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You Look Exhausted!

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ID: 0043 Pre Intermediate
Now, we’d like to think that all of our listeners are hard-working, diligent employees, putting in 10 hours a day…and even if you’re not, we’ll help you tell someone about those long grueling hours at the office. In this podcast, learn to use Mandarin Chinese to talk about being too busy, and too tired. In this lesson, you will also learn how to tell someone to take a rest. Don’t work too hard (except at learning Mandarin)!
Sun Nov 13 2005 | Jenny, Ken
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
累 lèi tired
麻烦 máfan troublesome
下班 xiàbān to get off work
哎呀 āiyā good gracious
王小姐你好像很累。
Wáng Xiǎojie nǐ hǎoxiàng hěn lèi 。
Miss Wang you seem very tired.
对，我很累，我的工作很麻烦。我每天八点钟上班，六点钟下班。
duì ，wǒ hěn lèi ，wǒ de gōngzuò hěn máfan 。wǒ měitiān bā diǎnzhōng shàngbān ，liù diǎnzhōng xiàbān 。
Yes, I’m very tired. My work is very troublesome. Every day I start work at eight o’clock and finish at six o’ clock.
哎呀！太忙了！工作差不多十个小时，你应该休息。
āiyā ！tài máng le ！gōngzuò chàbuduō shí ge xiǎoshí ，nǐ yīnggāi xiūxi 。
Whoa! That’s too busy! That‘s more or less ten hours of work. You should rest.
我没有办法休息。
wǒ méiyǒu bànfǎ xiūxi 。
There’s no way I can rest.
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