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(486, 1, '2011-02-15 07:37:48', '2011-02-15 12:37:48', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-15 07:37:48', '2011-02-15 12:37:48', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/15/341-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(346, 1, '2011-01-17 18:36:26', '2011-01-17 23:36:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service and postal history comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\nAh! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with. \" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 18:36:26', '2011-01-17 23:36:26', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(347, 1, '2016-11-05 02:49:30', '2016-11-05 06:49:30', 'Huh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. This widely-circulated story is believed to be apocryphal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor who lived during the reign of Queen Victoria (维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin])\n\n<h3>Some postal language</h3>\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\n1) 1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\n\n2) 一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\n\n3) <strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都不约而同地投向她。\n\n4) 爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\n\n5) 人们都很同情她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个绅士模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\n\n6) 她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\n\n7)　“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\n\n8) “这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\n\n9) “啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\n\n10) 对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\n\n11) 他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\n\n12) 结果，英国政府从善如流，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n1) In 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\n\n2) One day more than one hundred and fifty years ago, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\n\n3) The postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\n\n4) Alice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\n\n5) Everyone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\n\n6) Wearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\n\n7) \"Why?\" The gentlemen thought this was quite strange.\n\n8) \"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\n\n9) \"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\n\n10) He thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\n\n11) He suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\n\n12) As a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:49:30', '2016-11-05 06:49:30', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(348, 1, '2011-01-17 18:36:43', '2011-01-17 23:36:43', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\nAh! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with. \" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 18:36:43', '2011-01-17 23:36:43', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(350, 1, '2011-01-17 18:38:06', '2011-01-17 23:38:06', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 18:38:06', '2011-01-17 23:38:06', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(356, 1, '2011-01-18 18:10:15', '2011-01-18 23:10:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n馅儿 - [pinyin]xian4 er5[/pinyin] - Stuffing, filling\r\n五花八门 - [pinyin]wu3 hua1 ba1 men2[/pinyin] - Myriad, all kinds\r\n老少皆宜 - [pinyin]lao3 shao4 jie1 yi2[/pinyin] - Suitable for all ages\r\n寓意 - [pinyin]yu4 yi4[/pinyin] - Metaphorical meaning\r\n元宝 - [pinyin]yuan2 bao3[/pinyin] - Fake gold brick burnt as an offering in ancient times\r\n承载 - [pinyin]cheng2 zai4[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n千丝万缕 - [pinyin]qian1 si1 wan4 lv3[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜陪妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>讨厌的男人</strong>\r\n\r\n汤姆又来找女友玛瑞，他正在客厅耐心等候时，玛瑞的小弟弟艾米尔生气地走出来。“讨厌的家伙，你为什么总来找我姐姐，你自已没有吗？”\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校遗失许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多自黏标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE STICKER</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive stickers, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a sticker, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:10:15', '2011-01-18 23:10:15', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(355, 1, '2011-01-18 18:09:52', '2011-01-18 23:09:52', '[two_third]\n\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n馅儿 - [pinyin]xian4 er5[/pinyin] - Stuffing, filling\n五花八门 - [pinyin]wu3 hua1 ba1 men2[/pinyin] - Myriad, all kinds\n老少皆宜 - [pinyin]lao3 shao4 jie1 yi2[/pinyin] - Suitable for all ages\n寓意 - [pinyin]yu4 yi4[/pinyin] - Metaphorical meaning\n元宝 - [pinyin]yuan2 bao3[/pinyin] - Fake gold brick burnt as an offering in ancient times\n承载 - [pinyin]cheng2 zai4[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\n千丝万缕 - [pinyin]qian1 si1 wan4 lv3[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\n\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜陪妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\n\n<strong>讨厌的男人</strong>\n\n汤姆又来找女友玛瑞，他正在客厅耐心等候时，玛瑞的小弟弟艾米尔生气地走出来。“讨厌的家伙，你为什么总来找我姐姐，你自已没有吗？”\n\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\n\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校遗失许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多自黏标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\n\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\n\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\n\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\n\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\n\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\n\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\n\n<strong>ONE STICKER</strong>\n\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive stickers, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\n\nMeimei promptly wrote out a sticker, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you \n\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:09:52', '2011-01-18 23:09:52', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(357, 1, '2016-11-04 03:41:08', '2016-11-04 07:41:08', 'Well, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for young kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box.\n\nThe punchline of the last joke, \"I Won\'t Let You Die\", hinges on the Chinese slang 死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn\'t actually have anything to do with death, but rather means \"very\". For example, 饿死了, literally \"die from hunger\", means \"very hungry\", similar to the English phrase \"I\'m starving to death!\" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, \"happy to death\", or \"very happy\". \n\n<hr />\n[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\n<h4>1) 冰糕</h4>\n\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜陪妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\n\n<h4>2) 一张标签1</h4>\n\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校<strong>遗失</strong>许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多<strong>自黏</strong>标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\n\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\n\n<h4>3) 不会让您死</h4>\n\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\n\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\n\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\n\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n<h4>1) POPSICLE</h4>\n\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle and we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\n\n<h4>2) ONE LABEL</h4>\n\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive labels, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\n\nMeimei promptly wrote out a label, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\n\n<h4>3) I WON\'T LET YOU DIE</h4>\n\nSon: \"Father, if I\'m ever first in my class, what would you do?