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(293, 1, '2011-01-12 22:22:49', '2011-01-12 22:22:49', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nSinopec, one of China\'s leading oil conglomerates, is currently running an ad targeted at a younger Chinese market on the China Youth Daily home page. <!--more-->The ad encourages young adults to check out Sinopec\'s Flash-animated history of oil, completed with the requisite cartoon oil-drop mascot named \"You Di\" (a homophone for \"oil drop\"). Using typically expansive language, the lead-in introduces the mascot and the theme of the presentation.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.sinopecgroup.com/ydydgs/Pages/default.aspx\">See the original page</a>\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n滴 - [pinyin]di1[/pinyin] - Droplet, drop\r\n微不足道 - [pinyin]wei1 bu4 zu2 dao4[/pinyin] - Insignificant\r\n小看 - [pinyin]xiao3 kan4[/pinyin] - Look down on, underestimate\r\n演化 - [pinyin]yan3 hua4[/pinyin] - Evolution\r\n工序 - [pinyin]gong1 xu4[/pinyin] - Process\r\n汽油柴油 - [pinyin]qi4 you2[/pinyin] - Petrol / gasoline\r\n柴油 - [pinyin]chai2 you2[/pinyin] - Diesel\r\n运转 - [pinyin]yun4 zhuan3[/pinyin] - To work / operate\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">一<strong>滴</strong>油，也许大家觉得<strong>微不足道</strong>，滴在地上只是一个小小的油印，装在车里，车也走不了几米。但大家不要<strong>小看</strong>这小小的一滴油，他的年纪可真不小，他可是经历了上亿年的<strong>演化</strong>，经过数千道各种<strong>工序</strong>才能从最初的生物变成现在用在汽车和各种机器上的<strong>汽油柴油</strong>。下面我们来讲讲这一滴油的故事，我们给这一滴油起一个名字，就叫做“油迪”吧。因为石油真的是地球留给我们人类的最最宝贵的财富。我们现在的工业社会，都是建立在石油工业的基础之上的，如果没有了石油，我们的机器无法<strong>运转</strong>，汽车无法开动，很多日常用品也没有办法生产，就连肥皂和洗衣服这些基本日常用品，都是石油工业的产品。</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nEveryone might think that a single drop of oil is insignificant. A drop on the ground is just a tiny oily smear, and if you put it in a car, the car couldn\'t even go a few meters. But we shouldn\'t underestimate this little drop of oil. It\'s very old, and it\'s experienced hundreds of millions of years of evolution, having passed through many thousands of various processes before finally, from the very first animals, becoming the substance we use today in cars, and the petrol and deisel we use in various machines. After this, we\'ll take a look at the story of this drop of oil, and we\'ll give him a name - how about we call him \"You Di\". Because oil truly is the most precious treasure the earth has given us. Our industrial society was built on the foundation of the oil industry. If we didn\'t have oil, our machines wouldn\'t work, our cars wouldn\'t start, and we\'d have no way to produce many everyday necessities, even basic things like soap and washing clothes, all these are products of the oil industry.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Sinopec Introduction to the History of Oil', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '53-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:22:49', '2011-01-12 22:22:49', '', 53, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/53-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(294, 1, '2011-01-12 22:23:05', '2011-01-12 22:23:05', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay, taken from the Beijing Language and Culture University beginner comprehension textbook, is written from the perspective of a friend visiting Jiang Ping （江苹） before she leaves the country. <!--more--> The language is mostly school-centric as the writer discusses his classmates, Jiang Ping\'s scholarship, and her test results.\r\n\r\nThe crux of the last paragraph hinges on the fact that the Chinese word for \"Goodbye\" (再见) literally translates as \"See you again\", as the writer wonders when or if he\'ll ever really see Jiang Ping again.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n努力 - [pinyin]nu3 li4[/pinyin] - Great effort\r\n参加 - [pinyin]can1 jia1[/pinyin] - Participate\r\n得 - [pinyin]de[/pinyin] - To get, earn\r\n满分 - [pinyin]man3 fen1[/pinyin] - Full marks, 100%\r\n奖学金 - [pinyin]jiang3 xue2 jin1[/pinyin] - Scholarship\r\n留学 - [pinyin]liu2 xue2[/pinyin] - Study abroad\r\n预祝 - [pinyin]yu4 zhu4[/pinyin] - Wish\r\n成功 - [pinyin]cheng2 gong1[/pinyin] - Success\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">今天我去江苹加了。 我和江苹是中学<strong>同学</strong>， 她是我的好朋友， 也是我们全班同学的朋友。 她学习非常<strong>努力</strong>， 是我们班学习最好的学生。 她会学习， 她会玩儿， 还常常帮助别人， 老师和同学都很喜欢她。 她这次<strong>参加</strong>了美国一个大学<strong>考试</strong>。 这个考试非常难，但是她考得很好，<strong>得</strong>了<strong>满分</strong>。 听说全世界只有三个学生得满分。 这个大学给江苹最高的<strong>奖学金</strong>。 我们都为她感到高兴。\r\n\r\n她下星期要去美国<strong>留学</strong>， 我们班的同学都去看他， 给他送行。\r\n\r\n江苹的家在城东边， 离我家比较远。 我下午四点多就从家里出发了， 五点半才到。 我到的时候， 同学们都已经到了。\r\n\r\n江苹很热情地欢迎我们。 同学们好久不见了， 见面以后高兴得又说又笑， 谈得很愉快。 我们<strong>预祝</strong>江苹<strong>成功</strong>。 祝她一路平安。 我说， 一定要常来新啊。 江苹说，一定。 跟他说 “再见”  的时候， 她哭了， 我也哭了。\r\n\r\n回家的路上， 我想， 我们常常说 “再见”， 但是， 有时候 “再见” 是很难的。 我和江苹什么时候能 “再见” 呢？\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nToday I\'m going to Jiang Ping\'s house. Jiang Ping and I are highschool classmates. She\'s my good friend, and she\'s also good friends with everyone in our class. She studies very hard, she\'s the best student in our class. She studies, she plays, and she also often helps others. The teacher and the other students like her. She recently participated in an examination for an American college. That test is very hard, but she did very well - she earned full marks. I heard that only three people in the whole world got full marks. This college gave Jiang Ping their highest scholarship. We\'re all very happy for her.\r\n\r\nNext week she\'s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping\'s house is on the east side of the city very far away from mine. I left my house a little after four o\'clock in the afternoon, and didn\'t get there until 5:30. When I arrived, the rest of our classmates were already there.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping warmly welcomed us. She hadn\'t seen her classmates in a while, and after she greeted us, we talked and smiled, chatting happily. We wished Jiang Ping success. Wished her a pleasant trip. I said, Be sure to write often. Jiang Ping said, Of course. When she said \"Goodbye\", she cried, and I also cried.\r\n\r\nOn my way home, I thought, We often say \"Goodbye\" [lit: see you again], but sometimes \"Goodbye\" is sad. When will Jiang Ping and I be able to see each other again?\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Jiang Ping Going to Study Abroad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '67-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:23:05', '2011-01-12 22:23:05', '', 67, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/67-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(295, 1, '2011-01-13 14:13:22', '2011-01-13 14:13:22', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs vaguely sordid fables go, this one\'s fairly tame, resulting only in some humiliatory retribution and a lost tail or two.<!--more--> \r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n狼 - [pinyin]lang2[/pinyin] - Wolf\r\n欺负 - [pinyin]qi1 fu5[/pinyin] - To bully\r\n狐狸 - [pinyin]hu2 li5[/pinyin] - Fox\r\n觅食 - [pinyin]mi4 shi2[/pinyin] - Forage, scavenge\r\n阵 - [pinyin]zhen4[/pinyin] - Classifier for events of short duration\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave\r\n暗自 - [pinyin]an4 zi4[/pinyin] - Inwardly, secretly\r\n凿 - [pinyin]zuo4[/pinyin] - Bore, dig\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一只小<strong>狼</strong>他总是<strong>欺负</strong>别人。一天小动物们聚在一起商量对付那只小狼的办法，聪明的小<strong>狐狸</strong>想到了一个办法。\r\n\r\n一天小狼出外<strong>觅食</strong>的狼，忽然闻到一<strong>阵</strong>阵烤鱼的香味，小狼跑进山<strong>洞</strong>一看，原来是狐狸在烤鱼。狐狸见狼来了，心里<strong>暗自</strong>高兴。\r\n\r\n狼问, “这些鱼是从哪弄来的？”\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “有一个地方可以钓到好多鱼，我可以给你带路。”\r\n\r\n于时狼就跟着狐狸走啊走，来到了河边，原来是河里的水结了一层冰。\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “只要在冰上<strong>凿</strong>一个洞，把<strong>尾巴</strong>放进河里，等鱼咬住尾巴的时候，就把尾巴提上来，这样就可以钓到好多好多的鱼！”\r\n\r\n狼想着这下钓的鱼吃也吃不光啦，狼等了好久，也没有鱼咬住他的尾巴。狼实在冷得不行了，就想把尾巴提上来，回头一看，尾巴都被冰住了。狼大力拉，哪知他的尾巴“啪”的一声断掉了，狼逃走了。\r\n\r\n小动物们看见狼的惨样子，都哈哈地笑了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLong  ago, there was a wolf who was always bullying others. One day,  the small animals gathered together to discuss a way to solve the problem. The smart fox thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nOne day Wolf went out to forage for food, when suddenly  he smelled the scent of roasting fish. When Little Wolf ran into a  mountain cave and looked, he saw that it was Little Fox that was cooking the fish. Fox saw that Wolf had come, and in his heart he was secretly happy.\r\n\r\nWolf asked \"Where did these fish come from?\"\r\n\r\nFox said, \"There is a place where you can catch many fish, I can take you there.\"\r\n\r\nSo Wolf followed Fox as he walked and walked, until they came to a riverbank. There turned out to be a layer of ice over the water.\r\n\r\nFox said, \"All you have to do is bore a hole in the ice, stick your tail into the river, wait until the fish bite your tail, then pull your tail out. This way, you\'ll catch many, many fish.\r\n\r\nWolf, thinking of how the fish would be more than a full meal, waited quite a while, but no fish bit his tail. Wolf was finally too cold to continue and tried to pull up his tail, but when he turned his head to look, he saw that his tail was stuck in the ice. He gave a  great pull, and what do you know but his tail came off with a \"pa\"  sound. Wolf hopped away.\r\n\r\nWhen the other little animals saw wolf\'s miserable face, they all laughed.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Wolf Goes Fishing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '85-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:13:22', '2011-01-13 14:13:22', '', 85, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/85-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(296, 1, '2011-01-15 23:38:28', '2011-01-16 04:38:28', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs vaguely sordid fables go, this one\'s fairly tame, resulting only in some humiliatory retribution and a lost tail or two.<!--more--> \r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n狼 - [pinyin]lang2[/pinyin] - Wolf\r\n欺负 - [pinyin]qi1 fu5[/pinyin] - To bully\r\n狐狸 - [pinyin]hu2 li5[/pinyin] - Fox\r\n觅食 - [pinyin]mi4 shi2[/pinyin] - Forage, scavenge\r\n阵 - [pinyin]zhen4[/pinyin] - Classifier for events of short duration\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave\r\n暗自 - [pinyin]an4 zi4[/pinyin] - Inwardly, secretly\r\n凿 - [pinyin]zuo4[/pinyin] - Bore, dig\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一只小<strong>狼</strong>他总是<strong>欺负</strong>别人。一天小动物们聚在一起商量对付那只小狼的办法，聪明的小<strong>狐狸</strong>想到了一个办法。\r\n\r\n一天小狼出外<strong>觅食</strong>的狼，忽然闻到一<strong>阵</strong>阵烤鱼的香味，小狼跑进山<strong>洞</strong>一看，原来是狐狸在烤鱼。狐狸见狼来了，心里<strong>暗自</strong>高兴。\r\n\r\n狼问, “这些鱼是从哪弄来的？”\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “有一个地方可以钓到好多鱼，我可以给你带路。”\r\n\r\n于时狼就跟着狐狸走啊走，来到了河边，原来是河里的水结了一层冰。\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “只要在冰上<strong>凿</strong>一个洞，把<strong>尾巴</strong>放进河里，等鱼咬住尾巴的时候，就把尾巴提上来，这样就可以钓到好多好多的鱼！”\r\n\r\n狼想着这下钓的鱼吃也吃不光啦，狼等了好久，也没有鱼咬住他的尾巴。狼实在冷得不行了，就想把尾巴提上来，回头一看，尾巴都被冰住了。狼大力拉，哪知他的尾巴“啪”的一声断掉了，狼逃走了。\r\n\r\n小动物们看见狼的惨样子，都哈哈地笑了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong  ago, there was a wolf who was always bullying others. One day,  the small animals gathered together to discuss a way to solve the problem. The smart fox thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nOne day Wolf went out to forage for food, when suddenly  he smelled the scent of roasting fish. When Little Wolf ran into a  mountain cave and looked, he saw that it was Little Fox that was cooking the fish. Fox saw that Wolf had come, and in his heart he was secretly happy.\r\n\r\nWolf asked \"Where did these fish come from?\"\r\n\r\nFox said, \"There is a place where you can catch many fish, I can take you there.\"\r\n\r\nSo Wolf followed Fox as he walked and walked, until they came to a riverbank. There turned out to be a layer of ice over the water.\r\n\r\nFox said, \"All you have to do is bore a hole in the ice, stick your tail into the river, wait until the fish bite your tail, then pull your tail out. This way, you\'ll catch many, many fish.\r\n\r\nWolf, thinking of how the fish would be more than a full meal, waited quite a while, but no fish bit his tail. Wolf was finally too cold to continue and tried to pull up his tail, but when he turned his head to look, he saw that his tail was stuck in the ice. He gave a  great pull, and what do you know but his tail came off with a \"pa\"  sound. Wolf hopped away.\r\n\r\nWhen the other little animals saw wolf\'s miserable face, they all laughed.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Wolf Goes Fishing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '85-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:38:28', '2011-01-16 04:38:28', '', 85, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/85-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(298, 1, '2011-01-13 02:38:45', '2011-01-13 02:38:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n盘缠 - [pinyin]pan2 chan5[/pinyin] - Traveling money\r\n骏马 - [pinyin]jun4 ma3[/pinyin] - Steed\r\n不问青红皂白 - [pinyin]bu4 wen4 qing1 hong2 zao4 bai2[/pinyin] - Doesn\'t distinguish between right and wrong, or between obvious differences\r\n满不在乎 - [pinyin]man3 bu4 zai4 hu5[/pinyin] - Unconcernedly\r\n阻止 - [pinyin]zu3 zhi3[/pinyin] - Prevent\r\n醒悟 - [pinyin]xing3 wu4[/pinyin] - Come to realize\r\n劝阻 -  [pinyin]quan4 zu3[/pinyin] - Dissuade\r\n无奈 - [pinyin]wu2 nai4[/pinyin] - For lack of a better option\r\n劝告 - [pinyin]quan4 gao4[/pinyin] - Urge, exhort\r\n一意孤行 - [pinyin]yi1 yi4 gu4 xing2[/pinyin] - Obstinately stick to, dogmatic\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一个人，从魏国到楚国去。他带上很多的<strong>盘缠</strong>，雇了上好的车，驾上<strong>骏马</strong>，请了驾车技术精湛的车夫，就上路了。楚国在魏国的南面，可这个人<strong>不问青红皂白</strong>让驾车人赶着马车一直向北走去。\r\n\r\n路上有人问他的车是要往哪儿去，他大声回答说: “去楚国！”路人告诉他说: “到楚国去应往南方走，你这是在往北走，方向不对。那人<strong>满不在乎</strong>地说:\"没关系，我的马快着呢!\" 路人替他着急，拉住他的马，<strong>阻止</strong>他说, “方向错了，你的马再快，也到不了楚国呀!\" 那人依然毫不<strong>醒悟</strong>地说: “不要紧，我带的路费多着呢!\" 路人极力<strong>劝阻</strong>他说:“虽说你路费多，可是你走的不是那个方向，你路费多也只能白花呀!\" 那个一心只想着要到楚国去的人有些不耐烦地说: “这有什么难的，我的车夫赶车的本领高着呢!\" 路人<strong>无奈</strong>，只好松开了拉住车把子的手，眼睁睁看着那个盲目上路的魏人走了。\r\n\r\n那个魏国人，不听别人的指点<strong>劝告</strong>，仗着自己的马快、钱多、车夫好等优越条件，朝着相反方向<strong>一意孤行</strong>。那么，他条件越好，他就只会离要去的地方越远，因为他的大方向错了。\r\n\r\n这个故事告诉我们，无论做什么事，都要首先看准方向，才能发充分挥自己的有利条件；如果方向错了，那么有利条件只会起到相反的作用。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a man traveling from the Kingdom of Wei to the Kingdom of Chu. He took a lot of traveling money with him, hired a good carriage, harnessed it to a strong steed, hired an exquisitely skilled driver, and then began his journey. The Kingdom of Chu was to the south of the Kingdom of Wei, but this man couldn\'t tell the difference when the driver rode away towards the north.\r\n\r\nOn the road, a passing traveler asked where they were going. The man loudly answered, \"We\'re going to the Kindom of Chu!\". The traveler told him, \"If you\'re going to Chu, you should go south. You\'re going north, it\'s the wrong direction.\" The man unconcernedly replied, \"No problem! My horse is very fast.\" Worried for him, the traveler pulled at the horse, and warned, \"You\'re going the wrong way. Even if your horse was even faster than it is, you still won\'t reach the Kingdom of Chu!\" Still not seeing the truth, the man said, \"Don\'t worry, I\'ve brought a lot of money with me.\" Making a concerted effort to dissuade him, the traveler said, \"Though you may have a lot of money, you\'re still going the wrong direction, and your money will be spent in vain.\" Thinking of nothing other than getting to the Kingdom of Chu, the man impatiently said, \"It\'s not a problem, my driver is extremely skilled!\" Out of options, the traveler let go of the carriage and watched the aimless man from Wu ride away.\r\n\r\nThe man from Wu didn\'t listen to anyone\'s exhortations, relying on his fast horse, his money, his driver\'s skill and many other favorable conditions, and obstinately continued to go in the opposite direction. Doing this, he could only continue to get further and further away from his goal, because his overall direction was wrong.\r\n\r\nThis story tells us, no matter what the situation is, we\'d better first be sure we\'re going the right way, and only then can we fully employ our other advantages, otherwise those advantages will just cause us pain [lit: have the opposite effect].\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'The Story Behind the Idiom NanYuanBeiZhe', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '123-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:38:45', '2011-01-13 02:38:45', '', 123, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/123-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(299, 1, '2011-01-12 20:52:09', '2011-01-12 20:52:09', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA passage from a BLCU textbook in which a university student laments about catching a cold. <!--more--> This essay focuses on mostly illness-centric beginner language, such as 感冒 [pinyin]gan3 mao4[/pinyin], meaning \"to have a cold\"， and 打针 [pinyin]da3 zhen1[/pinyin], meaning \"to get an IV drip or shot\".\r\n\r\nLest it seems a little dramatic to you that the writer would go to the hospital over a 24-hour cold, the Chinese typically don\'t use private clinics (except in the case of accupuncture and massage), and commonly go to the hospital for almost every health-related issue, including colds and small fevers.\r\n\r\nOf special interest is the phrase \"还开了一些药\", or \"and also prescribed me some medicine\". Literally, it says, \"Also opened a bit of medicine\". But the word 开 [pinyin]kai1[/pinyin], which usually means \"open\", is also the verb used to describe a doctor writing a perscription. This tells us that the doctor didn\'t give (给[pinyin]gei3[/pinyin]) the student any medicine himself, but perscribed it instead.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n发烧 - [pinyin]fa1 shao1[/pinyin] - Have a fever\r\n咳嗽 - [pinyin]ke2 sou5[/pinyin] - Cough\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n寂寞 - [pinyin]ji4 mo4[/pinyin] - Lonely\r\n不舒服 - [pinyin]bu4 shu1 fu5[/pinyin] - Feel unwell, uncomfortable\r\n检查 - [pinyin]jian3 cha2[/pinyin] - Check, examine\r\n果然 - [pinyin]guo3 ran2[/pinyin] - Sure enough\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n我病了。　头疼，<strong>发烧</strong>，嗓子也疼，不想吃东西，晚上<strong>咳嗽</strong>的很厉害。　上午同学们都去上课了，我一个人在宿舍里，感到很寂寞。　寂寞了就容易想家。　我家里人很多，有哥哥，姐姐，还有一个弟弟。　在家的时候，我们常一起玩儿。　现在，我在北京学习汉语，寂寞的时候就常常想他们。\r\n\r\n因为不<strong>舒服</strong>，所以我今天起得很晚。　起了床就去医院了。　大夫给我<strong>检查</strong>了一下儿，说我感冒了。　给我打了一针，<strong>还开了一些药</strong>。　他说，吃了药病就好了。\r\n\r\n老师和同学们知道我病了，都来看我。　林老师听说我不想吃东西，还做了一碗面条给我吃。　吃了面条，身上出了很多汗，老师说，出了汗可能不发烧了。\r\n\r\n下午，<strong>果然</strong>不发烧了，喜庆也好了。　我用　Ｅｍａｉｌ　个哦姐姐发了一封信。　我说，我在这儿生活得很好，我有很好的老师，还有很多好同学，好朋友，和他们在一起，我感到很愉快。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nI\'m sick. My head hurts, I have a fever, my throat also hurts, I don\'t want to eat anything, and at night I have a serious cough. In the morning my classmates all went to class, and I was the only one left in the dormitory. I feel very lonely. When you\'re lonely, it\'s easy to miss home. I have a lot of family members - an older brother, older sister, and also a younger brother. When I\'m at home, we often play together. Right now, I\'m in Beijing studying Chinese, and when I\'m lonely I miss them.\r\n\r\nBecause I don\'t feel well, I got up late today. When I got up, I went to the hospital. The doctor gave me a quick checkup and said I have a cold. He gave me one shot [also: IV drip], and also prescribed some medicine. He said, take the medicine and you\'ll get better.\r\n\r\nMy teacher and classmates know I\'m sick, so they all came to see me. Teacher Lin heard that I didn\'t want to eat anything, so she made me a bowl of noodles. After I ate the noodles, I began to pour sweat. Teacher said, if you sweat, maybe your fever will go away.\r\n\r\nIn the afternoon, sure enough my fever was gone, and I was in a good mood. I emailed my older sister. I said, I have a very good life here, I have a good teacher and good classmates and good friends, and all together they make me very happy.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'I\'m Feeling Sick', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '139-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 20:52:09', '2011-01-12 20:52:09', '', 139, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/139-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(300, 1, '2011-01-13 14:12:17', '2011-01-13 14:12:17', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:12:17', '2011-01-13 14:12:17', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/154-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(398, 1, '2011-01-24 07:28:11', '2011-01-24 12:28:11', '[two_third]\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:28:11', '2011-01-24 12:28:11', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(302, 1, '2011-01-14 00:29:06', '2011-01-14 00:29:06', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis is definitely lower-intermediate reading, with uncomplicated sentence structure and mostly simple words with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. If you\'re an advanced-beginner student and feel up to a challenge, this would be a great exercise to work on. \r\n\r\nYou\'ll see breif mention made of 五四运动 [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin], the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement\">May 4th Movement</a>, a period of student protests against the Treaty of Versailles. During that time, China began to see an upsurge in nationalism, and a heavier focus on respecting the working man over the ivory tower intellectual.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n五四运动 - [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin] - May 4th Movement\r\n东京 - [pinyin]dong1 jing1[/pinyin] - Tokyo\r\n祖国 - [pinyin]zu3 guo2[/pinyin] - Motherland\r\n后代 - [pinyin]hou4 dai4[/pinyin] - Later generations\r\n健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n爱国- [pinyin]ai4 guo2[/pinyin] - Patriotic, love one\'s country\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　<strong>五四运动</strong>时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在<strong>东京</strong>大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱<strong>祖国</strong>的<strong>后代</strong>，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还<strong>健在</strong>的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 \r\n\r\n冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 她说，他很少得病，有时候得了感冒，吃点儿药就好了。 我问她为什么还这么健康时，她说，就是经常锻炼身体。 \r\n\r\n后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是<strong>爱国</strong>了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \r\n\r\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels \"Segregation\", \"Aunt\", etc., and at the same time translated the works of a few foreign writers. In 1945, BingXin went to Japan. From 1949 to 1951, she taught Chinese literature at Tokyo University, returning home in autumn of 1951. In 1958, the \"People\'s Daily\" published her work \"To Young Readers 2\". BingXin wasn\'t only a literature expert, she was also a teacher. She loved children, she loved the offspring of her motherland, and she used her writings to teach children.