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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Fluency Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 23 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Setting Out the Frying Room

Set out the frying room with Little Wu and Zhou Yu before the village arrives: be asked where the table goes, say to move it to the doorway, be asked about the wok, say to polish it till it shines, hear Zhou Yu take the job, be asked whether you are nervous, say it would be a lie to say no, and hear that your friend is there.

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THE STORY

The frying room at eleven on Grain Rain morning, Old Hu's teahouse chairs in rows, the wok cold on its stove, Little Wu with a table in his arms and Zhou Yu with a cloth.

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老欧， 桌子 放 哪里？lǎo'ōu, zhuōzi fàng nǎliOld Oh, where does the table go?
搬 到 门口。bān dào ménkǒumove it to the doorway, word for word carry reach door mouth
把 桌子 搬 到 门口。bǎ zhuōzi bān dào ménkǒuMove the table to the doorway.
椅子 都 搬 进来 了。yǐzi dōu bān jìnlái leThe chairs are all brought in.
还 要 做 什么？hái yào zuò shénmeWhat else needs doing?
欧 师傅。ōu shīfuMaster Ou, Owen's family name with the craftsman's title
欧 师傅， 锅 呢？ōu shīfu, guō neMaster Ou, and the wok?
亮 亮 的。liàng liàng degleaming, word for word bright bright, with the little word of
擦 得 亮 亮 的。cā de liàng liàng dewiped till it gleams, with the linking word after the verb
锅 擦 得 亮 亮 的。guō cā de liàng liàng dePolish the wok till it shines.

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