Intermediate - Romance in the Beauty Pageant (C0697)

A刘小姐,你的表现越来越好了。
Liú xiǎojie, nǐ de biǎoxiàn yuèláiyuè hǎo le.
Miss Liu, you are doing better and better.
B谢谢!请问您贵姓?
xièxie! qǐng wèn nín guìxìng?
Thank you! May I ask your last name?
A我叫周鹏。我的公司是这次比赛的赞助商。我很看好你。
wǒ jiào Zhōu Péng. wǒ de gōngsī shì zhècì bǐsài de zànzhùshāng. wǒ hěn kànhǎo nǐ.
I'm Zhou Peng. My company is the sponsor for this competition. I'm impressed by you.
B谢谢周先生。
xièxie Zhōu xiānsheng.
Thank you, Mr. Zhou.
A哎,别这样叫我。好像我很老。
āi, bié zhèyàng jiào wǒ. hǎoxiàng wǒ hěn lǎo.
Ah, don't call me that. It makes me sound old.
B我绝对没有那个意思。
wǒ juéduì méiyǒu nàge yìsi.
That was totally not what I meant.
A你为什么来参加选美?
nǐ wèishénme lái cānjiā xuǎnměi?
Why did you decide to be in the beauty pageant?
B我主要是想宣传我的博客。可是没想到,这个比赛最重要的还是选美,不是博客。
wǒ zhǔyào shì xiǎng xuānchuán wǒ de bókè. kěshì méixiǎngdào, zhège bǐsài zuì zhòngyào de háishì xuǎnměi, bùshì bókè.
It was mostly to promote my blog. But I never imagined that the main thing in this pageant is beauty, not blogs.
A你很有想法,也很单纯。和其他女孩子不一样。
nǐ hěn yǒu xiǎngfǎ, yě hěn dānchún. hé qítā nǚháizi bù yīyàng.
You have your opinions, and you're very naive. You're not like the other girls.
B可是这样很难生存下去。
kěshì zhèyàng hěn nán shēngcún xiàqu.
But it's hard to survive as I am.
A谁说的?做自己最重要。
shéi shuō de? zuò zìjǐ zuì zhòngyào.
Says who? Being yourself is what's most important.
B谢谢你的鼓励。很久没有听到这样的话了。 
xièxie nǐ de gǔlì. hěn jiǔ méiyǒu tīngdào zhèyàng de huà le.
Thank you for your encouragement. I haven't heard that kind of talk in a while.
A刘佳,你明天晚上有空吗?我们一起吃饭吧。
Liú Jiā, nǐ míngtiān wǎnshang yǒukòng ma? wǒmen yīqǐ chīfàn ba.
Liu Jia, are you free tomorrow night? Let's have dinner together.
B唔......
ng......
Ummm...
A你别怕,我不是花花公子。我觉得我们很谈得来。而且我想多了解你的博客。
nǐ bié pà, wǒ bù shì huāhuāgōngzǐ. wǒ juéde wǒmen hěn tándelái. érqiě wǒ xiǎng duō liǎojiě nǐ de bókè.
Don't be afraid. I'm not a playboy. I think we get along well. Plus I want to know more about your blog.
B好吧。
hǎoba.
Well, OK.

Key Vocabulary

表现biǎoxiànperformance
看好kànhǎoimpressed with
绝对juéduìtotally
宣传xuānchuánto promote
想法xiǎngfǎopinion
单纯dānchúnnaive
生存shēngcúnto survive
鼓励gǔlìencouragement
花花公子huāhuāgōngzǐplayboy
谈得来tándeláito get along well
了解liǎojiěto understand

Supplementary Vocabulary

罗曼蒂克luómàndìkèromantic
浪漫làngmànromantic
与众不同yǔzhòngbùtóngan original; different from others