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When the Taxi Takes the Long Way

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ID: 0514 Upper Intermediate
Though it’s hard to imagine ever completely getting your bearings in a massive Chinese city, you may from time to time get an inkling that something is wrong when you’ve passed Tiananmen Square for the third time on different sides of the taxi. In this podcast is a lesson in Mandarin Chinese to help you in the unforeseen event of the driver “taking the long route”.
Sun May 13 2007 | Jenny, John
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
明明 míngmíng obviously
自作主张 zìzuòzhǔzhāng to act on one's own
高峰 gāofēng peak
耽误 dānwu to delay
师傅，你怎么走这里啊？
shīfu ，nǐ zěnme zǒu zhèlǐ ā ？
Driver, how come you're going this way?
那条路在修，只好走这条了。
nà tiáo lù zài xiū ，zhǐhǎo zǒu zhè tiáo le 。
That road is under construction, so we have to go this way.
我前天才走过，明明可以走的嘛。
wǒ qiántiān cái zǒu guo ，míngmíng kěyǐ zǒu de ma 。
The day before yesterday I just went that way. It was clearly fine.
就是昨天才开始修的。我天天在路上跑，不会胡说的。
jiùshì zuótiān cái kāishǐ xiū de 。wǒ tiāntiān zài lùshang pǎo ，bùhuì húshuō de 。
Yeah, they just started yesterday. I'm on these roads every day. I know what I'm talking about.
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