{"id":63,"date":"2009-02-28T23:27:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T03:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=63"},"modified":"2009-02-28T23:27:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T03:27:17","slug":"buying-a-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/buying-a-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying a Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I wanted to go buy a sledgehammer.\u00a0 I hopped in a cab to my local <strong>\u5efa\u6750\u57ce<\/strong> (construction material city), made my way past the <strong>\u5730\u677f<\/strong> (flooring) and the <strong>\u5730\u6bef<\/strong> (carpeting) until I got to the <strong>\u4e94\u91d1<\/strong> (hardware) section.\u00a0 I set aside <strong>\u87ba\u4e1d\u5200<\/strong> (screwdrivers) and smaller <strong>\u9524\u5b50<\/strong> (hammers) until I relented and just asked for a hammer.\u00a0 &#8220;What kind?&#8221; they wanted to know.\u00a0 I said I wanted the kind that you&#8217;d use to <strong>\u62c6\u697c<\/strong> (tear down a building).\u00a0 They slid a dense metal block onto a pole and sealed it with a <strong>\u9489\u5b50<\/strong> (nail).\u00a0 After that, they measured it with a <strong>\u5c3a\u5b50<\/strong> (ruler) and I picked up a <strong>\u5377\u5c3a<\/strong> (tape measure) for some of my future household projects.<\/p>\n<p>Words<\/p>\n<p>\u5efa\u6750\u57ce jian4cai2cheng2 &#8211; construction material city (basically any large place that sells construction materials)<br \/>\n\u5730\u677f di4ban3 &#8211; floorboard<br \/>\n\u5730\u6bef di4tan3 &#8211; carpet(ing)<br \/>\n\u4e94\u91d1 wu3jin1 &#8211; hardware<br \/>\n\u87ba\u4e1d\u5200 luo2si1dao1 &#8211; screwdriver<br \/>\n\u9524\u5b50 chui2zi3 &#8211; hammer<br \/>\n\u62c6\u697c chai1lou2 &#8211; demolish a building<br \/>\n\u9489\u5b50 ding1zi3 &#8211; nail<br \/>\n\u5c3a\u5b50 chi3(2)zi3 &#8211; ruler<br \/>\n\u5377\u5c3a juan1chi3 &#8211; tape measure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day, I wanted to go buy a sledgehammer.\u00a0 I hopped in a cab to my local \u5efa\u6750\u57ce (construction material city), made my way past the \u5730\u677f (flooring) and the \u5730\u6bef (carpeting) until I got to the \u4e94\u91d1 (hardware) section.\u00a0 I set aside \u87ba\u4e1d\u5200 (screwdrivers) and smaller \u9524\u5b50 (hammers) until I relented and just&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/buying-a-hammer\/\">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":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}