Intermediate - Pageant Final Episode (C0901)

A 佳佳,你听说了吗?
Jiājia, nǐ tīngshuō le ma?
Jiajia, did you hear?
B 什么事?
shénme shì?
What is it?
A 博客小姐的冠军是假的。
bókè xiǎojie de guànjūn shì jiǎ de.
The Miss Blogger champion is a phony.
B 什么意思啊?
shénme yìsi a?
What do you mean?
A 那个女孩儿的博客是枪手帮她写的。
nà ge nǚháir de bókè shì qiāngshǒu bāng tā xiě de.
That girl's blog was written by someone else.
B 还好我退出了。这样的比赛,太没水平了。
háihǎo wǒ tuìchū le. zhèyàng de bǐsài, tài méi shuǐpíng le.
Good thing I withdrew. This kind of competition has no standards at all.
A 是啊,想当初我还鼓励你去呢。
shì a, xiǎng dāngchū wǒ hái gǔlì nǐ qù ne.
Yeah. And originally it was me that encouraged you to enter.
B 哎,我们都太天真了。
āi, wǒmen dōu tài tiānzhēn le.
Sigh. We are just so naive.
A 是啊。这个比赛太没意思了。
shì a. zhè ge bǐsài tài méi yìsi le.
Yeah. This pageant is just so lame.
B 嗯,真是浪费我的青春。
ng4, zhēnshì làngfèi wǒ de qīngchūn.
Uh-huh. It's a waste of my youth.

Key Vocabulary

博客 bókè blog
冠军 guànjūn champion
jiǎ fake
枪手 qiāngshǒu to do something in place of someone
还好 háihǎo fortunately
退出 tuìchū to withdraw
比赛 bǐsài competition
没水平 méi shuǐpíng to have no standards
当初 dāngchū at the time
鼓励 gǔlì to encourage
天真 tiānzhēn naive
浪费 làngfèi to waste
青春 qīngchūn youth
没意思 méi yìsi lame, boring

Supplementary Vocabulary

有水平 yǒu shuǐpíng to have standards
青春期 qīngchūnqī adolescence
情歌 qínggē love song
新疆 Xīnjiāng Xinjiang
歌词 gēcí lyrics
大结局 dàjiéjú final outcome