III. Indicating speaker’s negative mode or complain in Chinese with “有点儿 + Adj”.
1. Conversation
A:今天去不去打球?
[jīn tiān qù bù qù dǎ qiú ?]Will you go to play the ball today?
B: 这两天有点儿累,不去打球了。
[zhè liǎng tiān yǒu diǎnr lèi, bù qù dǎ qiú le 。]No, I won’t. I’ve been feeling tired lately.
A:你在做什么呢?是在想昨天的考试吗?
[nǐ zài zuò shén me ne ? shì zài xiǎng zuó tiān de kǎo shì ma ?]What are you doing? Are you thinking about yesterday’s test?
B:是啊,我觉得听和说还可以,读和写不好,很多字我都不知道是什么意思。
[shì a , wǒ jué dé tīng hé shuō hái kě yǐ , dú hé xiě bù hǎo , hěn duō zì wǒ dōu bù zhī dào shì shén me yìsi 。]Yes. I think I did OK in listening and speaking, but not in reading and ring, I didn’t know the meanings of many characters.
2. New Words
10. 考试 kǎoshì n. test, exam
11. 意思 yìsi n. meaning
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