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(144, 1, '2011-01-12 20:32:17', '2011-01-12 20:32:17', '[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], 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[/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</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">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，　还开了一些药。　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，　果然不发烧了，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\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 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 call 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, My 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 20:32:17', '2011-01-12 20:32:17', '', 139, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/139-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(147, 1, '2011-01-12 20:51:44', '2011-01-12 20:51:44', '', 'Chinese Reading Practice: I\'m feeling sick', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '20110122-im-feeling-sick', '', '', '2011-01-12 20:51:44', '2011-01-12 20:51:44', '', 139, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/20110122-im-feeling-sick.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(146, 1, '2011-01-12 20:41:31', '2011-01-12 20:41:31', '[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</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">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\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 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 call 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, My 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 20:41:31', '2011-01-12 20:41:31', '', 139, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/139-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(145, 1, '2011-01-12 20:37:50', '2011-01-12 20:37:50', '[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</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">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\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 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 call 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, My 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 20:37:50', '2011-01-12 20:37:50', '', 139, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/139-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(148, 1, '2011-01-12 20:43:41', '2011-01-12 20:43:41', '[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 20:43:41', '2011-01-12 20:43:41', '', 139, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/139-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(149, 1, '2011-01-12 17:26:37', '2011-01-12 17:26:37', '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 daily reading practice, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was both at an appropriate reading level, was a topic I was interested in, 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\nBeing a technophile, it was inevitable that\'d I\'d eventually start a website about the process, and here you are. This site is not an \"official\" anything - it\'s my personal blog, and I post here whenever I have a few minutes to practice a bit of reading.\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\'m sure it\'s correct. Do feel free to comment with corrections if you see anything that ought to have a better translation. 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\nI post whatever I\'m reading whenever I can - I hope it helps you along.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 17:26:37', '2011-01-12 17:26:37', '', 2, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/2-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(150, 1, '2011-01-12 17:44:55', '2011-01-12 17:44:55', '[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\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 hear 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 hear 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. [/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 17:44:55', '2011-01-12 17:44:55', '', 7, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/7-revision-35/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(153, 1, '2011-01-12 20:56:18', '2011-01-12 20:56:18', '[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\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 hear 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 hear 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. [/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 20:56:18', '2011-01-12 20:56:18', '', 7, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/7-revision-36/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(154, 1, '2011-01-24 07:00:48', '2011-01-24 12:00:48', 'This 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\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\r\n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', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'news-twitter-chairman-says-users-now-exceed-200-million', '', '', '2016-11-03 21:03:37', '2016-11-04 01:03:37', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=154', 0, 'post', '', 1),
(1958, 1, '2016-11-03 21:03:37', '2016-11-04 01:03:37', 'This 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\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\r\n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', 'closed', 'closed', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-03 21:03:37', '2016-11-04 01:03:37', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/154-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(155, 1, '2011-01-12 21:56:51', '2011-01-12 21:56:51', '[two_third]\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more--> \n\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\". \n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\n\n\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n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。\n\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。\n\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\n\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.\n\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s numbers will eventually exceed those of Facebook. \n[/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 21:56:51', '2011-01-12 21:56:51', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/154-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(156, 1, '2016-11-03 21:03:01', '2016-11-04 01:03:01', 'This very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\n\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\".\n\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.\n\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\n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。\n\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。\n\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\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.\n\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.\n\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[NewTwitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-03 21:03:01', '2016-11-04 01:03:01', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/154-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(157, 1, '2011-01-12 21:57:14', '2011-01-12 21:57:14', '[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[/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\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, said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s numbers will eventually exceed those of 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[/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 21:57:14', '2011-01-12 21:57:14', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/154-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(158, 1, '2011-01-12 22:07:07', '2011-01-12 22:07:07', '[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 - tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2 - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n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', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:07:07', '2011-01-12 22:07:07', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/154-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(160, 1, '2011-01-12 22:12:47', '2011-01-12 22:12:47', '[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 - tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2 - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n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', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:12:47', '2011-01-12 22:12:47', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/154-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(161, 1, '2011-01-12 21:18:30', '2011-01-12 21:18:30', '[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\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 hear 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 hear 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. [/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 21:18:30', '2011-01-12 21:18:30', '', 7, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/7-revision-37/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(162, 1, '2011-01-12 22:15:16', '2011-01-12 22:15:16', '[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\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 hear 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 hear 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. [/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:15:16', '2011-01-12 22:15:16', '', 7, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/7-revision-38/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(163, 1, '2011-01-12 17:48:31', '2011-01-12 17:48:31', '[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 17:48:31', '2011-01-12 17:48:31', '', 53, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/53-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(164, 1, '2011-01-12 17:54:15', '2011-01-12 17:54:15', '[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 17:54:15', '2011-01-12 17:54:15', '', 67, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/67-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(165, 1, '2011-01-12 18:07:00', '2011-01-12 18:07:00', '[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', '', '', '2011-01-12 18:07:00', '2011-01-12 18:07:00', '', 85, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/85-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(173, 1, '2011-01-12 22:13:44', '2011-01-12 22:13:44', '[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 - tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2 - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n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', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:13:44', '2011-01-12 22:13:44', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/154-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(179, 1, '2011-01-12 20:54:03', '2011-01-12 20:54:03', '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 daily reading practice, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was both at an appropriate reading level, was a topic I was interested in, 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. This site is not an \"official\" anything - it\'s my personal blog, and 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\'m sure it\'s correct. Do feel free to comment with corrections if you see anything that ought to have a better translation. 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\nI post whatever I\'m reading whenever I can - I hope it helps you along.