A few photographs and it is filed today. How long the repair takes depends on the garage.
TThe other driver
那先去看监控吧。
Nà xiān qù kàn jiān kòng ba.
Then let us go and see the cameras first.
Vocabulary to remember
刮guāto scrape, to scratch
刚gāngjust now, only just
碰pèngto bump into, to run into
停车场tíngchēchǎngcar park, parking lot
监控jiān kòngCCTV, security cameras
保安bǎo ānguard, security officer
门口ménkǒudoorway, entrance
报bàoto report, to file
保险bǎoxiǎninsurance
拍pāito pat, to take (a photo)
照片zhàopiànphotograph, photo
由yóuby, from
Language points
碰不到: what cannot reach
我的车碰不到: my car cannot touch there. The complement 到 marks the goal being reached, and its negative in 不 says the reach falls short. It is not a refusal nor a personal inability, but a physical impossibility, which is exactly Xiaoyu's argument. Compare 看不到 (out of sight) and 买不到 (not to be found in the shops).
…的事: a matter of so much time
十分钟的事: a ten-minute matter. The turn quantity + 的事 plays a task down and slips in everywhere in speech: 两句话的事, 一趟的事. It is lighter than 只要十分钟, and serves precisely to disarm an objection of convenience, as here.
The insurer pays, and that is what calms things
报保险 means to file a claim. In China a bump with no injuries is almost always settled by photographs and an online declaration, with no paper report and no police involvement. The sentence 钱由保险公司出 ends most car-park disputes, because it takes the money out of the argument.
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