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Chinese Charactor – Hotel – Learn Chinese online

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Introduction:

In big cities, such as Beijing or Shanghai, with many tourist attractions, hotels have become the temporarily accommodation for moderately paid ordinary tourists, which are cheaper than star-rated hotels, but provide worse environment than the latter, with public toilets or bathing rooms only.

Text:

Pinyin: 旅馆 [lǚguǎn]

Grammar:

[lǚ]: 旅行[lǚxíng] (travel), 旅客[lǚkè] (traveler)

[guǎn]: 饭馆 [fànguǎn](restaurant), 旅馆[lǚguǎn] (hotel), 图书馆 [túshūguǎn](library)

Common collocation:

一家旅馆[yìjiā lǚguǎn](a hotel)

住旅馆[zhùlǚguǎn](stay in a hotel)

Wǒ zànshí zhùzài lǚguǎn lǐ。

暂时 住在 旅馆 里。

I am staying in at the hotel temporarily.

Characters:

(Source: resource.chinese.cn)

HSK – 蜡[zhà, là] – Chinese Pinyin

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

wax
candle

例句与用法:

  1. 人们总是把老师比喻为燃烧的烛。Teachers are often compared to burning candles.
  2. 烛被风吹灭了。The candle was blown out by the wind.
  3. 他一口气吹灭了烛。He blew out the candles with a single puff.
  4. 他把烛放在银烛台上。He put the candle on the silver candlestick.
  5. 他点燃了生日蛋糕上的小烛。He lit the candles on the birthday cake.
  6. 我们点燃了烛,蜡烛照亮了房间。We lit the candle and the candle lit the room.
  7. 烛是由石蜡做成的。Candles are made of paraffin wax.
  8. 他点燃了一支烛。He lit up a wax candle.

(Source: dict.cn)