Five minutes. I will give them a ring for you and check they have a room.
XXiaoyu
太谢谢您了。
Tài xièxie nín le.
That is very kind of you.
Vocabulary to remember
房间fángjiānroom
满mǎnfull, filled
订dìngto book, to draw up
附近fùjìnnearby, the area around
酒店jiǔdiànhotel
街jiēstreet
干净gānjìngclean, tidy
久jiǔlong (of time), for ages
虽然suīránalthough, though
Language points
满了: full, and not full before
满了 states a condition reached, not a permanent one: the hotel has filled up. The 了 is essential; 满 on its own would be a quality, as in 满月, the full moon. The language of service uses it constantly: 卖完了, all sold; 关门了, closed now; 没位子了, no seats left. English says all of this with an adjective, Chinese with a verb followed by 了.
订出去: gone to someone else
出去 attached to a verb says the thing has gone away from the speaker: 订出去, booked by others; 卖出去, sold and out of the shop; 借出去, lent out. It is the counterpart of 进来 and 回来. Here the receptionist is not merely saying the rooms are taken: he is saying they got away from him.
虽然…但是… to recommend in spite of everything
The concession is used above all to make an imperfect thing acceptable: 虽然旧一点儿,但是很干净. You put the drawback first and what redeems it second, and the other order would be discouraging. That is how a room, a flat or a dish is sold, and the learner will hear it more often than use it.
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