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ID: 3087 Upper Intermediate
On a flight to Beijing, a nervous flyer ends up sitting next to a rather overbearing and talkative passenger who starts giving lots of travel tips.
Wed May 31 2017 | Constance Fang, Fiona Tian
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
趁 chèn to take advantage of a condition or an opportunity
宰 zǎi to kill; to rip off
凶 xiōng fierce
难如登天 nán rú dēngtiān lit: it is as hard as scaling the heavens; harder than making a pig fly
不好意思，能不能借我过一下，我想去趟洗手间…等一下好了，空服员像是要送餐了。
bùhǎoyìsi ，néngbùnéng jiè wǒ guò yīxià ，wǒ xiǎng qù tāng xǐshǒujiān …děng yīxià hǎo le ，kōngfúyuán xiàng shì yào sòng cān le 。
Excuse me, could you let me pass? I need to go to the bathroom...actually, I can wait a bit, the flight attendants seem like they are about to serve our meals.
您先去吧！趁空服员还没送到我们这边来，您赶紧去吧！没事儿。
nín xiān qù ba ！chèn kōngfúyuán hái méi sòngdào wǒmen zhèbiān lái ，nín gǎnjǐn qù ba ！méishìr 。
You go ahead! Go before the flight attendants come to where we are, you go ahead! No worries at all.
回到座位）谢谢你！他们果然还没送到我们这儿来，你真是专业乘客，你常飞北京吗？
huí dào zuòwèi ）xièxie nǐ ！tāmen guǒrán hái méi sòngdào wǒmen zhèr lái ，nǐ zhēn shì zhuānyè chéngkè ，nǐ cháng fēi Běijīng ma ？
(back at the seat) Thanks! You're right! They haven't arrived here yet. You really are a "professional passenger". Do you often fly to Beijing?
其实我是第一次到中国，有点紧张，听说有些地方宰观光客宰得很凶，连从机场打车到朋友家我都担心，不用说其他食衣住行的问题了。
qíshí wǒ shì dì yī cì dào Zhōngguó ，yǒudiǎnr jǐnzhāng ，tīngshuō yǒuxiē dìfang zǎi guānguāngkè zǎi de hěn xiōng ，lián cóng jīchǎng dǎchē dào péngyou jiā wǒ dōu dānxīn ，bùyòng shuō qítā shí yī zhù xíng de wèntí le 。
This is actually my first time in China. I'm a little nervous. I hear that some places really try and rinse tourists. I'm even worried about getting a taxi from the airport to my friend's house, let alone all the other problems I'm going to have with my entire time there.
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