Great Expectations: Part 2 《美好的前途》（下）

Great Expectations:《美好的前途》 by Charles Dickens is a graded reader designed for low-intermediate learners of Chinese, divided into two parts: Part 1 (上) and Part 2 (下).

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Chapter 1

• Complements with "dao," "gei" and "zai"
• Aspect particle "zhe"
• Again in the future with "zai"
• "As long as" with "zhiyao"
• Direction complement
• Expressing earliness with "jiu"
• Using "dui"
• "It seems" with "haoxiang"
• "Not at all"
• Topic-comment sentences
• "Ba" sentence
• Reduplication of adjectives
• Turning adjectives into adverbs
• Resultative complement "chu(lai)"
• Doing something more with "duo"
• Causative verbs
• "In addition" as "lingwai"
• Expressing "every" with "mei" and "dou"
• Further uses of resultative complement "qilai"
• Adding emphasis with "jiushi"
• Appearance with "kanqilai"
• Events in quick succession with "yi... jiu"
• "Quite" with "ting"
• Comparing "haishi" and "huozhe"
• The "if" sandwich pattern
• Emphasizing with "cai"
• Emphasizing negation with "you"
• Expressing purpose with "weile"
• Adjectival complement "de hen"
• Sequencing past events with "houlai"
• Expressing "as one likes" with "jiu"
• Comparing "turan" and “huran"
• A softer "but"
• Assessing situations with "kanlai"

Chapter 2

• Again in the past with "you"
• "All along" with "yuanlai"
• Adjectives with "name" and "zheme"
• "If… then…" with "yaoshi"
• "Bei" sentence
• "Shi... de" construction
• Tricky uses of "dao"
• Referring to "all" using "suoyou"
• "Although" with "suiran" and "danshi"
• "Only if" with "zhiyou"
• Using "not enough" with verbs
• Using objects with complements
• Expressing "almost" using "chadian"
• "Never again" with "zai ye bu"
• Clarifying relationships with "guanxi"
• Expressing "not only… but also"
• Emphasis with "jiu"
• Rhetorical questions with "nandao"
• "In addition" with "zaishuo"
• Expressing "more and more" with "yue… yue…"
• "For" with "wei"
• "Must" modal "dei"
• Comparing specifically with "xiang"

Chapter 3

• Indicating the whole with "quan"
• "For" with "gei"
• Expressing "to make certain" with "qianwan"
• Mistakenly think that
• Expressing "all" with "shenme dou"
• Potential complement "bu liao"
• Expressing "not even one"
• Using "xiang"
• Expressing "in addition" with "haiyou"
• Resultative complement "zhu"
• Sequencing with "xian" and "zai"
• Comparing "buduan" and "buting"
• Expressing "even if…" with "jiusuan"
• Expressing "everyone" with "shei"
• "No matter" with "buguan"
• "Had better" with "haishi"
• Expressing lateness with "cai"

Chapter 4

• Epressing "how often"
• Expressing duration of inaction
• Expressing difficulty with "hao (bu) rongyi"
• Resultative complement "huai"
• Comparing "gang" and "gangcai"

Chapter 5

• Resultative complement "kai"
• "Verbing away" using "zhe"
• Comparing "chao" "xiang" and "wang"
• "All at once" with "yixiazi"
• Indicating a number in excess
• "zhao" as complement
• "Just" with "jiu"
• "Already" with "dou…le"
• Comparing "weile" and "yinwei"

Chapter 6

• Expressing "much more" in comparisons
• Comparing "benlai" and "yuanlai"

Chapter 7

• Result complement "xiaqu"
• "cai" used for small numbers
• Expressing not knowing how to do something using "hao"
• Result complement "-cuo"
• Separable verb
• "Verbing around" with "lai" and "qu"

Chapter 11

• Expressing comparable degree with "you"