\r\n\r\nIn my third year of high school, I read her early poem \"Spring Water\". It was written beautifully and was very moving. After that, I always loved to read BingXin\'s novels. My college thesis was \"On the Aesthetic Style of BingXin\'s Novels\". After I graduated college, I went to work for a publishing company. One summer morning this year, I got the opportunity to interview this master writer who is still with us today. That day was cloudy, cold, and rainy. I got up extremely early, put on a light blue suit, got on the bus and at 8:30 arrived at BingXin\'s house.\r\n\r\nBingXin\'s house was fairly far from the city center, near XinJieKou [a subdivision of Beijing]. She lived in a Beijing retirement community. There were many flowers in the yard.\r\n\r\nBingXin met me in the living room. The living room wasn\'t big, was very clean, and a landscape painting was hanging on the wall. The living room bookshelf held all kinds of books, some were in Chinese, and some were in foreign languages. BingXin had white hair, was short of stature and very thin, but looking at her she didn\'t seem like someone who was in her nineties. After we met, I first enquired after her health. She said that she was rarely sick, and though sometimes she caught cold, a little medicine fixed her right up. When I asked her why she was still so healthy, she said it\'s because of frequent exercise. \r\n\r\nLater, she answered a few of my questions about literature in the thirties. She drank tea as she spoke. When she touched on the topic of modern literature, I asked her, \"Do you still write?\" She said, \"I want to! It\'s just that my eyes aren\'t so good, I can\'t write anymore. Every day I just read the paper or a magazine or something.\" When I asked her why she had gone abroad to study, she asked me, \"Have you been abroad?\" I said, \"No.\" She said to me, \"Go have a look if you have the opportunity, work for a year or two in another country. People who\'ve lived abroad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n\r\nThat day, when I got back to my house, I kept thinking about that one thing she\'d said: \"People who\'ve lived aborad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 00:29:06', '2011-01-14 00:29:06', '', 186, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/186-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(472, 1, '2011-01-15 23:50:20', '2011-01-16 04:50:20', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis is definitely lower-intermediate reading, with uncomplicated sentence structure and mostly simple words with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. If you\'re an advanced-beginner student and feel up to a challenge, this would be a great exercise to work on. \r\n\r\nYou\'ll see breif mention made of 五四运动 [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin], the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement\">May 4th Movement</a>, a period of student protests against the Treaty of Versailles. During that time, China began to see an upsurge in nationalism, and a heavier focus on respecting the working man over the ivory tower intellectual.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n五四运动 - [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin] - May 4th Movement\r\n东京 - [pinyin]dong1 jing1[/pinyin] - Tokyo\r\n祖国 - [pinyin]zu3 guo2[/pinyin] - Motherland\r\n后代 - [pinyin]hou4 dai4[/pinyin] - Later generations\r\n健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n爱国- [pinyin]ai4 guo2[/pinyin] - Patriotic, love one\'s country\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　<strong>五四运动</strong>时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在<strong>东京</strong>大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱<strong>祖国</strong>的<strong>后代</strong>，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还<strong>健在</strong>的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 \r\n\r\n冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 她说，他很少得病，有时候得了感冒，吃点儿药就好了。 我问她为什么还这么健康时，她说，就是经常锻炼身体。 \r\n\r\n后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是<strong>爱国</strong>了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \r\n\r\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels \"Segregation\", \"Aunt\", etc., and at the same time translated the works of a few foreign writers. In 1945, BingXin went to Japan. From 1949 to 1951, she taught Chinese literature at Tokyo University, returning home in autumn of 1951. In 1958, the \"People\'s Daily\" published her work \"To Young Readers 2\". BingXin wasn\'t only a literature expert, she was also a teacher. She loved children, she loved the offspring of her motherland, and she used her writings to teach children.\r\n\r\nIn my third year of high school, I read her early poem \"Spring Water\". It was written beautifully and was very moving. After that, I always loved to read BingXin\'s novels. My college thesis was \"On the Aesthetic Style of BingXin\'s Novels\". After I graduated college, I went to work for a publishing company. One summer morning this year, I got the opportunity to interview this master writer who is still with us today. That day was cloudy, cold, and rainy. I got up extremely early, put on a light blue suit, got on the bus and at 8:30 arrived at BingXin\'s house.\r\n\r\nBingXin\'s house was fairly far from the city center, near XinJieKou [a subdivision of Beijing]. She lived in a Beijing retirement community. There were many flowers in the yard.\r\n\r\nBingXin met me in the living room. The living room wasn\'t big, was very clean, and a landscape painting was hanging on the wall. The living room bookshelf held all kinds of books, some were in Chinese, and some were in foreign languages. BingXin had white hair, was short of stature and very thin, but looking at her she didn\'t seem like someone who was in her nineties. After we met, I first enquired after her health. She said that she was rarely sick, and though sometimes she caught cold, a little medicine fixed her right up. When I asked her why she was still so healthy, she said it\'s because of frequent exercise. \r\n\r\nLater, she answered a few of my questions about literature in the thirties. She drank tea as she spoke. When she touched on the topic of modern literature, I asked her, \"Do you still write?\" She said, \"I want to! It\'s just that my eyes aren\'t so good, I can\'t write anymore. Every day I just read the paper or a magazine or something.\" When I asked her why she had gone abroad to study, she asked me, \"Have you been abroad?\" I said, \"No.\" She said to me, \"Go have a look if you have the opportunity, work for a year or two in another country. People who\'ve lived abroad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n\r\nThat day, when I got back to my house, I kept thinking about that one thing she\'d said: \"People who\'ve lived aborad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:50:20', '2011-01-16 04:50:20', '', 186, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/186-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(304, 1, '2011-01-14 13:33:46', '2011-01-14 18:33:46', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nUnlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand (and which I won\'t even attempt without a translation handy), this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n逆风 - [pinyin]ni4 feng1[/pinyin] - Against the wind\r\n脸庞 - [pinyin]lian3 pang2[/pinyin] - Face\r\n跳跃 - [pinyin]tiao4 yue4[/pinyin] - Leap, skip\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风行走 感受花瓣吹向脸庞\r\n仿佛那是白的、黄的、粉的蝴蝶在空中跳跃\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风奔跑 望着风筝越飞越高\r\n仿佛自己的梦想在空中自由飞翔\r\n\r\n \r\n小时候 是坐在父亲高大的自行车横档 感受他的怀抱\r\n后来 坐在他身后 叽叽喳喳地讲着一天的新鲜事儿\r\n现在 是坐在他的斜后边 静静地看着他的各种动作\r\n越来越远 是的 越来越远\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nI don\'t know when it started  &nbsp; I like to walk against the wind  &nbsp; feel the petals blowing against my face<br />\r\nThey\'re like white, yellow and pink butterflies skipping in the air<br />\r\nI don\'t know when it started &nbsp; I like to run against the wind &nbsp; gazing at the kites getting farther away as they go higher<br />\r\nThey\'re like my own dreams flying in the air\r\n\r\nWhen I was small &nbsp; I sat on the handles of my father\'s tall bicycle  &nbsp; and felt his embrace<br />\r\nLater, I sat behind him &nbsp; and chattered on about the things that had happened that day<br />\r\nNow, I sit on the slope behind him &nbsp; quietly watching him go about his day<br />\r\nFarther and farther away &nbsp; truly &nbsp; farther and farther away.\r\n[/one_half]', 'The House Behind Me', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:33:46', '2011-01-14 18:33:46', '', 236, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(2680, 1, '2017-01-21 02:48:58', '2017-01-21 07:48:58', '\"Can I have a gum, please?\"\r\n\"I spread a butter on my toast.\"\r\n\"I need to buy three toothpastes.\"\r\n\"That pants is too tight.\"\r\n\r\nLAWL. To a native English speaker, those sentences sound all kinds of wrong. And why are they wrong? Because we don\'t chew \"a gum\", we chew \"a stick of gum\". We don\'t spread \"a butter\", we spread \"a pat of butter\". We don\'t buy \"three toothpastes\", we buy \"three tubes of toothpaste\". And by the way, \"that pair of pants\" is too tight.\r\n\r\n\"Stick\", \"pat\", \"tube\", \"pair\" ... these are measure words that exist in the English language - words that describe the shape or form of a thing. A \"pat\", for example, specifically refers to a thick square of some semi-solid material. A \"stick\" refers to something long and thin. A \"tube\" refers to something long, round and hollow. Measure words aren\'t randomly interchangable - you can\'t just pair any old measure word with any old object; you can\'t, for example, say \"a tube of butter\" or \"a pair of toothpaste\". I mean, you could. But there would be smirking. \r\n\r\nIn English, we only sometimes use measure words - lots of objects can simply stand on their own: \"a book\", \"an apple\", \"a chair\". In Chinese, though, measure words are way more common. There are measure words for damn near everything: lamps, animals, books, chairs, whatever. There are over a hundred. Worse, there\'s no real way to pick up measure word pairs; you just have to memorize which measure words go with which objects. It\'s one of the more painful aspects of learning the language. \r\n\r\n<h3>Dearest God in Himmel, let there be another way</h3>\r\nDon\'t want to memorize all those measure words? The Almighty has heard you, worldly sufferer. There is another way, kind of. When you don\'t know the measure word for a specific object, you can usually substitute the generic, catch-all, fallback measure word 个 [pinyin]ge4[/pinyin]. Lots of Chinese language learners take one look at the measure word master list and decide they\'ll just stick with 个 forever. You wanna do that? Fine. You wouldn\'t be the first one. Wouldn\'t recommend it, though. Using 个 with everything makes you sound a little silly, like you dropped out of primary school. You\'ll never be fluent. So buckle down and memorize.\r\n\r\n<h3>Some Chinese Measure Words</h3>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<tr>\r\n<th>Measure Word</th>\r\n<th>Pinyin</th>\r\n<th>Usage</th>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>把</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]ba3[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Things with handles that you grip in one hand: chairs (I guess you grip the back of a chair when you move it around?), umbrellas, knives, door handles.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>本</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]ben3[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Books</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>部</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]bu4[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Movies</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>串</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]chuan2[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Long, thin strings with blobby items clustered on them, like kebabs, pearls or grapes</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>份</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]fen4[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Portions, shares, money, newspapers, copies</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>封</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]feng1[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Letters (the things we used to get in the main)</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>罐</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]guan4[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Tins, cans, jars and other round containers</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>家</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]jia1[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>For groups of people that form a unit, like companies or families</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>架</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]jia4[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Bridges and airplanes</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>件</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]jian4[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Clothing and luggage</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>卷</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]juan3[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Rolled up strips of things, like toilet paper, film, sushi rolls, spools of thread</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>棵</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]ke1[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Trees</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>课</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]ke4[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Lessons</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>块</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]kuai4[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Blocky things that come in chunks: land, rocks, </td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>条</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]tiao2[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Long, thin, windy or wobbly things, like noodles, rivers, or trousers.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>只</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]zhi3[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Certain animals such as birds, dogs and cats; also rings and earrings.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>座</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]zuo4[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Large blocky structures, like buildings or mountains</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Grammar Deep Dive] What\'s a Measure Word?', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'chinese-grammar-deep-dive-whats-a-measure-word', '', '', '2017-01-21 02:48:58', '2017-01-21 07:48:58', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=2680', 0, 'post', '', 0);
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(2681, 1, '2017-01-21 01:57:31', '2017-01-21 06:57:31', '\"Can I have a gum, please?\"\r\n\"I spread a butter on my toast.\"\r\n\"I need to buy three toothpastes.\"\r\n\"That pants is too tight.\"\r\n\r\nLAWL. To a native English speaker, those sentences sound all kinds of wrong. And why are they wrong? Because we don\'t chew \"a gum\", we chew \"a stick of gum\". We don\'t spread \"a butter\", we spread \"a pat of butter\". We don\'t buy \"three toothpastes\", we buy \"three tubes of toothpaste\". And by the way, \"that pair of pants\" is too tight.\r\n\r\n\"Stick\", \"pat\", \"tube\", \"pair\" ... these are measure words that exist in the English language - words that describe the shape or form of a thing. A \"pat\", for example, specifically refers to a thick square of some semi-solid material. A \"stick\" refers to something long and thin. A \"tube\" refers to something long, round and hollow. Measure words aren\'t randomly interchangable - you can\'t just pair any old measure word with any old object; you can\'t, for example, say \"a tube of butter\" or \"a pair of toothpaste\". I mean, you could. But there would be smirking. \r\n\r\nIn English, we only sometimes use measure words - lots of objects can simply stand on their own: \"a book\", \"an apple\", \"a chair\". In Chinese, though, measure words are way more common. There are measure words for damn near everything: lamps, animals, books, chairs, . Worse, there\'s no real way to . You just have to memorize which measure words go with which objects. It\'s one of the more painful aspects of learning the language. \r\n\r\n<h3>The big ol\' list of Simplified Chinese measure words</h3>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<th>\r\n<td></td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</th>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>条</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]tiao2[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Long, thin, windy or wobbly things, like noodles, rivers, or trousers.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n<h3>Dearest God in Himmel, let there be another way</h3>\r\nDon\'t want to memorize all those measure words? The Almighty has heard you, worldly sufferer. There is another way. When you don\'t know the measure word for a specific object, you can substitute \r\n\r\nYou can\'t say , and you can\'t say \"', '[Mandarin Chinese Basics] What\'s a Measure Word?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2680-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-21 01:57:31', '2017-01-21 06:57:31', '', 2680, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2680-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2682, 1, '2017-01-21 02:09:02', '2017-01-21 07:09:02', '\"Can I have a gum, please?\"\r\n\"I spread a butter on my toast.\"\r\n\"I need to buy three toothpastes.\"\r\n\"That pants is too tight.\"\r\n\r\nLAWL. To a native English speaker, those sentences sound all kinds of wrong. And why are they wrong? Because we don\'t chew \"a gum\", we chew \"a stick of gum\". We don\'t spread \"a butter\", we spread \"a pat of butter\". We don\'t buy \"three toothpastes\", we buy \"three tubes of toothpaste\". And by the way, \"that pair of pants\" is too tight.\r\n\r\n\"Stick\", \"pat\", \"tube\", \"pair\" ... these are measure words that exist in the English language - words that describe the shape or form of a thing. A \"pat\", for example, specifically refers to a thick square of some semi-solid material. A \"stick\" refers to something long and thin. A \"tube\" refers to something long, round and hollow. Measure words aren\'t randomly interchangable - you can\'t just pair any old measure word with any old object; you can\'t, for example, say \"a tube of butter\" or \"a pair of toothpaste\". I mean, you could. But there would be smirking. \r\n\r\nIn English, we only sometimes use measure words - lots of objects can simply stand on their own: \"a book\", \"an apple\", \"a chair\". In Chinese, though, measure words are way more common. There are measure words for damn near everything: lamps, animals, books, chairs, . Worse, there\'s no real way to . You just have to memorize which measure words go with which objects. It\'s one of the more painful aspects of learning the language. \r\n\r\n<h3>The big ol\' list of Simplified Chinese measure words</h3>\r\n\r\n<table>\r\n<th>\r\n<td></td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n<td></td>\r\n</th>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td>条</td>\r\n<td>[pinyin]tiao2[/pinyin]</td>\r\n<td>Long, thin, windy or wobbly things, like noodles, rivers, or trousers.</td>\r\n</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n<h3>Dearest God in Himmel, let there be another way</h3>\r\nDon\'t want to memorize all those measure words? The Almighty has heard you, worldly sufferer. There is another way, kind of. When you don\'t know the measure word for a specific object, you can usually substitute the generic, catch-all, fallback measure word 个 [pinyin]ge4[/pinyin]. Lots of Chinese language learners take one look at the measure word master list and decide they\'ll just stick with 个 forever. You wanna do that? Fine. You wouldn\'t be the first one. Wouldn\'t recommend it, though. Using 个 with everything makes you sound a little silly, like you dropped out of primary school. You\'ll never be fluent. So buckle down and memorize.', '[Chinese Grammar Deep Dive] What\'s a Measure Word?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2680-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-21 02:09:02', '2017-01-21 07:09:02', '', 2680, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2680-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2677, 1, '2017-01-20 03:30:05', '2017-01-20 08:30:05', 'Personally, I\'ve never heard of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ostrovsky\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolai Wassisface</a>. Maybe I should have, because anyone with a forehead like that deserves my attention and respect. Or maybe no one in the West really knows who this is, but because of China\'s relatively long-standing friendly relationship with the Soviet Union, Chinese intellectuals are more keyed-in to Soviet lit. Dunno. \r\n\r\n<h3>三步并作两步 [pinyin]san1 bu4 bing4 zuo4 liang3 bu4[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nCouldn\'t find this in the dictionary, had to turn to Baidu Answers for feedback. Apparently, 三步并作两步 is just a wordy way to say \"walking fast\". The phrase also seems to have a few different permutations, and turned up in web searches more commonly as: 三步并做二步. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 苏联优秀小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》作者尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基，从小就懂得关心和同情别人。有一次，母亲让他去铁路机车库给哥哥送早饭，临走时，再三嘱咐他路上不要逗留。可尼古拉一去就是几个小时，直到日升中天时还没有回来。母亲心慌意乱起来，几次跑到篱栅门外去张望。因为她知道，尼古拉经过车站时，经常从车厢底下爬过去。这样虽然少跑了路，但很容易发生危险。望来望去，仍然不见尼古拉的影子，母亲只好三步并作两步往车库方向找去，就在母亲心急如焚的时候，终于看见了尼古拉的身影。  \r\n\r\n2) 原来，尼古拉在从车库回家的路上，遇见一位妇女。她身上背着两个满满鼓鼓的大口袋，一只手提着篮子，里面放着一只母鸡和许多小鸡，另一只手还领着一个两三岁的孩子。那孩子正哭着闹着不肯走呢！尼古拉一问，知道她是急着去赶火车的，眼下离开车时间只有十几分钟了。偏偏就在这个时候，母鸡挣脱篮子飞了出来，小鸡也跟着四处乱跑。尼古拉见此情景，毫不迟疑地跑过去，把母鸡和小鸡一只只抓住，放进了篮子，并把篮子牢牢捆好。随后，又接过那位妇女背上的口袋，一直送她到了车站。母亲听了，心中的火气顿时烟消云散。她高兴地抱住尼古拉，接连亲吻了几次。