大家好，欢迎回到中文播客。
我是Alice。
And I'm Joe.
Welcome back to ChinesePod.
Joe，你有没有发现大家走在路上都会戴一个东西？
你是说手机吗？
不是，是说这个。
Ah, we're speaking about Masks.
What's that in Chinese?
然后，
Oh yes, of course.
Given the recent pandemic, we have to
take temperatures pretty much everywhere.
When you go to the office, when you go to
the mall, with those temperature guns.
And that's what we're talking about today.
那我们开始吧！
Now that we've listened to the dialogue,
let's break it down line by line.
So this dialogue is happening in the morning
and you can probably tell that the people
involved are kind of familiar with each other,
because they're not too formal here.
有点像是同事在办公室里。
So maybe colleagues in the office,
or the front desk and a colleague,
something like that.
And the person the beginning
is asking for the mask.
So we have the new vocabulary
for "mask" which was
So
is "the mouth"
is "a cover".
So "the mouth, cover", "a mask".
我们现在也会看到
Okay, "面" is...
“脸”的意思。
So this is "a face cover".
Kind of like frontline health workers,
they have the
Like, this kind of shield-like,
mask cover, face cover.
Okay so this will be another one.
And in the question for that mask, the
person uses a particle in the end.
So this
is used for asking questions, similar
to the English ones, we have like
"and, that and that?"
So used to either change a topic or
to return questions to the sender,
like "and, you and that and that?"
in the end.
And there's another use of it which
we have in the next sentence.
So the intonation was a little different.
What.. can you tell me the first one
for the question one more time?
第一个是
第二个是
Okay the second one
is more making statements to
highlight and give emphasis.
So here it's like, "it's in the bag".
再来个例句，我常常听Joe说的话。
Come on I'm not saying it that often.
But the sentence here was "it's still early,
I don't want to go back home".
And we used the
to highlight this "it's still early", part, "还早呢".
或者，我们可以说，
So when somebody calls you during a meeting,
you can tell them, "I'm still in a meeting,
I will call you back later".
再来，他说
So it's like, "what use does it have in your bag, put it on".
And then he continues with a quite
difficult sentence afterwards,
what was that?
So this
what does it mean?
means "看".
Ah, so "see" or "look".
Ah, okay, so it's like "you see, I made you nervous".
So this "I made you nervous" part, there's
another structure that you have to know
in Chinese which is using the
particle.
And this particle is used to put the focus
of a sentence more on the result.
So how we use this, is normally we would
say "把" then plus the person or the
general topic of the sentence.
And then afterwards we have the result,
So here the result would be "nervous".
没错，
把你紧张的
我们也可以说，
So that would be, "you scared me".
或者，
"Make me excited".
或者
Or "make me happy", of course.
So here he used this question, like "I am...",
or the sentence, "I'm making you nervous",
to tease that other person little bit, but then
of course he puts on the mask and
still gets his temperature taken.
我量个额温
So here we have the verb
是可以量出数字的东西。
Okay, so this is used to say "measure",
and of course measuring something
that is has units or numbers.
So what would be some examples
that we can measure?
So "the height".
"The weight".
"Blood pressure".
或者
Ah, that was in the dialogue, so that was
额头的温度
So that's "the forehead temperature", together
额温
And what is the temperature now?
或者我们可以说
So those would be two ways of saying "36.5 degrees celcius".
What are the two ways again?
我们可以说，
或者
So then the teasing continues, and
this colleague actually uses the verb
one more time.
So he uses this question style of "不是..."
something, something, "吗", and this
question style that was used for
rhetorical questions or things that
you want to remind somebody of.
嗯。“不是吗？”是拿来点出大家都知道的事情。
So sometimes I hear questions using
this style when I forget things.
"Haven't I told you this already?"
Yeah, that's a rhetorical question.
Or, let's say I bought a new phone which
is maybe on the more expensive side,
what could you say?
"Isn't this quite expensive?"
And of course, what you wanna say with
this is maybe, "how can you afford this?"
So, even with all the teasing that's
going on here, we still according to
the SOP, have to go on.
So the first one was putting a mask on,
next one is taking the temperatures,
and then?
So "to use alcohol to disinfect your hands".
And let's talk about the vocabulary here,
the first one was...
Which is "alcohol",so either can be
disinfectant alcohol or the
actual alcohol in the liquor.
就像是伏特加有四十到五十度的酒精浓度。
下一个生词，
means "to eliminate".
means "poison".
So, "to disinfect".
And what do we disinfect here?
Our hands of course.
So what does
mean here?
的意思是“两只”。
Okay, so "a pair of something".
So here was "a pair of hands",
What other pairs do we have?
像是
"A pair of eyes"
or
"Two feet".
或者
That would be "my parents".
Okay, so after we've discussed all this,
let's go and check out the dialogue again.
In this class we have talked about the words
that are especially important in the
recent times of the current pandemic.
For instance we have talked about masks.
Or we had the word for taking forehead temperature.
And disinfect your hands.
Additionally, you have learned how to ask
rhetorical questions and how to use the
particle.
希望大家喜欢今天的课程，祝大家身体健康。
然后记得回到家第一件事情要洗手。
So everybody stay safe, and wash your hands.
If you have any questions, let us know
in the comments section below.
My name is Joe.
我是Alice。
See you next time.
拜拜！ 再见！