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这家店又便宜又好吃 This place is cheap AND tasty
Two grammar lessons: 又…又… ("both X and Y" — parallel-aspect descriptor) and the degree-adverb cluster 多么 / 十分 / 特别 / 挺 / 真的. Together they round out Level 2's evaluative vocabulary.
บทสนทนา
又便宜又好吃 — Both cheap and tasty
- 大卫 高文, 这家店怎么样? Gao Wen, how's this place?
- 高文 挺不错的. 又便宜又好吃. Pretty good. Both cheap and tasty.
- 大卫 真的吗? 那我们一定要去. Really? Then we have to go.
- 高文 是. 比别的店好, 我去过很多次了. Yes. Better than the other places — I've been there many times.
- 大卫 挺好. 出发! Great. Let's go!
บทสนทนา
多么漂亮的地方 — What a beautiful place
- 大卫 高文, 多么漂亮的地方! Gao Wen, what a beautiful place!
- 高文 这儿特别好. 春节的时候人很多. It's particularly nice here. Lots of people during Spring Festival.
- 大卫 真的吗? 我没去过春节的中国. Really? I've never been in China during Spring Festival.
- 高文 春节十分好. 又有人又有故事. Spring Festival is wonderful — both lots of people and lots of stories.
- 大卫 挺好的. 我也想去. Sounds great. I want to go too.
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没关系 — It's OK
- 大卫 高文, 这是我们的桌子吗? Gao Wen, is this our table?
- 高文 不对. 我们的桌子在那边. Not right. Our table is over there.
- 大卫 不好意思, 我错了. Sorry, I was wrong.
- 高文 没关系. 走过去吧. It's OK. Let's walk over.
- 大卫 好. 我跟你过去. OK. I'll come with you.
คำศัพท์
| 汉字 | พินอิน | ชนิดคำ | ความหมาย |
|---|---|---|---|
| 又 | yòu | adv. | again; also (chapter anchor in 又…又… pattern) |
| 多么 | duōme | adv. | how (exclamation degree adverb — "how X!" / "so X!") |
| 十分 | shífēn | adv. | very (formal / written register) |
| 特别 | tèbié | adv. | especially; particularly (revisit ch2; formal lesson here) |
| 挺 | tǐng | adv. | quite; pretty (colloquial degree) |
| 真的 | zhēn de | adv. | really; truly (high-frequency intensifier) |
| 真的吗 | zhēn de ma | exp. | really? (frequent reaction) |
| 不错 | búcuò | adj. | pretty good; not bad (revisit ch6; formal evaluative lesson here) |
| 错 | cuò | adj. | wrong; mistaken (pair with 对) |
| 对 | duì | adj. | right; correct (pair with 错) |
| 没关系 | méi guānxi | exp. | no problem; never mind; it's OK |
อักษรใหม่
| 汉字 | พินอิน | ชนิดคำ | ความหมาย |
|---|---|---|---|
| 挺 | tǐng | quite; pretty (colloquial degree) | |
| 春 | chūn | spring (in 春节, 春天) 春节 Chūnjié — Spring Festival; Chinese New Year (chapter cultural anchor)春天 chūntiān — spring (the season)春联 chūnlián — Spring Festival couplets | |
| 节 | jié | festival; segment (in 春节, 节日) 春节 Chūnjié — Spring Festival; Chinese New Year (chapter cultural anchor)季节 jìjié — season中秋节 Zhōngqiū jié — Mid-Autumn Festival | |
| 故 | gù | reason; deliberately (in 故意); old (in 故事) 故意 gùyì — on purpose; deliberately故事 gùshi — story故乡 gùxiāng — native place; old home (formal) |
อักษรจีน — เขียนและจดจำ
yòu again; also; both (chapter anchor in 又…又…) เขียน
zhēn real; really (Level 1 revisit; chapter intensifier) เขียน
cuò wrong; mistaken (pair with 对) เขียน
Phono-semantic compound: 钅 (metal) radical + 昔 (xī, phonetic). Original sense: "metals interlocking / cross-grained" → "out of alignment / wrong". Modern: "wrong / mistaken". Pair with 对 (right) for the basic evaluation axis. Note the idiom 不错 (ch6) = "pretty good / not bad" — not literally "not wrong", but a softer positive evaluation. Common confusion for learners.
