telephone etiquette
26.4
26.2 Dialing a number and entering a number
拨电话号码/撥電話號碼
bō diànhuà hàomǎ
dial a phone number
在你刚拨的电话号码前请加‘○’。
在你剛撥的電話號碼前請加‘○’。
Zài nǐ gāng bō de diànhuà hàomǎ qián qǐng jiā ‘líng.’
Please add ‘zero’ in front of the telephone number that you just dialed.
输入号码/輸入號碼
shūrù hàomǎ
enter a number
请输入你的客户号码。
請輸入你的客戶號碼。
Qǐng shūrù nǐ de kèhù hàomǎ.
Please enter your customer (account) number.
26.3 Using the internet
Basic vocabulary
万维网/萬維網 (世界)网路/(世界)網路
wàn wéi wǎng (shìjiè) wǎng lù
internet internet
因特网/因特網 互联网/互聯網
yīn tè wǎng hùlián wǎng
internet internet
网站/網站 网页/網頁
wǎng zhàn wǎng yè
website webpage
网路专家/網路專家 网吧/網吧
wǎnglù zhuānjiā wǎng bā
webmaster internet cafe
上网(路)/上網(路)
shàng wǎng (lù)
surf the web
26.4 Telephone etiquette
Telephone calls are answered with the phrase:
喂？Wèi? or Wéi?
喂？Wèi? (in either tone) is the equivalent of ‘Hello’ in English.
Note
喂 wèi can be used more broadly as an interjection to attract somebody’s attention. When used in answer-
ing a phone call, it is said in second or fourth tone. Second tone is more polite and more commonly used.
Fourth tone conveys a sense of impatience.