\"\n\nFather: \"Well, I\'d be so happy I\'d die!\" \n\nSon: \"Father, you don\'t need to worry unnecessarily, I\'m a filial son, I won\'t let you die.\"\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Chinese Jokes] Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-04 03:41:08', '2016-11-04 07:41:08', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(358, 1, '2011-01-18 18:22:28', '2011-01-18 23:22:28', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe punchline of the last joke, \"I Won\'t Let You Die\", hinges on the Chinese slang [verb]死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn\'t actually have anything to do with death, but rather means \"very\". For example, 饿死了, literally \"die from hunger\", means \"very hungry\", similar to the English phrase \"I\'m starving to death!\" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, \"happy to death\", or \"very happy\". \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n冰糕 - [pinyin]bing1 gao1[/pinyin] - Popsicle\r\n陪 - [pinyin]pei2[/pinyin] - To accompany, go with\r\n标签 - [pinyin]biao1 qian1[/pinyin] - Label\r\n遗失 - [pinyin]yi2 shi1[/pinyin] - To lose\r\n自黏 - [pinyin]zi4 nian2[/pinyin] - Self-adhesive\r\n多余 - [pinyin]duo1 yi2[/pinyin] - Unnecessarily\r\n孝子 - [pinyin]xiao4 zi3[/pinyin] - Obedient / filial son\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜<strong>陪</strong>妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校<strong>遗失</strong>许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多<strong>自黏</strong>标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE STICKER</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive labels, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a label, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>I WON\'T LET YOU DIE</strong>\r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, if I\'m ever first in my class, what would you do?\"\r\n\r\nFather: \"Well, I\'d be so happy I\'d die!\" \r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, you don\'t need to worry unnecessarily, I\'m a filial son, I won\'t let you die.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:22:28', '2011-01-18 23:22:28', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(359, 1, '2011-01-18 18:23:33', '2011-01-18 23:23:33', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe punchline of the last joke, \"I Won\'t Let You Die\", hinges on the Chinese slang [verb]死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn\'t actually have anything to do with death, but rather means \"very\". For example, 饿死了, literally \"die from hunger\", means \"very hungry\", similar to the English phrase \"I\'m starving to death!\" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, \"happy to death\", or \"very happy\". \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n冰糕 - [pinyin]bing1 gao1[/pinyin] - Popsicle\r\n陪 - [pinyin]pei2[/pinyin] - To accompany, go with\r\n标签 - [pinyin]biao1 qian1[/pinyin] - Label\r\n遗失 - [pinyin]yi2 shi1[/pinyin] - To lose\r\n自黏 - [pinyin]zi4 nian2[/pinyin] - Self-adhesive\r\n多余 - [pinyin]duo1 yi2[/pinyin] - Unnecessarily\r\n孝子 - [pinyin]xiao4 zi3[/pinyin] - Obedient / filial son\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜<strong>陪</strong>妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校<strong>遗失</strong>许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多<strong>自黏</strong>标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE LABEL</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive labels, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a label, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>I WON\'T LET YOU DIE</strong>\r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, if I\'m ever first in my class, what would you do?\"\r\n\r\nFather: \"Well, I\'d be so happy I\'d die!\" \r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, you don\'t need to worry unnecessarily, I\'m a filial son, I won\'t let you die.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:23:33', '2011-01-18 23:23:33', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(360, 1, '2011-01-15 23:27:45', '2011-01-16 04:27:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very short children\'s story about a bear\'s search for a new home. The original text was found on a Chinese children\'s stories site.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave, hole\r\n造 - [pinyin]zao4[/pinyin] - make, build\r\n挂 - [pinyin]gua4[/pinyin] - hang\r\n砍 - [pinyin]kan3[/pinyin] - to chop\r\n舍不得 - [pinyin]she3 bu4 de[/pinyin] - can\'t bear to\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n小熊一家住在山<strong>洞</strong>里。熊爷爷对小熊说,“你去<strong>造</strong>间木头房子住吧!\"\r\n\r\n春天，小熊走进树林。树上长满了绿叶，他舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n夏天，小熊又走进了树林。树上开满了鲜花，小熊<strong>舍不得砍</strong>。\r\n\r\n秋天，小熊走进树林，树上<strong>挂</strong>满了果实。小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n冬天，小熊走进了树林。树上站着许多小鸟，小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n一年又一年，小熊没有砍树造房子，还是高高兴兴地住在山洞里……\r\n\r\n树林里的小动物非常感谢小熊，他们送给小熊一束束美丽的鲜花.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nSource: <a href=\"http://www.gushi365.com/info/5568.html\">GuShi365.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLittle bear lived in a mountain cave. Grandfather bear said to Little Bear: \"Go and find a wooden house to live in!\"\r\n\r\nIn spring, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of green leaves, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn summer, little bear again went into the forest. The trees were full of fresh flowers, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn autumn, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of hanging fruit, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn winter, little bear went into the forest. Many little birds were living in the trees, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nYears passed, and little bear still hadn\'t made a home out of the trees. He was still living happily in his mountain cave.\r\n\r\nThe little forest animals thanked Little Bear very much, and they gave him a bunch of beautiful fresh flowers.\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:27:45', '2011-01-16 04:27:45', '', 7, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/7-revision-43/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(362, 1, '2011-01-19 13:05:39', '2011-01-19 18:05:39', '[two_third]\n\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的<strong>顶端</strong>，<strong>可惜</strong>现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的<strong>粪便</strong>呢，里面可是富含<strong>营养</strong>哟，呵呵。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡<strong>极目远眺</strong>，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\n\n这则寓言的寓意: <strong>舔</strong>别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an ever higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \n\nThe moral of this fable is licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 13:05:39', '2011-01-19 18:05:39', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(363, 1, '2016-11-05 02:43:14', '2016-11-05 06:43:14', 'If you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of toadying up, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. I started off thinking this was a bit inappropriate for the children\'s reading site I found it on, but then again, some of our most beloved fables are all about evil women baking little children in ovens, so... yeah. \n\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">source</a>.\n\n<hr />\n[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\n\n1) 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的顶端，可惜现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的粪便呢，里面可是富含营养哟。