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ID: 2386 Intermediate
That shiny new phone keeps popping up with a message telling you that it's time to update. Will you give in? Should you? In this lesson, a husband and wife talk about updating the wife's phone.
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
手机 shǒujī cell phone
最近 zuìjìn recently
老是 lǎoshì always
提示 tíshì to prompt
老公我手机最近怎么老是跳出一个个框啊
lǎogōng 老公wǒ 我shǒujī 手机zuìjìn 最近zěnme 怎么lǎoshì 老是tiàochū 跳出yīgègè 一个个kuāng 框ā 啊
Honey, why have there been so many pop-up messages on my phone recently?
给我看看哦是提示你可以升级软件了
gěi 给wǒ 我kànkan 看看ò 哦shì 是tíshì 提示nǐ 你kěyǐ 可以shēngjí 升级ruǎnjiàn 软件le 了
Let me have a look. Oh... it's prompting you to upgrade the software.
那升级了有什么用啊
nà 那shēngjí 升级le 了yǒu shénme yòng 有什么用ā 啊
What's the use of upgrading?
就是有新的功能解决了软件原有的漏洞
jiùshì 就是yǒu 有xīn de 新的gōngnéng 功能jiějué 解决le 了ruǎnjiàn 软件yuányǒu 原有de 的lòudòng 漏洞
It's got new features and it fixes holes originally in the program.
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