a June morning, forty cardboard boxes from Guangzhou in rows, Little Wu with a tape gun, Owen and Lan with a sheet of labels.

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老外， 这 箱 是 什么 茶？lǎowài, zhè xiāng shì shénme cháForeigner, what tea is this box?
标签。biāoqiānthe label, word for word mark slip
标签 写 英德 红茶。biāoqiān xiě yīngdé hóngcháThe label says Yingde black tea.
标签 贴 好 了 吗？biāoqiān tiē hǎo le maAre the labels stuck on?
不 写 龙井 吗？ 龙井 贵！bù xiě lóngjǐng ma? lóngjǐng guìDon't you write Longjing? Longjing's expensive!
不 是 龙井， 就 不 写 龙井。bú shì lóngjǐng, jiù bù xiě lóngjǐngIf it isn't Longjing, we don't write Longjing.
每 箱 都 要 贴 标签。měi xiāng dōu yào tiē biāoqiānEvery box needs a label.
我们 答应 过 美国。wǒmen dāying guo měiguóWe promised America.
说到 做到。shuōdào zuòdàowhat we say, we do, word for word say reach, do reach
对。 说到 做到。duì, shuōdào zuòdàoRight. What we say, we do.

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