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Assembling IKEA Furniture

Assembling IKEA Furniture
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ID: 1247 Upper Intermediate
For the last four hours, you've been wandering around the furniture store, looking at the latest in Swedish design. Now that you've settled on the unpronounceable book case, it's time to bring it home and put it together. And that's where the fun begins! In today's Chinese podcast, you'll learn the Mandarin that will let you build the bookshelf of your dreams. ChinesePod gives you all the tools you need to attain fluency.
Jenny,John
Assembling IKEA Furniture
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
装 zhuāng to assemble
特地 tèdì expressly
工具箱 gōngjùxiāng tool box
宜家 Yíjiā IKEA (Swedish furniture company)
哎我们还是请别人装吧自己装实在太累了还得特地买个工具箱
āi 哎wǒmen 我们háishì 还是qǐng 请biérén 别人zhuāng 装ba 吧zìjǐ 自己zhuāng 装shízài 实在tài 太lèi 累le 了hái 还děi 得tèdì 特地mǎi 买ge 个gōngjùxiāng 工具箱
Agh, let's hire somebody to build it for us. Building it ourselves is so tiring. Plus you have to buy a tool chest just for this.
宜家的乐趣就是自己装要不干吗大老远地跑到宜家来买
Yíjiā 宜家de 的lèqù 乐趣jiùshì 就是zìjǐ 自己zhuāng 装yàobu 要不gànmá 干吗dàlǎoyuǎn 大老远de 地pǎodào 跑到Yíjiā 宜家lái 来mǎi 买
The fun of IKEA is building things yourself. Otherwise, why on earth would anyone go so far away to buy something from IKEA?
好吧好吧自己装
hǎoba 好吧hǎoba 好吧zìjǐ 自己zhuāng 装
Fine, fine. Let's build it ourselves.
今天给你个动手机会我看说明书你来装先把包装拆了然后把小配件拿出来
jīntiān 今天gěi 给nǐ 你gè 个dòngshǒu 动手jīhuì 机会wǒ 我kàn 看shuōmíngshū 说明书nǐ 你lái 来zhuāng 装xiān 先bǎ 把bāozhuāng 包装chāi 拆le 了ránhòu 然后bǎ 把xiǎo 小pèijiàn 配件ná 拿chūlai 出来
Today is a good chance for you to do-it-yourself. I'll read the instruction manual, and you build it. First, take apart the packaging and then take out the little fittings and accessories.
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