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡极目远眺，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\n\n2) 这则寓言的寓意: 舔别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong, and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \n\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however [the rewards] don\'t last.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[Chinese Fables] 火鸡与公牛 - The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:43:14', '2016-11-05 06:43:14', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(364, 1, '2011-01-19 13:08:43', '2011-01-19 18:08:43', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的<strong>顶端</strong>，<strong>可惜</strong>现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的<strong>粪便</strong>呢，里面可是富含<strong>营养</strong>哟，呵呵。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡<strong>极目远眺</strong>，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\r\n\r\n这则寓言的寓意: <strong>舔</strong>别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an ever higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 13:08:43', '2011-01-19 18:08:43', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(365, 1, '2011-01-16 14:43:59', '2011-01-16 19:43:59', 'After spending six years in China studying Mandarin and working, I took a several-year haitus and returned to my native country. It was alarming how quickly my language skills began distinegrating. I searched online for Chinese reading materials, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was at an appropriate reading level, was different than the typical textbook-y stuff available online, was presented in a way that was easy to read, and that I was sure I could get through. I ended up spending more time looking for something that was suitable than actually doing any reading.\r\n\r\nAs someone who organizes her thoughts into a series of domain names, it was inevitable I\'d eventually start a website about it, and here you are. I post here whenever I have a few minutes to practice a bit of reading, or enter something interesting I\'ve picked up.\r\n\r\nThis site doesn\'t exist to teach you Chinese from scratch - there are plenty of sites and programs that do that. But this collection might help you keep your skills fresh, or pick up the occasional new vocabulary word.\r\n<h4>About the Translations</h4>\r\nMany of the translations on this site are done by me, and I don\'t post anything unless I\'ve checked it several times, but that doesn\'t mean I haven\'t missed something. Do feel free to comment if you see anything that ought to have a better translation - it won\'t be taken amiss. Quite a few of the translations, however, are done by others, are taken from old Chinese textbooks or hardcopy magazines I picked up overseas, or were sent in by a third party.\r\n\r\nIt\'s often quite difficult to do a word-for-word translation, as Chinese words that fit well into a particular Chinese sentence read very awkwardly after they\'ve been translated - sometimes a direct translation just sounds \"off\". This is more and more true the higher your reading level. I stick to a word-for-word translation when it\'s appropriate, but I\'ll often change a sentence a little so that it makes sense or reads well in English.\r\n\r\nYou\'ll also notice that I often remove commas, split long Chinese sentences into two or more English sentences, or rearrange the order of clauses, which is necessary to accommodate Chinese grammar.  The translation is meant as a guidepost to help point you in the right direction and keep you grounded in the text when needed - it\'s up to you to dissect sentence structure.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'About', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:43:59', '2011-01-16 19:43:59', '', 2, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/2-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(368, 1, '2011-01-19 13:56:58', '2011-01-19 18:56:58', '   从前有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 13:56:58', '2011-01-19 18:56:58', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/366-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(369, 1, '2011-01-15 23:39:10', '2011-01-16 04:39:10', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs vaguely sordid fables go, this one\'s fairly tame, resulting only in some humiliatory retribution and a lost tail or two.<!--more--> \r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n狼 - [pinyin]lang2[/pinyin] - Wolf\r\n欺负 - [pinyin]qi1 fu5[/pinyin] - To bully\r\n狐狸 - [pinyin]hu2 li5[/pinyin] - Fox\r\n觅食 - [pinyin]mi4 shi2[/pinyin] - Forage, scavenge\r\n阵 - [pinyin]zhen4[/pinyin] - Classifier for events of short duration\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave\r\n暗自 - [pinyin]an4 zi4[/pinyin] - Inwardly, secretly\r\n凿 - [pinyin]zuo4[/pinyin] - Bore, dig\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一只小<strong>狼</strong>他总是<strong>欺负</strong>别人。一天小动物们聚在一起商量对付那只小狼的办法，聪明的小<strong>狐狸</strong>想到了一个办法。\r\n\r\n一天小狼出外<strong>觅食</strong>的狼，忽然闻到一<strong>阵</strong>阵烤鱼的香味，小狼跑进山<strong>洞</strong>一看，原来是狐狸在烤鱼。狐狸见狼来了，心里<strong>暗自</strong>高兴。\r\n\r\n狼问, “这些鱼是从哪弄来的？”\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “有一个地方可以钓到好多鱼，我可以给你带路。”\r\n\r\n于时狼就跟着狐狸走啊走，来到了河边，原来是河里的水结了一层冰。\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “只要在冰上<strong>凿</strong>一个洞，把<strong>尾巴</strong>放进河里，等鱼咬住尾巴的时候，就把尾巴提上来，这样就可以钓到好多好多的鱼！”\r\n\r\n狼想着这下钓的鱼吃也吃不光啦，狼等了好久，也没有鱼咬住他的尾巴。狼实在冷得不行了，就想把尾巴提上来，回头一看，尾巴都被冰住了。狼大力拉，哪知他的尾巴“啪”的一声断掉了，狼逃走了。\r\n\r\n小动物们看见狼的惨样子，都哈哈地笑了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong  ago, there was a wolf who was always bullying others. One day,  the small animals gathered together to discuss a way to solve the problem. The smart fox thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nOne day Wolf went out to forage for food, when suddenly  he smelled the scent of roasting fish. When Little Wolf ran into a  mountain cave and looked, he saw that it was Little Fox that was cooking the fish. Fox saw that Wolf had come, and in his heart he was secretly happy.\r\n\r\nWolf asked \"Where did these fish come from?\"\r\n\r\nFox said, \"There is a place where you can catch many fish, I can take you there.\"\r\n\r\nSo Wolf followed Fox as he walked and walked, until they came to a riverbank. There turned out to be a layer of ice over the water.\r\n\r\nFox said, \"All you have to do is bore a hole in the ice, stick your tail into the river, wait until the fish bite your tail, then pull your tail out. This way, you\'ll catch many, many fish.\r\n\r\nWolf, thinking of how the fish would be more than a full meal, waited quite a while, but no fish bit his tail. Wolf was finally too cold to continue and tried to pull up his tail, but when he turned his head to look, he saw that his tail was stuck in the ice. He gave a  great pull, and what do you know but his tail came off with a \"pa\"  sound. Wolf hopped away.\r\n\r\nWhen the other little animals saw wolf\'s miserable face, they all laughed.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Wolf Goes Fishing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '85-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:39:10', '2011-01-16 04:39:10', '', 85, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/85-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(372, 1, '2011-01-19 15:08:59', '2011-01-19 20:08:59', '', 'Intermediate Chinese Reading Materials: The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '20110219-turkey-and-bull', '', '', '2011-01-19 15:08:59', '2011-01-19 20:08:59', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110219-turkey-and-bull.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(373, 1, '2011-01-19 13:10:21', '2011-01-19 18:10:21', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的<strong>顶端</strong>，<strong>可惜</strong>现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的<strong>粪便</strong>呢，里面可是富含<strong>营养</strong>哟，呵呵。