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 20:54:03', '2011-01-12 20:54:03', '', 2, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/2-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(183, 1, '2011-01-13 02:19:16', '2011-01-13 02:19:16', '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 daily reading practice, 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 ususal \"ni hao, ni hao\" type of basic conversational reading, 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. This site is not an \"official\" anything - it\'s my personal blog, and 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\nI post whatever I\'m reading whenever I can - I hope it helps you along.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:19:16', '2011-01-13 02:19:16', '', 2, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/2-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(182, 1, '2011-01-13 00:20:48', '2011-01-13 00:20:48', '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 daily reading practice, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was both at an appropriate reading level, was different than the ususal \"ni hao, ni hao\" type of basic conversational reading, 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. This site is not an \"official\" anything - it\'s my personal blog, and 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\nI post whatever I\'m reading whenever I can - I hope it helps you along.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 00:20:48', '2011-01-13 00:20:48', '', 2, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/2-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(185, 1, '2011-01-12 19:58:48', '2011-01-12 19:58:48', '[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\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</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\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', '', '', '2011-01-12 19:58:48', '2011-01-12 19:58:48', '', 123, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/123-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(184, 1, '2011-01-13 02:20:36', '2011-01-13 02:20:36', '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 daily reading practice, 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 way-to-easy or way-too-hard sources 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\nI post whatever I\'m reading whenever I can - I hope it helps you along.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:20:36', '2011-01-13 02:20:36', '', 2, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/2-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(186, 1, '2011-01-28 02:38:50', '2011-01-28 02:38:50', 'This one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, an authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. Bingxin was primarily an author of young adult literature and poetry, but arguably her most famous work was a series of open letters she wrote to her young readership which were published in Chinese newspapers. \r\n\r\nYou\'ll see brief 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\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\r\n\r\n1) 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\n2) 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\n3) 1926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，爱祖国的后代，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n4) 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健在的老作家。 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\n5) 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\n6) 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\n7) 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\n8) 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\n1) Bing 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\n2) BingXin 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 Christian 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\n3) In 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\n4) In 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\n5) BingXin\'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\n6) BingXin 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\n7) Later, 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\n8) That 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]', '[Chinese Authors] 冰心 - Bingxin', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'famous-chinese-authoress-bingxin', '', '', '2016-11-05 03:18:24', '2016-11-05 07:18:24', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=186', 0, 'post', '', 4),
(2240, 1, '2016-11-05 03:18:24', '2016-11-05 07:18:24', 'This one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, an authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. Bingxin was primarily an author of young adult literature and poetry, but arguably her most famous work was a series of open letters she wrote to her young readership which were published in Chinese newspapers. \r\n\r\nYou\'ll see brief 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\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\r\n\r\n1) 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\n2) 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\n3) 1926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，爱祖国的后代，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n4) 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健在的老作家。 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\n5) 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\n6) 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\n7) 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\n8) 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\n1) Bing 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\n2) BingXin 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 Christian 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\n3) In 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\n4) In 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\n5) BingXin\'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\n6) BingXin 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. 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(1957, 1, '2016-11-03 21:00:57', '2016-11-04 01:00:57', 'This 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. \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 brief 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\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\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 Christian 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. 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(187, 1, '2011-01-13 02:44:54', '2011-01-13 02:44:54', '[two_third]\n\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.\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n盘缠 - [pinyin]pan2 chan5[/pinyin] - Traveling money\n骏马 - [pinyin]jun4 ma3[/pinyin] - Steed\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\n满不在乎 - [pinyin]man3 bu4 zai4 hu5[/pinyin] - Unconcernedly\n阻止 - [pinyin]zu3 zhi3[/pinyin] - Prevent\n醒悟 - [pinyin]xing3 wu4[/pinyin] - Come to realize\n劝阻 -  [pinyin]quan4 zu3[/pinyin] - Dissuade\n无奈 - [pinyin]wu2 nai4[/pinyin] - For lack of a better option\n劝告 - [pinyin]quan4 gao4[/pinyin] - Urge, exhort\n一意孤行 - [pinyin]yi1 yi4 gu4 xing2[/pinyin] - Obstinately stick to, dogmatic\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\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。\n\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dewenxue\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\n\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. \n\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress Bing Xin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:44:54', '2011-01-13 02:44:54', '', 186, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(188, 1, '2011-01-13 02:45:39', '2011-01-13 02:45:39', '[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\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\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress Bing Xin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:45:39', '2011-01-13 02:45:39', '', 186, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(209, 1, '2011-01-12 22:15:34', '2011-01-12 22:15:34', '[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\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 hear 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 hear 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. [/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:15:34', '2011-01-12 22:15:34', '', 7, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/7-revision-39/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(210, 1, '2011-01-12 23:59:40', '2011-01-12 23:59:40', '[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', '', '', '2011-01-12 23:59:40', '2011-01-12 23:59:40', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/154-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(212, 1, '2011-01-12 22:23:23', '2011-01-12 22:23:23', '[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', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:23:23', '2011-01-12 22:23:23', '', 85, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/85-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(224, 1, '2011-01-13 02:22:12', '2011-01-13 02:22:12', '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 daily reading practice, 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 way-to-easy or way-too-hard sources 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\nI post whatever I\'m reading whenever I can - I hope it helps you along.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:22:12', '2011-01-13 02:22:12', '', 2, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/2-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(366, 1, '2011-02-25 07:30:22', '2011-02-25 12:30:22', '[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', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-rabbits-bride', '', '', '2016-11-04 03:44:51', '2016-11-04 07:44:51', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=366', 0, 'post', '', 3),
