Lesson 361: Notes
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1. Compare the following two sentences:
a. Qímòkǎo zhōngyú kǎo wán le .
b. Qímòkǎo zhōngyú jiù yào kǎo wán le .
The addition of the extra characters jiù yào indicates that the action has not happened yet, but is about to.
Similarly, compare the following sentences:
a. Xuéxiào yě jiù yào kāishǐ fàng shǔjià le .
b. Xuéxiào yě kāishǐ fàng shǔjià le .
2. We’ve seen the character tí before in tíkuǎn . Here we see it used in Wǒ xiǎng bǎ píngcháng cún de qián tí yī bùfèn chūlái .
3. Just like how in English, we use synonyms of words to avoid repeating ourselves, and to improve the quality of writing, the same thing happens in Chinese. In this conversation, both jìhuà and dǎsuàn have similar meanings, and are used together in the sentence Jīnnián shŭjià yǒu jìhuà chūguó lǚxíng ，dǎsuàn dàochù zǒu zǒu kàn kàn .
Shùnbiàn is used in situations where a person is already doing something else and can add a task without much effort. An example might be buying something on the way home. In the dialogue we hear dǎsuàn dàochù zǒu zǒu kàn kàn ，shùnbiàn fàngsōng xīnqíng . In this example, the speaker gets to relax without any added effort, since he is already out traveling.
We also get an explanation of this concept later in this lesson:
Wǒmen wèile bú làngfèi shíjiān huò ràng shìqíng gèng fāngbiàn ，zài zuò yī jiàn shìqíng de shíhòu ，kěyǐ shùnbiàn zuò bié jiàn shìqíng .
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