{"id":162,"date":"2009-11-18T11:41:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=162"},"modified":"2009-11-18T11:41:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T15:41:27","slug":"changing-coins-to-bills-harder-than-it-seemed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/changing-coins-to-bills-harder-than-it-seemed\/","title":{"rendered":"changing coins to bills &#8211; harder than it seemed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I wanted to take the pile of <strong>\u786c\u5e01<\/strong> (coins) from my room and <strong>\u6362\u7eb8\u5e01<\/strong> (exchange them for bills).\u00a0 The people at the nearby bank told me that they didn&#8217;t want my bills, well that was my first time to <strong>\u542c\u5230<\/strong> (hear) a bank didn&#8217;t want any money- maybe I should have asked them if they would take the coins at less than their <strong>\u9762\u989d<\/strong> (face value).\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t long before I was counting out my coins at the <strong>\u6253\u5305\u53f0<\/strong> (wrapping table) of a nearby supermarket.\u00a0 A man in a suit came over and <strong>\u78b0<\/strong> (poked\/bumped) one of my coin stacks.\u00a0 Naturally, it began to <strong>\u6389<\/strong> (fall down).\u00a0 He looked surprised, at which point I remarked <strong>\u4f60\u78b0\u4e86\u5b83\u624d\u6389\u4e86<\/strong> (it only fell because you touched it).\u00a0 He took this as his lead to <strong>\u54a8\u8be2<\/strong> (inquire) about my job.\u00a0 My only thought was- next time please find a better icebreaker than knocking over my coins.<\/p>\n<p>\u786c\u5e01 ying4bi4 &#8211; coins<br \/>\n\u6362 huan4 &#8211; change, exchange<br \/>\n\u7eb8\u5e01 zhi3bi4 &#8211; bills<br \/>\n\u542c\u5230 ting1dao4 &#8211; to hear something<br \/>\n\u9762\u989d mian4e2 &#8211; face value<br \/>\n\u6253\u5305\u53f0dabaotai da3bao1tai2 &#8211; table where items are wrapped, wrapping table<br \/>\n\u78b0 peng4 &#8211; bump, touch<br \/>\n\u6389 diao4 &#8211; fall down<br \/>\n\u54a8\u8be2 zi1xun2 &#8211; inquire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I wanted to take the pile of \u786c\u5e01 (coins) from my room and \u6362\u7eb8\u5e01 (exchange them for bills).\u00a0 The people at the nearby bank told me that they didn&#8217;t want my bills, well that was my first time to \u542c\u5230 (hear) a bank didn&#8217;t want any money- maybe I should have asked&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/changing-coins-to-bills-harder-than-it-seemed\/\">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-162","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\/162","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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}