(325, 1, '2011-01-13 18:44:30', '2011-01-13 18:44:30', '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 daily reading practice, 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 way-to-easy or way-too-hard sources 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', '', '', '2011-01-13 18:44:30', '2011-01-13 18:44:30', '', 2, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/2-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(225, 1, '2011-01-13 17:49:32', '2011-01-13 17:49:32', '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 daily reading practice, 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 way-to-easy or way-too-hard sources 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.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 17:49:32', '2011-01-13 17:49:32', '', 2, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/2-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(226, 1, '2011-01-13 02:55:19', '2011-01-13 02:55:19', '[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。　五四运动时，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，\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\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:55:19', '2011-01-13 02:55:19', '', 186, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(227, 1, '2011-01-13 22:25:01', '2011-01-13 22:25:01', '[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健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">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。　五四运动时，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年她在东京大学教中国文学，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，爱祖国的后代，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健在的老作家。 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\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\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 22:25:01', '2011-01-13 22:25:01', '', 186, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(228, 1, '2011-01-13 22:42:50', '2011-01-13 22:42:50', '[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健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">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。　五四运动时，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年她在东京大学教中国文学，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，爱祖国的后代，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健在的老作家。 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。 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。 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爱国了。”\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\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 22:42:50', '2011-01-13 22:42:50', '', 186, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(230, 1, '2011-01-13 23:04:00', '2011-01-13 23:04:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis one-page 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<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健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\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。　五四运动时，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年她在东京大学教中国文学，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，爱祖国的后代，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健在的老作家。 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。 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。 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爱国了。”\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. \r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 23:04:00', '2011-01-13 23:04:00', '', 186, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(229, 1, '2011-01-13 22:57:46', '2011-01-13 22:57:46', '[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健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\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。　五四运动时，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年她在东京大学教中国文学，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，爱祖国的后代，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健在的老作家。 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。 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。 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爱国了。”\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 \"\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 22:57:46', '2011-01-13 22:57:46', '', 186, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(231, 1, '2016-11-05 03:17:12', '2016-11-05 07:17:12', 'This one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, an authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. Bingxin was primarily an author of young adult literature and poetry, but arguably her most famous work was a series of open letters she wrote to her young readership which were published in China Youth Daily under the s\n\nYou\'ll see brief 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.\n\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\n\n1) 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。\n\n2) 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。　五四运动时，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。\n\n3) 1926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，爱祖国的后代，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\n\n4) 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健在的老作家。 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。\n\n5) 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。 \n\n6) 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。 \n\n7) 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。”\n\n8) 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“。\n\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n1) Bing 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.\n\n2) BingXin 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 Christian 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\". \n\n3) In 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.\n\n4) In 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.\n\n5) BingXin\'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.\n\n6) BingXin 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. \n\n7) Later, 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.\"\n\n8) That 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.\"\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Chinese Authors] 冰心 - Bingxin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 03:17:12', '2016-11-05 07:17:12', '', 186, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(232, 1, '2011-01-13 23:33:08', '2011-01-13 23:33:08', '[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\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\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。　五四运动时，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年她在东京大学教中国文学，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，爱祖国的后代，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健在的老作家。 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。 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爱国了。”\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 \"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. On 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', '', '', '2011-01-13 23:33:08', '2011-01-13 23:33:08', '', 186, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(233, 1, '2011-01-13 23:48:31', '2011-01-13 23:48:31', '[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。 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. 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(235, 1, '2011-01-13 23:51:50', '2011-01-13 23:51:50', '[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', '', '', '2011-01-13 23:51:50', '2011-01-13 23:51:50', '', 186, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(236, 1, '2011-02-01 06:30:36', '2011-02-01 06:30:36', 'Unlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand, this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original</a>\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\r\n1) 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\n2) 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 [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) I 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\n2) When 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\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Chinese Poetry] 《背向家的方向》The House Behind Me', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-house-behind-me', '', '', '2016-11-05 03:07:57', '2016-11-05 07:07:57', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=236', 0, 'post', '', 1),
(2237, 1, '2016-11-05 03:07:57', '2016-11-05 07:07:57', 'Unlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand, this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original</a>\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\r\n1) 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\n2) 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 [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) I 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\n2) When 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\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Chinese Poetry] 《背向家的方向》The House Behind Me', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 03:07:57', '2016-11-05 07:07:57', '', 236, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/236-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(238, 1, '2011-01-14 13:56:38', '2011-01-14 13:56:38', '[two_third]\n\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-->\n\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n逆风 - [pinyin]ne4 feng1[/pinyin] - Against the wind\n脸庞 - [pinyin]lian3 pang2[/pinyin] - Face\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风行走 感受花瓣吹向脸庞\n仿佛那是白的、黄的、粉的蝴蝶在空中跳跃\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风奔跑 望着风筝越飞越高\n仿佛自己的梦想在空中自由飞翔\n\n \n小时候 是坐在父亲高大的自行车横档 感受他的怀抱\n后来 坐在他身后 叽叽喳喳地讲着一天的新鲜事儿\n现在 是坐在他的斜后边 静静地看着他的各种动作\n越来越远 是的 越来越远\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\n\nI don\'t know when it started  &nbsp; I like to walk against the wind  &nbsp; \n\n[/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:56:38', '2011-01-14 13:56:38', '', 236, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(239, 1, '2011-01-14 13:56:50', '2011-01-14 13:56:50', '[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]ne4 feng1[/pinyin] - Against the wind\r\n脸庞 - [pinyin]lian3 pang2[/pinyin] - Face\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; \r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:56:50', '2011-01-14 13:56:50', '', 236, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(237, 1, '2011-01-14 13:14:49', '2011-01-14 13:14:49', '[two_third]\n\nUnlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand, this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly straightforward, very short, and extremely melancholy. <!--more-->\n\nThe most difficult paragraph here is probably the fourth, particularly the part: 几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来. We can break this down this way:\n\n几句 - Several sentences [of]\n刺耳的话 - Ear-piercing words\n从海岸的岩石那边 - From a seashore rock direction (from the direction of a seaside rock)\n飞过来 - Flew in (in this case, this is best translated as \"drifted over\".)\n\nThis tells us that there was more than one speaker, in this case the nest of swifts, who are screeching at Little Gull from nearby.\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\n\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\n\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\n\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\n\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\n\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\n\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\n\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\n\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\n\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\n\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\n\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\n\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\n\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\n\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\n\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\n\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\n\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:14:49', '2011-01-14 13:14:49', '', 236, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(240, 1, '2011-01-14 09:02:09', '2011-01-14 14:02:09', '[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]ne4 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\r\n\r\nThey\'re like white, yellow and pink butterflies skipping in the air\r\n\r\nThey\'re like my own dreams flying in the air\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 09:02:09', '2011-01-14 14:02:09', '', 236, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(241, 1, '2011-01-14 13:07:43', '2011-01-14 18:07:43', '[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]ne4 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; it\'s &nbsp; farther and farther away.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:07:43', '2011-01-14 18:07:43', '', 236, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(242, 1, '2011-01-14 13:07:55', '2011-01-14 18:07:55', '[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]ne4 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; it\'s &nbsp; farther and farther away.