大腕 (dàwàn) Top Notch
“大腕 (dàwàn)” is the phrase for “Top notch.” The character “大 (dà)” means
big or great and “腕 (wàn)” means wrist. Example: Chéng Lóng shì yǎnyìjiè de dàwàn. 成龙是演艺界的大腕。
Jackie Chan is a top notch star in film industry. Got questions?
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Key Learning Points (Preview):
超出……接受范围 (chāochū…jiēshòu fànwéi) Go beyond/be out of the acceptable range of…
闹市区 (nàoshìqū) Downtown area
核心竞争力 (héxīn jìngzhēnglì) Core competitiveness
Recently, KFC restaurants are reported to have to move frequently in some areas of China. Why does such a fast-food giant have to face this embarrassing situation?…
Windows 7 was released in China on October 23rd. Because of the incompatibility problems, its preceding edition Vista was questioned and 戏称(xìchēng) jokingly called 围死它(wéi sĭ tā) besiege it to death by some Chinese users. The pronunciation of Vista sounds like the pronunciation of a Chinese expression 围死它(wéi sĭ tā).…
Nowadays more and more people are beginning to learn Chinese. For the most part, they are only focusing on learning how to speak Chinese. But concerning using this language, they also need to learn Chinese writing. Writing can reflect a writer’s power of thought and language organization skills.…
(Click in the arrow to listen how to pronounce the word in Mandarin)…
Bă cíyŭ zŭchéng jùzi, zài jiāshàng biāodiăn. 1. 把 词语 组成 句子，再 加上 标点。 暑假 愉快 你 祝 __________________________________ 下午 时间 有 吗 你好 __________________________________ 你们 荣幸 见到 我 非常 感到 __________________________________ 欢迎 北京 你 __________________________________ 高兴 您 认识 很 你好 __________________________________ 第 奥运会 北京 29届 举行 在 __________________________________ 你 晚会 吗 参加 圣诞节 喜欢 __________________________________ 修一下 坏了 请你 车 我 的 __________________________________ 节日 中国 春节 是 的 传统 __________________________________ Dúyidú, zhào yàngzi găixiĕ jùzi.…
The competition between search engines 百度(bǎidù) Baidu and 谷歌(gŭgē) Google is always a hot topic. As the most popular Chinese search engine in the world, 百度(bǎidù) Baidu recently published its new platform concept-框计算(kuàng jìsuàn) Box Computing, which obviously challenges the 云计算(yún jìsuàn) Cloud Computing platform from the largest international search engine 谷歌(gŭgē) Google.…
iPhone is increasingly getting popular among young people in China. Recently, China Unicom is negotiating with Apple Computer in a deal that intends to introduce iPhone to the China market. It is estimated that if the deal goes through, iPhone’s sales in China is expected to 直线上升(zhíxiàn shàngshēng) increase substantially with people’s 追捧(zhuīpěng) enthusiasm over the product .…
Beginner Level / 初级chūjí
Fú wù yuán: Xiānsheng, nínhăo, nín xūyào diăn shénme? 服务员：先生， 您好， 您需要点什么？ Waiter: Sir, can I help you please?
Gù kè: Wŏ yào yí fèn niúpái. 顾客：我要一份牛排。 Customer: I’d like a steak.
Fú wù yuán: Hăo de, qĭng shāoděng. 服务员：好的，请稍等。 Waiter: Ok, wait for a moment, please.…
