🇹🇼 4 expressions for you if your phone ran out of battery:)

Q: 如果你的手機沒電了，你會怎麼辦呢？

Q: What would you do if your phone ran out of battery?

If you’re at a restaurant and looking for a place to charge your phone, you can say:

(Excuse me, do you have an outlet here?

My phone’s about to out of battery.)

插座 outlet;

快… 了 is about to (TOCFL A grammar);

沒電 out of battery

or simply:

2.

(Is there a place to charge my phone?)

充電 to charge

3.

(Do you have a charging cable? — An iPhone one.)

We often ask our friends this too:​

4.

(Did you bring a power bank?)

My little sister always asks me this one! 😅

⚠️ In Taiwan, we only say 行動電源 for power bank.

Not 充電寶 (ㄔㄨㄥㄉㄧㄢˋㄅㄠˇchōngdiàn bǎo),

which is used in Mainland Chinese.

🇹🇼 真實經驗分享 My Real-Life Experience

Actually, last time when I asked if I could charge my phone at a restaurant, the clerk said to me:

(Do you want to hand me your phone? I’ll charge it for you.)

I was surprised! How nice they're!

很驚訝 ! 他們人很好! 對不對 🥹

(This is what happen to me last time when I was filming.

Feel free to check out this conversation 05:10. I was thinking what a great teaching moment:))

也不用擔心手機會被偷

這句話記起來喔

Remember this sentence:)

大部分的服務生都會幫你充

Most restaurant staff will help you charge your phone

you don’t need to worry about it being stolen.

希望對你們有幫助啦

Hope it helps! :)

Note

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