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:07:55', '2011-01-14 18:07:55', '', 236, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(243, 1, '2011-01-14 13:09:07', '2011-01-14 18:09:07', '[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]ne4 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]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:09:07', '2011-01-14 18:09:07', '', 236, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(244, 1, '2011-01-14 13:23:06', '2011-01-14 18:23:06', '[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]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:23:06', '2011-01-14 18:23:06', '', 236, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2231, 1, '2016-11-05 02:59:45', '2016-11-05 06:59:45', 'A short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in Kerala (喀拉拉邦 - [pinyin]Ka1 la1 la1 bang1[/pinyin]), India. \n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\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。\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203872\">Read the original news item</a>\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\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.\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[News in Chinese] 100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '279-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:59:45', '2016-11-05 06:59:45', '', 279, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/279-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(247, 1, '2011-01-14 13:24:22', '2011-01-14 18:24:22', '[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 13:24:22', '2011-01-14 18:24:22', '', 236, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2634, 1, '2017-01-15 02:26:49', '2017-01-15 07:26:49', 'People who like the rain seem to think they\'re some kind of elite class of whimsical puddle-jumping Amelies. No, dude. Everyone likes the rain. Only miserable, soul-sick, sad sacks don\'t like any kind of rain, ever. We\'ll forgive the kid that wrote this his affectation, though, since it sounds like he\'s in middle school or thereabouts. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<h3>Verb + Result - 冲坏</h3>\r\nIn Chinese, very often an action, and then the result of that action, are placed right next to each other. We see a pretty sweet example of this in paragraph two: \r\n\r\n(雨)把道路冲坏了。\r\n\r\nFirst, we see the verb, in this case 冲 ([pinyin]chong[/pinyin] - to flood, gush or pour), and then the result of that verb, in this case 坏 ([pinyin]huai4[/pinyin] - broken, messed up). In other words, the rain flooded the streets until they were a big ol\' mess. More examples:\r\n\r\n<strong>倒满</strong>了水\r\nto <strong>pour full</strong> of water\r\n\r\n把玩具<strong>弄坏</strong>\r\nTake the toy and <strong>use</strong> it until it\'s <strong>broken</strong> (break it)\r\n\r\n<strong>用光</strong>了钱\r\n<strong>Use up</strong> the money\r\n\r\nAnd now, our feature presentation. \r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 我喜欢雨。春天的雨使种子发芽，大地一片桃红柳绿。夏天的雨给大地洗个澡，人们觉得很凉快。秋天的雨给大地换上了金色的外衣，大地丰收了。\r\n\r\n2) 可是，昨天的雨太可怕了，就像天上有人把一盆一盆的水往下倒，把道路<strong>冲坏</strong>了，把庄稼冲坏了。\r\n\r\n3) 雨给人们带来了许多好处，有时也会给人们带来灾难。\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\n1) I like rain. Spring rain causes the seeds to sprout, and all the earth is red peaches and green willows. Summer rains shower the earth, and everyone feels refreshed. Autumn rains let the earth change into a coat of gold, and the harvest is bountiful. \r\n\r\n2) And yet, yesterday\'s rain was frightening, as if there was someone in heaven overturning basin after basin of water, flooding the streets, flooding the crops.\r\n\r\n3) Rain brings us benefits, but sometimes also brings us disaster. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Essays] 我喜欢雨 - I like the Rain', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2423-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-15 02:26:49', '2017-01-15 07:26:49', '', 2423, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2423-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2639, 1, '2017-01-15 03:54:08', '2017-01-15 08:54:08', 'I can\'t decide who\'s at fault in this passage. I mean, poor Mother Sheep. She clearly does not have a little Einstein on her hands. Then again, maybe she should give her child some clearer instructions before she gets all passive-aggressive on him. So your kid didn\'t come out of the womb knowing how to forage for radishes. Relax. Enjoy the teachable moment. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<h3>Enough already - 才...呢</h3> \r\nAs Little Lamb tries to stuff inedible tuber after inedible tuber into his stupid mouth, Mother Sheep gets increasingly exasperated. How do we know this? Because of the sentence structure \"才...呢\". Compare the difference in Mother Sheep\'s tone. The first time Little Lamb screws up, she says:\r\n\r\n\"萝卜的根最好吃。\"\r\n\r\nThis is a straightforward, laid-back statement: \"The radish\'s roots taste the best.\" Mama Sheep isn\'t annoyed yet. But the next time Little Lamb messes up, we hear notes of aggravation:\r\n\r\n“白菜的叶子<strong>才</strong>好吃<strong>呢</strong>！”\r\n\r\nThe character 才 [pinyin]cai2[/pinyin] has a ton of usages in Chinese, but almost all of those usages have something to do with lateness, or something taking a long time, or something happening after a long interval. For example:\r\n\r\n你怎么两个小时<strong>才</strong>回来了?\r\nHow did it take you <strong>an entire</strong> two hours to get back here? \r\n\r\nIn today\'s reading, we might translate as \"Cabbages are <strong>only</strong> good <strong>when</strong> you eat the leaves!\" Like, when you finally eat the cabbage leaves, cabbages will be delicious. \r\n\r\nSo what function does 呢 [pinyin]ne[/pinyin] serve at the end there? In this case, the 呢 gives the whole preceding sentence an overtone of obviousness. Like, \"what I just said is self-evident, duh.\" \r\n\r\nSo the whole statement is a little snippy, right? A little bit of ire there for sure. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 羊妈妈带着小羊到菜园去收菜。\r\n\r\n2) 他们走到萝卜地里。羊妈妈拔了一个萝卜。小羊要吃萝卜叶子。羊妈妈说：“萝卜的根最好吃。”\r\n\r\n3) 他们走到白菜地里。羊妈妈拔了一棵小白菜。小羊要吃白菜的根。羊妈妈说：“白菜的叶子才好吃呢！”\r\n\r\n4) 他们走到西红柿地里。小羊要吃西红柿的叶子。羊妈妈说：“要吃西红柿的果实<strong>呀</strong>！”\r\n\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\n1) Mother Sheep brought Little Lamb to the vegetable field to gather vegetables. \r\n\r\n2) They walked to the radish patch. Mother Sheep pulled up a radish. Little Lamb wanted to eat the radish leaves. Mother Sheep said: \"The roots of the radish taste the best.\" \r\n\r\n3) They walked to the cabbage patch. Mother Sheep pulled up a little cabbage. Little Lamb wanted to eat the cabbage root. Mother Sheep said: \"Only the leaves of the cabbage are tasty!\"  \r\n\r\n4) They walked to the tomato patch. Little Lamb wanted to eat the tomato leaves. Mother Sheep said: \"You eat the fruit of the tomato!\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Short Stories] 《羊妈妈收菜》Mother Sheep Gathers Vegetables', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2384-autosave-v1', '', '', '2017-01-15 03:54:08', '2017-01-15 08:54:08', '', 2384, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2384-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2642, 1, '2017-01-15 04:47:56', '2017-01-15 09:47:56', '\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text:</h3>\r\n1) 清末著名画家任伯年，出身贫寒，父亲早亡。他为谋生路，十五岁就流落到上海，自画扇面，摆摊出卖。然而，一个穷孩子的画谁能瞧得上眼呢？他每日都在为温饱而发愁。有一次，他看到两个人为争名画家任渭长的一幅画而吵得面红耳赤，非常感慨，心想：为克服生活困境，挣点学习费用，何不借用一下任渭长的大名呢！于是，他就把自己画的扇面都假落“任渭长”的名字。果然，地摊上的生意一天天地好起来。  \r\n\r\n2) 当时，任渭长正在上海。一天，他经过任伯年的地摊，见地摊上的扇面画得不错，拿起来仔细一瞧，上面的落款竟是自己的名字，十分诧异，就问道：“这些扇面是谁画的？”   \r\n\r\n3) “任渭长画的。”任伯年回答。  \r\n\r\n4) “任渭长是你什么人？”  \r\n\r\n5) “我的叔叔。”  \r\n\r\n6) “你见过他么？”   \r\n\r\n7) “这...”任伯年愣了一下，不高兴地说：“你要买就买，不买就算了，何必打破砂锅问到底？”   \r\n\r\n8) 任渭长觉得这孩子倒也可爱，就笑着说：“我就是任渭长。”   \r\n\r\n9) 任伯年一听，羞愧得无地自容，欲正打算丢下地摊逃走，任渭长一把拉住了他，和气地问道：“你为什么要冒名顶替呢？”   \r\n\r\n10) 任伯年把自己的真实想法一五一十地全讲了。任渭长十分同情任伯年的处境，再看他的画也已有几分基础，就当场表示愿意收他为徒。  \r\n\r\n11) 任伯年因祸得福，喜出望外，马上叩头拜了老师。在任渭长的指导下，任伯年长进很快，不到壮年，他的画已名扬江南了。 \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.etstory.cn/mingren/63780.html\" target=\"_blank\">See source</a>\r\n\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) In the late Qing Dynasty there was a famous painter named Ren Bonian who was born in poverty, and whose father died quite early. To earn a living he took to the road, and when he was 15 he landed in Shanghai, painting fans, and selling them from a roadside stand. However, who would deign to cast a glance at the paintings of a poor child? He worried every day where his next meal would come from and how he\'d stay warm. One time, he saw two people fighting over a piece by famous painter Ren Weichang until they were red in the face, and he thought: in order to overcome these difficult circumstances, and earn a little money for school, how about I borrow Ren Weichang\'s famous name for a while! And so, he took the fans he\'d painted and added \"Ren Weichang\"\'s fake signature to them. Naturally, the business at his stall was better and better each day. \r\n\r\n2) At that time, Ren Weichang was in Shanghai. One day, he passed by Ren Bonian\'s stand, and saw that the fans there were painted quite well, so he picked one up to have a closer look, saw that the inscription was his own name, and quite astonished, asked: \"Who painted these fans?\"  \r\n\r\n3) \"Ren Weichang painted them,\" Ren Bonian answered. \r\n\r\n4) \"How do you know Ren Weichang?\"\r\n\r\n5) \"He\'s my uncle.\"\r\n\r\n6) \"Have you ever seen him?\"\r\n\r\n7) \"Uh... \" Ren Bonian froze a moment, and said unhappily, \"If you want to buy one, buy one, if you don\'t just forget it, is there any need to ruin everything asking so many questions?\" \r\n\r\n8) Ren Weichang thought this kid was pretty cute, and said laughing: \"I\'m Ren Weichang.\" \r\n\r\n9) Ren Bonian heard this, and was ashamed to show his face, and planned to abandon his stall and flee, but Ren Weichang put out a hand and stopped him, asking amicably, \"Why did you need to impersonate me?\"\r\n\r\n10) Ren Bonian explained himself truthfully and thoroughly. Ren Weichang had considerable sympathy for Ren Bonian\'s plight, and he saw from his paintings that he already had a solid foundation (in the trade), and expressed his willingness to take him on as an apprentice there and then.   \r\n\r\n11)  Ren Bonian pulled fortune out of disaster, and was overjoyed at this unexpected good fortune, instantly kowtowing to his teacher. Under Ren Weichan\'s tutelage, Ren Bonian improved quickly, and before he\'d reached maturity, his paintings were already famous throughout Jiangnan. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n 　   \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n         ', '[Famous People] 任伯年 - Painter Ren Bonian and his Teacher', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2436-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-15 04:47:56', '2017-01-15 09:47:56', '', 2436, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2436-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(2644, 1, '2017-01-15 05:15:08', '2017-01-15 10:15:08', '<a href=\"http://baike.baidu.com/link?url=5lsfQ4E2dC2YqhMIAiLNSy2r2WUWM1cTZX0KyPPWUEIvWT9SJ46seR8KKdpifbC6rIdl8aaajTzvjCiuJDdU2m9BYqQgQyQokO0uddZKPk6HX1iVRqCLqv1aYyFQzoItb5vMOSVvfmo7OR_q40LTOg1dxdUXLQmc0rFlHxw3yXa\" target=\"_blank\">任伯年 Ren Bowen</a> (1840—1896) was a well-known painter from the late Qing Dynasty. Actually, he was the most famous of four painters that appeared during late Qing, all sporting the surname \"Ren\", and collectively dubbed \"The Four Rens\" (<a href=\"http://baike.baidu.com/view/6883150.htm\" target=\"_blank\">四任</a>). He was known for his folk art, specifically his skill in using few brush strokes to depict detailed facial expressions. \r\n\r\nThis probably-fictionalized account details how a precocious young Ren Bonian got his start in the art world, studying under one of the other great \"Rens\" of the time, 任渭长 [pinyin]ren4 wei4 chang2[/pinyin]. \r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text:</h3>\r\n1) 清末著名画家任伯年，出身贫寒，父亲早亡。