duì right; correct (pair with 错) เขียน
对 originally meant "to face / respond to". Extended to "correct / agree" — paired with 错 as the basic evaluation axis. The character also has prepositional use (对…来说 = "for [someone]") which appears in higher levels; this chapter teaches only the "right / correct" evaluation use.
duō many; how (Level 1 revisit; in 多么) จดจำ
me particle (Level 1 revisit; in 多么 / 怎么 / 什么) จดจำ
shí ten (Level 1 revisit; in 十分) จดจำ
fēn minute; part (Level 1 revisit; in 十分) จดจำ
tè special (in 特别 — formal lesson revisit from ch2) จดจำ
tǐng quite; pretty (colloquial degree) จดจำ
kè guest; polite (in 客气 / 不客气 — ch13 vocab; appears here) จดจำ
qì air; gas; manner (in 客气 / 没关系 — ch13) จดจำ
ไวยากรณ์
又…又… — "both X and Y" 又…又… — listing two compatible features in parallel
"又 X 又 Y"把两个并行的特点放一起, 表示一个东西同时有两个特点——X 和 Y. 注意: (1) 两个 又 之间通常是形容词或动词短语, 不是名词. (2) 两个特点必须 兼容(都是好事或都是坏事), 不能矛盾. "又便宜又好吃"= compatible (both positives). "又冷又热"听起来奇怪——两个相反的特点不能并行. (3) 用于评价 / 描述, 不用于动作的进行.
又 X 又 Y puts two parallel features together: "both X and Y simultaneously". Two slot rules: (1) X and Y are usually adjectives or verb phrases, not nouns. (2) The two features must be COMPATIBLE — both positive or both negative; not opposites. 又便宜又好吃 ("cheap and tasty") works — both are positives. 又冷又热 ("cold and hot") sounds wrong — opposites can't parallel. (3) Used for description / evaluation, not for ongoing actions.
- 这家店又便宜又好吃. Zhè jiā diàn yòu piányi yòu hǎochī. This place is cheap AND tasty.
- 那本书又新又干净. Nà běn shū yòu xīn yòu gānjìng. That book is both new and clean.
- 北京又大又有很多老地方. Běijīng yòu dà yòu yǒu hěn duō lǎo dìfang. Beijing is both big and has lots of old places.
ไวยากรณ์
多么 / 十分 / 特别 / 挺 — degree adverbs 多么 / 十分 / 特别 / 挺 — degree adverbs (and registers)
四个程度副词都加在形容词前面表示"很 / 非常". 但是语体差异明显: (1) 多么——感叹"how X!" / "so X!", 常带感情. (2) 十分——很正式, 多用于书面或正式发言. (3) 特别——口语和书面都常用, "特别 X"= "particularly X". (4) 挺——非常口语化, "挺 X 的"是高频日常表达. 选择哪个看场合: 朋友聊天用"挺", 写作文用"十分", 描述自己的感受用"特别"或"多么". 不要把"十分"和很口语的句子搭配——会显得不自然.
Four degree adverbs that all mean "very / extremely" before an adjective, but with very different registers. (1) 多么 — exclamation "how X!" / "so X!"; emotional / expressive. (2) 十分 — formal / written-leaning; literally "ten parts" → "fully". (3) 特别 — works in both speech and writing; literally "particularly". (4) 挺 — heavily colloquial; "挺 X 的" is one of the most common conversational degree-frames. Pick by context: chatting with friends → 挺, writing an essay → 十分, expressing personal feelings → 特别 or 多么. Watch out: pairing 十分 with informal sentence-final particles (啊 / 嘛) sounds unnatural — register mismatch.
- 多么漂亮! Duōme piàoliang! How beautiful!
- 这家店特别好. Zhè jiā diàn tèbié hǎo. This place is particularly good.
- 挺不错的! Tǐng búcuò de! Pretty good!
- 十分干净. Shífēn gānjìng. Extremely clean. (formal)
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