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A: 哎,先生小姐,要票嗎?最後兩張。

a¯ i, xia¯ nsheng xiaˇojie, ya`o pia`o ma? zu`ıho`u liaˇng zha¯ ng.

Hey! Sir, ma’am... do you need tickets? These are the last two.

B: 給我看看。喲,位子挺靠前的聽,多少錢一張?

geˇi woˇ ka`n kan. yo¯ , we`izi tˇıng ka`o qia´n de ma, duo¯ shao

qia´n y¯ı zha¯ ng?

Let me take a look. Wow, the seats are quite close to the front. How much are they a piece?

A: 800。放心,我這絕對是真票。

ba¯ baˇi. fa`ngx¯ın, woˇ

zhe`

jue´du`ı sh`ı zhe¯ n pia`o.

800. Relax, these are definitely real tickets.

B: 1000拿兩張吧。

y¯ıqia¯ n na´ liaˇng zha¯ ng ba.

1,000 for the two of them.

A: 不行,不行,我要虧的。

bu`

x´ıng, bu`

x´ıng, woˇ

ya`o ku¯ı de.

No way, no way. I’ll lose money.

B: 都開場10分鐘了,再不賣的話,虧得更多。

do¯ u ka¯ ichaˇng sh´ı fe¯ nzho¯ ng le, za`i bu` ge`ng duo¯ .

ma`i dehua`, ku¯ı de

It started ten minutes ago, if you don’t sell them you will lose even more money.

A: 算了,給你們吧!

sua`n le, geˇi nˇımen ba!

Forget it, I’ll give them to you!

B: 先讓我女朋友拿一張, 可以進去的話我再付你

錢。

xia¯ n ra`ng woˇ

nuˇ¨ pe´ngyou na´

y¯ı zha¯ ng, keˇyˇı j`ınqu`

dehua`

woˇ

za`i fu` nˇı qia´n.

First let my girlfriend take a ticket. If she can get in with it, I’ll pay you your money.

A: 嗯,也行,給你這張。看,她進去了。

ng, yeˇ

x´ıng, geˇi nˇı zhe`

zha¯ ng. ka`n, ta¯

j`ınqu`

le.

Uh... all right. Take this ticket. Look, she got in.

B: 好,給你錢。

haˇo, geˇi nˇı qia´n.

OK, here is your money.

C: 哎,哎,哎!你這是假票!不能進去。

a¯ i, a¯ i, a¯ i! nˇı zhe`

sh`ı jiaˇ

pia`o! bu`ne´ng j`ınqu`.

Hey, hey, hey! This is a fake ticket. You can’t go in!

B: 啊?又被黃牛騙了。

aˇ? yo`u be`i hua´ngniu´ pia`n le.

Huh? The scalpers swindled me again.

---Key Vocabulary---

pia`o ticket

最後 zu`ıho`u last

位子 we`izi seat

ka`o near

絕對 jue´du`ı absolutely

zhe¯ n real

jiaˇ fake

ku¯ı to lose money

開場 ka¯ ichaˇng to start an event

的話 dehua` if

fu` to pay

黃牛 hua´ngniu´ scalper

pia`n to cheat

---Supplementary Vocabulary---

演唱會 yaˇncha`nghu`ı concert

前排 qia´npa´i front row

後排 ho`upa´i back row

保證 baˇozhe`ng guarantee

緊急 jˇınj´ı urgent

周杰倫 Zho¯ u Jie´lu´n Jay Chou

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