他为谋生路，十五岁就流落到上海，自画扇面，摆摊出卖。然而，一个穷孩子的画谁能瞧得上眼呢？他每日都在为温饱而发愁。有一次，他看到两个人为争名画家任渭长的一幅画而吵得面红耳赤，非常感慨，心想：为克服生活困境，挣点学习费用，何不借用一下任渭长的大名呢！于是，他就把自己画的扇面都假落“任渭长”的名字。果然，地摊上的生意一天天地好起来。  \r\n\r\n2) 当时，任渭长正在上海。一天，他经过任伯年的地摊，见地摊上的扇面画得不错，拿起来仔细一瞧，上面的落款竟是自己的名字，十分诧异，就问道：“这些扇面是谁画的？”   \r\n\r\n3) “任渭长画的。”任伯年回答。  \r\n\r\n4) “任渭长是你什么人？”  \r\n\r\n5) “我的叔叔。”  \r\n\r\n6) “你见过他么？”   \r\n\r\n7) “这...”任伯年愣了一下，不高兴地说：“你要买就买，不买就算了，何必打破砂锅问到底？”   \r\n\r\n8) 任渭长觉得这孩子倒也可爱，就笑着说：“我就是任渭长。”   \r\n\r\n9) 任伯年一听，羞愧得无地自容，欲正打算丢下地摊逃走，任渭长一把拉住了他，和气地问道：“你为什么要冒名顶替呢？”   \r\n\r\n10) 任伯年把自己的真实想法一五一十地全讲了。任渭长十分同情任伯年的处境，再看他的画也已有几分基础，就当场表示愿意收他为徒。  \r\n\r\n11) 任伯年因祸得福，喜出望外，马上叩头拜了老师。在任渭长的指导下，任伯年长进很快，不到壮年，他的画已名扬江南了。 \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.etstory.cn/mingren/63780.html\" target=\"_blank\">See source</a>\r\n\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) In the late Qing Dynasty there was a famous painter named Ren Bonian who was born in poverty, and whose father died quite early. To earn a living he took to the road, and when he was 15 he landed in Shanghai, painting fans, and selling them from a roadside stand. However, who would deign to cast a glance at the paintings of a poor child? He worried every day where his next meal would come from and how he\'d stay warm. One time, he saw two people fighting over a piece by famous painter Ren Weichang until they were red in the face, and he thought: in order to overcome these difficult circumstances, and earn a little money for school, how about I borrow Ren Weichang\'s famous name for a while! And so, he took the fans he\'d painted and added \"Ren Weichang\"\'s fake signature to them. Naturally, the business at his stall was better and better each day. \r\n\r\n2) At that time, Ren Weichang was in Shanghai. One day, he passed by Ren Bonian\'s stand, and saw that the fans there were painted quite well, so he picked one up to have a closer look, saw that the inscription was his own name, and quite astonished, asked: \"Who painted these fans?\"  \r\n\r\n3) \"Ren Weichang painted them,\" Ren Bonian answered. \r\n\r\n4) \"How do you know Ren Weichang?\"\r\n\r\n5) \"He\'s my uncle.\"\r\n\r\n6) \"Have you ever seen him?\"\r\n\r\n7) \"Uh... \" Ren Bonian froze a moment, and said unhappily, \"If you want to buy one, buy one, if you don\'t just forget it, is there any need to ruin everything asking so many questions?\" \r\n\r\n8) Ren Weichang thought this kid was pretty cute, and said laughing: \"I\'m Ren Weichang.\" \r\n\r\n9) Ren Bonian heard this, and was ashamed to show his face, and planned to abandon his stall and flee, but Ren Weichang put out a hand and stopped him, asking amicably, \"Why did you need to impersonate me?\"\r\n\r\n10) Ren Bonian explained himself truthfully and thoroughly. Ren Weichang had considerable sympathy for Ren Bonian\'s plight, and he saw from his paintings that he already had a solid foundation (in the trade), and expressed his willingness to take him on as an apprentice there and then.   \r\n\r\n11)  Ren Bonian pulled fortune out of disaster, and was overjoyed at this unexpected good fortune, instantly kowtowing to his teacher. Under Ren Weichan\'s tutelage, Ren Bonian improved quickly, and before he\'d reached maturity, his paintings were already famous throughout Jiangnan. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n 　   \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n         ', '[Famous People] 任伯年 - Painter Ren Bonian and his Teacher', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2436-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-15 05:15:08', '2017-01-15 10:15:08', '', 2436, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2436-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(2666, 1, '2017-01-19 08:24:55', '2017-01-19 13:24:55', '', '201701-cats-catch-mice', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', '201701-cats-catch-mice', '', '', '2017-01-19 08:25:12', '2017-01-19 13:25:12', '', 2411, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/201701-cats-catch-mice.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(2667, 1, '2017-01-19 08:25:35', '2017-01-19 13:25:35', '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 08:25:35', '2017-01-19 13:25:35', '', 2411, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2411-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2668, 1, '2017-01-19 08:45:19', '2017-01-19 13:45:19', '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. \n\n<h3>Inescapable - 逃不过 [pinyin]tao4 bu2 guo4[/pinyin]</h3>\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\". \n\n<h3>Hard bits</h3>\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: \n\n<blockquote>猫的胡须像一把尺</blockquote>\n\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:\n\n<blockquote>Cat whiskers are like rulers</blockquote>\n\nAre they, though? This makes more sense when you read the rest, so I\'ll leave you to it:\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n\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。　\n\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.360doc.com/content/12/0624/17/1764012_220163890.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">source</a>.\n\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\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. \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Facts in Chinese] 猫捉老鼠 - Cats Catch Mice', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2411-autosave-v1', '', '', '2017-01-19 08:45:19', '2017-01-19 13:45:19', '', 2411, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2411-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2646, 1, '2017-01-17 02:29:16', '2017-01-17 07:29:16', 'xx\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n春天的树上，长出嫩嫩的芽瓣。夏天的树上，挂满肥肥的叶片。秋天的树上，树叶涂满鲜红和金黄。冬天的树下，树叶落地化成土壤。落叶是大自然的邮票，把一年四季寄给你，寄给我，寄给大家。　\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春天的树上，长出嫩嫩的芽瓣。夏天的树上，挂满肥肥的叶片。秋天的树上，树叶涂满鲜红和金黄。冬天的树下，树叶落地化成土壤。落叶是大自然的邮票，把一年四季寄给你，寄给我，寄给大家。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Short Stories] 《大自然的邮票》 Nature\'s Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2374-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-17 02:29:16', '2017-01-17 07:29:16', '', 2374, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2374-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2647, 1, '2017-01-17 02:29:19', '2017-01-17 07:29:19', 'xx\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 小明病了，直叫肚子疼。妈妈带他去医院看病。\r\n\r\n2) 医生问小明吃了脏东西没有，小明摇摇头。医生看了看他的手，发现他的手很脏，指甲也很长，说：“用脏手拿东西吃会生病的。”\r\n\r\n3) 小明记住医生的话，做到经常洗手、剪指甲，成了一个讲卫生的孩子。\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\n1) 小明病了，直叫肚子疼。妈妈带他去医院看病。\r\n\r\n2) 医生问小明吃了脏东西没有，小明摇摇头。医生看了看他的手，发现他的手很脏，指甲也很长，说：“用脏手拿东西吃会生病的。”\r\n\r\n3) 小明记住医生的话，做到经常洗手、剪指甲，成了一个讲卫生的孩子。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Short Stories] 《小明病了》Xiao Ming Gets Sick', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2392-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-17 02:29:19', '2017-01-17 07:29:19', '', 2392, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2392-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2648, 1, '2017-01-17 02:29:22', '2017-01-17 07:29:22', 'xx\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 我坐在沙滩上玩耍。浪花看见了，迈着轻轻的步子走来，悄悄地瘙痒了我的小脚丫。笑得我眼泪都流出来了，他才哗哗地笑着跑回家。\r\n\r\n2) 一会儿，浪花又唱着笑着跑来了。这次它给我捧来了雪白的贝壳，青青的小虾。\r\n\r\n3) 哗哗哗，浪花跑去又跑来，像一群淘气的娃娃。\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\n1) 我坐在沙滩上玩耍。浪花看见了，迈着轻轻的步子走来，悄悄地瘙痒了我的小脚丫。笑得我眼泪都流出来了，他才哗哗地笑着跑回家。\r\n\r\n2) 一会儿，浪花又唱着笑着跑来了。这次它给我捧来了雪白的贝壳，青青的小虾。\r\n\r\n3) 哗哗哗，浪花跑去又跑来，像一群淘气的娃娃。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Short Stories] 《浪花》 Ocean Spray', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2382-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-17 02:29:22', '2017-01-17 07:29:22', '', 2382, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2382-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2650, 1, '2017-01-17 02:31:11', '2017-01-17 07:31:11', 'xx\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 人有两件宝，双手和大脑。双手会做工，大脑会思考。\r\n2) 用手不用脑，事情做不好。用脑不用手，啥也做不好。\r\n3) 用手又用脑，才能有创造。一切创造靠劳动，劳动要用手和脑。\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\n1) 人有两件宝，双手和大脑。双手会做工，大脑会思考。\r\n2) 用手不用脑，事情做不好。用脑不用手，啥也做不好。\r\n3) 用手又用脑，才能有创造。一切创造靠劳动，劳动要用手和脑。\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Poems in Chinese] 《人有两件宝》Two Treasures', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2378-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-17 02:31:11', '2017-01-17 07:31:11', '', 2378, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2378-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2649, 1, '2017-01-17 02:30:14', '2017-01-17 07:30:14', 'xx\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（líng mǐn），能转来转去，哪怕是极小的声音，它也能及时辨（biàn）出。猫有一双明亮的眼睛，狡猾（jiǎo huá）的老鼠逃(táo)不过它的眼睛。猫的胡须(xǖ)像把尺，能测(cè)出各个洞的大小。猫的脚爪(zhuǎ)上有锋利(fēng lì)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\n猫是捉老鼠的能手。它的耳朵很灵敏（líng mǐn），能转来转去，哪怕是极小的声音，它也能及时辨（biàn）出。猫有一双明亮的眼睛，狡猾（jiǎo huá）的老鼠逃(táo)不过它的眼睛。猫的胡须(xǖ)像把尺，能测(cè)出各个洞的大小。猫的脚爪(zhuǎ)上有锋利(fēng lì)的爪子，能爬树、跳墙、追捕老鼠。\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', '', '', '2017-01-17 02:30:14', '2017-01-17 07:30:14', '', 2411, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2411-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2651, 1, '2017-01-17 02:31:54', '2017-01-17 07:31:54', '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。  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\n1) 人有两件宝，双手和大脑。双手会做工，大脑会思考。\r\n2) 用手不用脑，事情做不好。用脑不用手，啥也做不好。\r\n3) 用手又用脑，才能有创造。一切创造靠劳动，劳动要用手和脑。\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', '', '', '2017-01-17 02:31:54', '2017-01-17 07:31:54', '', 2428, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2428-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2652, 1, '2017-01-17 03:02:25', '2017-01-17 08:02:25', '', 'How to Read Chinese: Mandarin Chinese Essays', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', '201701-dirty-hands-how-to-read-chinese', '', '', '2017-01-17 03:03:04', '2017-01-17 08:03:04', '', 2392, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/201701-dirty-hands-how-to-read-chinese.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(2653, 1, '2017-01-17 03:03:29', '2017-01-17 08:03:29', 'Wash your hands, ya filthy animals. That is all. \r\n\r\n<h3>Points of interest...</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>直叫 [pinyin]zhi1 jiao4[/pinyin]</strong>\r\nChinese is a super condensed language, by which I mean that a lot of meaning can get packed into just a few characters. Such is the case in our first sentence here with the words 直叫. You\'re not going to find this in the dictionary, because it\'s actually a shortened way to say two separate words: 一直 [pinyin]yi1 zhi2[/pinyin], meaning \"constantly, ongoing, all along\", and 叫 [pinyin]jiao4[/pinyin], to cry out. So 直叫 means \"to be constantly crying out that...\". \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 小明病了，直叫肚子疼。妈妈带他去医院看病。\r\n\r\n2) 医生问小明吃了脏东西没有，小明摇摇头。医生看了看他的手，发现他的手很脏，指甲也很长，说：“用脏手拿东西吃会生病的。”\r\n\r\n3) 小明记住医生的话，做到经常洗手、剪指甲，成了一个讲卫生的孩子。\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\n1) Xiao Ming was sick, ceaselessly crying that his stomach hurts. His mother brought him to the hospital to check it out. \r\n\r\n2) The doctor asked Xiao Ming if he\'d eaten anything unclean, and Xiao Ming shook his head. The doctor looked at his hands, and discovered they were quite dirty, his fingernails long, and said, \"Eating with dirty hands can make you sick.