{"id":102,"date":"2009-06-11T07:45:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T11:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=102"},"modified":"2009-06-11T07:45:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T11:45:39","slug":"bargaining-at-the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/bargaining-at-the-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Bargaining at the Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great thing happened the other day at <strong>\u79c0\u6c34\u8857 <\/strong>(the silk market), and even the day before at <strong>\u4e2d\u5173\u6751<\/strong> (zhongguancun &#8211; see below).\u00a0 A friend of mine said that if I could get a deal lower than the one he got on a <strong> U-\u76d8<\/strong>(thumb drive), then he would <strong>\u8bf7\u6211\u5403\u996d<\/strong>(treat me to a meal).\u00a0 The first vendor I see <strong>\u5c45\u7136<\/strong>(unexpectedly)\u00a0 had a price that was <strong>\u5c11\u4e8e<\/strong> (less than) 120 <strong>\u5757<\/strong>(RMB), the price my friend paid.\u00a0 He certainly did <strong>\u51fa\u4e11<\/strong>(get embarrassed), and I didn&#8217;t blink at handing over the <strong>\u672c\u94b1<\/strong> (buying price &#8211; used for sellers) to seal the deal.\u00a0 He paid not only for his own thumb drive, but now he&#8217;ll have to pay for my meal too.\u00a0 <strong>\u591a\u4e8f<\/strong>! (what a loss!)<\/p>\n<p>\u79c0\u6c34\u8857 xiu4shui3jie1 &#8211; Silk Street (AKA the Silk Market) in Beijing<br \/>\n\u4e2d\u5173\u6751 zhong1guan1cun1 &#8211; part of Beijing with numerous tech companies and markets, a Chinese equivalent of silicon valley<br \/>\nU-\u76d8 you1pan2 &#8211; thumb drive<br \/>\n\u8bf7\u6211\u5403\u996d qing2(3)wo3chi1fan4 &#8211; treat me to a meal<br \/>\n\u5c45\u7136 ju1ran2 &#8211; unexpectedly<br \/>\n\u5c11\u4e8e shao3yu2 &#8211; less than<br \/>\n\u5757 kuai4 &#8211; in this case, it&#8217;s a measure word for RMB<br \/>\n\u51fa\u4e11 chu1chou3 &#8211; be embarrassed<br \/>\n\u672c\u94b1\u00a0 ben3qian2 &#8211; buying price\/initial cost<br \/>\n\u591a\u4e8f duo1kui1 &#8211; what a loss!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great thing happened the other day at \u79c0\u6c34\u8857 (the silk market), and even the day before at \u4e2d\u5173\u6751 (zhongguancun &#8211; see below).\u00a0 A friend of mine said that if I could get a deal lower than the one he got on a U-\u76d8(thumb drive), then he would \u8bf7\u6211\u5403\u996d(treat me to a meal).\u00a0 The first&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/bargaining-at-the-market\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-chinese-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}