Language Course

银行开户与汇款Bank account and remittance

Sentence Patterns and Grammatical Explanations

要保存申请表的号码,以便查询进度。

Yào bǎocún shēnqǐngbiǎo de hàomǎ, yǐbiàn cháxún jìndù.

Keep the number of the application form, in order to follow up the process.

“以便” yǐ biàn is a formal way to say “in order to ”. It is normally used to express a purpose or an outcome of a particular action. Here are two examples:

Action以便Purpose/Outcome
需要护照和一些现金,
Xūyào hùzhào hé yìxiē xiànjīn,
以便
yǐbiàn
存入你的账户。
cún rù nǐ de zhànghù.
(You) need your passport and some cash in order to deposit in your account.
要保存申请表的号码,
Yào bǎocún shēnqǐngbiǎo de hàomǎ,
以便
yǐbiàn
查询进度。
cháxún jìndù.
Keep the number of the application form, in order to follow up the process.
Project 2014-1-PL01-KA200-003591