\"\r\n\r\n3) Xiao Ming remembered the doctor\'s words, and begun to wash his hands often, cut his nails, and became a child who paid attention to sanitation.  \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Short Stories] 《小明病了》Xiao Ming Gets Sick', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2392-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-17 03:03:29', '2017-01-17 08:03:29', '', 2392, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2392-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2654, 1, '2017-01-17 03:21:15', '2017-01-17 08:21:15', '', '201701-how-to-read-mandarin-exercises-leaves', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', '201701-how-to-read-mandarin-exercises-leaves', '', '', '2017-01-17 03:22:53', '2017-01-17 08:22:53', '', 2374, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/201701-how-to-read-mandarin-exercises-leaves.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(2655, 1, '2017-01-17 22:45:36', '2017-01-18 03:45:36', 'A little seasonal poetry for the wistful leaf-gazers in all of us. \r\n\r\n<h3>Big, scary nature words</h3>\r\nIf you\'re just getting started reading Chinese, don\'t expect to be able to breeze through this post without checking the dictionary. I say it all the time on this blog, but I\'ll say it again: even in the simplest posts (the ones that are fun to read, anyway) end up having a word or two from the upper levels of the HSK (the official Chinese proficiency test in the PRC). So, do forgive the three or four words of advanced naturalist vocab, like 芽 [pinyin]ya2[/pinyin] (sprout), 瓣 [pinyin]ban42[/pinyin] (petal), and 土壤 [pinyin]tu3 rang3[/pinyin] - soil. Even an intermediate reader might need to look up those characters. Still, the majority of the characters here are basic enough, so I recommend you approach this post like a little puzzle - see how much you can get without the dictionary, and then go back and look up the complex characters. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n春天的树上，长出嫩嫩的芽瓣。\r\n夏天的树上，挂满肥肥的叶片。\r\n秋天的树上，树叶涂满鲜红和金黄。\r\n冬天的树下，树叶落地化成土壤。\r\n落叶是大自然的邮票，\r\n把一年四季寄给你，\r\n寄给我，\r\n寄给大家。　\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\nUpon the spring trees, tender sprouts and petals shoot forth. \r\nUpon the summer trees, fat leaves hang full. \r\nUpon the autumn trees, leaves are painted bright red and gold. \r\nBeneath the winter trees, the fallen leaves become soil. \r\nFallen leaves are nature\'s postage stamps,\r\nSending the four seasons of the year to me,\r\nSending them to you,\r\nSending them to everyone. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Poems] 《大自然的邮票》 Nature\'s Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2374-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-17 22:45:36', '2017-01-18 03:45:36', '', 2374, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2374-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2656, 1, '2017-01-17 22:47:59', '2017-01-18 03:47:59', 'A little seasonal poetry for the wistful leaf-gazers in all of us. \r\n\r\n<h3>Big, scary nature words</h3>\r\nIf you\'re just getting started reading Chinese, don\'t expect to be able to breeze through this post without checking the dictionary. I say it all the time on this blog, but I\'ll say it again: even in the simplest posts (the ones that are fun to read, anyway) end up having a word or two from the upper levels of the HSK (the official Chinese proficiency test in the PRC). So, do forgive the three or four words of advanced naturalist vocab, like 芽 [pinyin]ya2[/pinyin] (sprout), 瓣 [pinyin]ban42[/pinyin] (petal), and 土壤 [pinyin]tu3 rang3[/pinyin] - soil. Even an intermediate reader might need to look up those characters. Still, the majority of the characters here are basic enough, so I recommend you approach this post like a little puzzle - see how much you can get without the dictionary, and then go back and look up the complex characters. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n春天的树上，长出嫩嫩的芽瓣。\r\n夏天的树上，挂满肥肥的叶片。\r\n秋天的树上，树叶涂满鲜红和金黄。\r\n冬天的树下，树叶落地化成土壤。\r\n落叶是大自然的邮票，\r\n把一年四季寄给你，\r\n寄给我，\r\n寄给大家。　\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\nUpon the spring trees, tender sprouts and petals shoot forth. \r\nUpon the summer trees, fat leaves hang full. \r\nUpon the autumn trees, leaves are painted bright red and gold. \r\nBeneath the winter trees, the fallen leaves become soil. \r\nFallen leaves are nature\'s postage stamps,\r\nSending the four seasons of the year to me,\r\nSending them to you,\r\nSending them to everyone. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Poems] 《大自然的邮票》 Nature\'s Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2374-autosave-v1', '', '', '2017-01-17 22:47:59', '2017-01-18 03:47:59', '', 2374, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2374-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2657, 1, '2017-01-18 00:49:20', '2017-01-18 05:49:20', 'A little blurb of prose-poetry. \r\n\r\n<h3>And 浪花 [pinyin]lang4 hua1[/pinyin] is what, exactly?</h3>\r\nThing is, we don\'t really have a succinct word in English for 浪花. The word means \"sea foam of breaking waves\", the white, fluffy, toe-tickling stuff that washes up on the beach. We have \"sea foam\", we have \"breaking waves\", we have \"wave crests\", but nothing quite as specific as 浪花. It matters, somehow. \r\n\r\n<h3>Chinese onomatopoeia: Swishing around with 哗 [pinyin]hua1[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nIn China, dogs go 汪汪 [pinyin]wang1 wang1[/pinyin], cats go 咪咪 [pinyin]mi1 mi1[/pinyin] and sea foam, we are led to believe, goes 哗哗哗 [pinyin]hua1 hua1 hua1[/pinyin]. Whisper it, it\'ll make more sense. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 我坐在沙滩上玩耍。浪花看见了，迈着轻轻的步子走来，悄悄地瘙痒了我的小脚丫。笑得我眼泪都流出来了，它才哗哗地笑着跑回家。\r\n\r\n2) 一会儿，浪花又唱着笑着跑来了。这次它给我捧来了雪白的贝壳，青青的小虾。\r\n\r\n3) 哗哗哗，浪花跑去又跑来，像一群淘气的娃娃。\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\n1) I sat on the beach and played. I saw the sea foam, walking forward with soft steps, quietly tickling the creases of my toes. Smiling, my tears rolled down, until at last with a swish it ran home.  \r\n\r\n2) After some time, the foam once again ran forward singing and laughing. This time it brought to me snow-white seashells, and little green shrimp.\r\n\r\n3) Swish swish swish, the sea foam runs away and back again, like a gaggle of naughty children. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Poetry] 《浪花》 Sea Foam', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2382-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-18 00:49:20', '2017-01-18 05:49:20', '', 2382, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2382-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2658, 1, '2017-01-18 01:00:19', '2017-01-18 06:00:19', '', '201701-featured-waves', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', '201701-featured-waves', '', '', '2017-01-18 01:01:09', '2017-01-18 06:01:09', '', 2382, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/201701-featured-waves.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(2659, 1, '2017-01-18 01:02:47', '2017-01-18 06:02:47', 'A little blurb of prose-poetry. \r\n\r\n<h3>And 浪花 [pinyin]lang4 hua1[/pinyin] is what, exactly?</h3>\r\nThing is, we don\'t really have a succinct word in English for 浪花. The word means \"sea foam of breaking waves\", the white, fluffy, toe-tickling stuff that washes up on the beach. We have \"sea foam\", we have \"breaking waves\", we have \"wave crests\", but nothing quite as specific as 浪花. It matters, somehow. \r\n\r\n<h3>Chinese onomatopoeia: Swishing around with 哗 [pinyin]hua1[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nIn China, dogs go 汪汪 [pinyin]wang1 wang1[/pinyin], cats go 咪咪 [pinyin]mi1 mi1[/pinyin] and sea foam, we are led to believe, goes 哗哗哗 [pinyin]hua1 hua1 hua1[/pinyin]. Whisper it, it\'ll make more sense. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 我坐在沙滩上玩耍。浪花看见了，迈着轻轻的步子走来，悄悄地瘙痒了我的小脚丫。笑得我眼泪都流出来了，它才哗哗地笑着跑回家。\r\n\r\n2) 一会儿，浪花又唱着笑着跑来了。这次它给我捧来了雪白的贝壳，青青的小虾。\r\n\r\n3) 哗哗哗，浪花跑去又跑来，像一群淘气的娃娃。\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\n1) I sat on the beach and played. I saw the sea foam, walking forward with soft steps, quietly tickling the creases of my toes. Smiling, my tears rolled down, until at last with a swish it ran home.  \r\n\r\n2) After some time, the foam once again ran forward singing and laughing. This time it brought to me snow-white seashells, and little green shrimp.\r\n\r\n3) Swish swish swish, the sea foam runs away and back again, like a gaggle of naughty children. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Poetry] 《浪花》 Sea Foam', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2382-autosave-v1', '', '', '2017-01-18 01:02:47', '2017-01-18 06:02:47', '', 2382, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2382-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2660, 1, '2017-01-18 01:28:45', '2017-01-18 06:28:45', '<h3>Whaaaa? Compound characters and 啥 [pinyin]sha2[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nDo me a quick favor. Say 什么 [pinyin]shen2 me5[/pinyin] (\"what\") out loud. Kay, now say it again, really fast. Rad. Now say it so fast that the \"m\" sound drops, like you\'re talking around a mouthful of marbles. You get something that sounds like \"shaaaahh?\", right? That\'s what this character is. It means exactly the same thing as 什么, but it represents this word spoken quickly and colloquially. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 人有两件宝，双手和大脑。双手会做工，大脑会思考。\r\n2) 用手不用脑，事情做不好。用脑不用手，啥也做不好。\r\n3) 用手又用脑，才能有创造。一切创造靠劳动，劳动要用手和脑。\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\n1) Man has two treasures, a pair of hands and a brain. Two hands that can do work, a brain that can think. \r\n2) If you use your hands but not your brain, you\'ll handle your affairs poorly. If you use your brain but not your hands, you\'ll also be unable to do anything well. \r\n3) If you use your hands and your brain, only then can you create. All creations requires labor, labor requires hands and a brain. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Essays] 《人有两件宝》Two Treasures', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2378-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-18 01:28:45', '2017-01-18 06:28:45', '', 2378, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2378-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(2664, 1, '2017-01-19 06:43:32', '2017-01-19 11:43:32', 'You know, this isn\'t really an essay. It\'s not a really a poem, either. It\'s just like, someone\'s sanctimonious opinion. \r\n\r\n<h3>Whaaaa? Compound characters and 啥 [pinyin]sha2[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nDo me a quick favor. Say 什么 [pinyin]shen2 me5[/pinyin] (\"what\") out loud. Kay, now say it again, really fast. Rad. Now say it so fast that the \"m\" sound drops, like you\'re talking around a mouthful of marbles. You get something that sounds like \"shaaaahh?\", right? That\'s what this character is. It means exactly the same thing as 什么, but it represents this word spoken quickly and colloquially. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 人有两件宝，双手和大脑。双手会做工，大脑会思考。\r\n2) 用手不用脑，事情做不好。用脑不用手，啥也做不好。\r\n3) 用手又用脑，才能有创造。一切创造靠劳动，劳动要用手和脑。\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\n1) Man has two treasures, a pair of hands and a brain. Two hands that can do work, a brain that can think. \r\n2) If you use your hands but not your brain, you\'ll handle your affairs poorly. If you use your brain but not your hands, you\'ll also be unable to do anything well. \r\n3) If you use your hands and your brain, only then can you create. All creations requires labor, labor requires hands and a brain. