Intermediate - Domestic or Imported Vaccine? (C2486)

A: 明天要带宝宝去地段医院打疫苗针,你请好假了吗?
míngtiān yào dài bǎobao qù dìduànyīyuàn dǎ yìmiáozhēn, nǐ qǐng hǎo jià le ma?
Tomorrow you need to take the baby to the Neighbourhood Hospital to get vaccinated. Did you ask for time off?
B: 请好了,我请了一天的假。老婆,明天宝宝要打什么针?
qǐng hǎo le, wǒ qǐng le yī tiān de jià. lǎopó, míngtiān bǎobao yào dǎ shénme zhēn?
Yes, I asked for one day off. Honey, what injections is the baby getting tomorrow?
A: 我看一下哦,是乙肝疫苗。
wǒ kàn yīxià ò, shì yǐgān yìmiáo.
I'll take a look. It's the hepatitis B vaccine.
B: 哦。是免费的吧?
ò. shì miǎnfèi de ba?
Oh. It's free, right?
A: 有国产疫苗和进口疫苗。国产的是免费的。进口的要收费。
yǒu guóchǎn yìmiáo hé jìnkǒu yìmiáo. guóchǎn de shì miǎnfèi de. jìnkǒu de yào shōufèi.
There are Chinese-made and imported vaccines. The Chinese-made are free. There is a charge for the imported.
B: 那我们打国产的还是进口的?
nà wǒmen dǎ guóchǎn de háishì jìnkǒu de?
So are we getting the Chinese-made or the imported?
A: 打进口的吧。
dǎ jìnkǒu de ba.
The imported.
B: 可是我们家小朋友抵抗力挺好的,也不生病,没必要打进口的吧。
kěshì wǒmen jiā xiǎopéngyou dǐkànglì tǐng hǎo de, yě bù shēngbìng, méi 1 bìyāo dǎ jìnkǒu de ba.
But our little guy's resistance is very good and he doesn't get sick. It's not really necessary to get the imported one.
A: 用在孩子身上的钱不能省。进口疫苗贵是贵了点,但是应该更好更安全吧。一分价钱一分货。
yòng zài háizi shēnshàng de qián bùnéng shěng. jìnkǒu yìmiáo guì shì guì le diǎnr, dànshì yīnggāi gèng hǎo gèng ānquán ba. yīfēn jiàqián yīfēn huò.
We can't scrimp on the money we spend on our child. The imported vaccine is expensive, but it should be better and more safe. You get what you pay for.
B: 好吧,老婆大人,你说了算,听你的。
hǎo ba, lǎopó dàren, nǐ shuō le suàn, tīng nǐ de.
OK, boss. What you say goes. I will listen to you.

Key Vocabulary

地段医院 dìduànyīyuàn local hospital
疫苗针 yìmiáozhēn vaccine
to give or have (an injection)
zhēn injection
乙肝 yǐgān Hepatitis B
免费 miǎnfèi free
国产 guóchǎn domestically produced, made in China
进口 jìnkǒu imported
收费 shōufèi collect fees, to charge
小朋友 xiǎopéngyou kid
抵抗力 dǐkànglì resistance
必要 bìyāo necessary, essential
shěng to save, to economize
安全 ānquán safe
大人 dàren dear, honourable one
suàn to carry weight, to calculate or count

Supplementary Vocabulary

公立 gōnglì public
生产 shēngchǎn to produce
名词 míngcí noun
反义词 fǎnyìcí antonym
质量 zhìliàng quality
药厂 yàochǎng pharmaceutical factory
合资 hézī pool capital, joint venture
放心 fàngxīn to set one's mind at rest, have confidence in sb.

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