\r\n\r\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/mingren/gushi3222.html\" target=\"_blank\">source</a>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n1) Author of outstanding Soviet novel \"How the Steel was Tempered\" Nikolai Ostrovsky understood how to care for and empathize with others since he was a child. One day, his mother sent him to the train yard with some breakfast for his brother, and before he left, repeatedly admonished him not to tarry. But Nikolai was gone for several hours, and still had not returned by the time the sun had risen into the noontime sky. His mother began to fret, now and then running out to the hedgerows to look for him. She knew that when Nikolai crossed the train station, he often went by crawling beneath the train cars. Though that was the shorter way, it was also dangerous. Looking all about, but still catching no sign of Nikolai, she began walking hurriedly in the direction of the train yard, but just as her impatience reached a fever pitch, she finally caught sight of Nikolai.\r\n\r\n2) As it turned out, Nikolai was on his way back from the train yard, when he happened to spot a young lady. She was carrying two overstuffed bags on her back, in one hand she carried a basket with a mother hen and several little chicks, and with the other hand she was pulling a two or three-year-old child. How the child cried and wailed, unwilling to walk. Nikolai asked, and learned that she was hurrying to catch a train, which was scheduled to leave in little more than ten minutes. Just at that moment, the mother hen struggled free of the basket and flew out, and the little chicks followed, running off in all directions. Nikolai saw this, and ran over without hesitation, caught the mother hen and the chicks one by one, put them in the basket, and tied the basket up firmly. After that, he shouldered the woman\'s burdens, and took her all the way to the station. His mother listened, and her anger instantly disappeared like a cloud of smoke. She happily embraced Nikolai, and covered him in kisses. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Famous People] 尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基 - Author Nikolai Ostrovsky\'s Empathy', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2428-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-20 03:30:05', '2017-01-20 08:30:05', '', 2428, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2428-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(311, 1, '2011-01-15 23:07:44', '2011-01-16 04:07:44', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\r\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\r\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\r\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\r\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\r\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n[/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:07:44', '2011-01-16 04:07:44', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/287-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(307, 1, '2011-01-15 22:24:52', '2011-01-16 03:24:52', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis very short husband and wife joke is courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\r\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\r\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\r\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\r\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\r\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n[/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 22:24:52', '2011-01-16 03:24:52', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(308, 1, '2011-01-15 23:59:05', '2011-01-16 04:59:05', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis very short husband and wife joke is courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\r\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\r\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\r\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\r\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\r\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:59:05', '2011-01-16 04:59:05', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(309, 1, '2011-01-15 22:53:49', '2011-01-16 03:53:49', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in India. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n喀拉拉邦 - [pinyin]Ka1 la1 la1 bang1[/pinyin] - Kerala\r\n踩踏 - [pinyin]cai3 ta4[/pinyin] - Trample on\r\n辛格 - [pinyin]xin1 ge2[/pinyin] - Sikh name \"Singh\"\r\n遇难 - [pinyin]yu4 nan4[/pinyin] - Be killed, perish [lit: meet difficulty]\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n印度西南<strong>喀拉拉邦</strong>14日晚发生重大踩踏事件，目前造成至少104人死亡。踩踏事件是在信众参加印度教庆祝活动后返回时发生的。印度总理<strong>辛格</strong>决定，为每位<strong>遇难</strong>者的家属提供10万卢比（1美元约合45卢比）的抚恤金，为每位伤者提供5万卢比的补偿金。\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203872\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\nA major stampede took place the night of [January] 14th in India\'s southwestern Kerala state, leaving at least 104 people dead. The trampling incident happened when a crowd participating in a Hindu festival left. Indian Prime Minister Singh is offering 100,000 rupees in compensation to the family members of each of the deceased (1 US Dollar is approximately 45 rupees), and 50,000 rupees in compensation to the injured.\r\n[/one_half]', '100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '279-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 22:53:49', '2011-01-16 03:53:49', '', 279, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/279-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(310, 1, '2011-01-16 00:01:29', '2011-01-16 05:01:29', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in India. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n喀拉拉邦 - [pinyin]Ka1 la1 la1 bang1[/pinyin] - Kerala\r\n踩踏 - [pinyin]cai3 ta4[/pinyin] - Trample on\r\n辛格 - [pinyin]xin1 ge2[/pinyin] - Sikh name \"Singh\"\r\n遇难 - [pinyin]yu4 nan4[/pinyin] - Be killed, perish [lit: meet difficulty]\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n印度西南<strong>喀拉拉邦</strong>14日晚发生重大踩踏事件，目前造成至少104人死亡。踩踏事件是在信众参加印度教庆祝活动后返回时发生的。印度总理<strong>辛格</strong>决定，为每位<strong>遇难</strong>者的家属提供10万卢比（1美元约合45卢比）的抚恤金，为每位伤者提供5万卢比的补偿金。\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203872\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nA major stampede took place the night of [January] 14th in India\'s southwestern Kerala state, leaving at least 104 people dead. The trampling incident happened when a crowd participating in a Hindu festival left. Indian Prime Minister Singh is offering 100,000 rupees in compensation to the family members of each of the deceased (1 US Dollar is approximately 45 rupees), and 50,000 rupees in compensation to the injured.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '279-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 00:01:29', '2011-01-16 05:01:29', '', 279, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/279-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(312, 1, '2016-11-04 03:17:17', '2016-11-04 07:17:17', 'A slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. \n\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"Williams\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly the character \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname, like Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \n\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\n\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\n\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\n\nMr. Williams was traveling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\n\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Chinese Jokes] 白头发黑胡子 - White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-04 03:17:17', '2016-11-04 07:17:17', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/287-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(313, 1, '2011-01-16 13:35:32', '2011-01-16 18:35:32', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，”这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？“\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 13:35:32', '2011-01-16 18:35:32', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/287-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(314, 1, '2011-01-16 13:36:15', '2011-01-16 18:36:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，”这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？“\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 13:36:15', '2011-01-16 18:36:15', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/287-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(316, 1, '2011-01-16 00:01:41', '2011-01-16 05:01:41', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in India. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n喀拉拉邦 - [pinyin]Ka1 la1 la1 bang1[/pinyin] - Kerala\r\n踩踏 - [pinyin]cai3 ta4[/pinyin] - Trample on\r\n辛格 - [pinyin]xin1 ge2[/pinyin] - Sikh name \"Singh\"\r\n遇难 - [pinyin]yu4 nan4[/pinyin] - Be killed, perish [lit: meet difficulty]\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n印度西南<strong>喀拉拉邦</strong>14日晚发生重大踩踏事件，目前造成至少104人死亡。踩踏事件是在信众参加印度教庆祝活动后返回时发生的。印度总理<strong>辛格</strong>决定，为每位<strong>遇难</strong>者的家属提供10万卢比（1美元约合45卢比）的抚恤金，为每位伤者提供5万卢比的补偿金。\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203872\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nA major stampede took place the night of [January] 14th in India\'s southwestern Kerala state, leaving at least 104 people dead. The trampling incident happened when a crowd participating in a Hindu festival left. Indian Prime Minister Singh is offering 100,000 rupees in compensation to the family members of each of the deceased (1 US Dollar is approximately 45 rupees), and 50,000 rupees in compensation to the injured.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '279-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 00:01:41', '2011-01-16 05:01:41', '', 279, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/279-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(317, 1, '2011-02-11 07:00:43', '2011-02-11 12:00:43', 'If you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that peak time (春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin]), as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n昨日，铁道部召开<strong>春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和广铁集团的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡刷卡支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间实行24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Chinese News] Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beijing-railway-to-sell-tickets-24-hours-during-busy-spring-festival-season', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:55:45', '2016-11-05 06:55:45', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=317', 0, 'post', '', 2),
(2229, 1, '2016-11-05 02:55:45', '2016-11-05 06:55:45', 'If you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that peak time (春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin]), as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n昨日，铁道部召开<strong>春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和广铁集团的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡刷卡支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间实行24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Chinese News] Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:55:45', '2016-11-05 06:55:45', '', 317, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/317-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(318, 1, '2011-01-16 14:19:46', '2011-01-16 19:19:46', '[two_third]\n\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home. <!--more-->\n\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year.\n\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n喀拉拉邦 - [pinyin]Ka1 la1 la1 bang1[/pinyin] - Kerala\n踩踏 - [pinyin]cai3 ta4[/pinyin] - Trample on\n辛格 - [pinyin]xin1 ge2[/pinyin] - Sikh name \"Singh\"\n遇难 - [pinyin]yu4 nan4[/pinyin] - Be killed, perish [lit: meet difficulty]\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n昨日，铁道部召开春运新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和广铁集团的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡刷卡支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间实行24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nYesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group\'s together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:19:46', '2011-01-16 19:19:46', '', 317, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(319, 1, '2016-11-05 02:54:05', '2016-11-05 06:54:05', 'If you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that peak time (春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin]), as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\n\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. \n\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n\n昨日，铁道部召开<strong>春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:54:05', '2016-11-05 06:54:05', '', 317, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(320, 1, '2011-01-16 14:20:28', '2011-01-16 19:20:28', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year.\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n喀拉拉邦 - [pinyin]Ka1 la1 la1 bang1[/pinyin] - Kerala\r\n踩踏 - [pinyin]cai3 ta4[/pinyin] - Trample on\r\n辛格 - [pinyin]xin1 ge2[/pinyin] - Sikh name \"Singh\"\r\n遇难 - [pinyin]yu4 nan4[/pinyin] - Be killed, perish [lit: meet difficulty]\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n昨日，铁道部召开春运新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和广铁集团的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡刷卡支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间实行24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nYesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group\'s together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:20:28', '2011-01-16 19:20:28', '', 317, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(321, 1, '2011-01-16 14:27:05', '2011-01-16 19:27:05', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n昨日，铁道部<strong>召开春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nYesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:27:05', '2011-01-16 19:27:05', '', 317, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(322, 1, '2011-01-16 14:27:50', '2011-01-16 19:27:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n昨日，铁道部<strong>召开春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:27:50', '2011-01-16 19:27:50', '', 317, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(324, 1, '2011-01-16 14:29:47', '2011-01-16 19:29:47', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. <!--more--> It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n昨日，铁道部<strong>召开春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:29:47', '2011-01-16 19:29:47', '', 317, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(2675, 1, '2017-01-20 03:21:24', '2017-01-20 08:21:24', 'Personally, I\'ve never heard of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ostrovsky\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolai Wassisface</a>. Maybe I should have, because anyone with a forehead like that deserves at least some measure of fame and fortune, or maybe because of China\'s relatively long-standing friendly relationship with the Soviet Union, Chinese intellectuals are more keyed-in to Soviet lit. Dunno. \r\n\r\n<h3>三步并作两步 [pinyin]san1 bu4 bing4 zuo4 liang3 bu4[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nCouldn\'t find this in the dictionary, had to turn to Baidu Answers for feedback. Apparently, 三步并作两步 is just a wordy way to say \"walking fast\". The phrase also seems to have a few different permutations, and turned up in web searches more commonly as: 三步并做二步. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 苏联优秀小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》作者尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基，从小就懂得关心和同情别人。有一次，母亲让他去铁路机车库给哥哥送早饭，临走时，再三嘱咐他路上不要逗留。可尼古拉一去就是几个小时，直到日升中天时还没有回来。母亲心慌意乱起来，几次跑到篱栅门外去张望。因为她知道，尼古拉经过车站时，经常从车厢底下爬过去。这样虽然少跑了路，但很容易发生危险。望来望去，仍然不见尼古拉的影子，母亲只好三步并作两步往车库方向找去，就在母亲心急如焚的时候，终于看见了尼古拉的身影。  \r\n\r\n2) 原来，尼古拉在从车库回家的路上，遇见一位妇女。她身上背着两个满满鼓鼓的大口袋，一只手提着篮子，里面放着一只母鸡和许多小鸡，另一只手还领着一个两三岁的孩子。那孩子正哭着闹着不肯走呢！尼古拉一问，知道她是急着去赶火车的，眼下离开车时间只有十几分钟了。偏偏就在这个时候，母鸡挣脱篮子飞了出来，小鸡也跟着四处乱跑。尼古拉见此情景，毫不迟疑地跑过去，把母鸡和小鸡一只只抓住，放进了篮子，并把篮子牢牢捆好。随后，又接过那位妇女背上的口袋，一直送她到了车站„„  母亲听了，心中的火气顿时烟消云散。她高兴地抱住尼古拉，接连亲吻了几次。\r\n\r\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/mingren/gushi3222.html\" target=\"_blank\">source</a>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n1) Author of outstanding Soviet novel \"How the Steel was Tempered\" Nikolai Ostrovsky understood how to care for and empathize with others since he was a child. One day, his mother sent him to the train yard with some breakfast for his brother, and before he left, repeatedly admonished him not to tarry. But Nikolai was gone for several hours, and still had not returned by the time the sun had risen into the noontime sky. His mother began to fret, now and then running out to the hedgerows to look for him. She knew that when Nikolai crossed the train station, he often went by crawling beneath the train cars. Though that was the shorter way, it was also dangerous. Looking all about, but still catching no sign of Nikolai, she began walking hurriedly in the direction of the train yard, but just as her impatience reached a fever pitch, she finally caught sight of Nikolai.\r\n\r\n2) As it turned out, Nikolai was on his way back from the train yard, when he happened to spot a young lady. She was carrying two overstuffed bags on her back, in one hand she carried a basket with a mother hen and several little chicks, and with the other hand she was pulling a two or three-year-old child. How the child cried and wailed, unwilling to walk. Nikolai asked, and learned that she was hurrying to catch a train, which was scheduled to leave in little more than ten minutes. Just at that moment, the mother hen struggled free of the basket and flew out, and the little chicks followed, running off in all directions. Nikolai saw this, and ran over without hesitation, caught the mother hen and the chicks one by one, put them in the basket, and tied the basket up firmly. After that, he shouldered the woman\'s burdens, and took her all the way to the station. His mother listened, and her anger instantly disappeared like a cloud of smoke. She happily embraced Nikolai, and covered him in kisses. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Famous People] 尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基 - Author Nikolai Ostrovsky\'s Empathy', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2428-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-20 03:21:24', '2017-01-20 08:21:24', '', 2428, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2428-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2676, 1, '2017-01-20 03:23:26', '2017-01-20 08:23:26', 'Personally, I\'ve never heard of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ostrovsky\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolai Wassisface</a>. Maybe I should have, because anyone with a forehead like that deserves my attention and respect. Or maybe no one in the West really knows who this is, but because of China\'s relatively long-standing friendly relationship with the Soviet Union, Chinese intellectuals are more keyed-in to Soviet lit. Dunno. \r\n\r\n<h3>三步并作两步 [pinyin]san1 bu4 bing4 zuo4 liang3 bu4[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nCouldn\'t find this in the dictionary, had to turn to Baidu Answers for feedback. Apparently, 三步并作两步 is just a wordy way to say \"walking fast\". The phrase also seems to have a few different permutations, and turned up in web searches more commonly as: 三步并做二步. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 苏联优秀小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》作者尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基，从小就懂得关心和同情别人。有一次，母亲让他去铁路机车库给哥哥送早饭，临走时，再三嘱咐他路上不要逗留。可尼古拉一去就是几个小时，直到日升中天时还没有回来。母亲心慌意乱起来，几次跑到篱栅门外去张望。因为她知道，尼古拉经过车站时，经常从车厢底下爬过去。这样虽然少跑了路，但很容易发生危险。望来望去，仍然不见尼古拉的影子，母亲只好三步并作两步往车库方向找去，就在母亲心急如焚的时候，终于看见了尼古拉的身影。  \r\n\r\n2) 原来，尼古拉在从车库回家的路上，遇见一位妇女。她身上背着两个满满鼓鼓的大口袋，一只手提着篮子，里面放着一只母鸡和许多小鸡，另一只手还领着一个两三岁的孩子。那孩子正哭着闹着不肯走呢！尼古拉一问，知道她是急着去赶火车的，眼下离开车时间只有十几分钟了。偏偏就在这个时候，母鸡挣脱篮子飞了出来，小鸡也跟着四处乱跑。尼古拉见此情景，毫不迟疑地跑过去，把母鸡和小鸡一只只抓住，放进了篮子，并把篮子牢牢捆好。随后，又接过那位妇女背上的口袋，一直送她到了车站„„  母亲听了，心中的火气顿时烟消云散。她高兴地抱住尼古拉，接连亲吻了几次。\r\n\r\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/mingren/gushi3222.html\" target=\"_blank\">source</a>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n1) Author of outstanding Soviet novel \"How the Steel was Tempered\" Nikolai Ostrovsky understood how to care for and empathize with others since he was a child. One day, his mother sent him to the train yard with some breakfast for his brother, and before he left, repeatedly admonished him not to tarry. But Nikolai was gone for several hours, and still had not returned by the time the sun had risen into the noontime sky. His mother began to fret, now and then running out to the hedgerows to look for him. She knew that when Nikolai crossed the train station, he often went by crawling beneath the train cars. Though that was the shorter way, it was also dangerous. Looking all about, but still catching no sign of Nikolai, she began walking hurriedly in the direction of the train yard, but just as her impatience reached a fever pitch, she finally caught sight of Nikolai.\r\n\r\n2) As it turned out, Nikolai was on his way back from the train yard, when he happened to spot a young lady. She was carrying two overstuffed bags on her back, in one hand she carried a basket with a mother hen and several little chicks, and with the other hand she was pulling a two or three-year-old child. How the child cried and wailed, unwilling to walk. Nikolai asked, and learned that she was hurrying to catch a train, which was scheduled to leave in little more than ten minutes. Just at that moment, the mother hen struggled free of the basket and flew out, and the little chicks followed, running off in all directions. Nikolai saw this, and ran over without hesitation, caught the mother hen and the chicks one by one, put them in the basket, and tied the basket up firmly. After that, he shouldered the woman\'s burdens, and took her all the way to the station. His mother listened, and her anger instantly disappeared like a cloud of smoke. She happily embraced Nikolai, and covered him in kisses. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Famous People] 尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基 - Author Nikolai Ostrovsky\'s Empathy', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2428-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-20 03:23:26', '2017-01-20 08:23:26', '', 2428, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2428-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2671, 1, '2017-01-20 02:17:54', '2017-01-20 07:17:54', '三步并作两步\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n苏联优秀小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》作者尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基，从小就懂得关心和同情别人。有一次，母亲让他去铁路机车库给哥哥送早饭，临走时，再三嘱咐他路上不要逗留。可尼古拉一去就是几个小时，直到日升中天时还没有回来。母亲心慌意乱起来，几次跑到篱栅门外去张望。因为她知道，尼古拉经过车站时，经常从车厢底下爬过去。这样虽然少跑了路，但很容易发生危险。望来望去，仍然不见尼古拉的影子，母亲只好三步并作两步往车库方向找去，就在母亲心急如焚的时候，终于看见了尼古拉的身影。  \r\n\r\n原来，尼古拉在从车库回家的路上，遇见一位妇女。她身上背着两个满满鼓鼓的大口袋，一只手提着篮子，里面放着一只母鸡和许多小鸡，另一只手还领着一个两三岁的孩子。那孩子正哭着闹着不肯走呢！尼古拉一问，知道她是急着去赶火车的，眼下离开车时间只有十几分钟了。