[MUSIC] [FOREIGN] for can be both as a verb, to serve, or a noun, service. [FOREIGN] is the Chinese word for center. We can get a transportation card at every metro service center in Shanghai. [SOUND] [FOREIGN] Rui'en tells the staff that she wants a public transportation card. [FOREIGN] means to apply for card. For example, [FOREIGN] apply for bank card. [SOUND] [FOREIGN] is a noun meaning deposit. [FOREIGN] a deposit is 20 yuan. In Chinese, when people talk about price, date, day, age, weather, the verb [FOREIGN] is usually omitted. For example, [SOUND] [FOREIGN]. You may think a little strange that the staff used [FOREIGN] instead of [FOREIGN] which is more often used in spoken Chinese. This is so because people prefer to use formal language in the workplace. [FOREIGN] The verb [FOREIGN] means to charge, to recharge. It is a transitive verb. Besides money, [FOREIGN] can take many other kinds of objects, such as to recharge a battery, [FOREIGN]. For example [FOREIGN]. I want to charge the mobile phone. [SOUND] [FOREIGN] is the short form [FOREIGN]. In spoken Chinese, we often drop the last measure word when talking about price, height, length, and time. [SOUND] For example, [FOREIGN]. We say [FOREIGN] and [FOREIGN]. [FOREIGN] is the verb meaning to receive. The staff confirms that she has received [FOREIGN] yuan from Rui'en. [FOREIGN] means to recharge, to refill a card or an account with money. The last sentence shows that the verb [FOREIGN] can take an object as [FOREIGN], where [FOREIGN] means value. So the verb [FOREIGN] is made of two parts, form a verb object phrase. That's why [FOREIGN] is an intransitive verb. [SOUND] So two examples with these two verbs. The first one, I want to recharge my card. The second one, I'd like to put 200 yuan in my card. Do you know how to say it in Chinese? Okay, let's look at the answer. The first one [FOREIGN]. The second one, [SOUND] [FOREIGN] [SOUND] [FOREIGN] Rui'en asks the staff the way to recharge the card. [FOREIGN] plus verb plus object forms a question asking the way to do something. For example, welcome, [FOREIGN] [SOUND] [FOREIGN] here or there. [FOREIGN] means or, used when there is a choice between two or more things, or when two or more things exist at the same time. It is used in affirmative sentence. Another word meaning or is [FOREIGN] but [FOREIGN] is usually used in a question. [FOREIGN] means self service. For example, [SOUND] [FOREIGN] self-service recharging machine. [FOREIGN] buffet. [SOUND] The staff tells Rui'en that she may recharge to the card both by coming here, or by using the self-service recharging machine. [SOUND] Now, please see the video again and learn how to apply for public transportation card in Chinese.
