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| − | + | <blockquote>Join Professor Luo and his niece Xiaojing in their daring quest down the mouth of a volcano to reach the center of the earth. Guided by a mysterious passage on an ancient parchment and accompanied by their faithful guide Lao Xu, the three explorers encounter subterranean phenomenon, prehistoric animals, and vast underground seas. A Journey to the Center of the Earth is one of Jules Verne’s best-known works and one of the most classic tales of adventure ever written.</blockquote> | |
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Latest revision as of 03:37, 14 March 2019
Journey to the Center of the Earth: 《地心游记》 by Jules Verne is a Mandarin Companion graded reader designed for low-intermediate learners of Chinese.
Publisher's description:
Join Professor Luo and his niece Xiaojing in their daring quest down the mouth of a volcano to reach the center of the earth. Guided by a mysterious passage on an ancient parchment and accompanied by their faithful guide Lao Xu, the three explorers encounter subterranean phenomenon, prehistoric animals, and vast underground seas. A Journey to the Center of the Earth is one of Jules Verne’s best-known works and one of the most classic tales of adventure ever written.
This page lists out the grammar points used in the story, chapter by chapter. For each grammar point, only its earliest appearance is listed.
Contents
Chapter 1
- Events in quick succession with "yi... jiu"
- Turning adjectives into adverbs
- Resultative complement "chu(lai)"
- Comparing "gang" and "gangcai"
- "Bei" sentence
- "No matter" with "buguan"
- Appearance with "kanqilai"
- Expressing earliness with "jiu"
- Causative verbs
- "Ba" sentence
- Sequencing past events with "houlai"
- "If…, then…" with "ruguo…, jiu…"
- Again in the future with "zai"
- Aspect particle "zhe"
- Again in the past with "you"
- Continuation with "hai"
- Tricky uses of "dao"
- "Must" modal "dei"
- "It seems" with "haoxiang"
Chapter 2
- "If… then…" with "yaoshi"
- Expressing purpose with "weile"
- Expressing lateness with "cai"
- "zhao" as complement
- Expressing "even if…" with "jiusuan"
- Assessing situations with "kanlai"
- "Ye" and "dou" together
- "Had better" with "haishi"
- Descriptive complement
- Expressing "every time" with "mei" and "dou"
- "Not at all"
- Expressing "how often"
- Verbs with "gei"
- "Except" and "in addition" with "chule… yiwai"
- Mistakenly think that
- Descriptive complement
Chapter 3
- Comparing "chao" "xiang" and "wang"
- Adjectives with "name" and "zheme"
- Reduplication of adjectives
- Expressing "more and more" with "yue… yue…"
- "Verbing away" using "zhe"
- Further uses of resultative complement "qilai"
- Sequencing with "xian" and "zai"
- Indicating a number in excess
- "Only if" with "zhiyou"
Chapter 4
- "Never again" with "zai ye bu"
- "De" (modal particle)
- "Not… but rather…" with "er shi"
- "Not often" with "bu zenme"
- "In addition" with "zaishuo"
- Doing something less with "shao"
Chapter 5
- Referring to "all" using "suoyou"
- Expressing "until" with "dao"
- Expressing "almost" using "chadian"
- "As long as" with "zhiyao"
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
- The pattern "it's not…, it's…"
- Doing something more with "duo"
- Expressing "not only… but also"
- Comparing "haishi" and "huozhe"
Chapter 9
- "For" with "wei"
- Comparing "zongsuan" and “zhongyu"
- Expressing "everyone" with "shei"
- "Verbing around" with "lai" and "qu"