偏偏就在这个时候，母鸡挣脱篮子飞了出来，小鸡也跟着四处乱跑。尼古拉见此情景，毫不迟疑地跑过去，把母鸡和小鸡一只只抓住，放进了篮子，并把篮子牢牢捆好。随后，又接过那位妇女背上的口袋，一直送她到了车站„„  母亲听了，心中的火气顿时烟消云散。她高兴地抱住尼古拉，接连亲吻了几次。\r\n\r\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.360doc.com/content/12/0624/17/1764012_220163890.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">source</a>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nAuthor of outstanding Soviet novel \"How the Steel was Tempered\" Nikolai Ostrovsky understood how to care for and empathize with others since he was a child. One day, his mother sent him to the train yard with some breakfast for his brother, and before he left, repeatedly admonished him not to tarry. But Nikolai was gone for several hours, and still had not returned by the time the sun had risen into the noontime sky. His mother began to fret, now and then running out to the hedgerows to look for him. She knew that when Nikolai crossed the train station, he often went by crawling beneath the train cars. Though that was the shorter way, it was also dangerous. Looking all about, but still catching no sign of Nikolai, she began walking hurriedly in the direction of the train yard, but just as her impatience reached a fever pitch, she finally caught sight of Nikolai.\r\n\r\nAs it turned out, Nikolai was on his way back from the train yard, when he happened to spot a young lady. She was carrying two overstuffed bags on her back, in one hand she carried a basket with a mother hen and several little chicks, and with the other hand she was pulling a two or three-year-old child. How the child cried and wailed, unwilling to walk. Nikolai asked, and learned that she was hurrying to catch a train, which was scheduled to leave in little more than ten minutes. Just at that moment, the mother hen struggled free of the basket and flew out, and the little chicks followed, running off in all directions. Nikolai saw this, and ran over without hesitation, caught the mother hen and the chicks one by one, put them in the basket, and tied the basket up firmly. After that, he shouldered the woman\'s burdens, and took her all the way to the station. His mother listened, and her anger instantly disappeared like a cloud of smoke. She happily embraced Nikolai, and covered him in kisses. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Famous People] 尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基 - Author Nikolai Ostrovsky\'s Empathy', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2428-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-20 02:17:54', '2017-01-20 07:17:54', '', 2428, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2428-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(2673, 1, '2017-01-20 03:20:21', '2017-01-20 08:20:21', 'Personally, I\'ve never heard of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ostrovsky\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolai Wassisface</a>. Maybe I should have, because anyone with a forehead like that deserves at least some measure of fame and fortune, or maybe because of China\'s relatively long-standing friendly relationship with the Soviet Union, Chinese intellectuals are more keyed-in to Soviet lit. Dunno. \r\n\r\n<h3>三步并作两步 [pinyin]san1 bu4 bing4 zuo4 liang3 bu4[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nCouldn\'t find this in the dictionary, had to turn to Baidu Answers for feedback. Apparently, 三步并作两步 is just a wordy way to say \"walking fast\". The phrase also seems to have a few different permutations, and turned up in web searches more commonly as: 三步并做二步. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n苏联优秀小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》作者尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基，从小就懂得关心和同情别人。有一次，母亲让他去铁路机车库给哥哥送早饭，临走时，再三嘱咐他路上不要逗留。可尼古拉一去就是几个小时，直到日升中天时还没有回来。母亲心慌意乱起来，几次跑到篱栅门外去张望。因为她知道，尼古拉经过车站时，经常从车厢底下爬过去。这样虽然少跑了路，但很容易发生危险。望来望去，仍然不见尼古拉的影子，母亲只好三步并作两步往车库方向找去，就在母亲心急如焚的时候，终于看见了尼古拉的身影。  \r\n\r\n原来，尼古拉在从车库回家的路上，遇见一位妇女。她身上背着两个满满鼓鼓的大口袋，一只手提着篮子，里面放着一只母鸡和许多小鸡，另一只手还领着一个两三岁的孩子。那孩子正哭着闹着不肯走呢！尼古拉一问，知道她是急着去赶火车的，眼下离开车时间只有十几分钟了。偏偏就在这个时候，母鸡挣脱篮子飞了出来，小鸡也跟着四处乱跑。尼古拉见此情景，毫不迟疑地跑过去，把母鸡和小鸡一只只抓住，放进了篮子，并把篮子牢牢捆好。随后，又接过那位妇女背上的口袋，一直送她到了车站„„  母亲听了，心中的火气顿时烟消云散。她高兴地抱住尼古拉，接连亲吻了几次。\r\n\r\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.360doc.com/content/12/0624/17/1764012_220163890.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">source</a>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nAuthor of outstanding Soviet novel \"How the Steel was Tempered\" Nikolai Ostrovsky understood how to care for and empathize with others since he was a child. One day, his mother sent him to the train yard with some breakfast for his brother, and before he left, repeatedly admonished him not to tarry. But Nikolai was gone for several hours, and still had not returned by the time the sun had risen into the noontime sky. His mother began to fret, now and then running out to the hedgerows to look for him. She knew that when Nikolai crossed the train station, he often went by crawling beneath the train cars. Though that was the shorter way, it was also dangerous. Looking all about, but still catching no sign of Nikolai, she began walking hurriedly in the direction of the train yard, but just as her impatience reached a fever pitch, she finally caught sight of Nikolai.\r\n\r\nAs it turned out, Nikolai was on his way back from the train yard, when he happened to spot a young lady. She was carrying two overstuffed bags on her back, in one hand she carried a basket with a mother hen and several little chicks, and with the other hand she was pulling a two or three-year-old child. How the child cried and wailed, unwilling to walk. Nikolai asked, and learned that she was hurrying to catch a train, which was scheduled to leave in little more than ten minutes. Just at that moment, the mother hen struggled free of the basket and flew out, and the little chicks followed, running off in all directions. Nikolai saw this, and ran over without hesitation, caught the mother hen and the chicks one by one, put them in the basket, and tied the basket up firmly. After that, he shouldered the woman\'s burdens, and took her all the way to the station. His mother listened, and her anger instantly disappeared like a cloud of smoke. She happily embraced Nikolai, and covered him in kisses. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Famous People] 尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基 - Author Nikolai Ostrovsky\'s Empathy', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2428-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-20 03:20:21', '2017-01-20 08:20:21', '', 2428, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2428-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2674, 1, '2017-01-20 03:29:06', '2017-01-20 08:29:06', 'Personally, I\'ve never heard of <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Ostrovsky\" target=\"_blank\">Nikolai Wassisface</a>. Maybe I should have, because anyone with a forehead like that deserves my attention and respect. Or maybe no one in the West really knows who this is, but because of China\'s relatively long-standing friendly relationship with the Soviet Union, Chinese intellectuals are more keyed-in to Soviet lit. Wouldn\'t be the first example. \n\n<h3>三步并作两步 [pinyin]san1 bu4 bing4 zuo4 liang3 bu4[/pinyin]</h3>\nCouldn\'t find this in the dictionary, had to turn to Baidu Answers for feedback. Apparently, 三步并作两步 is just a wordy way to say \"walking fast\". The phrase also seems to have a few different permutations, and turned up in web searches more commonly as: 三步并做二步. \n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n1) 苏联优秀小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》作者尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基，从小就懂得关心和同情别人。有一次，母亲让他去铁路机车库给哥哥送早饭，临走时，再三嘱咐他路上不要逗留。可尼古拉一去就是几个小时，直到日升中天时还没有回来。母亲心慌意乱起来，几次跑到篱栅门外去张望。因为她知道，尼古拉经过车站时，经常从车厢底下爬过去。这样虽然少跑了路，但很容易发生危险。望来望去，仍然不见尼古拉的影子，母亲只好三步并作两步往车库方向找去，就在母亲心急如焚的时候，终于看见了尼古拉的身影。  \n\n2) 原来，尼古拉在从车库回家的路上，遇见一位妇女。她身上背着两个满满鼓鼓的大口袋，一只手提着篮子，里面放着一只母鸡和许多小鸡，另一只手还领着一个两三岁的孩子。那孩子正哭着闹着不肯走呢！尼古拉一问，知道她是急着去赶火车的，眼下离开车时间只有十几分钟了。偏偏就在这个时候，母鸡挣脱篮子飞了出来，小鸡也跟着四处乱跑。尼古拉见此情景，毫不迟疑地跑过去，把母鸡和小鸡一只只抓住，放进了篮子，并把篮子牢牢捆好。随后，又接过那位妇女背上的口袋，一直送她到了车站„„  母亲听了，心中的火气顿时烟消云散。她高兴地抱住尼古拉，接连亲吻了几次。\n\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/mingren/gushi3222.html\" target=\"_blank\">source</a>.\n\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n1) Author of outstanding Soviet novel \"How the Steel was Tempered\" Nikolai Ostrovsky understood how to care for and empathize with others since he was a child. One day, his mother sent him to the train yard with some breakfast for his brother, and before he left, repeatedly admonished him not to tarry. But Nikolai was gone for several hours, and still had not returned by the time the sun had risen into the noontime sky. His mother began to fret, now and then running out to the hedgerows to look for him. She knew that when Nikolai crossed the train station, he often went by crawling beneath the train cars. Though that was the shorter way, it was also dangerous. Looking all about, but still catching no sign of Nikolai, she began walking hurriedly in the direction of the train yard, but just as her impatience reached a fever pitch, she finally caught sight of Nikolai.\n\n2) As it turned out, Nikolai was on his way back from the train yard, when he happened to spot a young lady. She was carrying two overstuffed bags on her back, in one hand she carried a basket with a mother hen and several little chicks, and with the other hand she was pulling a two or three-year-old child. How the child cried and wailed, unwilling to walk. Nikolai asked, and learned that she was hurrying to catch a train, which was scheduled to leave in little more than ten minutes. Just at that moment, the mother hen struggled free of the basket and flew out, and the little chicks followed, running off in all directions. Nikolai saw this, and ran over without hesitation, caught the mother hen and the chicks one by one, put them in the basket, and tied the basket up firmly. After that, he shouldered the woman\'s burdens, and took her all the way to the station. His mother listened, and her anger instantly disappeared like a cloud of smoke. She happily embraced Nikolai, and covered him in kisses. \n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', '[Famous People] 尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基 - Author Nikolai Ostrovsky\'s Empathy', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2428-autosave-v1', '', '', '2017-01-20 03:29:06', '2017-01-20 08:29:06', '', 2428, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2428-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(332, 1, '2011-01-15 23:43:18', '2011-01-16 04:43:18', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n盘缠 - [pinyin]pan2 chan5[/pinyin] - Traveling money\r\n骏马 - [pinyin]jun4 ma3[/pinyin] - Steed\r\n不问青红皂白 - [pinyin]bu4 wen4 qing1 hong2 zao4 bai2[/pinyin] - Doesn\'t distinguish between right and wrong, or between obvious differences\r\n满不在乎 - [pinyin]man3 bu4 zai4 hu5[/pinyin] - Unconcernedly\r\n阻止 - [pinyin]zu3 zhi3[/pinyin] - Prevent\r\n醒悟 - [pinyin]xing3 wu4[/pinyin] - Come to realize\r\n劝阻 -  [pinyin]quan4 zu3[/pinyin] - Dissuade\r\n无奈 - [pinyin]wu2 nai4[/pinyin] - For lack of a better option\r\n劝告 - [pinyin]quan4 gao4[/pinyin] - Urge, exhort\r\n一意孤行 - [pinyin]yi1 yi4 gu4 xing2[/pinyin] - Obstinately stick to, dogmatic\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一个人，从魏国到楚国去。他带上很多的<strong>盘缠</strong>，雇了上好的车，驾上<strong>骏马</strong>，请了驾车技术精湛的车夫，就上路了。楚国在魏国的南面，可这个人<strong>不问青红皂白</strong>让驾车人赶着马车一直向北走去。\r\n\r\n路上有人问他的车是要往哪儿去，他大声回答说: “去楚国！”路人告诉他说: “到楚国去应往南方走，你这是在往北走，方向不对。那人<strong>满不在乎</strong>地说:\"没关系，我的马快着呢!\" 路人替他着急，拉住他的马，<strong>阻止</strong>他说, “方向错了，你的马再快，也到不了楚国呀!\" 那人依然毫不<strong>醒悟</strong>地说: “不要紧，我带的路费多着呢!\" 路人极力<strong>劝阻</strong>他说:“虽说你路费多，可是你走的不是那个方向，你路费多也只能白花呀!\" 那个一心只想着要到楚国去的人有些不耐烦地说: “这有什么难的，我的车夫赶车的本领高着呢!\" 路人<strong>无奈</strong>，只好松开了拉住车把子的手，眼睁睁看着那个盲目上路的魏人走了。\r\n\r\n那个魏国人，不听别人的指点<strong>劝告</strong>，仗着自己的马快、钱多、车夫好等优越条件，朝着相反方向<strong>一意孤行</strong>。那么，他条件越好，他就只会离要去的地方越远，因为他的大方向错了。\r\n\r\n这个故事告诉我们，无论做什么事，都要首先看准方向，才能发充分挥自己的有利条件；如果方向错了，那么有利条件只会起到相反的作用。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a man traveling from the Kingdom of Wei to the Kingdom of Chu. He took a lot of traveling money with him, hired a good carriage, harnessed it to a strong steed, hired an exquisitely skilled driver, and then began his journey. The Kingdom of Chu was to the south of the Kingdom of Wei, but this man couldn\'t tell the difference when the driver rode away towards the north.\r\n\r\nOn the road, a passing traveler asked where they were going. The man loudly answered, \"We\'re going to the Kindom of Chu!\". The traveler told him, \"If you\'re going to Chu, you should go south. You\'re going north, it\'s the wrong direction.\" The man unconcernedly replied, \"No problem! My horse is very fast.\" Worried for him, the traveler pulled at the horse, and warned, \"You\'re going the wrong way. Even if your horse was even faster than it is, you still won\'t reach the Kingdom of Chu!\" Still not seeing the truth, the man said, \"Don\'t worry, I\'ve brought a lot of money with me.\" Making a concerted effort to dissuade him, the traveler said, \"Though you may have a lot of money, you\'re still going the wrong direction, and your money will be spent in vain.\" Thinking of nothing other than getting to the Kingdom of Chu, the man impatiently said, \"It\'s not a problem, my driver is extremely skilled!\" Out of options, the traveler let go of the carriage and watched the aimless man from Wu ride away.\r\n\r\nThe man from Wu didn\'t listen to anyone\'s exhortations, relying on his fast horse, his money, his driver\'s skill and many other favorable conditions, and obstinately continued to go in the opposite direction. Doing this, he could only continue to get further and further away from his goal, because his overall direction was wrong.\r\n\r\nThis story tells us, no matter what the situation is, we\'d better first be sure we\'re going the right way, and only then can we fully employ our other advantages, otherwise those advantages will just cause us pain [lit: have the opposite effect].\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Story Behind the Idiom NanYuanBeiZhe', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '123-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:43:18', '2011-01-16 04:43:18', '', 123, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/123-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(341, 1, '2011-02-15 07:00:35', '2011-02-15 12:00:35', 'Huh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. This widely-circulated story is believed to be apocryphal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor who lived during the reign of Queen Victoria (维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin])\r\n\r\n<h3>Some postal language</h3>\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n1) 1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n2) 一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n3) <strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都不约而同地投向她。\r\n\r\n4) 爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n5) 人们都很同情她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个绅士模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n6) 她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n7)　“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n8) “这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n9) “啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n10) 对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n11) 他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n12) 结果，英国政府从善如流，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) In 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\n2) One day more than one hundred and fifty years ago, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\n3) The postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\n4) Alice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\n5) Everyone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\n6) Wearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n7) \"Why?\" The gentlemen thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n8) \"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n9) \"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\n10) He thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\n11) He suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\n12) As a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Facts in Chinese] 邮票的历史 - The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-history-of-postage-stamps', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:56:16', '2016-11-05 06:56:16', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=341', 0, 'post', '', 4),
(2226, 1, '2016-11-05 02:50:34', '2016-11-05 06:50:34', 'Huh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. This widely-circulated story is believed to be apocryphal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor who lived during the reign of Queen Victoria (维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin])\r\n\r\n<h3>Some postal language</h3>\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n1) 1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n2) 一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n3) <strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都不约而同地投向她。\r\n\r\n4) 爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n5) 人们都很同情她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个绅士模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n6) 她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n7)　“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n8) “这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n9) “啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n10) 对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n11) 他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n12) 结果，英国政府从善如流，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) In 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\n2) One day more than one hundred and fifty years ago, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\n3) The postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\n4) Alice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\n5) Everyone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\n6) Wearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n7) \"Why?\" The gentlemen thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n8) \"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n9) \"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\n10) He thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\n11) He suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\n12) As a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:50:34', '2016-11-05 06:50:34', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/341-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(342, 1, '2011-01-17 17:37:39', '2011-01-17 22:37:39', '[two_third]\n\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service and postal history comes from Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\", <!--more--> \n\n\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国维多利亚女王的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑便士”之称。\n\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分罕见的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\n\n邮差走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着：“爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说：“我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都不约而同地投向她。\n\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\n\n人们都很同情她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个绅士模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\n\n　　她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说：“谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\n\n　　“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\n\n　　“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我：在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\n\n　　“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说：“这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\n\n　　对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\n\n　　他向当时的英国政府建议：“邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\n\n　　结果，英国政府从善如流，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\n\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\n\n\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 17:37:39', '2011-01-17 22:37:39', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(343, 1, '2011-01-17 17:38:13', '2011-01-17 22:38:13', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service and postal history comes from Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\", <!--more--> \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国维多利亚女王的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑便士”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分罕见的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n邮差走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着：“爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说：“我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都不约而同地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很同情她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个绅士模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n　　她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说：“谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n　　“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n　　“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我：在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n　　“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说：“这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n　　对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n　　他向当时的英国政府建议：“邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n　　结果，英国政府从善如流，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 17:38:13', '2011-01-17 22:38:13', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(344, 1, '2011-01-17 17:51:49', '2011-01-17 22:51:49', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service and postal history comes from Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\", so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国维多利亚女王的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑便士”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分罕见的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n邮差走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说：“我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都不约而同地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很同情她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个绅士模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n　　“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我：在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n　　“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n　　对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n　　他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n　　结果，英国政府从善如流，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach, and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 17:51:49', '2011-01-17 22:51:49', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(345, 1, '2011-01-17 18:35:53', '2011-01-17 23:35:53', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service and postal history comes from Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\", so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\nAh! