Reference:The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries (2nd ed.)

The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries (2nd ed.) is authored by Kunshan Carolyn Lee, Hsin-Hsin Liang, Liwei Jiao, Julian K. Wheatley.

Grammar Points by Table of Contents

1. Unit One: Popular Culture
   1. Lesson 1: Online dating
      1. 随着...〔的发展 / 变化 / 改变 / 进步...〕“in conjunction with . . . [some

kind of change]”

1. 1. 1. 之
      2. 因此 “for this reason”
      3. V-起来
      4. 或A或B “either A or B”
      5. 持〔保守 / 严肃 / 欢迎的态度〕“hold/have [a certain kind of view, etc.]”
      6. 当... 时 “when . . .”
      7. 因为... 而… “because . . .”
      8. 反正 “anyway”
      9. 尽管... 然而… “although . . .”
      10. 凡是…都… “every . . . , any . . . , all . . .”
   2. Lesson 2: Brand-name fever
      1. 不外乎 “be nothing but . . . , be just for . . .”
      2. 所 “that [which]”
      3. 至于 and 以至于
      4. 对... 来说 “speaking of . . . , for . . . , to . . .”
      5. ... 便... “. . . and then . . .”
      6. A把B视为C “for A to view or regard B as C”
      7. 具有... “possess . . . , have . . .”
      8. …之所以… “the reason that . . .”
      9. -者 “-er, -ist, a person who . . .”
      10. 以
      11. …与…成正比 “be directly proportional to . . . , correspond to . . .”

…与…成反比 “be inversely proportional to . . . , not correspond to . . .”

1. 1. 1. 一旦 “once, if one day, were [a certain situation to be], now that”
      2. 及 “and”
      3. 固然... 但是... “granted that . . . but . . .”
      4. 既... 也/又... “not only . . . but also . . .”
   2. Lesson 3 (edit me!)
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2. Unit Two