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@ 41238 Love Tangle 2
A: 喂？
wéi?
Hello?
B: 璐璐，是你嗎？
Lùlu, shì nǐ ma?
Lulu, is that you?
A: 你是......?
nǐ shì......?
You are…?
B: 我是馮帥啊！我到北京來出差，你什麼時候有空，我們見個面吧。
wǒ shì Féng shuài a! wǒ dào Běijīng lái chūchāi, nǐ shénme shíhou yǒukòng, wǒmen jiàn gè miàn ba.
This is Feng Shuai! I’ve come to Beijing on a business trip. When you’re free, let’s meet up.
A: 我，我最近很忙，沒時間。
wǒ, wǒ zuìjìn hěn máng, méishíjiān.
I, uh, I’m very busy these days. I don’t have the time.
B: 我們十年沒見了，就算普通同學，你也得招待一下吧。你公司在哪兒，到時候我去接你。
wǒmen shí nián méi jiàn le, jiùsuàn pǔtōng tóngxué, nǐ yě děi zhāodài yīxià ba. nǐ gōngsī zài nǎr, dào shíhou wǒ qù jiē nǐ.
We haven’t seen each other for ten years. Even if we were just regular classmates, you’d still have to show me a good time, right? Where’s your company—when the time comes I’ll go there to pick you up.
A: 我真的不方便。
wǒ zhēnde bù fāngbiàn.
This really doesn’t work for me.
B: 好吧。我不勉強你。不過每天晚上我都會在學校前門的老地方等你。就這樣定了，你先忙吧。
hǎo ba. wǒ bù miǎnqiǎng nǐ. bùguò měitiān wǎnshang wǒ dōu huì zài xuéxiào qiánmén de lǎo dìfang děng nǐ. jiù zhèyàng dìng le, nǐ xiān máng ba.
Fine. I won’t twist your arm. But I’ll go to our old place at the front gate of the school every night to wait for you. Let’s leave it at this. Carry on with your business.
B: 璐璐，你終於來了！
Lùlu, nǐ zhōngyú lái le!
Lulu, you’ve finally come!
A: 老同學來出差嘛！我怎麼也得儘儘地主之誼。
lǎo tóngxué lái chūchāi ma! wǒ zěnme yě děi jìn jin dìzhǔzhīyí.
An old classmate came on a business trip! Any way you cut it, I had to do my best as a host.
B: 就是就是，我點了你最愛喝的酸梅湯，快喝吧。
jiùshì jiùshì, wǒ diǎn le nǐ zuì ài hē de suānméi tāng, kuài hē ba.
Yes, yes. I ordered your favorite sweet-and-sour plum soup. Quick, drink it up.
A: 聽說你在廣州發展得很不錯啊，祝賀你！
tīngshuō nǐ zài guǎngzhōu fāzhǎn de hěn bùcuò a, zhùhè nǐ!
I hear you’re moving along nicely in Guangzhou. Congratulations!
B: 還行吧，我也算苦盡甘來了。想當年獨闖廣州，什麼苦沒吃過。但我心裡一直有個堅定的信念......
hái xíng ba, wǒ yě suàn kǔjìngānlái le. xiǎngdāngnián dú chuǎng Guǎngzhōu, shénme kǔ méi chī guo. dàn wǒ xīn lǐ yīzhí yǒu ge jiāndìng de xìnniàn......
I’m doing OK, I guess. You have to go suffer before you get to enjoy the good times. Think of when I ran off alone to Guangzhou back then. What suffering didn't I go through? But, I always had a firm belief in my heart…
A: 以前同學們就老說你有抱負，是塊做生意的料，大家沒看走眼。
yǐqián tóngxué men jiù lǎo shuō nǐ yǒu bàofù, shì kuài zuò shēngyì de liào, dàjiā méi kànzǒuyǎn.
In the past, our classmates always said you were ambitious. They said you were made of the right stuff for doing business. They weren’t mistaken.
B: 可是事業上再成功又有什麼用呢？身邊也沒個知冷知熱的女人。
kěshì shìyè shàng zài chénggōng yòu yǒu shénme yòng ne? shēnbiān yě méi ge zhīlěngzhīrè de nǚrén.
But no matter how successful you are in your career, what’s the point? I don’t have the woman I love by my side.
A: 怎麼會呢？現在年輕女孩子就喜歡你這種事業有成的男人。只要你願意，還不是隨你挑。
zěnme huì ne? xiànzài niánqīng nǚháizi jiù xǐhuan nǐ zhè zhǒng shìyèyǒuchéng de nánrén. zhǐyào nǐ yuànyì, hái bù shì suí nǐ tiāo.
How could that be? These days, young girls like men like you who are successful in their careers. You could have your pick of any one you wanted.
B: 璐璐，難道你不明白嗎？我一直放不下你。想當年你父母不同意我們的婚事，我一氣之下跑到廣州......
Lùlu, nándào nǐ bù míngbai ma? wǒ yīzhí fàngbuxià nǐ. xiǎngdāngnián nǐ fùmǔ bù tóngyì wǒmen de hūnshì, wǒ yīqìzhīxià pǎo dào Guǎngzhōu......
Lulu, can you really not understand? I’ve never been able to let go of you. I’m thinking of when your parents didn’t agree to our marriage, and I ran off to Guangzhou in a fit of anger…
A: 馮帥，你別說了。
Féngshuài, nǐ bié shuō le.
Don’t say any more about this, Feng Shuai.
Key Vocabulary
招待 zhāodài
勉強 miǎnqiǎng
地主之誼 dìzhǔzhīyì
酸梅湯 suānméi tāng
苦盡甘來 kǔjìngānlái
闖 chuǎng
堅定 jiāndìng
信念 xìnniàn
抱負 bàofù
料 liào
看走眼 kànzǒuyǎn
知冷知熱 zhīlěngzhīrè
事業有成 shìyèyǒuchéng
想當年 xiǎngdāngnián
一氣之下 yīqìzhīxià
放不下 fàngbuxià
Supplementary Vocabulary
已婚婦女 yǐhūn fùnǚ
尷尬 gāngà
克服 kèfú
拼搏 pīnbó
報復 bàofù
才能 cáinéng
體貼 tǐtiē
伴侶 bànlǚ
學業有成 xuéyèyǒuchéng
暗示 ànshì
觀念 guānniàn
開通 kāitōng
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