HSK 5 Connectors & compound sentences
一来 … 二来 …
For one thing… for another… (一来…二来…)
Structure 一来 + reason 1,二来 + reason 2
一来…二来… (yīlái… èrlái…) lists two reasons or upsides, one after the other: "for one thing… for another…". 多走路,一来省钱,二来健康 = "walking more: for one thing it saves money, for another it’s healthy". It’s colloquial and handy for backing up a decision with two motives.
Examples
- 我不去,一来太远,二来太贵。
I’m not going: for one thing it’s too far, for another too expensive.
- 多走路,一来省钱,二来健康。
Walking more: for one thing it saves money, for another it’s healthy.
- 他没来,一来工作忙,二来身体不好。
He didn’t come: for one thing he’s busy, for another he’s unwell.
Levels are indicative: they follow the standard Chinese Grammar Wiki (AllSet Learning) progression, not an official HSK 3.0 mapping. We never assign levels by eye.