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡<strong>极目远眺</strong>，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\r\n\r\n这则寓言的寓意: <strong>舔</strong>别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 13:10:21', '2011-01-19 18:10:21', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(375, 1, '2011-01-16 20:45:00', '2011-01-17 01:45:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n盘缠 - [pinyin]pan2 chan5[/pinyin] - Traveling money\r\n骏马 - [pinyin]jun4 ma3[/pinyin] - Steed\r\n不问青红皂白 - [pinyin]bu4 wen4 qing1 hong2 zao4 bai2[/pinyin] - Doesn\'t distinguish between right and wrong, or between obvious differences\r\n满不在乎 - [pinyin]man3 bu4 zai4 hu5[/pinyin] - Unconcernedly\r\n阻止 - [pinyin]zu3 zhi3[/pinyin] - Prevent\r\n醒悟 - [pinyin]xing3 wu4[/pinyin] - Come to realize\r\n劝阻 -  [pinyin]quan4 zu3[/pinyin] - Dissuade\r\n无奈 - [pinyin]wu2 nai4[/pinyin] - For lack of a better option\r\n劝告 - [pinyin]quan4 gao4[/pinyin] - Urge, exhort\r\n一意孤行 - [pinyin]yi1 yi4 gu4 xing2[/pinyin] - Obstinately stick to, dogmatic\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一个人，从魏国到楚国去。他带上很多的<strong>盘缠</strong>，雇了上好的车，驾上<strong>骏马</strong>，请了驾车技术精湛的车夫，就上路了。楚国在魏国的南面，可这个人<strong>不问青红皂白</strong>让驾车人赶着马车一直向北走去。\r\n\r\n路上有人问他的车是要往哪儿去，他大声回答说: “去楚国！”路人告诉他说: “到楚国去应往南方走，你这是在往北走，方向不对。那人<strong>满不在乎</strong>地说:\"没关系，我的马快着呢!\" 路人替他着急，拉住他的马，<strong>阻止</strong>他说, “方向错了，你的马再快，也到不了楚国呀!\" 那人依然毫不<strong>醒悟</strong>地说: “不要紧，我带的路费多着呢!\" 路人极力<strong>劝阻</strong>他说:“虽说你路费多，可是你走的不是那个方向，你路费多也只能白花呀!\" 那个一心只想着要到楚国去的人有些不耐烦地说: “这有什么难的，我的车夫赶车的本领高着呢!\" 路人<strong>无奈</strong>，只好松开了拉住车把子的手，眼睁睁看着那个盲目上路的魏人走了。\r\n\r\n那个魏国人，不听别人的指点<strong>劝告</strong>，仗着自己的马快、钱多、车夫好等优越条件，朝着相反方向<strong>一意孤行</strong>。那么，他条件越好，他就只会离要去的地方越远，因为他的大方向错了。\r\n\r\n这个故事告诉我们，无论做什么事，都要首先看准方向，才能发充分挥自己的有利条件；如果方向错了，那么有利条件只会起到相反的作用。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a man traveling from the Kingdom of Wei to the Kingdom of Chu. He took a lot of traveling money with him, hired a good carriage, harnessed it to a strong steed, hired an exquisitely skilled driver, and then began his journey. The Kingdom of Chu was to the south of the Kingdom of Wei, but this man couldn\'t tell the difference when the driver rode away towards the north.\r\n\r\nOn the road, a passing traveler asked where they were going. The man loudly answered, \"We\'re going to the Kindom of Chu!\". The traveler told him, \"If you\'re going to Chu, you should go south. You\'re going north, it\'s the wrong direction.\" The man unconcernedly replied, \"No problem! My horse is very fast.\" Worried for him, the traveler pulled at the horse, and warned, \"You\'re going the wrong way. Even if your horse was even faster than it is, you still won\'t reach the Kingdom of Chu!\" Still not seeing the truth, the man said, \"Don\'t worry, I\'ve brought a lot of money with me.\" Making a concerted effort to dissuade him, the traveler said, \"Though you may have a lot of money, you\'re still going the wrong direction, and your money will be spent in vain.\" Thinking of nothing other than getting to the Kingdom of Chu, the man impatiently said, \"It\'s not a problem, my driver is extremely skilled!\" Out of options, the traveler let go of the carriage and watched helplessly as the aimless man from Wu rode away.\r\n\r\nThe man from Wu didn\'t listen to anyone\'s exhortations, relying on his fast horse, his money, his driver\'s skill and many other favorable conditions, and obstinately continued to go in the opposite direction. Doing this, he could only continue to get further and further away from his goal, because his overall direction was wrong.\r\n\r\nThis story tells us, no matter what the situation is, we\'d better first be sure we\'re going the right way, and only then can we fully employ our other advantages, otherwise those advantages will just cause us pain [lit: have the opposite effect].\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Story Behind the Idiom NanYuanBeiZhe', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '123-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 20:45:00', '2011-01-17 01:45:00', '', 123, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/123-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(382, 1, '2011-01-15 23:36:29', '2011-01-16 04:36:29', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay, taken from the Beijing Language and Culture University beginner comprehension textbook, is written from the perspective of a friend visiting Jiang Ping （江苹） before she leaves the country. <!--more--> The language is mostly school-centric as the writer discusses his classmates, Jiang Ping\'s scholarship, and her test results.\r\n\r\nThe crux of the last paragraph hinges on the fact that the Chinese word for \"Goodbye\" (再见) literally translates as \"See you again\", as the writer wonders when or if he\'ll ever really see Jiang Ping again.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n努力 - [pinyin]nu3 li4[/pinyin] - Great effort\r\n参加 - [pinyin]can1 jia1[/pinyin] - Participate\r\n得 - [pinyin]de[/pinyin] - To get, earn\r\n满分 - [pinyin]man3 fen1[/pinyin] - Full marks, 100%\r\n奖学金 - [pinyin]jiang3 xue2 jin1[/pinyin] - Scholarship\r\n留学 - [pinyin]liu2 xue2[/pinyin] - Study abroad\r\n预祝 - [pinyin]yu4 zhu4[/pinyin] - Wish\r\n成功 - [pinyin]cheng2 gong1[/pinyin] - Success\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">今天我去江苹加了。 我和江苹是中学<strong>同学</strong>， 她是我的好朋友， 也是我们全班同学的朋友。 她学习非常<strong>努力</strong>， 是我们班学习最好的学生。 她会学习， 她会玩儿， 还常常帮助别人， 老师和同学都很喜欢她。 她这次<strong>参加</strong>了美国一个大学<strong>考试</strong>。 这个考试非常难，但是她考得很好，<strong>得</strong>了<strong>满分</strong>。 听说全世界只有三个学生得满分。 这个大学给江苹最高的<strong>奖学金</strong>。 我们都为她感到高兴。\r\n\r\n她下星期要去美国<strong>留学</strong>， 我们班的同学都去看他， 给他送行。\r\n\r\n江苹的家在城东边， 离我家比较远。 我下午四点多就从家里出发了， 五点半才到。 我到的时候， 同学们都已经到了。\r\n\r\n江苹很热情地欢迎我们。 同学们好久不见了， 见面以后高兴得又说又笑， 谈得很愉快。 我们<strong>预祝</strong>江苹<strong>成功</strong>。 祝她一路平安。 我说， 一定要常来新啊。 江苹说，一定。 跟他说 “再见”  的时候， 她哭了， 我也哭了。\r\n\r\n回家的路上， 我想， 我们常常说 “再见”， 但是， 有时候 “再见” 是很难的。 我和江苹什么时候能 “再见” 呢？\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nToday I\'m going to Jiang Ping\'s house. Jiang Ping and I are highschool classmates. She\'s my good friend, and she\'s also good friends with everyone in our class. She studies very hard, she\'s the best student in our class. She studies, she plays, and she also often helps others. The teacher and the other students like her. She recently participated in an examination for an American college. That test is very hard, but she did very well - she earned full marks. I heard that only three people in the whole world got full marks. This college gave Jiang Ping their highest scholarship. We\'re all very happy for her.\r\n\r\nNext week she\'s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping\'s house is on the east side of the city very far away from mine. I left my house a little after four o\'clock in the afternoon, and didn\'t get there until 5:30. When I arrived, the rest of our classmates were already there.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping warmly welcomed us. She hadn\'t seen her classmates in a while, and after she greeted us, we talked and smiled, chatting happily. We wished Jiang Ping success. Wished her a pleasant trip. I said, Be sure to write often. Jiang Ping said, Of course. When she said \"Goodbye\", she cried, and I also cried.\r\n\r\nOn my way home, I thought, We often say \"Goodbye\" [lit: see you again], but sometimes \"Goodbye\" is sad. When will Jiang Ping and I be able to see each other again?\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Jiang Ping Going to Study Abroad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '67-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:36:29', '2011-01-16 04:36:29', '', 67, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/67-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(441, 1, '2011-02-27 07:30:26', '2011-02-27 12:30:26', 'This short essay details a child\'s brush with classroom thievery. In my opinion, one of the most interesting sentences here is \"同学们看了都称不绝口\", meaning \"The students all looked [at it], talking continuously.