吴小咪：爸爸，我和小宇下周考完试就放暑假了。
吴大伟：哦？
那你们有什么打算？
吴小宇：我们想去上海玩儿。
爸爸你觉得怎么样？
吴大伟：上海啊……
现在
正是上海很热的时候吧？吴小咪
：我查了上海最近两周的气温，都在35度左右，跟西安差不多。吴小宇
：爸爸，我们去吧！再说，
我们家都还没去过上海呢！是吧，
妈妈？马芳：
我觉得可以，我也想去上海看看。吴大伟
：好吧，那我们就下周去吧。你们看
机票了吗？吴小咪
：我看了下周五的航班，票价是930元一个人，有点儿贵。我们看看
火车票吧。吴大伟：
坐火车要很久吧？吴小咪：
从西安到上海要坐18个小时。马芳：那
也太久了！坐飞机才
三个小时。吴小咪：
没关系，我们可以买卧铺票，下午6点55分上车，睡一觉，第二天下午两点多就到了。硬卧523
块，软卧814块，我们买硬卧票还能省些钱。吴小宇：我们
再看看高铁票吧，高铁比普通火车快。你们看，坐高铁
只要8个小时。我们早上9点半
出发，下午5点半就能到。马芳：多少钱啊
？吴小宇：二等座
612块，一等座825块，商务座1020块。马芳：有什么不同
？吴小宇：商务座和
一等座不仅更宽敞、舒服，人也更少。马芳：商务座和一
等座听起来好是好，但是比二等座贵多了，买二等座就可以了。高铁上有吃的吗？
吴小宇：有盒饭，
有45块的，也有65块的。对了，也可以提前
订饭。马芳：还挺贵的。
那我们带点儿东西
在高铁上吃，下午到了上海再去饭馆吃。吴小宇：回程的票
我们买哪天的？吴大伟：我们下周五
去，在上海玩八天够了吧？可以买下下个周六的
票回来。吴小宇：好。你们把
身份证号告诉
我，我马上订票。对了，哥哥跟我们一起
去吗？马芳：他要上班，去不了
。吴小宇：好，那就买我们
四个人的票。吴小咪：你在哪个APP
上买？12306吗？吴小宇：
不，我在“去哪儿
”上买，我刚好有“去哪儿”的50元优惠券。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 吴小咪 | Wú Xiǎo mī | a name |
| 爸爸 | bà ba | (coll.) father; dad |
| 我 | wǒ | I; me; my |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 小宇 | Xiǎo yǔ | a personal name; Xiaoyu |
| 下 | xià | later / next (week etc) |
| 周 | zhōu | week |
| 考 | kǎo | to check / to verify / to test / to examine / to take an exam / to take an entrance exam for |
| 完 | wán | to finish / to be over |
| 试 | shì | experiment / examination / test |
| 就 | jiù | as soon as; immediately after |
| 放 | fàng | to release / to free / to let go / to let out |
| 暑 | shǔ | heat / hot weather / summer heat |
| 假 | jià | vacation |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 吴大伟 | Wú Dà wěi | A personal name, Wu Dawei. |
| 哦 | ó | oh (interjection indicating doubt or surprise) |
| 那 | nà | then (in that case) |
| 你们 | nǐ men | you (plural) |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 什么 | shén me | what? |
| 打算 | dǎ suàn | plan / intention / calculation |
| 吴小宇 | Wú Xiǎo yǔ | a Chinese personal name |
| 我们 | wǒ men | we; us; ourselves; our |
| 想 | xiǎng | to desire; to want (to) |
| 去 | qù | to go, to go to |
| 上海 | Shàng hǎi | Shanghai municipality |
| 玩儿 | wán r | to play / to have fun / to hang out |
| 你 | nǐ | you |
| 觉得 | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ... |
| 怎么样 | zěn me yàng | how? / how about? / how was it? / how are things? |
| 啊 | a | modal particle ending sentence, showing affirmation, approval, or consent |
| 现在 | xiàn zài | now; at present; currently |
| 正 | zhèng | exactly / just (at that time) / right (in that place) |
| 是 | shì | indeed (used for emphasis) |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 热 | rè | hot (of weather) |
| 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 |
| 吧 | ba | (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise) / ...right? / ...OK? / ...I presume. |
| 查 | chá | to research / to check / to investigate / to examine / to refer to / to look up |
| 最近 | zuì jìn | recently |
| 两 | liǎng | two / both / some / a few |
| 气温 | qì wēn | air temperature |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 度 | dù | degree (angles, temperature etc) / kilowatt-hour |
| 左右 | zuǒ yòu | approximately |
| 跟 | gēn | with / compared with / to / towards |
| 西安 | Xī ān | Xi'an, a major city in Shaanxi Province, China. |
| 差不多 | chà bu duō | about the same / good enough / not bad |
| 再说 | zài shuō | moreover / what's more / besides |
| 家 | jiā | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) |
| 还 | hái | still, still in progress, yet |
| 没 | méi | (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not |
| 过 | guo | (experienced action marker) |
| 呢 | ne | (sentence-final particle) indicating that a state or situation still holds |
| 妈妈 | mā ma | mama / mommy / mother |
| 马芳 | Mǎ Fāng | a personal name, Ma Fang |
| 可以 | kě yǐ | not bad / pretty good |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 看看 | kàn kan | to take a look at / to examine / to survey |
| 好 | hǎo | all right! |
| 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 |
| 机票 | jī piào | plane ticket; airline ticket |
| 吗 | ma | (question particle for "yes-no" questions) |
| 周五 | Zhōu wǔ | Friday |
| 航班 | háng bān | (scheduled) flight; (scheduled) sailing |
| 票 | piào | ticket / ballot / banknote / person held for ransom / amateur performance of Chinese opera |
| 价 | jià | price / value / (chemistry) valence |
| 元 | yuán | currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / era (of a reign) / (geology) eon |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 有点儿 | yǒu diǎn r | slightly / a little / somewhat |
| 贵 | guì | expensive |
| 火车 | huǒ chē | train |
| 坐 | zuò | to sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit |
| 要 | yào | will; shall; about to / need to; should / if |
| 久 | jiǔ | (of a period of time) long |
