{"id":65,"date":"2009-03-12T11:09:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T15:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=65"},"modified":"2009-03-12T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T15:09:31","slug":"phone-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/phone-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In China, the cellphone system is different from other countries.\u00a0 There is no (or very limited) voicemail, and phones are paid for on a pay-as-you-go basis.\u00a0 When you call somebody, you can pick up a lot of clues from the message\/ring.<\/p>\n<p>\u4f60\u597d\uff0c\u4f60\u6240<strong>\u62e8\u6253<\/strong>\u7684<strong>\u7528\u6237<\/strong>\u6b63\u5728<strong>\u901a\u8bdd\u4e2d<\/strong>\u3002\u00a0 If this rings twice and then you get the message, then your call has been rejected.\u00a0 If the message starts with that, then the person really is on the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u4f60\u597d\uff0c\u4f60\u6240<strong>\u62e8\u6253<\/strong>\u7684<strong>\u53f7\u7801\u5df2\u5173\u673a<\/strong>.\u00a0 The person you called is either out of battery or has turned off his\/her phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u60a8\u6240<strong>\u62e8\u6253<\/strong>\u7684<strong>\u7528\u6237\u5df2\u505c\u673a<\/strong>\u3002 The person is out of money on his\/her phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u60a8\u6240<strong>\u62e8\u6253<\/strong>\u7684<strong>\u7528\u6237\u65e0\u6cd5\u63a5\u901a<\/strong>.\u00a0 The person you&#8217;re calling is out of service.\u00a0 Maybe they&#8217;re in an area with no reception.<\/p>\n<p>\u60a8<strong>\u62e8\u6253<\/strong>\u7684<strong>\u53f7\u7801\u65e0\u4eba<\/strong>\u63a5\u542c.\u00a0 Nobody has picked up, either he\/she is not near the phone or is just ignoring the call.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Words:<\/p>\n<p>\u62e8\u6253 bo1da3 &#8211; dial (of a phone)<br \/>\n\u7528\u6237 yong4hu4 &#8211; user<br \/>\n\u901a\u8bdd tong1hua4 &#8211; to be engaged in talking on the phone<br \/>\n\u4e2dzhong1 &#8211; when used as a suffix, it can mean that someone\/something is in the process of completing the action<br \/>\n\u53f7\u7801 hao4ma3 &#8211; number<br \/>\n\u5df2 yi3 &#8211; already (in the aforementioned cases, it refers to something that has happened before you called)<br \/>\n\u5173\u673a guan1ji1 &#8211; turn off (the machine- cellphone here)<br \/>\n\u65e0\u6cd5 wu2(3)fa3 &#8211; no way\/unable<br \/>\n\u505c\u673a ting2ji1 &#8211; stopped (the machine)<br \/>\n\u63a5\u901a jie1tong1 &#8211; to connect for talking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In China, the cellphone system is different from other countries.\u00a0 There is no (or very limited) voicemail, and phones are paid for on a pay-as-you-go basis.\u00a0 When you call somebody, you can pick up a lot of clues from the message\/ring. \u4f60\u597d\uff0c\u4f60\u6240\u62e8\u6253\u7684\u7528\u6237\u6b63\u5728\u901a\u8bdd\u4e2d\u3002\u00a0 If this rings twice and then you get the message, then your call&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/phone-fun\/\">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-65","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}