"她生病了,在房间里睡觉。"
Translation:She's sick, she is sleeping in the room.
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I have done plenty of beta courses, and none of them is as obsessed with my English as the Chinese course.
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They also can't anticipate all slightly wrong English translations that still convey the intended meaning. If you can't read minds, neither can they. Be understanding.
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Hard without context but in English its rarely right to refer to a room without some sort of descriptor.
Jieke is quite right. Here, an English speaker would say 'the room', 'her room,' 'the bedroom,' 'the back room,', etc. We would never say 'a' room without explanation unless it is a context where we do not know which specific room, for example: "I need to reserve A ROOM at the conference hotel," or I need to " get Mom A ROOM at the hotel." In those cases, we're saying [need to get] "A/ANY room, I. e. we do not know which specific room or don't care.
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agree. got a bone to pick with them in that the lesson Tips just said 了 can come at the end of the sentence...guess that should have been more expansive to "了 can come at the end of a sentence, or at the end of a clause...to connote state change"
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Duolingo, please let us use any article in the listening lessons. There's simply no information to know whether it's a he or a she. =p
She fell sick
She has contracted an illness
She has grown ill
She got sick
She became sick
... there are many ways to put this.
I think the 生病 is referring to contracting or incubating an illness (which to us seems unnecessarily medical and technical perhaps ...but if you look for it we have these in English too).
I could swear I've heard 房间 used to mean one's apartment—sort of like turn of the century English referring to one's "rooms." I get that it's the more direct, first sense in the dictionary meaning, but am I wrong to think this would be a valid interpretation? Beyond that, the 'correct' English answers here often remind me of Chinese-style English—the way that people back in China were taught was correct, but isn't really natural for a native speaker. I'm also getting a bit miffed with the comma splices and such in the 'correct' answers.
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I was asked to type what I heard, and was penalized for writing 他 instead of 她 even though they are homophones, and would both make perfect sense in the context.
"She is sick in the room, sleeping." marked wrong. I agree with other comments. It can be hard to guess what their answer will be, though there are so many ways this could be expressed in English, it's difficult to get the perfect algorithm. I guess we have to be happy with the fact that we understood the question
It does apply to both location and action that is occuring. If 在 is before a verb it indicates an action in progress. If you are using the PC based course, the tip is in 'Weather'. So in this case it should be for location. I believe your answer was marked wrong because it is not the wording they want.
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The last character 觉 is pronounced 'jiao' but if you touch it, the sound is something else.