\" This is easy to translate directly, but a direct translation doesn\'t capture the spirit of the sentence. In context, this sentence is tinged with a little envy - the author sees the other students all looking at YunXi\'s stamp album, going on and on, presumably about how great the album is, and so the author is jealous. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n1) 前天，我做错了一件事。芸熙带了心爱的<strong>集邮簿</strong>让同学们欣赏。她的集邮簿收集了来自世界各地的邮票，如：欧洲、中国、<strong>马来西亚</strong>等等。同学们看了都<strong>称不绝口</strong>。 我很了羡慕芸熙，因为她有来自世界各地的邮票，而我呢！我的集邮簿里只有来自爸爸收到的信上面的本地邮票。 下课时，我<strong>趁</strong>全部的同学都下课了，我就从芸熙的书包里人拿了她的集邮簿。过后，我就装着<strong>若无其事</strong>地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就<em>放声大哭</em>。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\r\n\r\n2) 林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要<strong>三思而后行</strong>，以免犯下大错！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) The day before yesterday, I did a bad thing. YunXi brought her beloved stamp album in to let her classmates see it. Her stamp album contains her collected stamps from places all around the world, such as Europe, China, Malaysia, etc. The other students looked through it, going on and on about it. I envied YunXi, because she had stamps from all over the world, and me? My stamp album only has a few stamps from local letters my dad got. When class let out, I took advantage of the situation and took the stamp album from YunXi\'s book bag. After a while, I walked back and lined up in the assembly hall, pretending nothing had happened. When we\'d gotten back to the classroom, YunXi opened her book bag and didn\'t see her stamp album, and she burst into tears. Teacher Lin asked her what happened, YunXi told the teacher the reason. \r\n\r\n2) Teacher Lin questioned all the students, asking who had taken Lu YunXi\'s stamp album. The teacher inquired for a long time, but no one was willing to admit to it. I felt ashamed, got the stamp album, and admitted my error to YunXi. The teacher saw that I was brave enough to admit my mistake and so didn\'t punish me, just lectured me for a bit, and YunXi accepted my apology. I regretted what I\'d done. I told myself that next time I would carefully consider the results of my actions so as to avoid a big mistake! \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Essays] 我犯错 - I Did Something Wrong', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'i-did-something-wrong', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:30:38', '2016-11-05 06:30:38', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=441', 0, 'post', '', 4),
(2220, 1, '2016-11-05 02:30:38', '2016-11-05 06:30:38', 'This short essay details a child\'s brush with classroom thievery. In my opinion, one of the most interesting sentences here is \"同学们看了都称不绝口\", meaning \"The students all looked [at it], talking continuously.\" This is easy to translate directly, but a direct translation doesn\'t capture the spirit of the sentence. In context, this sentence is tinged with a little envy - the author sees the other students all looking at YunXi\'s stamp album, going on and on, presumably about how great the album is, and so the author is jealous. \r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n1) 前天，我做错了一件事。芸熙带了心爱的<strong>集邮簿</strong>让同学们欣赏。她的集邮簿收集了来自世界各地的邮票，如：欧洲、中国、<strong>马来西亚</strong>等等。同学们看了都<strong>称不绝口</strong>。 我很了羡慕芸熙，因为她有来自世界各地的邮票，而我呢！我的集邮簿里只有来自爸爸收到的信上面的本地邮票。 下课时，我<strong>趁</strong>全部的同学都下课了，我就从芸熙的书包里人拿了她的集邮簿。过后，我就装着<strong>若无其事</strong>地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就<em>放声大哭</em>。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\r\n\r\n2) 林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要<strong>三思而后行</strong>，以免犯下大错！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) The day before yesterday, I did a bad thing. YunXi brought her beloved stamp album in to let her classmates see it. Her stamp album contains her collected stamps from places all around the world, such as Europe, China, Malaysia, etc. The other students looked through it, going on and on about it. I envied YunXi, because she had stamps from all over the world, and me? My stamp album only has a few stamps from local letters my dad got. When class let out, I took advantage of the situation and took the stamp album from YunXi\'s book bag. After a while, I walked back and lined up in the assembly hall, pretending nothing had happened. When we\'d gotten back to the classroom, YunXi opened her book bag and didn\'t see her stamp album, and she burst into tears. Teacher Lin asked her what happened, YunXi told the teacher the reason. \r\n\r\n2) Teacher Lin questioned all the students, asking who had taken Lu YunXi\'s stamp album. The teacher inquired for a long time, but no one was willing to admit to it. I felt ashamed, got the stamp album, and admitted my error to YunXi. The teacher saw that I was brave enough to admit my mistake and so didn\'t punish me, just lectured me for a bit, and YunXi accepted my apology. I regretted what I\'d done. I told myself that next time I would carefully consider the results of my actions so as to avoid a big mistake! \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Essays] 我犯错 - I Did Something Wrong', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '441-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:30:38', '2016-11-05 06:30:38', '', 441, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/441-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(384, 1, '2011-01-15 23:45:07', '2011-01-16 04:45:07', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA passage from a BLCU textbook in which a university student laments about catching a cold. <!--more--> This essay focuses on mostly illness-centric beginner language, such as 感冒 [pinyin]gan3 mao4[/pinyin], meaning \"to have a cold\"， and 打针 [pinyin]da3 zhen1[/pinyin], meaning \"to get an IV drip or shot\".\r\n\r\nLest it seems a little dramatic to you that the writer would go to the hospital over a 24-hour cold, the Chinese typically don\'t use private clinics (except in the case of accupuncture and massage), and commonly go to the hospital for almost every health-related issue, including colds and small fevers.\r\n\r\nOf special interest is the phrase \"还开了一些药\", or \"and also prescribed me some medicine\". Literally, it says, \"Also opened a bit of medicine\". But the word 开 [pinyin]kai1[/pinyin], which usually means \"open\", is also the verb used to describe a doctor writing a perscription. This tells us that the doctor didn\'t give (给[pinyin]gei3[/pinyin]) the student any medicine himself, but perscribed it instead.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n发烧 - [pinyin]fa1 shao1[/pinyin] - Have a fever\r\n咳嗽 - [pinyin]ke2 sou5[/pinyin] - Cough\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n寂寞 - [pinyin]ji4 mo4[/pinyin] - Lonely\r\n不舒服 - [pinyin]bu4 shu1 fu5[/pinyin] - Feel unwell, uncomfortable\r\n检查 - [pinyin]jian3 cha2[/pinyin] - Check, examine\r\n果然 - [pinyin]guo3 ran2[/pinyin] - Sure enough\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n我病了。　头疼，<strong>发烧</strong>，嗓子也疼，不想吃东西，晚上<strong>咳嗽</strong>的很厉害。　上午同学们都去上课了，我一个人在宿舍里，感到很寂寞。　寂寞了就容易想家。　我家里人很多，有哥哥，姐姐，还有一个弟弟。　在家的时候，我们常一起玩儿。　现在，我在北京学习汉语，寂寞的时候就常常想他们。\r\n\r\n因为不<strong>舒服</strong>，所以我今天起得很晚。　起了床就去医院了。　大夫给我<strong>检查</strong>了一下儿，说我感冒了。　给我打了一针，<strong>还开了一些药</strong>。　他说，吃了药病就好了。\r\n\r\n老师和同学们知道我病了，都来看我。　林老师听说我不想吃东西，还做了一碗面条给我吃。　吃了面条，身上出了很多汗，老师说，出了汗可能不发烧了。\r\n\r\n下午，<strong>果然</strong>不发烧了，喜庆也好了。　我用　Ｅｍａｉｌ　个哦姐姐发了一封信。　我说，我在这儿生活得很好，我有很好的老师，还有很多好同学，好朋友，和他们在一起，我感到很愉快。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI\'m sick. My head hurts, I have a fever, my throat also hurts, I don\'t want to eat anything, and at night I have a serious cough. In the morning my classmates all went to class, and I was the only one left in the dormitory. I feel very lonely. When you\'re lonely, it\'s easy to miss home. I have a lot of family members - an older brother, older sister, and also a younger brother. When I\'m at home, we often play together. Right now, I\'m in Beijing studying Chinese, and when I\'m lonely I miss them.