Buying a Train Ticket: a Chinese dialogue with translation
Anna buys a train ticket and starts running to the platform, and then the ticket clerk admits she got the time wrong. HSK 2, 12 sentences, 149 characters. Tap a line to see the translation, tap the icon to hear it.
买火车票 mǎi huǒchē piào
Translation
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Anna: Hello, I'd like to buy a train ticket.
Cashier: For when?
Anna: For this afternoon. Is there one at three?
Cashier: There are no tickets left for three, but there are still some for five thirty.
Anna: Five thirty is too late. My friend is waiting for me at the station tonight.
Cashier: There's also one at two twenty, but it's already two now.
Anna: Twenty minutes left... OK, I'll take that one! I run fast.
Cashier: That's one hundred fifty yuan. The train is upstairs; go to the left.
Anna: Here you go. Thanks!
Cashier: Wait, don't run! I'm sorry, I made a mistake.
Cashier: Look at the ticket: the train leaves at two fifty, not two twenty.
Anna: Great! Then I still have time to go to the supermarket and buy some fruit.
HSK 2 words in this text
- 票piàoticket
- 点diǎnorder (food)
- 车站chēzhànstop, station
- 但是dànshìbut, however
- 已经yǐjīngalready
- 就jiùright away; exactly
- 跑pǎorun
- 快kuàifast; soon
- 楼lóubuilding; floor
- 往wǎngtoward
- 左zuǒleft
- 走zǒuwalk; leave
- 错cuòwrong; mistake
Questions on the text
Why doesn't Anna want the five-thirty train?
Her friend is meeting her at the station in the evening.
How much is the ticket?
One hundred fifty yuan.
What time does the train actually leave?
At two fifty.
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