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Rookie driver’s conversation 无人驾驶 解放菜鸟

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ID: 4185 Upper Intermediate
滴滴滴，新手上路......我们把刚刚学会开车、开得还不太好的人叫做“新手”或者“菜鸟”，技术要是实在太差，那可能就是“马路杀手”啦！ 来听听这一课，看看中文里可以怎样幽默地讽刺自己的伙伴吧～ A fun and useful lesson to learn Mandarin vocabulary on driving from a rookie driver! And how to be “humorously sarcastic” in Mandarin.
Fri May 03 2019 | Mikkelson, Peony
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
僵硬 jiāngyìng stiff
驾照 jiàzhào driver's license
副 fù secondary; auxiliary; deputy
扬言 yángyán to put about (a story, plan, threat etc); to let it be known (esp. of threat or malicious story); to threaten
哎哎哎，又忘记先拉手刹了！
āi āi āi ，yòu wàngjì xiān lā shǒushā le ！
Hey you forgot to pull the hand brake again!
原来如此，我就说怎么车走得这么僵硬呢。
yuánlái rúcǐ ，wǒ jiù shuō zěnme chē zǒu de zhème jiāngyìng ne 。
No wonder! I was thinking why the car is moving slowly.
真不知道你的驾照是怎么考出来的，每次做你的副驾，比我自己开车还要紧张。
zhēn bù zhīdào nǐ de jiàzhào shì zěnme kǎo chūlái de ，měicì zuò nǐ de fù Jià ，bǐ wǒ zìjǐ kāichē huán yào jǐnzhāng 。
I really don't know how you got your driver's license. Whenever I’m your co driver I’m more nervous than when I’m driving myself.
你还敢提驾照，是谁在我准备学车的时候扬言说，我要是能学会开车他就倒着走的？
nǐ hái gǎn tí jiàzhào ，shì shéi zài wǒ zhǔnbèi xué chē de shíhou yángyán shuō ，wǒ yàoshi néng xuéhuì kāichē tā jiù dào zhe zǒu de ？
You dare to mention the driver's license. When I was preparing to learn to drive, who was it that said if I could learn to drive, he would go backwards?
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