\r\n\r\nBecause I don\'t feel well, I got up late today. When I got up, I went to the hospital. The doctor gave me a quick checkup and said I have a cold. He gave me one shot [also: IV drip], and also prescribed some medicine. He said, take the medicine and you\'ll get better.\r\n\r\nMy teacher and classmates know I\'m sick, so they all came to see me. Teacher Lin heard that I didn\'t want to eat anything, so she made me a bowl of noodles. After I ate the noodles, I began to pour sweat. Teacher said, if you sweat, maybe your fever will go away.\r\n\r\nIn the afternoon, sure enough my fever was gone, and I was in a good mood. I emailed my older sister. I said, I have a very good life here, I have a good teacher and good classmates and good friends, and all together they make me very happy.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'I\'m Feeling Sick', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '139-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:45:07', '2011-01-16 04:45:07', '', 139, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/139-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2669, 1, '2017-01-19 08:36:20', '2017-01-19 13:36:20', 'Why, yes they do. Here\'s another one I couldn\'t decide how to classify - the vocabulary is definitely intermediate. The length and structure are beginner. So don\'t beat yourself up if you\'re looking up more than a couple of words, here. \r\n\r\n<h3>Inescapable - 逃不过 [pinyin]tao4 bu2 guo4[/pinyin]</h3>\r\nTry as you might, there are some things in this life you can\'t get away from. If you\'re human, death and taxes, right? If you\'re a mouse, cats. And when we\'re describing these unavoidable things in Chinese, we might use the phrase 逃不过. \"A 逃不过 B\" means \"A can\'t escape from B\", or \"A couldn\'t escape B\". \r\n\r\n<h3>Hard bits</h3>\r\nIn the fourth sentence, the author mentions that cat\'s whiskers are \"像把尺\" - huh? Seems awkward and confusing, but this is perhaps easier to understand if I add back in the character that the author dropped from this sentence: \r\n\r\n<blockquote>猫的胡须像一把尺</blockquote>\r\n\r\nAh, once the number 一 [pinyin]yi1[/pinyin] goes back in there, the meaning is a little clearer. See, 把 [pinyin]ba3[/pinyin] is most frequently used as a verb that means \"to take\" or \"to pick up\". But in this case, it\'s a measure word for long, straight, rigid things. Which long, straight, rigid things? In this case, rulers, 尺 [pinyin]chi3[/pinyin]. So the entire phrase means:\r\n\r\n<blockquote>Cat whiskers are like rulers</blockquote>\r\n\r\nAre they, though? This makes more sense when you read the rest, so I\'ll leave you to it:\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n猫是捉老鼠的能手。它的耳朵很灵敏，能转来转去，哪怕是极小的声音，它也能及时辨出。猫有一双明亮的眼睛，狡猾的老鼠逃不过它的眼睛。猫的胡须像把尺，能测出各个洞的大小。猫的脚爪上有锋利的爪子，能爬树、跳墙、追捕老鼠。　\r\n\r\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.360doc.com/content/12/0624/17/1764012_220163890.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">source</a>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nCats are mouse-catching experts. Their ears are sensitive, able to swivel this way and that, and able to distinguish even the smallest noises. Cats have a pair of bright eyes, crafty mice can\'t escape their sight. Cats\' whiskers are like rulers, able to measure out the size of any hole. Cats\' paws have sharp claws, they can climb trees and jump walls to pursue and capture mice. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n', '[Facts in Chinese] 猫捉老鼠 - Cats Catch Mice', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2411-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-19 08:36:20', '2017-01-19 13:36:20', '', 2411, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2411-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2670, 1, '2017-01-19 08:58:48', '2017-01-19 13:58:48', 'xx\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n苏联优秀小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》作者尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基，从小就懂得关心和同情别人。有一次，母亲让他去铁路机车库给哥哥送早饭，临走时，再三嘱咐他路上不要逗留。可尼古拉一去就是几个小时，直到日升中天时还没有回来。母亲心慌意乱起来，几次跑到篱栅门外去张望。因为她知道，尼古拉经过车站时，经常从车厢底下爬过去。这样虽然少跑了路，但很容易发生危险。望来望去，仍然不见尼古拉的影子，母亲只好三步并作两步往车库方向找去，就在母亲心急如焚的时候，终于看见了尼古拉的身影。  \r\n\r\n原来，尼古拉在从车库回家的路上，遇见一位妇女。她身上背着两个满满鼓鼓的大口袋，一只手提着篮子，里面放着一只母鸡和许多小鸡，另一只手还领着一个两三岁的孩子。那孩子正哭着闹着不肯走呢！尼古拉一问，知道她是急着去赶火车的，眼下离开车时间只有十几分钟了。偏偏就在这个时候，母鸡挣脱篮子飞了出来，小鸡也跟着四处乱跑。尼古拉见此情景，毫不迟疑地跑过去，把母鸡和小鸡一只只抓住，放进了篮子，并把篮子牢牢捆好。随后，又接过那位妇女背上的口袋，一直送她到了车站„„  母亲听了，心中的火气顿时烟消云散。她高兴地抱住尼古拉，接连亲吻了几次。\r\n\r\nSee the <a href=\"http://www.360doc.com/content/12/0624/17/1764012_220163890.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">source</a>.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nAuthor of outstanding Soviet novel \"How the Steel was Tempered\" 苏联优秀小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》作者尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基，从小就懂得关心和同情别人。有一次，母亲让他去铁路机车库给哥哥送早饭，临走时，再三嘱咐他路上不要逗留。可尼古拉一去就是几个小时，直到日升中天时还没有回来。母亲心慌意乱起来，几次跑到篱栅门外去张望。因为她知道，尼古拉经过车站时，经常从车厢底下爬过去。这样虽然少跑了路，但很容易发生危险。望来望去，仍然不见尼古拉的影子，母亲只好三步并作两步往车库方向找去，就在母亲心急如焚的时候，终于看见了尼古拉的身影。  \r\n\r\n原来，尼古拉在从车库回家的路上，遇见一位妇女。她身上背着两个满满鼓鼓的大口袋，一只手提着篮子，里面放着一只母鸡和许多小鸡，另一只手还领着一个两三岁的孩子。那孩子正哭着闹着不肯走呢！尼古拉一问，知道她是急着去赶火车的，眼下离开车时间只有十几分钟了。偏偏就在这个时候，母鸡挣脱篮子飞了出来，小鸡也跟着四处乱跑。尼古拉见此情景，毫不迟疑地跑过去，把母鸡和小鸡一只只抓住，放进了篮子，并把篮子牢牢捆好。随后，又接过那位妇女背上的口袋，一直送她到了车站„„  母亲听了，心中的火气顿时烟消云散。她高兴地抱住尼古拉，接连亲吻了几次。\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Famous People] 尼古拉·奥斯特洛夫斯基 - Author Nikolai Ostrovsky\'s Empathy', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2428-revision-v1', '', '', '2017-01-19 08:58:48', '2017-01-19 13:58:48', '', 2428, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2017/01/2428-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(393, 1, '2011-01-22 09:28:00', '2011-01-22 14:28:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA passage from a BLCU textbook in which a university student laments about catching a cold. <!--more--> This essay focuses on mostly illness-centric beginner language, such as 感冒 [pinyin]gan3 mao4[/pinyin], meaning \"to have a cold\"， and 打针 [pinyin]da3 zhen1[/pinyin], meaning \"to get an IV drip or shot\".\r\n\r\nLest it seems a little dramatic to you that the writer would go to the hospital over a 24-hour cold, the Chinese typically don\'t use private clinics (except in the case of accupuncture and massage), and commonly go to the hospital for almost every health-related issue, including colds and small fevers.\r\n\r\nOf special interest is the phrase \"还开了一些药\", or \"and also prescribed me some medicine\". Literally, it says, \"Also opened a bit of medicine\". But the word 开 [pinyin]kai1[/pinyin], which usually means \"open\", is also the verb used to describe a doctor writing a perscription. This tells us that the doctor didn\'t give (给[pinyin]gei3[/pinyin]) the student any medicine himself, but perscribed it instead.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n发烧 - [pinyin]fa1 shao1[/pinyin] - Have a fever\r\n咳嗽 - [pinyin]ke2 sou5[/pinyin] - Cough\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n寂寞 - [pinyin]ji4 mo4[/pinyin] - Lonely\r\n不舒服 - [pinyin]bu4 shu1 fu5[/pinyin] - Feel unwell, uncomfortable\r\n检查 - [pinyin]jian3 cha2[/pinyin] - Check, examine\r\n果然 - [pinyin]guo3 ran2[/pinyin] - Sure enough\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n我病了。　头疼，<strong>发烧</strong>，嗓子也疼，不想吃东西，晚上<strong>咳嗽</strong>的很厉害。　上午同学们都去上课了，我一个人在宿舍里，感到很寂寞。　寂寞了就容易想家。　我家里人很多，有哥哥，姐姐，还有一个弟弟。　在家的时候，我们常一起玩儿。　现在，我在北京学习汉语，寂寞的时候就常常想他们。\r\n\r\n因为不<strong>舒服</strong>，所以我今天起得很晚。　起了床就去医院了。　大夫给我<strong>检查</strong>了一下儿，说我感冒了。　给我打了一针，<strong>还开了一些药</strong>。　他说，吃了药病就好了。\r\n\r\n老师和同学们知道我病了，都来看我。　林老师听说我不想吃东西，还做了一碗面条给我吃。　吃了面条，身上出了很多汗，老师说，出了汗可能不发烧了。\r\n\r\n下午，<strong>果然</strong>不发烧了，喜庆也好了。　我用　Ｅｍａｉｌ　个哦姐姐发了一封信。　我说，我在这儿生活得很好，我有很好的老师，还有很多好同学，好朋友，和他们在一起，我感到很愉快。