上大学的时候，每天早上张月都准时去上英语课。
有一天，张月起得很晚，着急地跑到学校后，听见教室里正在上课，就赶快开门，对老师说：”不好意思，我迟到了。
”没想到老师笑着说：”同学，你来早了，第一节英语课还没下课呢！
”张月一看手表，发现自己早到了5分钟，就赶快跑出了教室。
Hover a word for its pinyin & meaning; click to pin it.
narration saved locally, offline — from https://download.mandarinbean.com/audio?source=aHR0cHM6Ly90cmFmZmljLmxpYnN5bi5jb20vbGVhcm5jaGluZXNlL0ZpdmVfTWludXRlc19FYXJseS0yMDY5Lm1wMw&filename=Five-Minutes-Early.mp3&signature=2c666f81f61976e32dad9a16f6239a054c370b29c0624e202bbec038360a6a7b
| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 上 | shàng | to attend (class or university) |
| 大学 | dà xué | university / college |
| 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 |
| 每 | měi | each / every |
| 天 | tiān | day |
| 早上 | zǎo shang | early morning |
| 张月 | Zhāng Yuè | a personal name |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely |
| 准时 | zhǔn shí | on time / on schedule |
| 去 | qù | to go, to go to |
| 英语 | Yīng yǔ | English (language) |
| 课 | kè | subject / course / class / lesson |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 一天 | yī tiān | one day; a day |
| 起 | qǐ | to rise / to raise / to get up / to set out / to start / to appear / to launch / to initiate (action) / to draft / to establish / to get (from a depot or counter) |
| 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 |
| 晚 | wǎn | late |
| 着急 | zháo jí | to worry; to feel anxious / to feel a sense of urgency; to be in a hurry |
| 地 | de | -ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct |
| 跑 | pǎo | to run / to run away / to escape / to run around (on errands etc) / (of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate |
| 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) |
| 学校 | xué xiào | school |
| 后 | hòu | afterwards / after |
| 听见 | tīng jiàn | to hear |
| 教室 | jiào shì | classroom |
| 里 | lǐ | lining / interior / inside |
| 正在 | zhèng zài | to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing |
| 就 | jiù | in that case; then |
| 赶快 | gǎn kuài | quickly; at once |
| 开 | kāi | to open (transitive or intransitive) |
| 门 | mén | gate / door / gateway / doorway / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) |
| 对 | duì | towards; at; for / concerning; regarding |
| 老师 | lǎo shī | teacher |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 不好意思 | bù hǎo yì si | to feel embarrassed / to find it embarrassing / to be sorry (for inconveniencing sb) |
| 我 | wǒ | I; me; my |
| 迟到 | chí dào | to arrive late |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 没 | méi | (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not |
| 想到 | xiǎng dào | to think of / to call to mind / to anticipate |
| 笑 | xiào | to laugh; to smile |
| 着 | zhe | aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state |
| 同学 | tóng xué | fellow student / classmate |
| 你 | nǐ | you |
| 来 | lái | to come |
| 早 | zǎo | early |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number) |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 节 | jié | classifier for segments: lessons, train wagons, biblical verses etc |
| 还 | hái | still, still in progress, yet |
| 下 | xià | to decline / to go down |
| 呢 | ne | (sentence-final particle) indicating that a state or situation still holds |
| 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 |
| 手表 | shǒu biǎo | wristwatch |
| 发现 | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of / to discover; to find; to detect |
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 分钟 | fēn zhōng | minute |
| 出 | chū | (used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result) |