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Ordering Office Supplies

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ID: 0349 Intermediate
You’re dealing with four tones, thousands upon thousands of words, and you’re going to try and shop for your own office supplies? Listen in to this podcast to learn how to order some very essential office supplies in Mandarin Chinese. Or better yet, a lesson on making someone else go to pick up those ballpoint pens, printer paper and markers for you!
Wed Nov 29 2006 | Jenny, John
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办公用品 bàngōngyòngpǐn office supplies
用完 yòng wán to use up
登记 dēngjì to register
订 dìng to order
小张，我们的办公用品又快用完了。你过来登记一下要订的东西。哎，这家供货商怎么样啊？
Xiǎo Zhāng ，wǒmen de bàngōngyòngpǐn yòu kuài yòng wán le 。nǐ guòlai dēngjì yīxià yào dìng de dōngxi 。āi ，zhè jiā gōnghuòshāng zěnmeyàng ā ？
Miss Zhang, our office supplies are almost used up again. Come over and itemize what we need to order. Hmm, how is this supplier?
挺好的。质量有保证，价钱又公道，而且送货快，售后服务也不错。
tǐng hǎo de 。zhìliàng yǒu bǎozhèng ，jiàqian yòu gōngdao ，érqiě sònghuò kuài ，shòuhòu fúwù yě bùcuò 。
Quite good. Their quality is garanteed. Their prices are fair and they delivery is fast. Their after-sale service is also pretty good.
这样就好。嗯，我们需要两箱A4打印纸，十盒圆珠笔，五十支马克笔。哎，你想想我们还缺些什么？
zhèyàng jiù hǎo 。ng4 ，wǒmen xūyào liǎng xiāng A sì dǎyìn zhǐ ，shí hé yuánzhūbǐ ，wǔshí zhī mǎkèbǐ 。āi ，nǐ xiǎng xiang wǒmen hái quē xiē shénme ？
That’s good. Hmm, we need two boxes of A4 printer paper, 10 boxes of ballpoint pens, 50 markers. Hey, you think about it… what else do we still need?
我们还需要十盒订书钉，一百个文件夹，还要五十卷透明胶。
wǒmen hái xūyào shí hé dìngshūdīng ，yībǎi ge wénjiànjiā ，háiyào wǔshí juǎn tòumíng jiāo 。
We also need 10 boxes of staples, 100 file folders, and 50 rolls of cellophane tape.
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