让我帮她查一下 04级天府医学院的一个学生
“to check on a student from the Class of 2004 at Tianfu Medical University,”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
上星期苏老师给我打电话
“Last week, Ms. Su called and asked me”
让我帮她 查一下 04级天府医学院的一个学生
“to check on a student from the Class of 2004 at Tianfu Medical University,”
叫罗梁
“named Luo Liang.”
Direct spoken expression in this communicative setting.
In Chinese academic culture, cohorts are almost universally designated by their year of admission (ji) rather than graduation year.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
help her look up / check for her
A common polite formula using the softening '一下' to describe doing a brief administrative check for someone.
class of 2004 / entered in 2004
Standard Chinese convention specifying an academic cohort by the matriculation year rather than graduation year.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“I don't know her. A classmate from the Teachers College?”
“Hi. Hi. Fang Wanzhi's classmate? Yeah.”
“I want you to investigate.”
“She just worked at a nursing school. Why?”
“Could Situ Fei be helping her? Impossible.”
“How is it? How is Chen Ting?”