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI\'m sick. My head hurts, I have a fever, my throat also hurts, I don\'t want to eat anything, and at night I have a serious cough. In the morning my classmates all went to class, and I was the only one left in the dormitory. I feel very lonely. When you\'re lonely, it\'s easy to miss home. I have a lot of family members - an older brother, older sister, and also a younger brother. When I\'m at home, we often play together. Right now, I\'m in Beijing studying Chinese, and when I\'m lonely I miss them.\r\n\r\nBecause I don\'t feel well, I got up late today. When I got up, I went to the hospital. The doctor gave me a quick checkup and said I have a cold. He gave me one shot [also: IV drip], and also prescribed some medicine. He said, take the medicine and you\'ll get better.\r\n\r\nMy teacher and classmates know I\'m sick, so they all came to see me. Teacher Lin heard that I didn\'t want to eat anything, so she made me a bowl of noodles. After I ate the noodles, I began to pour sweat. Teacher said, if you sweat, maybe your fever will go away.\r\n\r\nIn the afternoon, sure enough my fever was gone, and I was in a good mood. I emailed my older sister. I said, I have a very good life here, I have a good teacher and good classmates and good friends, and all together they make me very happy.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'I\'m Feeling Sick', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '139-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-22 09:28:00', '2011-01-22 14:28:00', '', 139, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/22/139-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(394, 1, '2011-01-15 23:46:55', '2011-01-16 04:46:55', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:46:55', '2011-01-16 04:46:55', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/154-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(395, 1, '2011-01-24 07:26:50', '2011-01-24 12:26:50', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:26:50', '2011-01-24 12:26:50', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(396, 1, '2011-01-24 07:27:05', '2011-01-24 12:27:05', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:27:05', '2011-01-24 12:27:05', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(397, 1, '2011-01-24 07:27:50', '2011-01-24 12:27:50', '[two_third]\r\nTwitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:27:50', '2011-01-24 12:27:50', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(402, 1, '2011-01-24 07:28:46', '2011-01-24 12:28:46', '[two_third]\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang3[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:28:46', '2011-01-24 12:28:46', '', 154, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(407, 1, '2011-01-21 06:12:10', '2011-01-21 11:12:10', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay, taken from the Beijing Language and Culture University beginner comprehension textbook, is written from the perspective of a friend visiting Jiang Ping （江苹） before she leaves the country. <!--more--> The language is mostly school-centric as the writer discusses his classmates, Jiang Ping\'s scholarship, and her test results.\r\n\r\nThe crux of the last paragraph hinges on the fact that the Chinese word for \"Goodbye\" (再见) literally translates as \"See you again\", as the writer wonders when or if he\'ll ever really see Jiang Ping again.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n努力 - [pinyin]nu3 li4[/pinyin] - Great effort\r\n参加 - [pinyin]can1 jia1[/pinyin] - Participate\r\n得 - [pinyin]de[/pinyin] - To get, earn\r\n满分 - [pinyin]man3 fen1[/pinyin] - Full marks, 100%\r\n奖学金 - [pinyin]jiang3 xue2 jin1[/pinyin] - Scholarship\r\n留学 - [pinyin]liu2 xue2[/pinyin] - Study abroad\r\n预祝 - [pinyin]yu4 zhu4[/pinyin] - Wish\r\n成功 - [pinyin]cheng2 gong1[/pinyin] - Success\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">今天我去江苹家了。 我和江苹是中学<strong>同学</strong>， 她是我的好朋友， 也是我们全班同学的朋友。 她学习非常<strong>努力</strong>， 是我们班学习最好的学生。 她会学习， 她会玩儿， 还常常帮助别人， 老师和同学都很喜欢她。 她这次<strong>参加</strong>了美国一个大学<strong>考试</strong>。 这个考试非常难，但是她考得很好，<strong>得</strong>了<strong>满分</strong>。 听说全世界只有三个学生得满分。 这个大学给江苹最高的<strong>奖学金</strong>。 我们都为她感到高兴。\r\n\r\n她下星期要去美国<strong>留学</strong>， 我们班的同学都去看他， 给他送行。\r\n\r\n江苹的家在城东边， 离我家比较远。 我下午四点多就从家里出发了， 五点半才到。 我到的时候， 同学们都已经到了。\r\n\r\n江苹很热情地欢迎我们。 同学们好久不见了， 见面以后高兴得又说又笑， 谈得很愉快。 我们<strong>预祝</strong>江苹<strong>成功</strong>。 祝她一路平安。 我说， 一定要常来新啊。 江苹说，一定。 跟他说 “再见”  的时候， 她哭了， 我也哭了。\r\n\r\n回家的路上， 我想， 我们常常说 “再见”， 但是， 有时候 “再见” 是很难的。 我和江苹什么时候能 “再见” 呢？\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nToday I\'m going to Jiang Ping\'s house. Jiang Ping and I are highschool classmates. She\'s my good friend, and she\'s also good friends with everyone in our class. She studies very hard, she\'s the best student in our class. She studies, she plays, and she also often helps others. The teacher and the other students like her. She recently participated in an examination for an American college. That test is very hard, but she did very well - she earned full marks. I heard that only three people in the whole world got full marks. This college gave Jiang Ping their highest scholarship. We\'re all very happy for her.\r\n\r\nNext week she\'s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping\'s house is on the east side of the city very far away from mine. I left my house a little after four o\'clock in the afternoon, and didn\'t get there until 5:30. When I arrived, the rest of our classmates were already there.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping warmly welcomed us. She hadn\'t seen her classmates in a while, and after she greeted us, we talked and smiled, chatting happily. We wished Jiang Ping success. Wished her a pleasant trip. I said, Be sure to write often. Jiang Ping said, Of course. When she said \"Goodbye\", she cried, and I also cried.\r\n\r\nOn my way home, I thought, We often say \"Goodbye\" [lit: see you again], but sometimes \"Goodbye\" is sad. When will Jiang Ping and I be able to see each other again?\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Jiang Ping Going to Study Abroad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '67-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-21 06:12:10', '2011-01-21 11:12:10', '', 67, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/21/67-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(406, 1, '2011-01-28 07:35:52', '2011-01-28 12:35:52', 'http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\r\n\r\n[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-28 07:35:52', '2011-01-28 12:35:52', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/28/403-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(408, 1, '2011-01-28 07:46:46', '2011-01-28 12:46:46', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-28 07:46:46', '2011-01-28 12:46:46', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/28/403-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(409, 1, '2011-01-31 07:35:47', '2011-01-31 12:35:47', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people \r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-31 07:35:47', '2011-01-31 12:35:47', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/31/403-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(411, 1, '2011-02-01 07:22:41', '2011-02-01 12:22:41', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:22:41', '2011-02-01 12:22:41', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(410, 1, '2011-02-01 07:19:00', '2011-02-01 12:19:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27, 362 people,  \r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:19:00', '2011-02-01 12:19:00', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(412, 1, '2011-02-01 07:42:59', '2011-02-01 12:42:59', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAccording to reports, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have SOMETHING, living without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, which causes