{"id":127,"date":"2009-08-11T11:46:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T15:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=127"},"modified":"2009-08-11T11:46:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T15:46:13","slug":"the-new-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/the-new-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

I moved into my new apartment in Shenzhen, and it doesn’t seem to have been an old \u697c\u76d8<\/strong> (building).\u00a0 The view of the \u591c\u666f<\/strong> (night scenery) from the window is quite \u58ee\u89c2<\/strong> (magnificent).\u00a0 What’s more- the apartment has good \u98ce\u6c34<\/strong> (feng shui).\u00a0 It is a \u9152\u5e97\u5f0f<\/strong> (hotel-style) apartment with a \u5e72\u6d17\u5e97<\/strong> (dry cleaner) downstairs.\u00a0 I’ve never lived in a place with one of those, much less a \u7535\u68af<\/strong> (elevator), \u95e8\u7981\u5361<\/strong> (entrance card), or \u978b\u67dc<\/strong> (shoe cabinet).\u00a0 The only drawback is that sleeping in a building so high has led me to \u6050\u9ad8<\/strong> (fear heights) a little bit.<\/p>\n

\u697c\u76d8 lou2pan2 – building (this term is used more often by realtors)
\n\u591c\u666f ye4jing3 – night scenery
\n\u58ee\u89c2 zhuang4guan1 – magnificent
\n\u98ce\u6c34 feng1shui3 – Feng Shui (Chinese geomancy)
\n\u9152\u5e97\u5f0f jiu3dian4shi4 – hotel-style
\n\u5e72\u6d17\u5e97 gan1xi3dian4 – dry cleaner\/dry cleaning store
\n\u7535\u68af dian4ti1 – elevator
\n\u95e8\u7981\u5361 men2jin4ka3 – entrance card
\n\u978b\u67dc xie2gui4 – shoe closet
\n\u6050\u9ad8 kong3gao1 – fear of heights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I moved into my new apartment in Shenzhen, and it doesn’t seem to have been an old \u697c\u76d8 (building).\u00a0 The view of the \u591c\u666f (night scenery) from the window is quite \u58ee\u89c2 (magnificent).\u00a0 What’s more- the apartment has good \u98ce\u6c34 (feng shui).\u00a0 It is a \u9152\u5e97\u5f0f (hotel-style) apartment with a \u5e72\u6d17\u5e97 (dry cleaner) downstairs.\u00a0 I’ve…<\/p>\n

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