Intermediate - The Kindle (C1719)

A: 哎,你这是什么东西啊?
āi, nǐ zhè shì shénme dōngxi a?
Hey, what do you have here?
B: Kindle!
Kindle!
A Kindle!
A: Kindle?干什么用的?
Kindle? gàn shénme yòng de?
A Kindle? What do you do with it?
B: 看电子书的啊!我刚买的。
kàn diànzǐshū de a! wǒ gāng mǎi de.
Read e-books! I just bought it.
A: 那怎么看起来旧旧的?一点都不光滑。不会是假的吧?
nà zěnme kàn qǐlái jiù jiù de? yīdiǎn dōu bù guānghuá. bùhuì shì jiǎ de ba?
Then why does it look so old? It's not shiny at all. It's not fake, is it?
B: 怎么会!我专门托朋友从美国带回来的。
zénme huì! wǒ zhuānmén tuō péngyou cóng Měiguó dài huílái de.
No way! I specifically had my friend bring it back from America for me.
A: 反正我是怎么看怎么奇怪。多少钱买的?
fǎnzhèng wǒ shì zěnme kàn zěnme qíguài. duōshǎo qián mǎi de?
Well, no matter how I look at it I still think it's strange. How much did you pay for it?
B: 一千多点儿。
yīqiān duō diǎnr.
A little more than a thousand.
A: 真是有钱人啊!一千多都可以买一书柜的书了。
zhēn shì yǒuqián rén a! yīqiān duō dōu kěyǐ mǎi yī shūguì de shū le.
You really do have a lot of money! For more than a thousand yuan you could buy a whole bookshelf of books.
B: 那不一样好不好?难道你每天带着书柜走路啊?
nà bù yīyàng hǎo bu hǎo? nándào nǐ měitiān dài zhe shūguì zǒu lù a?
That's different, OK? What, are you going to carry around a bookshelf of books wherever you go?
A: 哎,老实说,你有没有后悔?
āi, lǎoshi shuō, nǐ yǒumeiyǒu hòuhuǐ?
OK. Seriously though, do you regret it?
B: 我才不后悔呢。现在它是我的最爱。哎,你别乱动!
wǒ cái bù hòuhuǐ ne. xiànzài tā shì wǒ de zuì ài. āi, nǐ bié luàn dòng!
I don't regret it at all. It's my favorite thing right now. Hey, don't mess with it!

Key Vocabulary

东西 dōngxi thing
电子书 diànzǐshū e-book
gāng just recently
看起来 kàn qǐlái to appear, to seem
jiù old, used
一点都不 yīdiǎn dōu bù not at all
光滑 guānghuá shiny
jiǎ fake
专门 zhuānmén specifically
tuō to entrust
反正 fǎnzhèng anyway
奇怪 qíguài strange
书柜 shūguì bookcase
难道 nándào can it be that
带着 dài zhe to bring
老实说 lǎoshi shuō to be frank
后悔 hòuhuǐ to regret
cái only
最爱 zuì ài favorite
luàn carelessly
dòng to move

Supplementary Vocabulary

亚马逊 Yàmǎxùn Amazon.com
金读 Jīndú Kindle
长城 Chángchéng the Great Wall
生日蛋糕 shēngrì dàngāo birthday cake
结构 jiégòu structure
书架 shūjià bookcase
反问 fǎnwèn rhetorical question
明显 míngxiǎn clear, obvious

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