| 从 | cóng | from; through; via / (bound form) retainer; attendant / (bound form) assistant; auxiliary; subordinate / (bound form) related by common paternal grandfather or earlier ancestor |
| 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) |
| 小时 | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 太 | tài | too (much) / very / extremely |
| 飞机 | fēi jī | airplane |
| 才 | cái | (before an expression of quantity) only |
| 三 | sān | three / 3 |
| 没关系 | méi guān xi | it doesn't matter |
| 买 | mǎi | to buy / to purchase |
| 卧铺 | wò pù | a bed (on a train) / a couchette |
| 下午 | xià wǔ | afternoon / p.m. |
| 点 | diǎn | point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock |
| 分 | fēn | minute (unit of time) |
| 上车 | shàng chē | to get on or into (a bus, train, car etc) |
| 睡 | shuì | to sleep / to lie down |
| 觉 | jiào | a nap / a sleep |
| 第二 | dì èr | second / number two / next / secondary |
| 天 | tiān | day |
| 多 | duō | (after a numeral) ... odd |
| 硬卧 | yìng wò | hard sleeper (a type of sleeper train ticket class with a harder bunk) |
| 块 | kuài | classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc / (coll.) classifier for money and currency units |
| 软卧 | ruǎn wò | soft sleeper (a type of sleeper train ticket class with a softer bunk) |
| 能 | néng | can / to be able to / might possibly |
| 省 | shěng | to save; to economize; to be frugal / to omit; to delete; to leave out |
| 些 | xiē | classifier indicating a small amount or small number greater than 1: some, a few, several |
| 钱 | qián | coin / money / unit of weight, one tenth of a tael |
| 再 | zài | again; once more; re- |
| 高铁 | gāo tiě | high speed rail |
| 比 | bǐ | (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / (in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese) |
| 普通 | pǔ tōng | common / ordinary / general / average |
| 快 | kuài | rapid / quick |
| 只 | zhǐ | only; merely; just |
| 早上 | zǎo shang | early morning |
| 半 | bàn | (after a number) and a half |
| 出发 | chū fā | to set off / to start (on a journey) |
| 多少 | duō shao | how much?; how many? / what number? |
| 二 | èr | two / 2 |
| 等 | děng | (bound form) class; rank; grade |
| 座 | zuò | seat |
| 商务 | shāng wù | commercial |
| 不同 | bù tóng | different / distinct / not the same / not alike |
| 不仅 | bù jǐn | not just; not limited to / (as a correlative conjunction) not only (..., but also ...) |
| 更 | gèng | more / even more / further / still / still more |
| 宽敞 | kuān chang | spacious / wide |
| 舒服 | shū fu | comfortable / feeling well |
| 少 | shǎo | few / less |
| 听 | tīng | to listen to; to hear |
| 起来 | qǐ lái | indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement / indicating completion / expressing preliminary judgment |
| 但是 | dàn shì | but; however |
| 上 | shàng | (noun suffix) on; above |
| 吃 | chī | to eat; to consume / to eat at |
| 盒饭 | hé fàn | meal in a partitioned box |
| 对了 | duì le | Oh, that's right, ... (when one suddenly remembers sth one wanted to mention) / Oh, by the way, ... |
| 提前 | tí qián | in advance |
| 订 | dìng | to agree / to conclude / to draw up / to subscribe to (a newspaper etc) / to order |
| 饭 | fàn | meal |
| 挺 | tǐng | (coll.) quite / very |
| 带 | dài | to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear / to bring |
| 点儿 | diǎn r | erhua |
| 东西 | dōng xi | thing / stuff / person |
| 饭馆 | fàn guǎn | restaurant |
| 回程 | huí chéng | return trip |
| 哪 | nǎ | which |
| 玩 | wán | to play / to have fun / to trifle with / to keep sth for entertainment |
| 八 | bā | eight |
| 够 | gòu | enough (sufficient) / enough (too much) |
| 周六 | Zhōu liù | Saturday |
| 回 | huí | to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return |
| 来 | lái | hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker) |
| 把 | bǎ | (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}) |
| 身份证 | shēn fèn zhèng | identity card / ID |
| 号 | hào | (bound form) bugle; trumpet / (bound form) signal; bugle call / (bound form) mark; sign / (bound form) name; appellation / (after a numeral) number designation / day of the month / (bound form) size; type; category |
| 告诉 | gào su | to tell; to inform; to let know |
| 马上 | mǎ shàng | at once / right away / immediately |
| 哥哥 | gē ge | older brother |
| 一起 | yī qǐ | together; in company (with) |
| 他 | tā | he; him; his |
| 上班 | shàng bān | to go to work / to be on duty / to start work / to go to the office |
| 不了 | bù liǎo | (as a resultative verb suffix) unable to (do sth) |
| 四 | sì | four / 4 |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 去哪儿 | qù nǎr | where to go; also the name of the travel service Qunar |
| 刚好 | gāng hǎo | to happen to be |
| 优惠券 | yōu huì quàn | coupon |