重庆最近有一栋大楼”火”了。
这栋大楼一共有32层，每一层有23户，每户只有20平方米左右，一共住了700多户。
远看，这栋楼的窗户密密麻麻，像蜂巢一样，所以被称为“蜂巢”大楼。
在这里住的人大多数是附近的大学生和年轻的上班族。
这样的大楼以前在香港比较多，现在很多内地大城市也越来越多了。
因为城市发展快，房子也开始越来越贵，在大城市工作和上学的人不能负担，只能选择这种小房子居住。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 重庆 | Chóng qìng | Chongqing municipality (short name 渝[Yu2]) |
| 最近 | zuì jìn | recently |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 栋 | dòng | classifier for houses or buildings |
| 大楼 | dà lóu | building (a relatively large, multistory one) |
| 火 | huǒ | urgent / fiery or flaming / hot (popular) |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 一共 | yī gòng | in total; altogether |
| 层 | céng | layer; stratum / floor (of a building); story / (math.) sheaf |
| 每 | měi | each / every |
| 户 | hù | a household / door / family |
| 只 | zhǐ | only; merely; just |
| 平方 | píng fāng | square (as in square foot, square mile, square root) |
| 米 | mǐ | uncooked rice / meter (unit of length) / (slang) Chinese yuan |
| 左右 | zuǒ yòu | approximately |
| 住 | zhù | to live; to reside; to stay |
| 多 | duō | (after a numeral) ... odd |
| 远 | yuǎn | far / distant / remote |
| 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 |
| 楼 | lóu | house with more than 1 story / storied building / floor |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 窗户 | chuāng hu | window |
| 密密麻麻 | mì mi má má | numerous and close together; densely packed; thickly dotted |
| 像 | xiàng | to resemble / to be like / to look as if |
| 蜂巢 | fēng cháo | honeycomb; beehive |
| 一样 | yī yàng | just like |
| 所以 | suǒ yǐ | therefore / as a result / so |
| 被 | bèi | used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes |
| 称为 | chēng wéi | to be called; to be known as; to call it "..." |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 这里 | zhè lǐ | here |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 大多数 | dà duō shù | (great) majority |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 附近 | fù jìn | nearby; neighboring / (in the) vicinity (of); neighborhood |
| 大学生 | dà xué shēng | university student; college student |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 年轻 | nián qīng | young |
| 上班族 | shàng bān zú | office workers (as social group) |
| 这样 | zhè yàng | (before a noun) this kind of; such |
| 以前 | yǐ qián | before / formerly / previous / ago |
| 香港 | Xiāng gǎng | Hong Kong |
| 比较 | bǐ jiào | comparatively / relatively / quite |
| 现在 | xiàn zài | now; at present; currently |
| 很多 | hěn duō | many; a lot of |
| 内地 | Nèi dì | mainland China (PRC excluding Hong Kong and Macau, but including islands such as Hainan) |
| 大 | dà | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest |
| 城市 | chéng shì | city; town |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 越来越 | yuè lái yuè | more and more |
| 因为 | yīn wèi | because; owing to; on account of |
| 发展 | fā zhǎn | to develop / to grow / to expand |
| 快 | kuài | rapid / quick |
| 房子 | fáng zi | house / building (single- or two-story) / apartment / room |
| 开始 | kāi shǐ | to begin / to start |
| 贵 | guì | expensive |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | to work / (of a machine) to operate |
| 上学 | shàng xué | to go to school / to attend school |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 能 | néng | can / to be able to / might possibly |
| 负担 | fù dān | to bear (an expense, a responsibility etc) |
| 选择 | xuǎn zé | to select; to pick |
| 种 | zhǒng | classifier for types, kinds, sorts |
| 小 | xiǎo | small / tiny / few |
| 居住 | jū zhù | to reside / to dwell / to live in a place |