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Essays] 《人有两件宝》Two Treasures', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2378-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-19 06:43:32', '2017-01-19 11:43:32', '', 2378, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2378-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(2692, 1, '2017-01-21 07:36:04', '2017-01-21 12:36:04', 'Chances are pretty good you\'ve heard this conversation between \"A\" and \"B\" before in your native language, and you may recognize the joke right away. Not really a thigh-slapper, this. More of a sad commentary on the state of human empathy. \r\n\r\n<h3>Versatile 只 [pinyin]zhi3[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nThe character 只 might throw you for a bit of a loop in this passage. You\'ll see it used twice, but the definitions are different each time. \r\n\r\nIn the first sentence, we see 只 used as a measure word which is used, among other things, for certain four-legged animals, most notably cats, dogs and birds. So \"一只大老虎\" simply means \"a large tiger\". (Don\'t known what a measure word is? <a href=\"http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/chinese-grammar-deep-dive-whats-a-measure-word/\" target=\"_blank\">Read this.</a>)\r\n\r\nIn the last sentence, we see 只 again, but this time it means \"only / merely\". In this case, it\'s pared with 要 [pinyin]yao4[/pinyin], which also has several meanings. 要 can mean \"to want\", as in \"我要出去\" (\"I want to go out\"), and that\'s usually the first definition of 要 that we learn as beginners. But here, it means \"must / have to / need to\". So 只要 means \"...only have to...\" or \"... merely need to ...\" . \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 两个人在森林里，遇到了一只大老虎。\r\n2) A就赶紧从背后取下一双更轻便的运动鞋换上。\r\n3) B急死了，骂道：“你干嘛呢?再换鞋也跑不过老虎啊！”\r\n4) A说：“我只要跑得比你快就好了。”  \r\n\r\nSee the <a href=\"http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1831342688\" 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) Two people in the forest happened upon a large tiger.\r\n2) \"A\" quickly pulled a pair of better running shoes from his backpack and put them on. \r\n3) \"B\" was frantic, and yelled: \"What are you doing? Change shoes all you want but you can\'t outrun a tiger!\" \r\n4) \"A\" said: \"I only have to outrun you.\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n      ', '[Chinese Jokes] 当老虎来临时  - The Tiger Approaches', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1867-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-21 07:36:04', '2017-01-21 12:36:04', '', 1867, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/1867-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2693, 1, '2017-01-21 08:24:46', '2017-01-21 13:24:46', '\r\n<h3>此 [pinyin]ci3[/pinyin]</h3>\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 一个人去买鹦鹉，看到一只鹦鹉前标：此鹦鹉会两门语言，售价二百元。\r\n\r\n2) 另一只鹦鹉前则标道：此鹦鹉会四门语言，售价四百元。\r\n\r\n3) 该买哪只呢？两只都毛色光鲜，非常灵活可爱。这人转啊转，拿不定主意。\r\n\r\n4) 结果突然发现一只老掉了牙的鹦鹉，毛色暗淡散乱，标价八百元。\r\n\r\n5) 这人赶紧将老板叫来：这只鹦鹉是不是会说八门语言？\r\n\r\n6) 店主说：不。\r\n\r\n7) 这人奇怪了：那为什么又老又丑，又没有能力，会值这个数呢？\r\n\r\n8) 店主回答：因为另外两只鹦鹉叫这只鹦鹉老板。\r\n\r\nSee the <a href=\"https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/263388710327855805.html\" target=\"_blank\">source</a>.\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\n1) A man went shopping for a parrot, and saw a sign in front of one parrot reading: \"This parrot can speak two languages, selling price 200 <em>yuan</em>.\" \r\n\r\n2) In front of another parrot was a sign reading: This parrot can speak four languages, selling price 400 <em>yuan</em>. \r\n\r\n3) Which one should he buy? Both had a shiny coat of feathers, [both] were lively and adorable. The man turned to this one then that one, but couldn\'t settle on one.\r\n\r\n4) Then he suddenly saw an ancient parrot, coat dull and in disarray, with a posted price of 800 <em>yuan</em>.\r\n\r\n5) The man quickly called the shopkeeper over: \"I suppose this parrot can speak 8 languages?\" \r\n\r\n6) The shopkeeper said: \"Nope.\" \r\n\r\n7) The man was confused: \"Then why is an old, ugly, unskilled parrot worth such a price?\"\r\n\r\n8) The shopkeeper replied: \"Because the two other parrots call this parrot \'The Boss\'.\" \r\n   \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n', '[Jokes in Chinese] 鹦鹉 - Parrots & the Price of Power', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1826-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-21 08:24:46', '2017-01-21 13:24:46', '', 1826, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/1826-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(2689, 1, '2017-01-21 02:50:27', '2017-01-21 07:50:27', 'Chances are pretty good you\'ve heard this one before, so I won\'t spoil the fun for you, but bas. Surely someone thinks this is funny. I, on the other hand, take this as \r\n\r\n<h3>Versatile 只 [pinyin]zhi3[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nThe character 只 might throw you for a bit of a loop in this passage. You\'ll see it used twice, but the definitions are different each time. \r\n\r\nIn the first sentence, we see 只 used as a measure word which is used, among other things, for certain four-legged animals, most notably cats, dogs and birds. So \"一只大老虎\" simply means \"a large tiger\". (Don\'t really get what a measure word is? <a href=\"http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/chinese-grammar-deep-dive-whats-a-measure-word/\" target=\"_blank\">Read this.</a>)\r\n\r\nIn the last sentence, we see 只 again, but this time it means \"only / merely\". In this case, it\'s pared with 要 [pinyin]yao4[/pinyin], which also has several meanings. 要 can mean \"to want\", as in \"我要出去\" (\"I want to go out\"), and that\'s usually the first definition of 要 that we learn as beginners. But here, it means \"must / have to / need to\". So 只要 means \"...only have to...\" or \"... merely need to ...\" . \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 两个人在森林里，遇到了一只大老虎。\r\n2) A就赶紧从背后取下一双更轻便的运动鞋换上。\r\n3) B急死了，骂道：“你干嘛呢?再换鞋也跑不过老虎啊！”\r\n4) A说：“我只要跑得比你快就好了。”  \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\n1) Two people in the forest happened upon a large tiger.\r\n2) \"A\" quickly pulled a pair of better running shoes from his backpack and put them on. \r\n3) \"B\" was frantic, and yelled: \"What are you doing? Change shoes all you want but you can\'t outrun a tiger!\" \r\n4) \"A\" said: \"I only have to outrun you.\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n      ', '[Chinese Jokes] 当老虎来临时  - The Tiger Approaches', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1867-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-21 02:50:27', '2017-01-21 07:50:27', '', 1867, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/1867-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(2691, 1, '2017-01-21 07:33:29', '2017-01-21 12:33:29', 'Chances are pretty good you\'ve heard this one before in your native language, and you may recognize the joke right away. Not really a thigh-slapper, this. More of a sad commentary on the state of human empathy. \r\n\r\n<h3>Versatile 只 [pinyin]zhi3[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nThe character 只 might throw you for a bit of a loop in this passage. You\'ll see it used twice, but the definitions are different each time. \r\n\r\nIn the first sentence, we see 只 used as a measure word which is used, among other things, for certain four-legged animals, most notably cats, dogs and birds. So \"一只大老虎\" simply means \"a large tiger\". (Don\'t known what a measure word is? <a href=\"http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/chinese-grammar-deep-dive-whats-a-measure-word/\" target=\"_blank\">Read this.</a>)\r\n\r\nIn the last sentence, we see 只 again, but this time it means \"only / merely\". In this case, it\'s pared with 要 [pinyin]yao4[/pinyin], which also has several meanings. 要 can mean \"to want\", as in \"我要出去\" (\"I want to go out\"), and that\'s usually the first definition of 要 that we learn as beginners. But here, it means \"must / have to / need to\". So 只要 means \"...only have to...\" or \"... merely need to ...\" . \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n1) 两个人在森林里，遇到了一只大老虎。\r\n2) A就赶紧从背后取下一双更轻便的运动鞋换上。\r\n3) B急死了，骂道：“你干嘛呢?再换鞋也跑不过老虎啊！”\r\n4) A说：“我只要跑得比你快就好了。”  \r\n\r\nSee the <a href=\"http://tieba.baidu.com/p/1831342688\" 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) Two people in the forest happened upon a large tiger.\r\n2) \"A\" quickly pulled a pair of better running shoes from his backpack and put them on. \r\n3) \"B\" was frantic, and yelled: \"What are you doing? Change shoes all you want but you can\'t outrun a tiger!\" \r\n4) \"A\" said: \"I only have to outrun you.\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n      ', '[Chinese Jokes] 当老虎来临时  - The Tiger Approaches', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1867-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-21 07:33:29', '2017-01-21 12:33:29', '', 1867, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/1867-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(2687, 1, '2017-01-21 02:48:29', '2017-01-21 07:48:29', '', '201701-measure-words-deep-dive-chinese', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'closed', '', '201701-measure-words-deep-dive-chinese', '', '', '2017-01-21 02:48:51', '2017-01-21 07:48:51', '', 2680, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/201701-measure-words-deep-dive-chinese.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(2688, 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?', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2680-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-21 02:48:58', '2017-01-21 07:48:58', '', 2680, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2680-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(2683, 1, '2017-01-21 02:10:02', '2017-01-21 07:10:02', '\"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<tr>\r\n<th>Measure Word</th>\r\n<th>Pinyin</th>\r\n<th>Usage</th>\r\n</tr>\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 02:10:02', '2017-01-21 07:10:02', '', 2680, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2680-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2684, 1, '2017-01-21 02:12:17', '2017-01-21 07:12:17', '\"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>Chinese Measure Word Master List</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>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<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 02:12:17', '2017-01-21 07:12:17', '', 2680, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2680-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(270, 1, '2011-02-05 17:08:20', '2011-02-05 22:08:20', 'This very short husband and wife joke is courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  \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\r\n<hr />\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\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性感和美丽的东西，也就是说，我心中期盼的是装有黑色丝袍和镂空睡褂的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实吓了一跳。 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]', '[Chinese Jokes] 生日礼物 - Birthday Present', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'birthday-present', '', '', '2016-11-04 03:15:27', '2016-11-04 07:15:27', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=270', 0, 'post', '', 7),
