Boring Bangongshi - S02E09
Comic Transcript
男：老板说下午两点开会。
女：哦。
男：会议室订好了吗？
女：订好了。
男：你怎么看起来不高兴呢？
女：我还没有准备好资料。
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Relevant Grammar Points
Editor Comments
Many small offices are operating out of co-working spaces (in the model of WeWork), meaning that meeting room offices are often shared resources, offered on a "first come first serve" basis. That means that reserving a meeting room (successfully!) is an important skill. Obviously, for those of you that work in the offices of big corporations, reserving meeting rooms can be just as tough of a battle.
You may have learned the word 预定 (yùdìng) for "to reserve," or 预订 (yùdìng), meaning to "pre-purchase." In informal spoken Chinese, either word can be shortened to 定 (dìng) or 订 (dìng), and the distinction between the two is not always strict. The resultative complement 好 emphasizes that everything is all set and ready to go.
This strip doesn't have much of a "punchline"... this is kind of how we originally imagined Boring 办公室: the mundanity of office life IS the punchline!
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