我想今天下午去看电影，但是没有好电影。
我就打电话给我的好朋友，想和她一起去运动，但是她说今天身体不舒服，我们只能去商场买东西了。
我们看见一条漂亮的裙子，她喜欢白色，我喜欢黑色，但是黑色的裙子有点儿贵，所以我买了两条白色的，一条给自己，一条送给她
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 我 | wǒ | I; me; my |
| 想 | xiǎng | to desire; to want (to) |
| 今天 | jīn tiān | today |
| 下午 | xià wǔ | afternoon / p.m. |
| 去 | qù | to go, to go to |
| 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 |
| 电影 | diàn yǐng | movie; film |
| 但是 | dàn shì | but; however |
| 没有 | méi yǒu | doesn't exist / to not be |
| 好 | hǎo | good / appropriate; proper |
| 就 | jiù | in that case; then |
| 打 | dǎ | a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings |
| 电话 | diàn huà | telephone / phone call |
| 给 | gěi | to / for / for the benefit of / to do sth (for sb) |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 朋友 | péng you | friend |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 她 | tā | she |
| 一起 | yī qǐ | together; in company (with) |
| 运动 | yùn dòng | to exercise / sports / exercise |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 身体 | shēn tǐ | one's health |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 舒服 | shū fu | comfortable / feeling well |
| 我们 | wǒ men | we; us; ourselves; our |
| 只 | zhǐ | only; merely; just |
| 能 | néng | can / to be able to / might possibly |
| 商场 | shāng chǎng | shopping mall / shopping center / department store / emporium |
| 买 | mǎi | to buy / to purchase |
| 东西 | dōng xi | thing / stuff / person |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 看见 | kàn jiàn | to see; to catch sight of |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 条 | tiáo | classifier for long thin things |
| 漂亮 | piào liang | pretty; beautiful |
| 裙子 | qún zi | skirt |
| 喜欢 | xǐ huan | to like; to be fond of |
| 白色 | bái sè | white / fig. reactionary / anti-communist |
| 黑色 | hēi sè | black |
| 有点儿 | yǒu diǎn r | slightly / a little / somewhat |
| 贵 | guì | expensive |
| 所以 | suǒ yǐ | therefore / as a result / so |
| 两 | liǎng | two / both / some / a few |
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 送 | sòng | to give (as a present) |