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with. \" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 18:35:53', '2011-01-17 23:35:53', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(486, 1, '2011-02-15 07:37:48', '2011-02-15 12:37:48', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-15 07:37:48', '2011-02-15 12:37:48', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/15/341-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(346, 1, '2011-01-17 18:36:26', '2011-01-17 23:36:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service and postal history comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\nAh! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with. \" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 18:36:26', '2011-01-17 23:36:26', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(347, 1, '2016-11-05 02:49:30', '2016-11-05 06:49:30', 'Huh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. This widely-circulated story is believed to be apocryphal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor who lived during the reign of Queen Victoria (维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin])\n\n<h3>Some postal language</h3>\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\n1) 1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\n\n2) 一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\n\n3) <strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都不约而同地投向她。\n\n4) 爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\n\n5) 人们都很同情她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个绅士模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\n\n6) 她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\n\n7)　“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\n\n8) “这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\n\n9) “啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\n\n10) 对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\n\n11) 他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\n\n12) 结果，英国政府从善如流，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n1) In 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\n\n2) One day more than one hundred and fifty years ago, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\n\n3) The postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\n\n4) Alice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\n\n5) Everyone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\n\n6) Wearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\n\n7) \"Why?\" The gentlemen thought this was quite strange.\n\n8) \"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\n\n9) \"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\n\n10) He thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\n\n11) He suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\n\n12) As a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:49:30', '2016-11-05 06:49:30', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(348, 1, '2011-01-17 18:36:43', '2011-01-17 23:36:43', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\nAh! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with. \" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. 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(350, 1, '2011-01-17 18:38:06', '2011-01-17 23:38:06', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. 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(356, 1, '2011-01-18 18:10:15', '2011-01-18 23:10:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n馅儿 - [pinyin]xian4 er5[/pinyin] - Stuffing, filling\r\n五花八门 - [pinyin]wu3 hua1 ba1 men2[/pinyin] - Myriad, all kinds\r\n老少皆宜 - [pinyin]lao3 shao4 jie1 yi2[/pinyin] - Suitable for all ages\r\n寓意 - [pinyin]yu4 yi4[/pinyin] - Metaphorical meaning\r\n元宝 - [pinyin]yuan2 bao3[/pinyin] - Fake gold brick burnt as an offering in ancient times\r\n承载 - [pinyin]cheng2 zai4[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n千丝万缕 - [pinyin]qian1 si1 wan4 lv3[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜陪妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>讨厌的男人</strong>\r\n\r\n汤姆又来找女友玛瑞，他正在客厅耐心等候时，玛瑞的小弟弟艾米尔生气地走出来。“讨厌的家伙，你为什么总来找我姐姐，你自已没有吗？”\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校遗失许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多自黏标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE STICKER</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive stickers, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a sticker, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:10:15', '2011-01-18 23:10:15', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(355, 1, '2011-01-18 18:09:52', '2011-01-18 23:09:52', '[two_third]\n\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n馅儿 - [pinyin]xian4 er5[/pinyin] - Stuffing, filling\n五花八门 - [pinyin]wu3 hua1 ba1 men2[/pinyin] - Myriad, all kinds\n老少皆宜 - [pinyin]lao3 shao4 jie1 yi2[/pinyin] - Suitable for all ages\n寓意 - [pinyin]yu4 yi4[/pinyin] - Metaphorical meaning\n元宝 - [pinyin]yuan2 bao3[/pinyin] - Fake gold brick burnt as an offering in ancient times\n承载 - [pinyin]cheng2 zai4[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\n千丝万缕 - [pinyin]qian1 si1 wan4 lv3[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\n\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜陪妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\n\n<strong>讨厌的男人</strong>\n\n汤姆又来找女友玛瑞，他正在客厅耐心等候时，玛瑞的小弟弟艾米尔生气地走出来。“讨厌的家伙，你为什么总来找我姐姐，你自已没有吗？”\n\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\n\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校遗失许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多自黏标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\n\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\n\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\n\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\n\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\n\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\n\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\n\n<strong>ONE STICKER</strong>\n\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive stickers, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\n\nMeimei promptly wrote out a sticker, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you \n\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:09:52', '2011-01-18 23:09:52', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(357, 1, '2016-11-04 03:41:08', '2016-11-04 07:41:08', 'Well, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for young kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box.\n\nThe punchline of the last joke, \"I Won\'t Let You Die\", hinges on the Chinese slang 死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn\'t actually have anything to do with death, but rather means \"very\". For example, 饿死了, literally \"die from hunger\", means \"very hungry\", similar to the English phrase \"I\'m starving to death!\" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, \"happy to death\", or \"very happy\". \n\n<hr />\n[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\n<h4>1) 冰糕</h4>\n\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜陪妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\n\n<h4>2) 一张标签1</h4>\n\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校<strong>遗失</strong>许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多<strong>自黏</strong>标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\n\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\n\n<h4>3) 不会让您死</h4>\n\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\n\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\n\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\n\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n<h4>1) POPSICLE</h4>\n\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle and we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\n\n<h4>2) ONE LABEL</h4>\n\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive labels, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\n\nMeimei promptly wrote out a label, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\n\n<h4>3) I WON\'T LET YOU DIE</h4>\n\nSon: \"Father, if I\'m ever first in my class, what would you do?\"\n\nFather: \"Well, I\'d be so happy I\'d die!\" \n\nSon: \"Father, you don\'t need to worry unnecessarily, I\'m a filial son, I won\'t let you die.\"\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Chinese Jokes] Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-04 03:41:08', '2016-11-04 07:41:08', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(358, 1, '2011-01-18 18:22:28', '2011-01-18 23:22:28', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe punchline of the last joke, \"I Won\'t Let You Die\", hinges on the Chinese slang [verb]死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn\'t actually have anything to do with death, but rather means \"very\". For example, 饿死了, literally \"die from hunger\", means \"very hungry\", similar to the English phrase \"I\'m starving to death!\" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, \"happy to death\", or \"very happy\". \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n冰糕 - [pinyin]bing1 gao1[/pinyin] - Popsicle\r\n陪 - [pinyin]pei2[/pinyin] - To accompany, go with\r\n标签 - [pinyin]biao1 qian1[/pinyin] - Label\r\n遗失 - [pinyin]yi2 shi1[/pinyin] - To lose\r\n自黏 - [pinyin]zi4 nian2[/pinyin] - Self-adhesive\r\n多余 - [pinyin]duo1 yi2[/pinyin] - Unnecessarily\r\n孝子 - [pinyin]xiao4 zi3[/pinyin] - Obedient / filial son\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜<strong>陪</strong>妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校<strong>遗失</strong>许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多<strong>自黏</strong>标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE STICKER</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive labels, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a label, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>I WON\'T LET YOU DIE</strong>\r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, if I\'m ever first in my class, what would you do?\"\r\n\r\nFather: \"Well, I\'d be so happy I\'d die!\" \r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, you don\'t need to worry unnecessarily, I\'m a filial son, I won\'t let you die.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:22:28', '2011-01-18 23:22:28', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(359, 1, '2011-01-18 18:23:33', '2011-01-18 23:23:33', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe punchline of the last joke, \"I Won\'t Let You Die\", hinges on the Chinese slang [verb]死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn\'t actually have anything to do with death, but rather means \"very\". For example, 饿死了, literally \"die from hunger\", means \"very hungry\", similar to the English phrase \"I\'m starving to death!\" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, \"happy to death\", or \"very happy\". \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n冰糕 - [pinyin]bing1 gao1[/pinyin] - Popsicle\r\n陪 - [pinyin]pei2[/pinyin] - To accompany, go with\r\n标签 - [pinyin]biao1 qian1[/pinyin] - Label\r\n遗失 - [pinyin]yi2 shi1[/pinyin] - To lose\r\n自黏 - [pinyin]zi4 nian2[/pinyin] - Self-adhesive\r\n多余 - [pinyin]duo1 yi2[/pinyin] - Unnecessarily\r\n孝子 - [pinyin]xiao4 zi3[/pinyin] - Obedient / filial son\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜<strong>陪</strong>妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校<strong>遗失</strong>许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多<strong>自黏</strong>标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE LABEL</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive labels, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a label, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>I WON\'T LET YOU DIE</strong>\r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, if I\'m ever first in my class, what would you do?\"\r\n\r\nFather: \"Well, I\'d be so happy I\'d die!\" \r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, you don\'t need to worry unnecessarily, I\'m a filial son, I won\'t let you die.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:23:33', '2011-01-18 23:23:33', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(360, 1, '2011-01-15 23:27:45', '2011-01-16 04:27:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very short children\'s story about a bear\'s search for a new home. The original text was found on a Chinese children\'s stories site.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave, hole\r\n造 - [pinyin]zao4[/pinyin] - make, build\r\n挂 - [pinyin]gua4[/pinyin] - hang\r\n砍 - [pinyin]kan3[/pinyin] - to chop\r\n舍不得 - [pinyin]she3 bu4 de[/pinyin] - can\'t bear to\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n小熊一家住在山<strong>洞</strong>里。熊爷爷对小熊说,“你去<strong>造</strong>间木头房子住吧!\"\r\n\r\n春天，小熊走进树林。树上长满了绿叶，他舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n夏天，小熊又走进了树林。树上开满了鲜花，小熊<strong>舍不得砍</strong>。\r\n\r\n秋天，小熊走进树林，树上<strong>挂</strong>满了果实。小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n冬天，小熊走进了树林。树上站着许多小鸟，小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n一年又一年，小熊没有砍树造房子，还是高高兴兴地住在山洞里……\r\n\r\n树林里的小动物非常感谢小熊，他们送给小熊一束束美丽的鲜花.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nSource: <a href=\"http://www.gushi365.com/info/5568.html\">GuShi365.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLittle bear lived in a mountain cave. Grandfather bear said to Little Bear: \"Go and find a wooden house to live in!\"\r\n\r\nIn spring, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of green leaves, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn summer, little bear again went into the forest. The trees were full of fresh flowers, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn autumn, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of hanging fruit, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn winter, little bear went into the forest. Many little birds were living in the trees, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nYears passed, and little bear still hadn\'t made a home out of the trees. He was still living happily in his mountain cave.\r\n\r\nThe little forest animals thanked Little Bear very much, and they gave him a bunch of beautiful fresh flowers.\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:27:45', '2011-01-16 04:27:45', '', 7, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/7-revision-43/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(362, 1, '2011-01-19 13:05:39', '2011-01-19 18:05:39', '[two_third]\n\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的<strong>顶端</strong>，<strong>可惜</strong>现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的<strong>粪便</strong>呢，里面可是富含<strong>营养</strong>哟，呵呵。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡<strong>极目远眺</strong>，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\n\n这则寓言的寓意: <strong>舔</strong>别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an ever higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \n\nThe moral of this fable is licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 13:05:39', '2011-01-19 18:05:39', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(363, 1, '2016-11-05 02:43:14', '2016-11-05 06:43:14', 'If you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of toadying up, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. I started off thinking this was a bit inappropriate for the children\'s reading site I found it on, but then again, some of our most beloved fables are all about evil women baking little children in ovens, so... yeah. \n\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">source</a>.\n\n<hr />\n[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\n\n1) 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的顶端，可惜现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的粪便呢，里面可是富含营养哟。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡极目远眺，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\n\n2) 这则寓言的寓意: 舔别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong, and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \n\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however [the rewards] don\'t last.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Chinese Fables] 火鸡与公牛 - The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:43:14', '2016-11-05 06:43:14', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(364, 1, '2011-01-19 13:08:43', '2011-01-19 18:08:43', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的<strong>顶端</strong>，<strong>可惜</strong>现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的<strong>粪便</strong>呢，里面可是富含<strong>营养</strong>哟，呵呵。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡<strong>极目远眺</strong>，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\r\n\r\n这则寓言的寓意: <strong>舔</strong>别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an ever higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 13:08:43', '2011-01-19 18:08:43', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(365, 1, '2011-01-16 14:43:59', '2011-01-16 19:43:59', 'After spending six years in China studying Mandarin and working, I took a several-year haitus and returned to my native country. It was alarming how quickly my language skills began distinegrating. I searched online for Chinese reading materials, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was at an appropriate reading level, was different than the typical textbook-y stuff available online, was presented in a way that was easy to read, and that I was sure I could get through. I ended up spending more time looking for something that was suitable than actually doing any reading.\r\n\r\nAs someone who organizes her thoughts into a series of domain names, it was inevitable I\'d eventually start a website about it, and here you are. I post here whenever I have a few minutes to practice a bit of reading, or enter something interesting I\'ve picked up.\r\n\r\nThis site doesn\'t exist to teach you Chinese from scratch - there are plenty of sites and programs that do that. But this collection might help you keep your skills fresh, or pick up the occasional new vocabulary word.\r\n<h4>About the Translations</h4>\r\nMany of the translations on this site are done by me, and I don\'t post anything unless I\'ve checked it several times, but that doesn\'t mean I haven\'t missed something. Do feel free to comment if you see anything that ought to have a better translation - it won\'t be taken amiss. Quite a few of the translations, however, are done by others, are taken from old Chinese textbooks or hardcopy magazines I picked up overseas, or were sent in by a third party.\r\n\r\nIt\'s often quite difficult to do a word-for-word translation, as Chinese words that fit well into a particular Chinese sentence read very awkwardly after they\'ve been translated - sometimes a direct translation just sounds \"off\". This is more and more true the higher your reading level. I stick to a word-for-word translation when it\'s appropriate, but I\'ll often change a sentence a little so that it makes sense or reads well in English.\r\n\r\nYou\'ll also notice that I often remove commas, split long Chinese sentences into two or more English sentences, or rearrange the order of clauses, which is necessary to accommodate Chinese grammar.  The translation is meant as a guidepost to help point you in the right direction and keep you grounded in the text when needed - it\'s up to you to dissect sentence structure.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'About', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:43:59', '2011-01-16 19:43:59', '', 2, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/2-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(368, 1, '2011-01-19 13:56:58', '2011-01-19 18:56:58', '   从前有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 13:56:58', '2011-01-19 18:56:58', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/366-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(369, 1, '2011-01-15 23:39:10', '2011-01-16 04:39:10', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs vaguely sordid fables go, this one\'s fairly tame, resulting only in some humiliatory retribution and a lost tail or two.<!--more--> \r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n狼 - [pinyin]lang2[/pinyin] - Wolf\r\n欺负 - [pinyin]qi1 fu5[/pinyin] - To bully\r\n狐狸 - [pinyin]hu2 li5[/pinyin] - Fox\r\n觅食 - [pinyin]mi4 shi2[/pinyin] - Forage, scavenge\r\n阵 - [pinyin]zhen4[/pinyin] - Classifier for events of short duration\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave\r\n暗自 - [pinyin]an4 zi4[/pinyin] - Inwardly, secretly\r\n凿 - [pinyin]zuo4[/pinyin] - Bore, dig\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一只小<strong>狼</strong>他总是<strong>欺负</strong>别人。一天小动物们聚在一起商量对付那只小狼的办法，聪明的小<strong>狐狸</strong>想到了一个办法。\r\n\r\n一天小狼出外<strong>觅食</strong>的狼，忽然闻到一<strong>阵</strong>阵烤鱼的香味，小狼跑进山<strong>洞</strong>一看，原来是狐狸在烤鱼。狐狸见狼来了，心里<strong>暗自</strong>高兴。\r\n\r\n狼问, “这些鱼是从哪弄来的？”\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “有一个地方可以钓到好多鱼，我可以给你带路。”\r\n\r\n于时狼就跟着狐狸走啊走，来到了河边，原来是河里的水结了一层冰。\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “只要在冰上<strong>凿</strong>一个洞，把<strong>尾巴</strong>放进河里，等鱼咬住尾巴的时候，就把尾巴提上来，这样就可以钓到好多好多的鱼！”\r\n\r\n狼想着这下钓的鱼吃也吃不光啦，狼等了好久，也没有鱼咬住他的尾巴。狼实在冷得不行了，就想把尾巴提上来，回头一看，尾巴都被冰住了。狼大力拉，哪知他的尾巴“啪”的一声断掉了，狼逃走了。\r\n\r\n小动物们看见狼的惨样子，都哈哈地笑了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong  ago, there was a wolf who was always bullying others. One day,  the small animals gathered together to discuss a way to solve the problem. The smart fox thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nOne day Wolf went out to forage for food, when suddenly  he smelled the scent of roasting fish. When Little Wolf ran into a  mountain cave and looked, he saw that it was Little Fox that was cooking the fish. Fox saw that Wolf had come, and in his heart he was secretly happy.\r\n\r\nWolf asked \"Where did these fish come from?\"\r\n\r\nFox said, \"There is a place where you can catch many fish, I can take you there.\"\r\n\r\nSo Wolf followed Fox as he walked and walked, until they came to a riverbank. There turned out to be a layer of ice over the water.\r\n\r\nFox said, \"All you have to do is bore a hole in the ice, stick your tail into the river, wait until the fish bite your tail, then pull your tail out. This way, you\'ll catch many, many fish.\r\n\r\nWolf, thinking of how the fish would be more than a full meal, waited quite a while, but no fish bit his tail. Wolf was finally too cold to continue and tried to pull up his tail, but when he turned his head to look, he saw that his tail was stuck in the ice. He gave a  great pull, and what do you know but his tail came off with a \"pa\"  sound. Wolf hopped away.\r\n\r\nWhen the other little animals saw wolf\'s miserable face, they all laughed.