(1988, 1, '2016-11-04 03:15:27', '2016-11-04 07:15:27', 'This very short husband and wife joke is courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  \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\r\n<hr />\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\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性感和美丽的东西，也就是说，我心中期盼的是装有黑色丝袍和镂空睡褂的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实吓了一跳。 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]', '[Chinese Jokes] 生日礼物 - Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-04 03:15:27', '2016-11-04 07:15:27', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/270-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(271, 1, '2011-01-15 17:07:49', '2011-01-15 22:07:49', '', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 17:07:49', '2011-01-15 22:07:49', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(272, 1, '2011-01-15 17:45:22', '2011-01-15 22:45:22', '[two_third]\n\nA very short husba.  <!--more-->\n\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\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，我着实吓了一条。 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。\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\n\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. \n[/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 17:45:22', '2011-01-15 22:45:22', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(273, 1, '2016-11-04 03:13:19', '2016-11-04 07:13:19', 'This very short husband and wife joke is courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  \n\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\n\n<hr />\n[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\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性感和美丽的东西，也就是说，我心中期盼的是装有黑色丝袍和镂空睡褂的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实吓了一跳。 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。\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\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. \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Chinese Jokes] 生日礼物 - Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-04 03:13:19', '2016-11-04 07:13:19', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(274, 1, '2011-01-15 17:45:39', '2011-01-15 22:45:39', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very short husba.  <!--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，我着实吓了一条。 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<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\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 17:45:39', '2011-01-15 22:45:39', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(277, 1, '2011-01-15 17:47:15', '2011-01-15 22:47:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis very short husband and wife joke, 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<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\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 17:47:15', '2011-01-15 22:47:15', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(278, 1, '2011-01-15 18:08:00', '2011-01-15 23:08:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis very short husband and wife joke, 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<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\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 18:08:00', '2011-01-15 23:08:00', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(279, 1, '2011-02-07 07:00:32', '2011-02-07 12:00:32', 'A short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in Kerala (喀拉拉邦 - [pinyin]Ka1 la1 la1 bang1[/pinyin]), India. \r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\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。印度总理辛格决定，为每位遇难者的家属提供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]', '[News in Chinese] 100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', '100-killed-in-india-temple-stampede', '', '', '2016-11-05 03:06:33', '2016-11-05 07:06:33', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=279', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(280, 1, '2011-01-15 22:06:29', '2011-01-16 03:06:29', '[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<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\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 22:06:29', '2011-01-16 03:06:29', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(281, 1, '2011-01-15 22:44:37', '2011-01-16 03:44:37', '[two_third]\n\nA short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in India. <!--more-->\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。\n</div>\n\n\n[one_half last=last]\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.\n[/one_half]', '100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '279-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 22:44:37', '2011-01-16 03:44:37', '', 279, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/279-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(282, 1, '2011-01-15 22:45:29', '2011-01-16 03:45:29', '[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\r\n\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 22:45:29', '2011-01-16 03:45:29', '', 279, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/279-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2234, 1, '2016-11-05 03:07:51', '2016-11-05 07:07:51', 'Unlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand, this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. \n\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original</a>\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\n1) 不知从何时起 喜欢逆风行走 感受花瓣吹向脸庞\n仿佛那是白的、黄的、粉的蝴蝶在空中跳跃\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风奔跑 望着风筝越飞越高\n仿佛自己的梦想在空中自由飞翔\n\n \n2) 小时候 是坐在父亲高大的自行车横档 感受他的怀抱\n后来 坐在他身后 叽叽喳喳地讲着一天的新鲜事儿\n现在 是坐在他的斜后边 静静地看着他的各种动作\n越来越远 是的 越来越远\n\n</div>\n [/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n1) I don\'t know when it started  &nbsp; I like to walk against the wind  &nbsp; feel the petals blowing against my face<br />\nThey\'re like white, yellow and pink butterflies skipping in the air<br />\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 />\nThey\'re like my own dreams flying in the air\n\n2) When I was small &nbsp; I sat on the handles of my father\'s tall bicycle  &nbsp; and felt his embrace<br />\nLater, I sat behind him &nbsp; and chattered on about the things that had happened that day<br />\nNow, I sit on the slope behind him &nbsp; quietly watching him go about his day<br />\nFarther and farther away &nbsp; truly &nbsp; farther and farther away.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Chinese Poetry] 《背向家的方向》The House Behind Me', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '236-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 03:07:51', '2016-11-05 07:07:51', '', 236, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/236-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(284, 1, '2011-01-15 22:46:00', '2011-01-16 03:46:00', '[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\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 22:46:00', '2011-01-16 03:46:00', '', 279, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/279-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(285, 1, '2011-01-15 22:46:37', '2011-01-16 03:46:37', '[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 22:46:37', '2011-01-16 03:46:37', '', 279, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/279-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(286, 1, '2011-01-15 22:46:44', '2011-01-16 03:46:44', '[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 22:46:44', '2011-01-16 03:46:44', '', 279, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/279-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(287, 1, '2011-02-09 23:07:01', '2011-02-10 04:07:01', 'A slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. \r\n\r\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. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\r\n1) 威廉期先生到墨西哥旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个奇怪的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而胡子却黑黢黢的。 他好奇的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n2) 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\n1) Mr. 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?\"\r\n\r\n2) The 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]', '[Chinese Jokes] 白头发黑胡子 - White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'white-hair-black-beard', '', '', '2016-11-04 03:31:29', '2016-11-04 07:31:29', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=287', 0, 'post', '', 3),
(1991, 1, '2016-11-04 03:18:40', '2016-11-04 07:18:40', 'A slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. \r\n\r\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. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\r\n1) 威廉期先生到墨西哥旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个奇怪的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而胡子却黑黢黢的。 他好奇的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n2) 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\n1) Mr. 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?\"\r\n\r\n2) The 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]', '[Chinese Jokes] 白头发黑胡子 - White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-04 03:18:40', '2016-11-04 07:18:40', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/287-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(290, 1, '2011-01-13 14:11:54', '2011-01-13 14:11:54', '[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\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 hear 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 hear 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. [/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:11:54', '2011-01-13 14:11:54', '', 7, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/7-revision-40/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(288, 1, '2011-01-15 23:01:13', '2011-01-16 04:01:13', '[two_third]\n\nThis very short husband and wife joke is courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  <!--more-->\n\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\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。\n</div>\n\n[one_half last=last]\n\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. \n[/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:01:13', '2011-01-16 04:01:13', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/287-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(289, 1, '2011-01-15 23:07:00', '2011-01-16 04:07:00', '[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]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:07:00', '2011-01-16 04:07:00', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/287-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(291, 1, '2011-01-15 23:17:20', '2011-01-16 04:17:20', '[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\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 hear 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 hear 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 23:17:20', '2011-01-16 04:17:20', '', 7, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/7-revision-41/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(292, 1, '2011-01-15 23:27:22', '2011-01-16 04:27:22', '[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 hear 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 23:27:22', '2011-01-16 04:27:22', '', 7, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/7-revision-42/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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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. 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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. 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(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),
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(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),
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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. 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