Business Trip 出差 | Learn Chinese with Yoyo Mo

出差就是去外地短时间工作

Chūchāi jiù shì qù wàidì duǎn shíjiān gōngzuò

Business trip means going to another place for short-term work

我老公常常出差

Wǒ lǎogōng chángcháng chūchāi

My husband often goes on business trips

这两天他又出差了

Zhè liǎng tiān tā yòu chūchāi le

He's gone on another business trip these two days

上次我们说过

Shàngcì wǒmen shuō guo

As we mentioned last time

他是电视台的工程师

Tā shì diànshìtái de gōngchéngshī

He is an engineer at a TV station

所以他出差主要是去做转播工作

Suǒyǐ tā chūchāi zhǔyào shì qù zuò zhuǎnbō gōngzuò

So his business trips mainly involve doing broadcast relay work

也有的时候是去参加会议、参加展会等

Yě yǒu de shíhou shì qù cānjiā huìyì、cānjiā zhǎnhuì děng

Sometimes he also goes to attend meetings, exhibitions, etc.

国内的城市他去了很多

Guónèi de chéngshì tā qù le hěn duō

He has been to many cities in China

国外的话

Guówài de huà

As for foreign countries

他去过日本做奥运会

Tā qù guo Rìběn zuò Àoyùnhuì

He went to Japan for the Olympic Games

去过英国和泰国做拳击比赛

Qù guo Yīngguó hé Tàiguó zuò quánjī bǐsài

He went to the UK and Thailand for boxing matches

去过韩国做篮球比赛

Qù guo Hánguó zuò lánqiú bǐsài

He went to South Korea for basketball games

他出差最多的地方是北京

Tā chūchāi zuì duō de dìfāng shì Běijīng

The place he goes to most on business trips is Beijing

还有成都周边的城市

Hái yǒu Chéngdū zhōubiān de chéngshì

And cities around Chengdu

我老公出差非常简便

Wǒ lǎogōng chūchāi fēicháng jiǎnbiàn

My husband packs very lightly for business trips

背个背包就完了

Bēi gè bèibāo jiù wán le

He just carries a backpack

常常是临走前才来装一些衣物

Chángcháng shì línzǒu qián cái lái zhuāng yīxiē yīwù

He often packs some clothes just before leaving

有些时候，出差比较辛苦

Yǒuxiē shíhou, chūchāi bǐjiào xīnkǔ

Sometimes, business trips are quite tiring

而有些时候，出差更像是旅游

Ér yǒuxiē shíhou, chūchāi gèng xiàng shì lǚyóu

But sometimes, business trips are more like traveling

比如有一次

Bǐrú yǒu yī cì

For example, once

他们和日本NHK电视台的人一起

Tāmen hé Rìběn NHK diànshìtái de rén yīqǐ

They worked together with people from Japan's NHK TV station

到九寨沟拍摄纪录片

Dào Jiǔzhàigōu pāishè jìlùpiàn

To shoot a docu’mentary in Jiuzhaigou

九寨沟在1992 年被联合国教科文组织列入了《世界自然遗产名录》

Jiǔzhàigōu zài 1992 nián bèi Liánhéguó Jiàokèwén Zǔzhī lièrù le 《Shìjiè Zìrán Yíchǎn Mínglù》

Jiuzhaigou was inscribed on the UNESCO World Natural Heritage   List in 1992

风景非常优美

Fēngjǐng fēicháng yōuměi

The scenery there is very beautiful

我们俩大学毕业后都在北京工作

Wǒmen liǎ dàxué bìyè hòu dōu zài Běijīng gōngzuò

Both of us worked in Beijing after graduating from university

工作半年后

Gōngzuò bàn nián hòu

After working for half a year

他到成都出差参加公司年会

Tā dào Chéngdū chūchāi cānjiā gōngsī niánhuì

He went to Chengdu on a business trip to attend the company's annual meeting

而我作为总裁助理，也到成都出差考察项目

Ér wǒ zuòwéi zǒngcái zhùlǐ, yě dào Chéngdū chūchāi kǎochá xiàngmù

And as the president's assistant, I also went to Chengdu on a business trip to ‘survey projects

就这样，我们都对成都有了初步的印象

Jiù zhèyàng, wǒmen dōu duì Chéngdū yǒu le chūbù de yìnxiàng

In this way, both of us got a preliminary impression of Chengdu

后来过了大半年

Hòulái guò le dà bàn nián

Later, after more than half a year

我们决定搬迁到成都

Wǒmen juédìng bānqiān dào Chéngdū

We decided to move to Chengdu

然后就一直在成都工作生活到今天

Ránhòu jiù yīzhí zài Chéngdū gōngzuò shēnghuó dào jīntiān

And we have been working and living in Chengdu ever since

这都是缘分吧

Zhè dōu shì yuánfèn ba

It's all fate, I suppose

也就是命中注定

Yějiù shì mìngzhōng zhùdìng

That is, it's destiny