明天早上八点要开会，不能迟到。
我买了一个小闹钟叫我起床。
因为有它，这一晚我睡得很好。
第二天早上，我起来的时候已经七点四十了，我发现闹钟没有响。
我到公司最快也要四十分钟，最后还是迟到了。
下班以后，刚到家，闹钟就响了，“时间到了，时间到了。
”我看表，正好六点，原来我把时间定在了下午六点。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 明天 | míng tiān | tomorrow |
| 早上 | zǎo shang | early morning |
| 八 | bā | eight |
| 点 | diǎn | point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock |
| 要 | yào | will; shall; about to / need to; should / if |
| 开会 | kāi huì | to hold a meeting / to attend a meeting |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 能 | néng | can / to be able to / might possibly |
| 迟到 | chí dào | to arrive late |
| 我 | wǒ | I; me; my |
| 买 | mǎi | to buy / to purchase |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 小 | xiǎo | small / tiny / few |
| 闹钟 | nào zhōng | alarm clock |
| 叫 | jiào | to call |
| 起床 | qǐ chuáng | to get out of bed; to get up |
| 因为 | yīn wèi | because; owing to; on account of |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 它 | tā | it |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 晚 | wǎn | evening / night |
| 睡 | shuì | to sleep / to lie down |
| 得 | de | structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 好 | hǎo | good / appropriate; proper |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number) |
| 二 | èr | two / 2 |
| 天 | tiān | day |
| 起来 | qǐ lái | to stand up; to get up |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 时候 | shí hou | time / length of time / moment / period |
| 已经 | yǐ jīng | already |
| 七 | qī | seven / 7 |
| 四 | sì | four / 4 |
| 十 | shí | ten / 10 |
| 发现 | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of / to discover; to find; to detect |
| 没有 | méi yǒu | haven't / hasn't |
| 响 | xiǎng | to make a sound / to sound / to ring |
| 到 | dào | to reach; to arrive / to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point) / (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point) |
| 公司 | gōng sī | company; firm; corporation |
| 最 | zuì | (before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est |
| 快 | kuài | rapid / quick |
| 也 | yě | even (extreme or unexpected case) |
| 分钟 | fēn zhōng | minute |
| 最后 | zuì hòu | finally; in the end |
| 还 | hái | still, still in progress, yet |
| 是 | shì | indeed (used for emphasis) |
| 下班 | xià bān | to finish work; to get off work |
| 以后 | yǐ hòu | after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future |
| 刚 | gāng | just / barely / exactly |
| 家 | jiā | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) |
| 就 | jiù | as soon as; immediately after |
| 时间 | shí jiān | time |
| 看 | kàn | to see; to look at / to read / to watch / to visit; to call on / to consider; to regard as / to look after / to treat (a patient or illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after a verb) to give it a try / to watch out for |
| 表 | biǎo | watch (timepiece) / meter; gauge |
| 正好 | zhèng hǎo | just (in time) |
| 六 | liù | six / 6 |
| 原来 | yuán lái | so, actually, as it turns out |
| 把 | bǎ | (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}) |
| 定 | dìng | to fix; to set; to make definite / to subscribe to; to book; to order / to congeal; to coagulate |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 下午 | xià wǔ | afternoon / p.m. |