大龙：铃美，你怎么在这儿？
铃美：大龙，你也来上海了？
大龙：杨达达邀请我来他们家玩儿了几天。
你呢？
铃美：我来上海工作，今天打算回西安。
你也回西安吗？
大龙：对。
你也是坐CZ3524航班吧？
铃美：没错！
大龙：那真是太巧了，我们坐同一趟航班回西安。
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谢谢！
）铃美：哎呀，飞机晚点了。
大龙：最近总是下雨。
你看外面，这会儿雨下得挺大的。
铃美：估计要等一两个小时才能登机。
大龙：那我们去星巴克边喝咖啡边等吧。
铃美：好的。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 大龙 | Dà lóng | a name |
| 铃美 | Líng měi | Suzumi (a name) |
| 你 | nǐ | you |
| 怎么 | zěn me | how? / what? / why? |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 这儿 | zhè r | here |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 来 | lái | to come |
| 上海 | Shàng hǎi | Shanghai municipality |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 杨达达 | Yáng Dá dá | A personal name, Yang Dada. |
| 邀请 | yāo qǐng | to invite |
| 我 | wǒ | I; me; my |
| 他们 | tā men | they; them |
| 家 | jiā | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) |
| 玩儿 | wán r | to play / to have fun / to hang out |
| 几 | jǐ | several / a few |
| 天 | tiān | day |
| 呢 | ne | (sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?") |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | to work / (of a machine) to operate |
| 今天 | jīn tiān | today |
| 打算 | dǎ suàn | to plan / to intend / to calculate |
| 回 | huí | to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return |
| 西安 | Xī ān | Xi'an, a major city in Shaanxi Province, China. |
| 吗 | ma | (question particle for "yes-no" questions) |
| 对 | duì | right; correct |
| 是 | shì | indeed (used for emphasis) |
| 坐 | zuò | to sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit |
| 航班 | háng bān | (scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing |
| 吧 | ba | (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise) / ...right? / ...OK? / ...I presume. |
| 没错 | méi cuò | that's right / sure! / rest assured! / that's good / can't go wrong |
| 那 | nà | (specifier) that; the; those / (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations) |
| 真 | zhēn | really / truly / indeed |
| 太 | tài | too (much) / very / extremely |
| 巧 | qiǎo | opportunely / coincidentally / as it happens |
| 我们 | wǒ men | we; us; ourselves; our |
| 同 | tóng | like / same / similar / alike |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 趟 | tàng | classifier for times, round trips or rows |
| 机场 | jī chǎng | airport; airfield / (slang) service provider for Shadowsocks or similar software for circumventing Internet censorship |
| 广播 | guǎng bō | broadcast / broadcasting |
| 乘坐 | chéng zuò | to take (a ship, plane etc); to ride (in a train or other vehicle) |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 旅客 | lǚ kè | traveler; tourist |
| 请 | qǐng | please (do sth) |
| 注意 | zhù yì | to take note of; to pay attention to |
| 抱歉 | bào qiàn | to be sorry / to feel apologetic |
| 地 | de | -ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct |
| 通知 | tōng zhī | to notify / to inform |
| 您 | nín | you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你[ni3]) |
| 由于 | yóu yú | due to / as a result of / thanks to / owing to / since / because |
| 天气 | tiān qì | weather |
| 原因 | yuán yīn | cause / origin / root cause / reason |
| 不能 | bù néng | cannot / must not / should not |
| 按时 | àn shí | on time / before deadline / on schedule |
| 起飞 | qǐ fēi | (of an aircraft or rocket) to take off; to lift off / (fig.) (of an enterprise etc) to start to develop rapidly |
| 时间 | shí jiān | time |
| 待 | dài | to wait / to treat / to deal with / to need |
| 定 | dìng | to fix; to set; to make definite / to subscribe to; to book; to order / to congeal; to coagulate |
| 候机 | hòu jī | to wait in the airport departure lounge for boarding |
| 厅 | tīng | (reception) hall / living room / office / provincial government department |
| 等候 | děng hòu | to wait / to wait for |
| 登机 | dēng jī | to board a plane |
| 将 | jiāng | will / shall |
| 谢谢 | xiè xie | thanks / thank you |
| 哎呀 | āi yā | interjection of wonder, shock or admiration |
| 飞机 | fēi jī | airplane |
| 晚点 | wǎn diǎn | (of trains etc) late / delayed / behind schedule |
| 最近 | zuì jìn | recently |
| 总是 | zǒng shì | always |
| 下雨 | xià yǔ | to rain |
| 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 |
| 外面 | wài miàn | outside |
| 这会儿 | zhè huì r | (coll.) now |
| 雨 | yǔ | rain |
| 下 | xià | to decline / to go down |
| 得 | de | structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc |
| 挺 | tǐng | (coll.) quite / very |
| 大 | dà | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest |
| 估计 | gū jì | to estimate; to assess; to calculate / (coll.) to reckon; to think (that ...) |
| 要 | yào | will; shall; about to / need to; should / if |
| 等 | děng | to wait for; to await |
| 两 | liǎng | two / both / some / a few |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 小时 | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 才 | cái | then and only then |
| 能 | néng | can / to be able to / might possibly |
| 去 | qù | to go, to go to |
| 星巴克 | Xīng bā kè | Starbucks, US coffee shop chain |
| 边 | biān | simultaneously |
| 喝 | hē | to drink |
| 咖啡 | kā fēi | (loanword) coffee |
| 好的 | hǎo de | okay; all right; got it |