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Mandarin Chinese · HSK 3.0 Band 3 · Chapter 37

看医生 Seeing the doctor

Kàn yīshēng

林雪 visits the doctor. Light intro to 被 + V (passive) and 被 + agent + V (agent-explicit form).

我被雨淋了 — I got caught in the rain

  1. 医生 zěnmele? What's wrong?
  2. 林雪 yǒudiǎngǎnmào, sou. A bit of a cold and a cough.
  3. 医生 zěnmeshēngbìngde? How did you fall ill?
  4. 林雪 qiántiānwǎnshàngbèilínle, xiàjiùlěngle. Got drenched in the rain two nights ago — got cold right away.
  5. 医生 méishāoba? No fever?
  6. 林雪 méi. dànshìtóubèifēngchuīyǒudiǎntòng. No. But my head is sore from the wind.
  7. 医生 chīdiǎnyào, duōshuǐ, duōxiūxi. píngshíduōduànliàn, zhùjiànkāng. Take some medicine, drink water, rest. Exercise regularly and look after your health.

被同事关心 — Colleagues care

  1. 林雪 jīntiānbèitóngshìguānxīnleshàng. Colleagues checked on me all morning.
  2. 医生 cuò. yǒurénguānxīnxīnqíngjiùhǎo. Nice. Mood's better when people care.
  3. 林雪 chīdeyàobèiwángmíngbāngmǎile. Wang Ming helped me buy the medicine.
  4. 医生 chīyàohòu, yīnggāibèiānjìngdefānghǎohǎoxiūxi. After the medicine you need a quiet place to rest.
  5. 林雪 jīntiāndehuìbèituīdàoxiàxīngle. I pushed today's meeting to next week.
  6. 医生 hǎo. shēnzuìzhòngyào. Good. Health comes first.
汉字พินอินชนิดคำความหมาย
生病 shēngbìng v. fall ill
医院 yīyuàn n. hospital (recall Bk1)
医生 yīshēng n. doctor (recall Bk1)
bèi prep. by (passive marker)
感冒 gǎnmào n. cold (illness)
咳嗽 késou n. cough
发烧 fāshāo n. fever
yào n. medicine (recall Bk1)
吃药 chī yào v. take medicine
n. rain (recall Bk1)
lín v. be drenched; soak
duō adv. more; many (recall Bk1)
shuǐ n. water (recall Bk1)
lěng n. cold (recall Bk1)
休息 xiūxi v. rest (recall ch04)
林雪 Lín Xuě pn. Lin Xue (persona — recall ch01)
汉字พินอินชนิดคำความหมาย
bèi passive marker
lín be drenched; soak
chuī blow

bèi passive marker เขียน

10 strokes left-right

bìng illness (in 生病) (recall Bk1) เขียน

10 strokes enclosure

gǎn feel (in 感冒) จดจำ

13 strokes top-bottom

mào come out; risk (in 感冒) จดจำ

9 strokes top-bottom

chuī blow จดจำ

7 strokes left-right

被 + V (light intro) — 被动句 被 + V (light intro) — passive construction

被字句的轻版: 主语 + 被 + V + (补语). 表示"主语被某人 / 某事影响 / 处置". 我被雨淋了 / 头被风吹得有点痛. 跟"把字句"对比 — 把字句强调"主语做了什么", 被字句强调"主语被怎么样了". 动词后一般要有补语 / 了 / 结果, 不能光说 "我被雨". 否定: 没被 + V. 本课只做轻介绍, 主要熟悉"被"的位置 — 完整学到 ch37 的 grammar-02 还会扩展到带主体的形式.

`Subject + 被 + V + (complement)` says "the subject is affected / acted upon". 我被雨淋了. Contrast with 把-construction: 把 = "subject does X to it"; 被 = "X is done to subject". The verb almost always needs a complement, 了, or result. Negate as 没被 + V. Light intro here — the agent-explicit version is grammar-02.

  • 我被雨淋了. Wǒ bèi yǔ lín le. I got caught in the rain.
  • 头被风吹得有点痛. Tóu bèi fēng chuī de yǒu diǎn tòng. My head is sore from the wind.
  • 钱被花完了. Qián bèi huā wán le. Money has been spent.
  • 门没被关好. Mén méi bèi guān hǎo. The door wasn't closed properly.

被 + 主体 + V — 加上"被谁做的" 被 + agent + V — adding "by whom"

上一课 (grammar-01) 的 被 + V 没说出"谁做的". 本课在 被 后面加主体: 被 + 谁/什么 + V. 我吃的药被王明买了 / 今天的会被我推到下个星期 / 我被同事关心了. 主体可以是人 (王明) 或物 (雨). 比起没主体的版本, 这个版本信息更全, 但是中文里 谁做的 经常省略 — 所以 grammar-01 的形式也是常见的. 否定: 没被 + 主体 + V (没被王明买).

Grammar-01 left out "who did it". This lesson plugs in the agent: `被 + N + V`. 我吃的药被王明买了. The agent can be a person (王明) or thing (雨). Often the agent is left out in Chinese — but when it matters, this is how you mark it. Negate: 没被 + agent + V.

  • 我吃的药被王明帮我买了. Wǒ chī de yào bèi Wáng Míng bāng wǒ mǎi le. Wang Ming helped buy the medicine.
  • 今天的会被我推到下个星期了. Jīntiān de huì bèi wǒ tuī dào xià ge xīngqī le. I pushed today's meeting to next week.
  • 门被风关上了. Mén bèi fēng guān shàng le. The wind shut the door.
  • 钱被孩子花完了. Qián bèi háizi huā wán le. The kid spent the money.

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