Reference:The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course: Crossing Cultural Boundaries (2nd ed.)
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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
- Unit One: Popular Culture
- Lesson 1: Online dating
- 随着...〔的发展 / 变化 / 改变 / 进步...〕“in conjunction with . . . [some kind of change]”
- 之
- 因此 “for this reason”
- V-起来
- 或A或B “either A or B”
- 持〔保守 / 严肃 / 欢迎的态度〕“hold/have [a certain kind of view, etc.]”
- 当... 时 “when . . .”
- 因为... 而… “because . . .”
- 反正 “anyway”
- 尽管... 然而… “although . . .”
- 凡是…都… “every . . . , any . . . , all . . .”
- Lesson 2: Brand-name fever
- 不外乎 “be nothing but . . . , be just for . . .”
- 所 “that [which]”
- 至于 and 以至于
- 对... 来说 “speaking of . . . , for . . . , to . . .”
- ... 便... “. . . and then . . .”
- A把B视为C “for A to view or regard B as C”
- 具有... “possess . . . , have . . .”
- …之所以… “the reason that . . .”
- -者 “-er, -ist, a person who . . .”
- 以
- …与…成正比 “be directly proportional to . . . , correspond to . . .” …与…成反比 “be inversely proportional to . . . , not correspond to . . .”
- 一旦 “once, if one day, were [a certain situation to be], now that”
- 及 “and”
- 固然... 但是... “granted that . . . but . . .”
- 既... 也/又... “not only . . . but also . . .”
- Lesson 3: Television dramas and popular culture
- 以A的手法+V “adopt the strategy/technique/ploy [in order to]”
- 上自... 下至... 都... “from . . . [all the way] to . . .”
- 为了... 而... “[do something] in order to . . .”
- A与B产生共鸣 “A strikes a [sympathetic] chord with B, A resonates with B”
- A为B打抱不平 “A defends B against an injustice”
- 唯一 “the sole, the only”
- 仅仅... 而已 “nothing more than . . . , [and] that is all . . .”
- 即使... 也... “even . . . , even if . . . , even though . . .”
- Lesson 1: Online dating
- Unit Two: Social Change
- Lesson 4: The city of Yiwu in Zhejiang: A miracle of Chinese regional economic development
- 靠…起家 “found a family fortune by . . . , start an enterprise by . . .”
- 用A换取B “exchange [or barter] A for B”
- 加以+ two-syllable verb
- 来自... “come from . . .”
- 由... 而... “from . . . to . . .”
- 便于 “so as to allow, make it easier for”
- (如果)... 的话, 那... “if . . . , (then) . . .”
- Lesson 5: Floating population
- 一群群,一个个,一辆辆,etc. “lots and lots of, each and every one”
- 截至 [+specified time] “at, by [time]”
- 为 / 给 / 对... 带来...〔挑战 / 冲击 /...〕“create challenges for/clash with/ . . .”
- 由于... 以至于... “due to, on account of, because of . . . [the result is . . . ]”
- ... 以... “. . . in order to . . .”
- 对... 产生了(极大 / 正面 / 很坏)的影响 “have a (major/positive/negative) influence on . . . , influence . . . (in a major/positive/negative way)”
- A... B则... “A . . . whereas B . . .”
- 既A又B “not only A, but also B, both A and B, on the one hand A and on the other hand B”
- Lesson 6: Changing views of marriage
- Lesson 4: The city of Yiwu in Zhejiang: A miracle of Chinese regional economic development