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Wolf Goes Fishing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '85-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:39:10', '2011-01-16 04:39:10', '', 85, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/85-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(372, 1, '2011-01-19 15:08:59', '2011-01-19 20:08:59', '', 'Intermediate Chinese Reading Materials: The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '20110219-turkey-and-bull', '', '', '2011-01-19 15:08:59', '2011-01-19 20:08:59', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110219-turkey-and-bull.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(373, 1, '2011-01-19 13:10:21', '2011-01-19 18:10:21', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的<strong>顶端</strong>，<strong>可惜</strong>现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的<strong>粪便</strong>呢，里面可是富含<strong>营养</strong>哟，呵呵。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡<strong>极目远眺</strong>，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\r\n\r\n这则寓言的寓意: <strong>舔</strong>别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 13:10:21', '2011-01-19 18:10:21', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(375, 1, '2011-01-16 20:45:00', '2011-01-17 01:45:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n盘缠 - [pinyin]pan2 chan5[/pinyin] - Traveling money\r\n骏马 - [pinyin]jun4 ma3[/pinyin] - Steed\r\n不问青红皂白 - [pinyin]bu4 wen4 qing1 hong2 zao4 bai2[/pinyin] - Doesn\'t distinguish between right and wrong, or between obvious differences\r\n满不在乎 - [pinyin]man3 bu4 zai4 hu5[/pinyin] - Unconcernedly\r\n阻止 - [pinyin]zu3 zhi3[/pinyin] - Prevent\r\n醒悟 - [pinyin]xing3 wu4[/pinyin] - Come to realize\r\n劝阻 -  [pinyin]quan4 zu3[/pinyin] - Dissuade\r\n无奈 - [pinyin]wu2 nai4[/pinyin] - For lack of a better option\r\n劝告 - [pinyin]quan4 gao4[/pinyin] - Urge, exhort\r\n一意孤行 - [pinyin]yi1 yi4 gu4 xing2[/pinyin] - Obstinately stick to, dogmatic\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一个人，从魏国到楚国去。他带上很多的<strong>盘缠</strong>，雇了上好的车，驾上<strong>骏马</strong>，请了驾车技术精湛的车夫，就上路了。楚国在魏国的南面，可这个人<strong>不问青红皂白</strong>让驾车人赶着马车一直向北走去。\r\n\r\n路上有人问他的车是要往哪儿去，他大声回答说: “去楚国！”路人告诉他说: “到楚国去应往南方走，你这是在往北走，方向不对。那人<strong>满不在乎</strong>地说:\"没关系，我的马快着呢!\" 路人替他着急，拉住他的马，<strong>阻止</strong>他说, “方向错了，你的马再快，也到不了楚国呀!\" 那人依然毫不<strong>醒悟</strong>地说: “不要紧，我带的路费多着呢!\" 路人极力<strong>劝阻</strong>他说:“虽说你路费多，可是你走的不是那个方向，你路费多也只能白花呀!\" 那个一心只想着要到楚国去的人有些不耐烦地说: “这有什么难的，我的车夫赶车的本领高着呢!\" 路人<strong>无奈</strong>，只好松开了拉住车把子的手，眼睁睁看着那个盲目上路的魏人走了。\r\n\r\n那个魏国人，不听别人的指点<strong>劝告</strong>，仗着自己的马快、钱多、车夫好等优越条件，朝着相反方向<strong>一意孤行</strong>。那么，他条件越好，他就只会离要去的地方越远，因为他的大方向错了。\r\n\r\n这个故事告诉我们，无论做什么事，都要首先看准方向，才能发充分挥自己的有利条件；如果方向错了，那么有利条件只会起到相反的作用。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a man traveling from the Kingdom of Wei to the Kingdom of Chu. He took a lot of traveling money with him, hired a good carriage, harnessed it to a strong steed, hired an exquisitely skilled driver, and then began his journey. The Kingdom of Chu was to the south of the Kingdom of Wei, but this man couldn\'t tell the difference when the driver rode away towards the north.\r\n\r\nOn the road, a passing traveler asked where they were going. The man loudly answered, \"We\'re going to the Kindom of Chu!\". The traveler told him, \"If you\'re going to Chu, you should go south. You\'re going north, it\'s the wrong direction.\" The man unconcernedly replied, \"No problem! My horse is very fast.\" Worried for him, the traveler pulled at the horse, and warned, \"You\'re going the wrong way. Even if your horse was even faster than it is, you still won\'t reach the Kingdom of Chu!\" Still not seeing the truth, the man said, \"Don\'t worry, I\'ve brought a lot of money with me.\" Making a concerted effort to dissuade him, the traveler said, \"Though you may have a lot of money, you\'re still going the wrong direction, and your money will be spent in vain.\" Thinking of nothing other than getting to the Kingdom of Chu, the man impatiently said, \"It\'s not a problem, my driver is extremely skilled!\" Out of options, the traveler let go of the carriage and watched helplessly as the aimless man from Wu rode away.\r\n\r\nThe man from Wu didn\'t listen to anyone\'s exhortations, relying on his fast horse, his money, his driver\'s skill and many other favorable conditions, and obstinately continued to go in the opposite direction. Doing this, he could only continue to get further and further away from his goal, because his overall direction was wrong.\r\n\r\nThis story tells us, no matter what the situation is, we\'d better first be sure we\'re going the right way, and only then can we fully employ our other advantages, otherwise those advantages will just cause us pain [lit: have the opposite effect].\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Story Behind the Idiom NanYuanBeiZhe', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '123-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 20:45:00', '2011-01-17 01:45:00', '', 123, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/123-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(382, 1, '2011-01-15 23:36:29', '2011-01-16 04:36:29', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay, taken from the Beijing Language and Culture University beginner comprehension textbook, is written from the perspective of a friend visiting Jiang Ping （江苹） before she leaves the country. <!--more--> The language is mostly school-centric as the writer discusses his classmates, Jiang Ping\'s scholarship, and her test results.\r\n\r\nThe crux of the last paragraph hinges on the fact that the Chinese word for \"Goodbye\" (再见) literally translates as \"See you again\", as the writer wonders when or if he\'ll ever really see Jiang Ping again.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n努力 - [pinyin]nu3 li4[/pinyin] - Great effort\r\n参加 - [pinyin]can1 jia1[/pinyin] - Participate\r\n得 - [pinyin]de[/pinyin] - To get, earn\r\n满分 - [pinyin]man3 fen1[/pinyin] - Full marks, 100%\r\n奖学金 - [pinyin]jiang3 xue2 jin1[/pinyin] - Scholarship\r\n留学 - [pinyin]liu2 xue2[/pinyin] - Study abroad\r\n预祝 - [pinyin]yu4 zhu4[/pinyin] - Wish\r\n成功 - [pinyin]cheng2 gong1[/pinyin] - Success\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">今天我去江苹加了。 我和江苹是中学<strong>同学</strong>， 她是我的好朋友， 也是我们全班同学的朋友。 她学习非常<strong>努力</strong>， 是我们班学习最好的学生。 她会学习， 她会玩儿， 还常常帮助别人， 老师和同学都很喜欢她。 她这次<strong>参加</strong>了美国一个大学<strong>考试</strong>。 这个考试非常难，但是她考得很好，<strong>得</strong>了<strong>满分</strong>。 听说全世界只有三个学生得满分。 这个大学给江苹最高的<strong>奖学金</strong>。 我们都为她感到高兴。\r\n\r\n她下星期要去美国<strong>留学</strong>， 我们班的同学都去看他， 给他送行。\r\n\r\n江苹的家在城东边， 离我家比较远。 我下午四点多就从家里出发了， 五点半才到。 我到的时候， 同学们都已经到了。\r\n\r\n江苹很热情地欢迎我们。 同学们好久不见了， 见面以后高兴得又说又笑， 谈得很愉快。 我们<strong>预祝</strong>江苹<strong>成功</strong>。 祝她一路平安。 我说， 一定要常来新啊。 江苹说，一定。 跟他说 “再见”  的时候， 她哭了， 我也哭了。\r\n\r\n回家的路上， 我想， 我们常常说 “再见”， 但是， 有时候 “再见” 是很难的。 我和江苹什么时候能 “再见” 呢？\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nToday I\'m going to Jiang Ping\'s house. Jiang Ping and I are highschool classmates. She\'s my good friend, and she\'s also good friends with everyone in our class. She studies very hard, she\'s the best student in our class. She studies, she plays, and she also often helps others. The teacher and the other students like her. She recently participated in an examination for an American college. That test is very hard, but she did very well - she earned full marks. I heard that only three people in the whole world got full marks. This college gave Jiang Ping their highest scholarship. We\'re all very happy for her.\r\n\r\nNext week she\'s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping\'s house is on the east side of the city very far away from mine. I left my house a little after four o\'clock in the afternoon, and didn\'t get there until 5:30. When I arrived, the rest of our classmates were already there.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping warmly welcomed us. She hadn\'t seen her classmates in a while, and after she greeted us, we talked and smiled, chatting happily. We wished Jiang Ping success. Wished her a pleasant trip. I said, Be sure to write often. Jiang Ping said, Of course. When she said \"Goodbye\", she cried, and I also cried.\r\n\r\nOn my way home, I thought, We often say \"Goodbye\" [lit: see you again], but sometimes \"Goodbye\" is sad. When will Jiang Ping and I be able to see each other again?\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Jiang Ping Going to Study Abroad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '67-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:36:29', '2011-01-16 04:36:29', '', 67, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/67-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(441, 1, '2011-02-27 07:30:26', '2011-02-27 12:30:26', 'This short essay details a child\'s brush with classroom thievery. In my opinion, one of the most interesting sentences here is \"同学们看了都称不绝口\", meaning \"The students all looked [at it], talking continuously.\" This is easy to translate directly, but a direct translation doesn\'t capture the spirit of the sentence. In context, this sentence is tinged with a little envy - the author sees the other students all looking at YunXi\'s stamp album, going on and on, presumably about how great the album is, and so the author is jealous. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n1) 前天，我做错了一件事。芸熙带了心爱的<strong>集邮簿</strong>让同学们欣赏。她的集邮簿收集了来自世界各地的邮票，如：欧洲、中国、<strong>马来西亚</strong>等等。同学们看了都<strong>称不绝口</strong>。 我很了羡慕芸熙，因为她有来自世界各地的邮票，而我呢！我的集邮簿里只有来自爸爸收到的信上面的本地邮票。 下课时，我<strong>趁</strong>全部的同学都下课了，我就从芸熙的书包里人拿了她的集邮簿。过后，我就装着<strong>若无其事</strong>地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就<em>放声大哭</em>。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\r\n\r\n2) 林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要<strong>三思而后行</strong>，以免犯下大错！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) The day before yesterday, I did a bad thing. YunXi brought her beloved stamp album in to let her classmates see it. Her stamp album contains her collected stamps from places all around the world, such as Europe, China, Malaysia, etc. The other students looked through it, going on and on about it. I envied YunXi, because she had stamps from all over the world, and me? My stamp album only has a few stamps from local letters my dad got. When class let out, I took advantage of the situation and took the stamp album from YunXi\'s book bag. After a while, I walked back and lined up in the assembly hall, pretending nothing had happened. When we\'d gotten back to the classroom, YunXi opened her book bag and didn\'t see her stamp album, and she burst into tears. Teacher Lin asked her what happened, YunXi told the teacher the reason. \r\n\r\n2) Teacher Lin questioned all the students, asking who had taken Lu YunXi\'s stamp album. The teacher inquired for a long time, but no one was willing to admit to it. I felt ashamed, got the stamp album, and admitted my error to YunXi. The teacher saw that I was brave enough to admit my mistake and so didn\'t punish me, just lectured me for a bit, and YunXi accepted my apology. I regretted what I\'d done. I told myself that next time I would carefully consider the results of my actions so as to avoid a big mistake! \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Essays] 我犯错 - I Did Something Wrong', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'i-did-something-wrong', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:30:38', '2016-11-05 06:30:38', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=441', 0, 'post', '', 4),
(2220, 1, '2016-11-05 02:30:38', '2016-11-05 06:30:38', 'This short essay details a child\'s brush with classroom thievery. In my opinion, one of the most interesting sentences here is \"同学们看了都称不绝口\", meaning \"The students all looked [at it], talking continuously.\" This is easy to translate directly, but a direct translation doesn\'t capture the spirit of the sentence. In context, this sentence is tinged with a little envy - the author sees the other students all looking at YunXi\'s stamp album, going on and on, presumably about how great the album is, and so the author is jealous. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n1) 前天，我做错了一件事。芸熙带了心爱的<strong>集邮簿</strong>让同学们欣赏。她的集邮簿收集了来自世界各地的邮票，如：欧洲、中国、<strong>马来西亚</strong>等等。同学们看了都<strong>称不绝口</strong>。 我很了羡慕芸熙，因为她有来自世界各地的邮票，而我呢！我的集邮簿里只有来自爸爸收到的信上面的本地邮票。 下课时，我<strong>趁</strong>全部的同学都下课了，我就从芸熙的书包里人拿了她的集邮簿。过后，我就装着<strong>若无其事</strong>地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就<em>放声大哭</em>。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\r\n\r\n2) 林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要<strong>三思而后行</strong>，以免犯下大错！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) The day before yesterday, I did a bad thing. YunXi brought her beloved stamp album in to let her classmates see it. Her stamp album contains her collected stamps from places all around the world, such as Europe, China, Malaysia, etc. The other students looked through it, going on and on about it. I envied YunXi, because she had stamps from all over the world, and me? My stamp album only has a few stamps from local letters my dad got. When class let out, I took advantage of the situation and took the stamp album from YunXi\'s book bag. After a while, I walked back and lined up in the assembly hall, pretending nothing had happened. When we\'d gotten back to the classroom, YunXi opened her book bag and didn\'t see her stamp album, and she burst into tears. Teacher Lin asked her what happened, YunXi told the teacher the reason. \r\n\r\n2) Teacher Lin questioned all the students, asking who had taken Lu YunXi\'s stamp album. The teacher inquired for a long time, but no one was willing to admit to it. I felt ashamed, got the stamp album, and admitted my error to YunXi. The teacher saw that I was brave enough to admit my mistake and so didn\'t punish me, just lectured me for a bit, and YunXi accepted my apology. I regretted what I\'d done. I told myself that next time I would carefully consider the results of my actions so as to avoid a big mistake! \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Essays] 我犯错 - I Did Something Wrong', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '441-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:30:38', '2016-11-05 06:30:38', '', 441, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/441-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(384, 1, '2011-01-15 23:45:07', '2011-01-16 04:45:07', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA passage from a BLCU textbook in which a university student laments about catching a cold. <!--more--> This essay focuses on mostly illness-centric beginner language, such as 感冒 [pinyin]gan3 mao4[/pinyin], meaning \"to have a cold\"， and 打针 [pinyin]da3 zhen1[/pinyin], meaning \"to get an IV drip or shot\".\r\n\r\nLest it seems a little dramatic to you that the writer would go to the hospital over a 24-hour cold, the Chinese typically don\'t use private clinics (except in the case of accupuncture and massage), and commonly go to the hospital for almost every health-related issue, including colds and small fevers.\r\n\r\nOf special interest is the phrase \"还开了一些药\", or \"and also prescribed me some medicine\". Literally, it says, \"Also opened a bit of medicine\". But the word 开 [pinyin]kai1[/pinyin], which usually means \"open\", is also the verb used to describe a doctor writing a perscription. This tells us that the doctor didn\'t give (给[pinyin]gei3[/pinyin]) the student any medicine himself, but perscribed it instead.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n发烧 - [pinyin]fa1 shao1[/pinyin] - Have a fever\r\n咳嗽 - [pinyin]ke2 sou5[/pinyin] - Cough\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n寂寞 - [pinyin]ji4 mo4[/pinyin] - Lonely\r\n不舒服 - [pinyin]bu4 shu1 fu5[/pinyin] - Feel unwell, uncomfortable\r\n检查 - [pinyin]jian3 cha2[/pinyin] - Check, examine\r\n果然 - [pinyin]guo3 ran2[/pinyin] - Sure enough\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n我病了。　头疼，<strong>发烧</strong>，嗓子也疼，不想吃东西，晚上<strong>咳嗽</strong>的很厉害。　上午同学们都去上课了，我一个人在宿舍里，感到很寂寞。　寂寞了就容易想家。　我家里人很多，有哥哥，姐姐，还有一个弟弟。　在家的时候，我们常一起玩儿。　现在，我在北京学习汉语，寂寞的时候就常常想他们。\r\n\r\n因为不<strong>舒服</strong>，所以我今天起得很晚。　起了床就去医院了。　大夫给我<strong>检查</strong>了一下儿，说我感冒了。　给我打了一针，<strong>还开了一些药</strong>。　他说，吃了药病就好了。\r\n\r\n老师和同学们知道我病了，都来看我。　林老师听说我不想吃东西，还做了一碗面条给我吃。　吃了面条，身上出了很多汗，老师说，出了汗可能不发烧了。\r\n\r\n下午，<strong>果然</strong>不发烧了，喜庆也好了。　我用　Ｅｍａｉｌ　个哦姐姐发了一封信。　我说，我在这儿生活得很好，我有很好的老师，还有很多好同学，好朋友，和他们在一起，我感到很愉快。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI\'m sick. My head hurts, I have a fever, my throat also hurts, I don\'t want to eat anything, and at night I have a serious cough. In the morning my classmates all went to class, and I was the only one left in the dormitory. I feel very lonely. When you\'re lonely, it\'s easy to miss home. I have a lot of family members - an older brother, older sister, and also a younger brother. When I\'m at home, we often play together. Right now, I\'m in Beijing studying Chinese, and when I\'m lonely I miss them.\r\n\r\nBecause I don\'t feel well, I got up late today. When I got up, I went to the hospital. The doctor gave me a quick checkup and said I have a cold. He gave me one shot [also: IV drip], and also prescribed some medicine. He said, take the medicine and you\'ll get better.\r\n\r\nMy teacher and classmates know I\'m sick, so they all came to see me. Teacher Lin heard that I didn\'t want to eat anything, so she made me a bowl of noodles. After I ate the noodles, I began to pour sweat. Teacher said, if you sweat, maybe your fever will go away.\r\n\r\nIn the afternoon, sure enough my fever was gone, and I was in a good mood. I emailed my older sister. I said, I have a very good life here, I have a good teacher and good classmates and good friends, and all together they make me very happy.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'I\'m Feeling Sick', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '139-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:45:07', '2011-01-16 04:45:07', '', 139, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/139-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2669, 1, '2017-01-19 08:36:20', '2017-01-19 13:36:20', 'Why, yes they do. Here\'s another one I couldn\'t decide how to classify - the vocabulary is definitely intermediate. The length and structure are beginner. So don\'t beat yourself up if you\'re looking up more than a couple of words, here. \r\n\r\n<h3>Inescapable - 逃不过 [pinyin]tao4 bu2 guo4[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nTry as you might, there are some things in this life you can\'t get away from. If you\'re human, death and taxes, right? If you\'re a mouse, cats. And when we\'re describing these unavoidable things in Chinese, we might use the phrase 逃不过. \"A 逃不过 B\" means \"A can\'t escape from B\", or \"A couldn\'t escape B\". \r\n\r\n<h3>Hard bits</h3>\r\nIn the fourth sentence, the author mentions that cat\'s whiskers are \"像把尺\" - huh? Seems awkward and confusing, but this is perhaps easier to understand if I add back in the character that the author dropped from this sentence: \r\n\r\n<blockquote>猫的胡须像一把尺</blockquote>\r\n\r\nAh, once the number 一 [pinyin]yi1[/pinyin] goes back in there, the meaning is a little clearer. See, 把 [pinyin]ba3[/pinyin] is most frequently used as a verb that means \"to take\" or \"to pick up\". But in this case, it\'s a measure word for long, straight, rigid things. Which long, straight, rigid things? In this case, rulers, 尺 [pinyin]chi3[/pinyin]. So the entire phrase means:\r\n\r\n<blockquote>Cat whiskers are like rulers</blockquote>\r\n\r\nAre they, though? This makes more sense when you read the rest, so I\'ll leave you to it:\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n猫是捉老鼠的能手。它的耳朵很灵敏，能转来转去，哪怕是极小的声音，它也能及时辨出。猫有一双明亮的眼睛，狡猾的老鼠逃不过它的眼睛。猫的胡须像把尺，能测出各个洞的大小。猫的脚爪上有锋利的爪子，能爬树、跳墙、追捕老鼠。　\r\n\r\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.360doc.com/content/12/0624/17/1764012_220163890.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">source</a>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nCats are mouse-catching experts. Their ears are sensitive, able to swivel this way and that, and able to distinguish even the smallest noises. Cats have a pair of bright eyes, crafty mice can\'t escape their sight. Cats\' whiskers are like rulers, able to measure out the size of any hole. Cats\' paws have sharp claws, they can climb trees and jump walls to pursue and capture mice. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n', '[Facts in Chinese] 猫捉老鼠 - Cats Catch Mice', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2411-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-19 08:36:20', '2017-01-19 13:36:20', '', 2411, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2411-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2670, 1, '2017-01-19 08:58:48', '2017-01-19 13:58:48', 'xx\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n苏联优秀小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》作者尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基，从小就懂得关心和同情别人。有一次，母亲让他去铁路机车库给哥哥送早饭，临走时，再三嘱咐他路上不要逗留。可尼古拉一去就是几个小时，直到日升中天时还没有回来。母亲心慌意乱起来，几次跑到篱栅门外去张望。因为她知道，尼古拉经过车站时，经常从车厢底下爬过去。这样虽然少跑了路，但很容易发生危险。望来望去，仍然不见尼古拉的影子，母亲只好三步并作两步往车库方向找去，就在母亲心急如焚的时候，终于看见了尼古拉的身影。  \r\n\r\n原来，尼古拉在从车库回家的路上，遇见一位妇女。她身上背着两个满满鼓鼓的大口袋，一只手提着篮子，里面放着一只母鸡和许多小鸡，另一只手还领着一个两三岁的孩子。那孩子正哭着闹着不肯走呢！尼古拉一问，知道她是急着去赶火车的，眼下离开车时间只有十几分钟了。偏偏就在这个时候，母鸡挣脱篮子飞了出来，小鸡也跟着四处乱跑。尼古拉见此情景，毫不迟疑地跑过去，把母鸡和小鸡一只只抓住，放进了篮子，并把篮子牢牢捆好。随后，又接过那位妇女背上的口袋，一直送她到了车站„„  母亲听了，心中的火气顿时烟消云散。她高兴地抱住尼古拉，接连亲吻了几次。\r\n\r\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.360doc.com/content/12/0624/17/1764012_220163890.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">source</a>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nAuthor of outstanding Soviet novel \"How the Steel was Tempered\" 苏联优秀小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》作者尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基，从小就懂得关心和同情别人。有一次，母亲让他去铁路机车库给哥哥送早饭，临走时，再三嘱咐他路上不要逗留。可尼古拉一去就是几个小时，直到日升中天时还没有回来。母亲心慌意乱起来，几次跑到篱栅门外去张望。因为她知道，尼古拉经过车站时，经常从车厢底下爬过去。这样虽然少跑了路，但很容易发生危险。望来望去，仍然不见尼古拉的影子，母亲只好三步并作两步往车库方向找去，就在母亲心急如焚的时候，终于看见了尼古拉的身影。  \r\n\r\n原来，尼古拉在从车库回家的路上，遇见一位妇女。她身上背着两个满满鼓鼓的大口袋，一只手提着篮子，里面放着一只母鸡和许多小鸡，另一只手还领着一个两三岁的孩子。那孩子正哭着闹着不肯走呢！尼古拉一问，知道她是急着去赶火车的，眼下离开车时间只有十几分钟了。偏偏就在这个时候，母鸡挣脱篮子飞了出来，小鸡也跟着四处乱跑。尼古拉见此情景，毫不迟疑地跑过去，把母鸡和小鸡一只只抓住，放进了篮子，并把篮子牢牢捆好。随后，又接过那位妇女背上的口袋，一直送她到了车站„„  母亲听了，心中的火气顿时烟消云散。她高兴地抱住尼古拉，接连亲吻了几次。\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Famous People] 尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基 - Author Nikolai Ostrovsky\'s Empathy', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2428-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-19 08:58:48', '2017-01-19 13:58:48', '', 2428, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2428-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(393, 1, '2011-01-22 09:28:00', '2011-01-22 14:28:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA passage from a BLCU textbook in which a university student laments about catching a cold. <!