团 – vocab dash

团tuán

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Meanings

1. round

2. lump

3. ball

4. to roll into a ball

5. to gather

6. regiment

7. group

8. society

9. classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke)

10. dumpling

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我wǒ想xiǎng加入jiārù你们nǐmen的de团tuán对。

I'd like to join your group.

只能zhǐnéng说shuō，致命zhìmìng煤气méiqì的de雾wù团tuán中zhōng，也yě定dìng会huì有yǒu阳光yángguāng的de。

So it seems that cloud of odorless deadly gas had a silver lining after all.

我wǒ和hé丈夫zhàngfu周日Zhōurì要yào去qù四季sìjì演艺yǎnyì中心zhōngxīn，去qù看kàn国家guójiā芭蕾舞bālěiwǔ团tuán表演biǎoyǎn的de芭蕾舞bālěiwǔ剧jù《卡门Kǎmén》。

My husband and I are going on Sunday to see the ballet, Carmen, performed by the National Ballet Company at the Four Seasons Centre.

云yún是shì天空tiānkōng中zhōng的de水汽shuǐqì团tuán。

A cloud is a mass of vapor in the sky.