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“It's on Me.” Three Days Later: “Send Me 93.”
他说他请客，三天后要我转93
He would not let her pay. She said they were not a match — and ten minutes later he asked for half of it back, with an itemised screenshot.
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“It's on me.” Three days later: “Send me 93.”
Tap any word for its pinyin and meaning. The dotted ones are the teacher's — those cards carry her example sentences too.
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What the internet said
- “不用找了”这四个字，太好了。
- 他不是要那九十三块，他是想找回面子。
- 他还发了照片，说明那天回家就开始算了。
- 第一次见面说“我请客”，就不要再要钱。
Story: 改写自社交媒体上的一类真实故事；生词来自《约会文化》课件
Two patterns from the story两个语言点
Grammar
不用……
不用 turns something down politely: no need.
e.g. 不用不用，我请客。 / 不用找了。
不用…… —— 客气地拒绝，“不需要”。
例：不用不用，我请客。／不用找了。
Grammar
还是……吧
还是……吧 makes a suggestion after thinking it over: let's … after all.
e.g. 那天的钱还是一人一半吧。
还是……吧 —— 想了一下以后提出的建议，“那就……吧”。
例：那天的钱还是一人一半吧。／我们还是明天去吧。
Did you follow?读懂了吗
No pressure — just making it stick.
见面那天，是____付的钱。
On the day they met, ___ paid.
是____先说不合适的。
It was ___ who said first that they were not a match.
我给他发了一百块，然后写了四个字：____。
I sent him a hundred and wrote four words: ___.
Now you talk聊一聊
Draw a question and answer it out loud.
Before you go课后回顾
- Make a sentence with 既然……，那就……
- Make a sentence with 把……当成……
- If you were her, how would you reply to that message?