--more--> This essay focuses on mostly illness-centric beginner language, such as 感冒 [pinyin]gan3 mao4[/pinyin], meaning \"to have a cold\"， and 打针 [pinyin]da3 zhen1[/pinyin], meaning \"to get an IV drip or shot\".\r\n\r\nLest it seems a little dramatic to you that the writer would go to the hospital over a 24-hour cold, the Chinese typically don\'t use private clinics (except in the case of accupuncture and massage), and commonly go to the hospital for almost every health-related issue, including colds and small fevers.\r\n\r\nOf special interest is the phrase \"还开了一些药\", or \"and also prescribed me some medicine\". Literally, it says, \"Also opened a bit of medicine\". But the word 开 [pinyin]kai1[/pinyin], which usually means \"open\", is also the verb used to describe a doctor writing a perscription. This tells us that the doctor didn\'t give (给[pinyin]gei3[/pinyin]) the student any medicine himself, but perscribed it instead.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n发烧 - [pinyin]fa1 shao1[/pinyin] - Have a fever\r\n咳嗽 - [pinyin]ke2 sou5[/pinyin] - Cough\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n寂寞 - [pinyin]ji4 mo4[/pinyin] - Lonely\r\n不舒服 - [pinyin]bu4 shu1 fu5[/pinyin] - Feel unwell, uncomfortable\r\n检查 - [pinyin]jian3 cha2[/pinyin] - Check, examine\r\n果然 - [pinyin]guo3 ran2[/pinyin] - Sure enough\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n我病了。　头疼，<strong>发烧</strong>，嗓子也疼，不想吃东西，晚上<strong>咳嗽</strong>的很厉害。　上午同学们都去上课了，我一个人在宿舍里，感到很寂寞。　寂寞了就容易想家。　我家里人很多，有哥哥，姐姐，还有一个弟弟。　在家的时候，我们常一起玩儿。　现在，我在北京学习汉语，寂寞的时候就常常想他们。\r\n\r\n因为不<strong>舒服</strong>，所以我今天起得很晚。　起了床就去医院了。　大夫给我<strong>检查</strong>了一下儿，说我感冒了。　给我打了一针，<strong>还开了一些药</strong>。　他说，吃了药病就好了。\r\n\r\n老师和同学们知道我病了，都来看我。　林老师听说我不想吃东西，还做了一碗面条给我吃。　吃了面条，身上出了很多汗，老师说，出了汗可能不发烧了。\r\n\r\n下午，<strong>果然</strong>不发烧了，喜庆也好了。　我用　Ｅｍａｉｌ　个哦姐姐发了一封信。　我说，我在这儿生活得很好，我有很好的老师，还有很多好同学，好朋友，和他们在一起，我感到很愉快。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI\'m sick. My head hurts, I have a fever, my throat also hurts, I don\'t want to eat anything, and at night I have a serious cough. In the morning my classmates all went to class, and I was the only one left in the dormitory. I feel very lonely. When you\'re lonely, it\'s easy to miss home. I have a lot of family members - an older brother, older sister, and also a younger brother. When I\'m at home, we often play together. Right now, I\'m in Beijing studying Chinese, and when I\'m lonely I miss them.\r\n\r\nBecause I don\'t feel well, I got up late today. When I got up, I went to the hospital. The doctor gave me a quick checkup and said I have a cold. He gave me one shot [also: IV drip], and also prescribed some medicine. He said, take the medicine and you\'ll get better.\r\n\r\nMy teacher and classmates know I\'m sick, so they all came to see me. Teacher Lin heard that I didn\'t want to eat anything, so she made me a bowl of noodles. After I ate the noodles, I began to pour sweat. Teacher said, if you sweat, maybe your fever will go away.\r\n\r\nIn the afternoon, sure enough my fever was gone, and I was in a good mood. I emailed my older sister. I said, I have a very good life here, I have a good teacher and good classmates and good friends, and all together they make me very happy.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'I\'m Feeling Sick', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '139-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-22 09:28:00', '2011-01-22 14:28:00', '', 139, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/22/139-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(394, 1, '2011-01-15 23:46:55', '2011-01-16 04:46:55', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:46:55', '2011-01-16 04:46:55', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/154-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(395, 1, '2011-01-24 07:26:50', '2011-01-24 12:26:50', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:26:50', '2011-01-24 12:26:50', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(396, 1, '2011-01-24 07:27:05', '2011-01-24 12:27:05', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:27:05', '2011-01-24 12:27:05', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(397, 1, '2011-01-24 07:27:50', '2011-01-24 12:27:50', '[two_third]\r\nTwitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:27:50', '2011-01-24 12:27:50', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(402, 1, '2011-01-24 07:28:46', '2011-01-24 12:28:46', '[two_third]\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang3[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:28:46', '2011-01-24 12:28:46', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(407, 1, '2011-01-21 06:12:10', '2011-01-21 11:12:10', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay, taken from the Beijing Language and Culture University beginner comprehension textbook, is written from the perspective of a friend visiting Jiang Ping （江苹） before she leaves the country. <!--more--> The language is mostly school-centric as the writer discusses his classmates, Jiang Ping\'s scholarship, and her test results.\r\n\r\nThe crux of the last paragraph hinges on the fact that the Chinese word for \"Goodbye\" (再见) literally translates as \"See you again\", as the writer wonders when or if he\'ll ever really see Jiang Ping again.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n努力 - [pinyin]nu3 li4[/pinyin] - Great effort\r\n参加 - [pinyin]can1 jia1[/pinyin] - Participate\r\n得 - [pinyin]de[/pinyin] - To get, earn\r\n满分 - [pinyin]man3 fen1[/pinyin] - Full marks, 100%\r\n奖学金 - [pinyin]jiang3 xue2 jin1[/pinyin] - Scholarship\r\n留学 - [pinyin]liu2 xue2[/pinyin] - Study abroad\r\n预祝 - [pinyin]yu4 zhu4[/pinyin] - Wish\r\n成功 - [pinyin]cheng2 gong1[/pinyin] - Success\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">今天我去江苹家了。 我和江苹是中学<strong>同学</strong>， 她是我的好朋友， 也是我们全班同学的朋友。 她学习非常<strong>努力</strong>， 是我们班学习最好的学生。 她会学习， 她会玩儿， 还常常帮助别人， 老师和同学都很喜欢她。 她这次<strong>参加</strong>了美国一个大学<strong>考试</strong>。 这个考试非常难，但是她考得很好，<strong>得</strong>了<strong>满分</strong>。 听说全世界只有三个学生得满分。 这个大学给江苹最高的<strong>奖学金</strong>。 我们都为她感到高兴。\r\n\r\n她下星期要去美国<strong>留学</strong>， 我们班的同学都去看他， 给他送行。\r\n\r\n江苹的家在城东边， 离我家比较远。 我下午四点多就从家里出发了， 五点半才到。 我到的时候， 同学们都已经到了。\r\n\r\n江苹很热情地欢迎我们。 同学们好久不见了， 见面以后高兴得又说又笑， 谈得很愉快。 我们<strong>预祝</strong>江苹<strong>成功</strong>。 祝她一路平安。 我说， 一定要常来新啊。 江苹说，一定。 跟他说 “再见”  的时候， 她哭了， 我也哭了。\r\n\r\n回家的路上， 我想， 我们常常说 “再见”， 但是， 有时候 “再见” 是很难的。 我和江苹什么时候能 “再见” 呢？\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nToday I\'m going to Jiang Ping\'s house. Jiang Ping and I are highschool classmates. She\'s my good friend, and she\'s also good friends with everyone in our class. She studies very hard, she\'s the best student in our class. She studies, she plays, and she also often helps others. The teacher and the other students like her. She recently participated in an examination for an American college. That test is very hard, but she did very well - she earned full marks. I heard that only three people in the whole world got full marks. This college gave Jiang Ping their highest scholarship. We\'re all very happy for her.\r\n\r\nNext week she\'s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping\'s house is on the east side of the city very far away from mine. I left my house a little after four o\'clock in the afternoon, and didn\'t get there until 5:30. When I arrived, the rest of our classmates were already there.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping warmly welcomed us. She hadn\'t seen her classmates in a while, and after she greeted us, we talked and smiled, chatting happily. We wished Jiang Ping success. Wished her a pleasant trip. I said, Be sure to write often. Jiang Ping said, Of course. When she said \"Goodbye\", she cried, and I also cried.\r\n\r\nOn my way home, I thought, We often say \"Goodbye\" [lit: see you again], but sometimes \"Goodbye\" is sad. When will Jiang Ping and I be able to see each other again?\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Jiang Ping Going to Study Abroad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '67-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-21 06:12:10', '2011-01-21 11:12:10', '', 67, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/21/67-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(406, 1, '2011-01-28 07:35:52', '2011-01-28 12:35:52', 'http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\r\n\r\n[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-28 07:35:52', '2011-01-28 12:35:52', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/28/403-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(408, 1, '2011-01-28 07:46:46', '2011-01-28 12:46:46', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-28 07:46:46', '2011-01-28 12:46:46', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/28/403-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(409, 1, '2011-01-31 07:35:47', '2011-01-31 12:35:47', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people \r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-31 07:35:47', '2011-01-31 12:35:47', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/31/403-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(411, 1, '2011-02-01 07:22:41', '2011-02-01 12:22:41', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:22:41', '2011-02-01 12:22:41', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(410, 1, '2011-02-01 07:19:00', '2011-02-01 12:19:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27, 362 people,  \r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:19:00', '2011-02-01 12:19:00', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(412, 1, '2011-02-01 07:42:59', '2011-02-01 12:42:59', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAccording to reports, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have SOMETHING, living without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, which causes excessive psychological fatigue, so they relaxed control over themselves. \r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:42:59', '2011-02-01 12:42:59', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(414, 1, '2011-02-01 07:53:23', '2011-02-01 12:53:23', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:53:23', '2011-02-01 12:53:23', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(415, 1, '2011-02-01 07:53:26', '2011-02-01 12:53:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:53:26', '2011-02-01 12:53:26', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(416, 1, '2016-11-05 02:34:07', '2016-11-05 06:34:07', 'Theft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \n\n<h3>Crime news vocab</h3>\n\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\n\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese text</还\n日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\n\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\n\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\n\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n1) Criminal Records of Japan\'s Elderly - 20,000 elderly have already stolen from supermarkets\n\n2) Japanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\n\n3) Allegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \n\n4) Reports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[News in Chinese] Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:34:07', '2016-11-05 06:34:07', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(417, 1, '2011-02-01 07:54:23', '2011-02-01 12:54:23', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:54:23', '2011-02-01 12:54:23', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(420, 1, '2011-01-16 13:37:06', '2011-01-16 18:37:06', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 13:37:06', '2011-01-16 18:37:06', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/287-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(421, 1, '2011-02-01 08:15:48', '2011-02-01 13:15:48', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:15:48', '2011-02-01 13:15:48', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(422, 1, '2011-02-01 08:21:53', '2011-02-01 13:21:53', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"William Qi\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname that I\'m not familiar with, like Williams or Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:21:53', '2011-02-01 13:21:53', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(423, 1, '2011-02-01 08:22:28', '2011-02-01 13:22:28', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"William Qi\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname, like Williams or Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:22:28', '2011-02-01 13:22:28', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(424, 1, '2011-02-01 08:22:41', '2011-02-01 13:22:41', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"William Qi\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname, like Williams or Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was traveling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:22:41', '2011-02-01 13:22:41', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(425, 1, '2011-02-01 07:57:50', '2011-02-01 12:57:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:57:50', '2011-02-01 12:57:50', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(426, 1, '2011-02-01 08:24:14', '2011-02-01 13:24:14', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:24:14', '2011-02-01 13:24:14', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(428, 1, '2011-02-01 08:34:45', '2011-02-01 13:34:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n从前有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:34:45', '2011-02-01 13:34:45', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(427, 1, '2011-02-01 08:34:25', '2011-02-01 13:34:25', '[two_third]\n\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\n\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n\n从前有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\n\n小姑娘不肯。\n\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\n\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\n\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\n\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\n\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \n\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:34:25', '2011-02-01 13:34:25', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(429, 1, '2011-01-16 14:37:33', '2011-01-16 19:37:33', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. <!--more--> It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n昨日，铁道部<strong>召开春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:37:33', '2011-01-16 19:37:33', '', 317, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(430, 1, '2011-02-01 08:25:15', '2011-02-01 13:25:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:25:15', '2011-02-01 13:25:15', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(431, 1, '2011-02-01 09:12:45', '2011-02-01 14:12:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, 从前有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:12:45', '2011-02-01 14:12:45', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(433, 1, '2011-02-01 09:27:01', '2011-02-01 14:27:01', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom, and a fox was the \r\n\r\n接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:27:01', '2011-02-01 14:27:01', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(432, 1, '2011-02-01 09:23:44', '2011-02-01 14:23:44', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\"\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:23:44', '2011-02-01 14:23:44', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(436, 1, '2011-02-01 10:14:40', '2011-02-01 15:14:40', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. CONSEQUENTLY, the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in his hand so that he appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then arranged him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\n小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 10:14:40', '2011-02-01 15:14:40', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(435, 1, '2011-02-01 10:11:29', '2011-02-01 15:11:29', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with an altar beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. CONSEQUENTLY, the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in his hand and positioned him so that he appeared to be stirring the pot, \r\n\r\n于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 10:11:29', '2011-02-01 15:11:29', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(434, 1, '2011-02-01 09:33:37', '2011-02-01 14:33:37', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with an altar beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, quickly serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. \r\n\r\n小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:33:37', '2011-02-01 14:33:37', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(437, 1, '2011-02-01 10:17:02', '2011-02-01 15:17:02', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. CONSEQUENTLY, the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in his hand so that he appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then arranged him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 10:17:02', '2011-02-01 15:17:02', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(438, 1, '2011-02-01 11:30:25', '2011-02-01 16:30:25', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 11:30:25', '2011-02-01 16:30:25', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(439, 1, '2011-02-01 11:30:42', '2011-02-01 16:30:42', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 11:30:42', '2011-02-01 16:30:42', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(476, 1, '2011-03-05 07:00:12', '2011-03-05 12:00:12', 'This fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>1)</strong> 春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n<strong>2)</strong> 小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n<strong>3)</strong> 他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>1)</strong>During the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the defeated [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\n<strong>2)</strong>The thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell with all his might. A loud \"gong\" sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this [enterprise] was spoiled, thinking \"that kind of noise is tantamount to telling people that I\'m here stealing the bell, isn\'t it?\" He was worried, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.  \r\n\r\n<strong>3)</strong>The longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all his strength. \"Yi, the sound has lessened, I can\'t hear it anymore!\" The thief became happy again, \"How wonderful! If I cover my ears well, the sound can\'t be heard!\" covered his ears well, he couldn\'t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears, thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell\'s sound either. So he began smashing the bell, hitting it again and again, the ringing of the bell being heard even in far away places. People heard the bells sounds and came in great numbers, catching the thief.  \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Idioms] 掩耳盗铃 - To bury one\'s head in the sand', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'story-behind-the-idiom-yanerdaoling', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:28:36', '2016-11-05 06:28:36', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=476', 0, 'post', '', 3),
(2218, 1, '2016-11-05 02:28:36', '2016-11-05 06:28:36', 'This fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>1)</strong> 春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n<strong>2)</strong> 小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n<strong>3)</strong> 他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>1)</strong>During the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the defeated [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\n<strong>2)</strong>The thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell with all his might. A loud \"gong\" sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this [enterprise] was spoiled, thinking \"that kind of noise is tantamount to telling people that I\'m here stealing the bell, isn\'t it?\" He was worried, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.  \r\n\r\n<strong>3)</strong>The longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all his strength. \"Yi, the sound has lessened, I can\'t hear it anymore!\" The thief became happy again, \"How wonderful! If I cover my ears well, the sound can\'t be heard!\" covered his ears well, he couldn\'t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears, thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell\'s sound either. So he began smashing the bell, hitting it again and again, the ringing of the bell being heard even in far away places. People heard the bells sounds and came in great numbers, catching the thief.  \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Idioms] 掩耳盗铃 - To bury one\'s head in the sand', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:28:36', '2016-11-05 06:28:36', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/476-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1789, 1, '2016-10-31 05:05:05', '2016-10-31 09:05:05', 'This fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>1)</strong> 春秋时侯，晋国<strong>贵族</strong><strong>智伯</strong>灭掉了<strong>范氏</strong>。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜<strong>铸成</strong>的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n<strong>2)</strong>小偷找来一把大<strong>大锤</strong>，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想<strong>捂住</strong>钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n<strong>3)</strong>他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>1)</strong>During the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the defeated [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\n<strong>2)</strong>The thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell with all his might. A loud \"gong\" sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this [enterprise] was spoiled, thinking \"that kind of noise is tantamount to telling people that I\'m here stealing the bell, isn\'t it?\" He was worried, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.  \r\n\r\n<strong>3)</strong>The longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all his strength. \"Yi, the sound has lessened, I can\'t hear it anymore!\" The thief became happy again, \"How wonderful! If I cover my ears well, the sound can\'t be heard!\" covered his ears well, he couldn\'t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears, thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell\'s sound either. So he began smashing the bell, hitting it again and again, the ringing of the bell being heard even in far away places. People heard the bells sounds and came in great numbers, catching the thief.  \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Idiom] 掩耳盗铃 - To bury one\'s head in the sand', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-31 05:05:05', '2016-10-31 09:05:05', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/10/476-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(454, 1, '2011-01-15 23:59:56', '2011-01-16 04:59:56', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis very short husband and wife joke is courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\r\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\r\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\r\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\r\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\r\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:59:56', '2011-01-16 04:59:56', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(456, 1, '2011-02-01 11:31:32', '2011-02-01 16:31:32', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 11:31:32', '2011-02-01 16:31:32', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(457, 1, '2011-02-10 07:49:45', '2011-02-10 12:49:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-10 07:49:45', '2011-02-10 12:49:45', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/10/366-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(458, 1, '2011-02-10 07:57:53', '2011-02-10 12:57:53', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\nOne of the interesting grammatical points in this story is the phrase 吃光 [pinyin]chi1guang1[/pinyin]. We know that [pinyin]chi1[/pinyin] means \"to eat\", but [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] typically means \"to be bright\" - so what are those two words doing next to each other? A secondary meaning of the word [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] is \"to finish\", or \"to use up\". It\'s usually placed after a verb to indicate that the verb was done until it couldn\'t be done any more, or until something was gone - in this case \"to eat up\".\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人 - [pinyin]fu4ren2[/pinyin] - Married woman\r\n赶走 - [pinyin]gan3zou3[/pinyin] - Drive off, chase away\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个<strong>妇人</strong>，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子<strong>赶走</strong>。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜<strong>吃光</strong>了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-10 07:57:53', '2011-02-10 12:57:53', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/10/366-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(459, 1, '2011-02-10 07:57:55', '2011-02-10 12:57:55', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\nOne of the interesting grammatical points in this story is the phrase 吃光 [pinyin]chi1guang1[/pinyin]. We know that [pinyin]chi1[/pinyin] means \"to eat\", but [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] typically means \"to be bright\" - so what are those two words doing next to each other? A secondary meaning of the word [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] is \"to finish\", or \"to use up\". It\'s usually placed after a verb to indicate that the verb was done until it couldn\'t be done any more, or until something was gone - in this case \"to eat up\".\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人 - [pinyin]fu4ren2[/pinyin] - Married woman\r\n赶走 - [pinyin]gan3zou3[/pinyin] - Drive off, chase away\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个<strong>妇人</strong>，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子<strong>赶走</strong>。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜<strong>吃光</strong>了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-10 07:57:55', '2011-02-10 12:57:55', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/10/366-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(460, 1, '2011-02-10 08:18:07', '2011-02-10 13:18:07', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\nOne of the interesting grammatical points in this story is the phrase 吃光 [pinyin]chi1 guang1[/pinyin]. We know that [pinyin]chi1[/pinyin] means \"to eat\", but [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] typically means \"to be bright\" - so what are those two words doing next to each other? A secondary meaning of the word [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] is \"to finish\", or \"to use up\". It\'s usually placed after a verb to indicate that the verb was done until it couldn\'t be done any more, or until something was gone - in this case \"to eat up\".\r\n\r\nAnother interesting word here is the word 动手 [pinyin]dong4 shou3[/pinyin], literally \"move hands\". In this case, it means \"get going\", or \"get started working [on something]\", as in the phrase 现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧, or \"Start cooking now\".\r\n\r\nI\'d imagine the most confusing piece of this text is the last sentence of the paragraph that begins \"第三天...\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人 - [pinyin]fu4 ren2[/pinyin] - Married woman\r\n赶走 - [pinyin]gan3 zou3[/pinyin] - Drive off, chase away\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n不肯 - [pinyin]bu4 ken3[/pinyin] - To be unwilling\r\n拒绝 - [pinyin]ju4 jue2[/pinyin] - To refuse\r\n牧师 - [pinyin]mu4 shi1[/pinyin] - Clergyman, pastor\r\n主持 - [pinyin]zhu3 chi2[/pinyin] - To manage, oversee\r\n司仪 - [pinyin]si1 yi2[/pinyin] - Master of ceremonies\r\n祭坛 - [pinyin]ji4 tan2[/pinyin] - Altar\r\n抽泣 - [pinyin]chou1 qi4[/pinyin] - Sob hysterically\r\n不耐烦 - [pinyin]bu4 nai4 fan2[/pinyin] - Impatient\r\n沉默 - [pinyin]chen2 mo4[/pinyin] - Silent, uncommunicative\r\n稻草人 - [pinyin]dao4 cao3 ren2[/pinyin] - Scarecrow\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个<strong>妇人</strong>，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子<strong>赶走</strong>。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜<strong>吃光</strong>了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘<strong>不肯</strong>。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是<strong>拒绝</strong>了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是<strong>牧师</strong>，为新郎新娘<strong>主持</strong>婚礼；狐狸是<strong>司仪</strong>，<strong>祭坛</strong>在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地<strong>抽泣</strong>起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经<strong>不耐烦</strong>。”新娘<strong>沉默</strong>着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个<strong>稻草人</strong>身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-autosave-v1', '', '', '2011-02-10 08:18:07', '2011-02-10 13:18:07', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/10/366-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(461, 1, '2011-02-10 08:18:03', '2011-02-10 13:18:03', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\nOne of the interesting grammatical points in this story is the phrase 吃光 [pinyin]chi1 guang1[/pinyin]. We know that [pinyin]chi1[/pinyin] means \"to eat\", but [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] typically means \"to be bright\" - so what are those two words doing next to each other? A secondary meaning of the word [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] is \"to finish\", or \"to use up\". It\'s usually placed after a verb to indicate that the verb was done until it couldn\'t be done any more, or until something was gone - in this case \"to eat up\".\r\n\r\nAnother interesting word here is the word 动手 [pinyin]dong4 shou3[/pinyin], literally \"move hands\". In this case, it means \"get going\", or \"get started working [on something]\", as in the phrase 现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧, or \"Start cooking now\".\r\n\r\nI\'d imagine the most confusing piece of this text is the last sentence of the paragraph that begins \"第三天...\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人 - [pinyin]fu4 ren2[/pinyin] - Married woman\r\n赶走 - [pinyin]gan3 zou3[/pinyin] - Drive off, chase away\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n不肯 - [pinyin]bu4 ken3[/pinyin] - To be unwilling\r\n拒绝 - [pinyin]ju4 jue2[/pinyin] - To refuse\r\n牧师 - [pinyin]mu4 shi1[/pinyin] - Clergyman, pastor\r\n主持 - [pinyin]zhu3 chi2[/pinyin] - To manage, oversee\r\n司仪 - [pinyin]si1 yi2[/pinyin] - Master of ceremonies\r\n祭坛 - [pinyin]ji4 tan2[/pinyin] - Altar\r\n抽泣 - [pinyin]chou1 qi4[/pinyin] - Sob hysterically\r\n不耐烦 - [pinyin]bu4 nai4 fan2[/pinyin] - Impatient\r\n沉默 - [pinyin]chen2 mo4[/pinyin] - Silent, uncommunicative\r\n稻草人 - [pinyin]dao4 cao3 ren2[/pinyin] - Scarecrow\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个<strong>妇人</strong>，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子<strong>赶走</strong>。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜<strong>吃光</strong>了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘<strong>不肯</strong>。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是<strong>拒绝</strong>了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是<strong>牧师</strong>，为新郎新娘<strong>主持</strong>婚礼；狐狸是<strong>司仪</strong>，<strong>祭坛</strong>在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地<strong>抽泣</strong>起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经<strong>不耐烦</strong>。”新娘<strong>沉默</strong>着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个<strong>稻草人</strong>身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-10 08:18:03', '2011-02-10 13:18:03', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/10/366-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(463, 1, '2011-02-10 08:20:41', '2011-02-10 13:20:41', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\nOne of the interesting grammatical points in this story is the phrase 吃光 [pinyin]chi1 guang1[/pinyin]. We know that [pinyin]chi1[/pinyin] means \"to eat\", but [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] typically means \"to be bright\" - so what are those two words doing next to each other? A secondary meaning of the word [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] is \"to finish\", or \"to use up\". It\'s usually placed after a verb to indicate that the verb was done until it couldn\'t be done any more, or until something was gone - in this case \"to eat up\".\r\n\r\nAnother interesting word here is the word 动手 [pinyin]dong4 shou3[/pinyin], literally \"move hands\". In this case, it means \"get going\", or \"get started working [on something]\", as in the phrase 现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧, or \"Start cooking now\".\r\n\r\nI\'d imagine the most confusing piece of this text is the last sentence of the paragraph that begins \"第三天...\". Within the parentheses, the tone of the story randomly changes. This should be read as the first (and only) interjection by the story\'s narrator, who elaborates on what kind of animals attended the wedding.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人 - [pinyin]fu4 ren2[/pinyin] - Married woman\r\n赶走 - [pinyin]gan3 zou3[/pinyin] - Drive off, chase away\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n不肯 - [pinyin]bu4 ken3[/pinyin] - To be unwilling\r\n拒绝 - [pinyin]ju4 jue2[/pinyin] - To refuse\r\n牧师 - [pinyin]mu4 shi1[/pinyin] - Clergyman, pastor\r\n主持 - [pinyin]zhu3 chi2[/pinyin] - To manage, oversee\r\n司仪 - [pinyin]si1 yi2[/pinyin] - Master of ceremonies\r\n祭坛 - [pinyin]ji4 tan2[/pinyin] - Altar\r\n抽泣 - [pinyin]chou1 qi4[/pinyin] - Sob hysterically\r\n不耐烦 - [pinyin]bu4 nai4 fan2[/pinyin] - Impatient\r\n沉默 - [pinyin]chen2 mo4[/pinyin] - Silent, uncommunicative\r\n稻草人 - [pinyin]dao4 cao3 ren2[/pinyin] - Scarecrow\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个<strong>妇人</strong>，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子<strong>赶走</strong>。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜<strong>吃光</strong>了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘<strong>不肯</strong>。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是<strong>拒绝</strong>了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是<strong>牧师</strong>，为新郎新娘<strong>主持</strong>婚礼；狐狸是<strong>司仪</strong>，<strong>祭坛</strong>在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地<strong>抽泣</strong>起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经<strong>不耐烦</strong>。”新娘<strong>沉默</strong>着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个<strong>稻草人</strong>身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-10 08:20:41', '2011-02-10 13:20:41', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/10/366-revision-19/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(464, 1, '2011-02-01 08:23:45', '2011-02-01 13:23:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"William Qi\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname, like Williams or Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi / Williams\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was traveling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:23:45', '2011-02-01 13:23:45', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(466, 1, '2011-02-14 07:28:45', '2011-02-14 12:28:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n前天，我做错了一件事。芸熙带了心爱的集邮簿让同学们欣赏。她的集邮簿收集了来自世界各地的邮票，如：欧洲、中国、马来西亚等等。同学们看了都称不绝口。 我很了羡慕芸熙，因为她有来自世界各地的邮票，而我呢！我的集邮簿里只有来自爸爸收到的信上面的本地邮票。 下课时，我趁全部的同学都下课了，我就从芸熙的书包里人拿了她的集邮簿。过后，我就装着若无其事地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就放声大哭。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\r\n\r\n林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要三思而后行，以免犯下大错！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\nThe day before yesterday, I did a bad thing. YunXi brought her beloved stamp album in to let her classmates see it. Her stamp album contains her collected stamps from places all around the world, such as Europe, China, Malaysia, etc. The other students looked through it, talking continuously. I envied YunXi, because she had stamps from all over the world, and me? My stamp album only has a few stamps from local letters my dad got. When class let out, I took advantage of the situation and took the stamp album from YunXi\'s book bag. After a while, I walked back and lined up in the assembly hall, pretending nothing had happened. When we\'d gotten back to the classroom, YunXi opened her book bag and didn\'t see her stamp album, and she burst into tears.  过后，我就装着若无其事地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就放声大哭。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\r\n\r\n林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要三思而后行，以免犯下大错！\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'I Did Something Wrong', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '441-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 07:28:45', '2011-02-14 12:28:45', '', 441, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/441-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2217, 1, '2016-11-05 02:28:13', '2016-11-05 06:28:13', 'This short essay details a child\'s brush with classroom thievery. In my opinion, one of the most interesting sentences here is \"同学们看了都称不绝口\", meaning \"The students all looked [at it], talking continuously.\" This is easy to translate directly, but a direct translation doesn\'t capture the spirit of the sentence. In context, this sentence is tinged with a little envy - the author sees the other students all looking at YunXi\'s stamp album, going on and on, presumably about how great the album is, and so the author is jealous. \n\n<hr />\n[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\n\n1) 前天，我做错了一件事。芸熙带了心爱的<strong>集邮簿</strong>让同学们欣赏。她的集邮簿收集了来自世界各地的邮票，如：欧洲、中国、<strong>马来西亚</strong>等等。同学们看了都<strong>称不绝口</strong>。 我很了羡慕芸熙，因为她有来自世界各地的邮票，而我呢！我的集邮簿里只有来自爸爸收到的信上面的本地邮票。 下课时，我<strong>趁</strong>全部的同学都下课了，我就从芸熙的书包里人拿了她的集邮簿。过后，我就装着<strong>若无其事</strong>地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就<em>放声大哭</em>。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\n\n2) 林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要<strong>三思而后行</strong>，以免犯下大错！\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n1) The day before yesterday, I did a bad thing. YunXi brought her beloved stamp album in to let her classmates see it. Her stamp album contains her collected stamps from places all around the world, such as Europe, China, Malaysia, etc. The other students looked through it, going on and on about it. I envied YunXi, because she had stamps from all over the world, and me? My stamp album only has a few stamps from local letters my dad got. When class let out, I took advantage of the situation and took the stamp album from YunXi\'s book bag. After a while, I walked back and lined up in the assembly hall, pretending nothing had happened. When we\'d gotten back to the classroom, YunXi opened her book bag and didn\'t see her stamp album, and she burst into tears. Teacher Lin asked her what happened, YunXi told the teacher the reason. \n\n2) Teacher Lin questioned all the students, asking who had taken Lu YunXi\'s stamp album. The teacher inquired for a long time, but no one was willing to admit to it. I felt ashamed, got the stamp album, and admitted my error to YunXi. The teacher saw that I was brave enough to admit my mistake and so didn\'t punish me, just lectured me for a bit, and YunXi accepted my apology. I regretted what I\'d done. I told myself that next time I would carefully consider the results of my actions so as to avoid a big mistake! \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', '[Chinese Essays] 我犯错 - I Did Something Wrong', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '441-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:28:13', '2016-11-05 06:28:13', '', 441, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/441-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(469, 1, '2011-02-14 07:51:45', '2011-02-14 12:51:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay details a child\'s brush with classroom thievery. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIn my opinion, one of the most interesting sentences here is \"同学们看了都称不绝口\", meaning \"The students all looked [at it], talking continuously.\" This is easy to translate directly, but a direct translation doesn\'t capture the spirit of the sentence. In context, this sentence is tinged with a little envy - the author sees the other students all looking at YunXi\'s stamp album, going on and on, presumably about how great the album is, and so the author is jealous. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n马来西亚 - [pinyin]ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4[/pinyin] - Malaysia\r\n称不绝口 - [pinyin]cheng1 bu4 jue2 kou3[/pinyin] - Talk continuously, go on and on about sth.\r\n趁 - [pinyin]chen4[/pinyin] - Take advantage of\r\n若无其事 - [pinyin]ruo4 wu2 qi2 shi4[/pinyin] - Nonchalantly, as if nothing had happened\r\n放声大哭 - [pinyin]fang4 sheng1 da4 ku1[/pinyin] - Burst into sobs, cry loudly\r\n三思而后行 - [pinyin]san1 si4 er2 hou4 xing2[/pinyin] - Think many times before acting\r\n以免 - [pinyin]yi3 mian3[/pinyin] - So as not to\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n前天，我做错了一件事。芸熙带了心爱的<strong>集邮簿</strong>让同学们欣赏。她的集邮簿收集了来自世界各地的邮票，如：欧洲、中国、<strong>马来西亚</strong>等等。同学们看了都<strong>称不绝口</strong>。 我很了羡慕芸熙，因为她有来自世界各地的邮票，而我呢！我的集邮簿里只有来自爸爸收到的信上面的本地邮票。 下课时，我<strong>趁</strong>全部的同学都下课了，我就从芸熙的书包里人拿了她的集邮簿。过后，我就装着<strong>若无其事</strong>地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就<em>放声大哭</em>。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\r\n\r\n林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要<strong>三思而后行</strong>，以免犯下大错！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\nThe day before yesterday, I did a bad thing. YunXi brought her beloved stamp album in to let her classmates see it. Her stamp album contains her collected stamps from places all around the world, such as Europe, China, Malaysia, etc. The other students looked through it, going on and on about it. I envied YunXi, because she had stamps from all over the world, and me? My stamp album only has a few stamps from local letters my dad got. When class let out, I took advantage of the situation and took the stamp album from YunXi\'s book bag. After a while, I walked back and lined up in the assembly hall, pretending nothing had happened. When we\'d gotten back to the classroom, YunXi opened her book bag and didn\'t see her stamp album, and she burst into tears. Teacher Lin asked her what happened, YunXi told the teacher the reason. \r\n\r\nTeacher Lin questioned all the students, asking who had taken Lu YunXi\'s stamp album. The teacher inquired for a long time, but no one was willing to admit to it. I felt ashamed, got the stamp album, and admitted my error to YunXi. The teacher saw that I was brave enough to admit my mistake and so didn\'t punish me, just lectured me for a bit, and YunXi accepted my apology. I regretted what I\'d done. I told myself that next time I would carefully consider the results of my actions so as to avoid a big mistake! \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'I Did Something Wrong', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '441-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 07:51:45', '2011-02-14 12:51:45', '', 441, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/441-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(477, 1, '2011-02-14 12:11:13', '2011-02-14 17:11:13', '[two_third]\n\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], meaning \"to bury one\'s head in th<!--more-->\n\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\n　　小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\n　　他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\n\n</div>\n\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:11:13', '2011-02-14 17:11:13', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(478, 1, '2011-02-14 12:11:50', '2011-02-14 17:11:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n　　他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:11:50', '2011-02-14 17:11:50', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(479, 1, '2011-02-14 12:16:13', '2011-02-14 17:16:13', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n　　他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:16:13', '2011-02-14 17:16:13', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(480, 1, '2011-02-14 12:16:18', '2011-02-14 17:16:18', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n　　他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:16:18', '2011-02-14 17:16:18', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(481, 1, '2011-02-14 12:17:07', '2011-02-14 17:17:07', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:17:07', '2011-02-14 17:17:07', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(482, 1, '2011-02-14 12:17:13', '2011-02-14 17:17:13', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:17:13', '2011-02-14 17:17:13', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(483, 1, '2011-02-14 12:24:50', '2011-02-14 17:24:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nDuring the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the escaped [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was very happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:24:50', '2011-02-14 17:24:50', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(485, 1, '2011-01-17 18:50:17', '2011-01-17 23:50:17', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 18:50:17', '2011-01-17 23:50:17', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
