Intermediate - Souvenirs of your Baby's Birth (C2600)

A: 老公,宝宝马上就要周岁了,我想为他做个纪念品来纪念一下。
lǎogōng, bǎobao mǎshàng jiùyào zhōusuì le, wǒ xiǎng wèi tā zuò gè jìniànpǐn lái jìniàn yīxià.
Darling, the baby is almost one, I want to make him a souvenir for him to remember it by.
B: 好啊!要不做宝宝印吧,可以留下宝宝的手印和脚印,挺有意义的。
hǎo a! yàobu zuò bǎobao yìn ba, kěyǐ liúxià bǎobao de shǒuyìn hé jiǎoyìn, tǐng yǒuyìyì de.
OK! What about a making a baby print, we could make a hand print and a footprint, it sounds cool.
A: 这个很无聊。宝宝出生那会儿我就不想做这个,所以选择做了胎毛笔。
zhè ge hěn wúliáo. bǎobao chūshēng nà huìr5 wǒ jiù bù xiǎng zuò zhè ge, suǒyǐ xuǎnzé zuò le tāimáobǐ.
That's kind of boring. I didn't even want to do it when the baby was born, so I chose to have the brush made of baby hair.
B: 哎,我有个好主意。我们做个周岁成长影集,选有意义的照片,比如满月、一百天、六个月、长牙的照片等等,到周岁那天再去拍两张照片,把这些照片放在一起制作一个影集。
āi, wǒ yǒu gè hǎo zhǔyi. wǒmen zuò gè zhōusuì chéngzhǎng yǐngjí, xuǎn yǒuyìyì de zhàopiàn, bǐrú mǎnyuè、 yībǎi tiān、 liù gè yuè、 zhǎng yá de zhàopiàn děngdeng, dào zhōusuì nà tiān zài qù pāi liǎng zhāng zhàopiàn, bǎ zhèxiē zhàopiàn fàng zàiyīqǐ zhìzuò yī gè yǐngjí.
Oh! I have an idea. We could make a photo album for his first birthday and choose significant photos, like when he was a month old, one hundred days, six months and when he got his teeth, up until his first birthday when we'd take some pictures and put them altogether in the album.
A: 嗯,这个听上去不错!
ng4, zhè ge tīngshàngqù bùcuò!
Hmm, that sounds quite good!

Key Vocabulary

周岁 zhōusuì one year of age
纪念品 jìniànpǐn momentos
yìn print
意义 yìyì meaning
无聊 wúliáo boring
胎毛笔 tāimáobǐ a writing brush made of baby hair
成长 chéngzhǎng to grow up
影集 yǐngjí photo album
满月 mǎnyuè when a baby is a month old
制作 zhìzuò to make

Supplementary Vocabulary

传统 chuántǒng tradition
满月酒 mǎnyuèjiǔ wine traditionally drunk to celebrate a baby's survival to one month old or the celebration at which it is drunk
打印 dǎyìn to print; to make a print
喜酒 xǐjiǔ wine traditionally drunk to celebrate a wedding or the celebration at which it is drunk
书法 shūfǎ calligraphy
模型 móxíng model
产业 chǎnyè industry

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