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Often these idiom stories e. This idiom story actually contains 3 other idioms, so, hey, idiom party. 

Let's t棋艺
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下棋 - [pinyin]la4 jiao1[/pinyin] - Pepper
专心 - [pinyin]wei4 cheng2 shu2[/pinyin] - Not yet ripe
鸿雁 - [pinyin]ye4 lv4 su4[/pinyin] - chlorophyll
胡思乱想 - [pinyin]hu2 si1 luan4 xiang3[/pinyin] - A reason
心不在焉 - [pinyin]xin1 bu4 zai4 yan1/pinyin] - Absent-minded, one's heart is not present
传授 - [pinyin]chuan2 shou4[/pinyin] - To have knowledge imparted upon you, esp. by a great master. 
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从前有一个<strong>下棋</strong>能手名叫秋，他的<strong>棋艺</strong>非常高超。

秋有两个学生，一起跟他学习下棋，其中一个学生非常<strong>专心</strong>集中精力跟老师学习。另一个却不这样，他认为学下棋很容易，用不着认真。老师讲解的时候，他虽然坐在那里，眼睛也好像在看着棋子可心里却想着：“要是现在到野外射下一只<strong>鸿雁</strong>，美餐一顿该多好。 ”因为他总是<strong>胡思乱想</strong><strong>心不在焉</strong>，老师的讲解一点也没听进去。

结果，虽然两个学生同是一个名师<strong>传授</strong>，但是，一个进步很快，成了棋艺高强的名手，另一个却没学到一点本事。 

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Long ago there was a chess master named Qiu whose chess skills were superlative. 

Qiu had two students who studied chess with him, one student studied with concentrated focus and energy. The other, however, wasn't like that, he thought studying chess was very easy, and there was no need to take it seriously. When the teacher was explaining, although the [the student] sat there, his eyes seemed to be on the chess pieces, he was actually thinking: "If I go to the countryside right now and shoot a goose, I'll have a lovely dinner." Because he was always indulging in flights of fancy and absent-mindedness, nothing the teacher said ever sunk in.

As a result, although the two students studied were taught at the same time by the same master, one improved quickly and became a superior chess player, while the other never learned much at all. 
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