excessive psychological fatigue, so they relaxed control over themselves. \r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:42:59', '2011-02-01 12:42:59', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(414, 1, '2011-02-01 07:53:23', '2011-02-01 12:53:23', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:53:23', '2011-02-01 12:53:23', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(415, 1, '2011-02-01 07:53:26', '2011-02-01 12:53:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:53:26', '2011-02-01 12:53:26', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(416, 1, '2016-11-05 02:34:07', '2016-11-05 06:34:07', 'Theft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \n\n<h3>Crime news vocab</h3>\n\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\n\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese text</还\n日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\n\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\n\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\n\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n1) Criminal Records of Japan\'s Elderly - 20,000 elderly have already stolen from supermarkets\n\n2) Japanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\n\n3) Allegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \n\n4) Reports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[News in Chinese] Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:34:07', '2016-11-05 06:34:07', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(417, 1, '2011-02-01 07:54:23', '2011-02-01 12:54:23', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:54:23', '2011-02-01 12:54:23', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(420, 1, '2011-01-16 13:37:06', '2011-01-16 18:37:06', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 13:37:06', '2011-01-16 18:37:06', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/287-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(421, 1, '2011-02-01 08:15:48', '2011-02-01 13:15:48', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:15:48', '2011-02-01 13:15:48', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(422, 1, '2011-02-01 08:21:53', '2011-02-01 13:21:53', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"William Qi\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname that I\'m not familiar with, like Williams or Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:21:53', '2011-02-01 13:21:53', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(423, 1, '2011-02-01 08:22:28', '2011-02-01 13:22:28', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"William Qi\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname, like Williams or Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:22:28', '2011-02-01 13:22:28', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(424, 1, '2011-02-01 08:22:41', '2011-02-01 13:22:41', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"William Qi\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname, like Williams or Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was traveling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:22:41', '2011-02-01 13:22:41', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(425, 1, '2011-02-01 07:57:50', '2011-02-01 12:57:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:57:50', '2011-02-01 12:57:50', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(426, 1, '2011-02-01 08:24:14', '2011-02-01 13:24:14', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:24:14', '2011-02-01 13:24:14', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(428, 1, '2011-02-01 08:34:45', '2011-02-01 13:34:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n从前有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:34:45', '2011-02-01 13:34:45', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(427, 1, '2011-02-01 08:34:25', '2011-02-01 13:34:25', '[two_third]\n\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\n\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n\n从前有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\n\n小姑娘不肯。\n\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\n\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\n\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\n\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\n\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \n\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:34:25', '2011-02-01 13:34:25', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(429, 1, '2011-01-16 14:37:33', '2011-01-16 19:37:33', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. <!--more--> It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n昨日，铁道部<strong>召开春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:37:33', '2011-01-16 19:37:33', '', 317, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(430, 1, '2011-02-01 08:25:15', '2011-02-01 13:25:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:25:15', '2011-02-01 13:25:15', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(431, 1, '2011-02-01 09:12:45', '2011-02-01 14:12:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, 从前有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:12:45', '2011-02-01 14:12:45', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(433, 1, '2011-02-01 09:27:01', '2011-02-01 14:27:01', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom, and a fox was the \r\n\r\n接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:27:01', '2011-02-01 14:27:01', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(432, 1, '2011-02-01 09:23:44', '2011-02-01 14:23:44', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\"\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:23:44', '2011-02-01 14:23:44', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(436, 1, '2011-02-01 10:14:40', '2011-02-01 15:14:40', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. CONSEQUENTLY, the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in his hand so that he appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then arranged him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\n小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 10:14:40', '2011-02-01 15:14:40', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(435, 1, '2011-02-01 10:11:29', '2011-02-01 15:11:29', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with an altar beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. CONSEQUENTLY, the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in his hand and positioned him so that he appeared to be stirring the pot, \r\n\r\n于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 10:11:29', '2011-02-01 15:11:29', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(434, 1, '2011-02-01 09:33:37', '2011-02-01 14:33:37', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with an altar beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, quickly serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. \r\n\r\n小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:33:37', '2011-02-01 14:33:37', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(437, 1, '2011-02-01 10:17:02', '2011-02-01 15:17:02', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. CONSEQUENTLY, the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in his hand so that he appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then arranged him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 10:17:02', '2011-02-01 15:17:02', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(438, 1, '2011-02-01 11:30:25', '2011-02-01 16:30:25', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 11:30:25', '2011-02-01 16:30:25', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(439, 1, '2011-02-01 11:30:42', '2011-02-01 16:30:42', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 11:30:42', '2011-02-01 16:30:42', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(476, 1, '2011-03-05 07:00:12', '2011-03-05 12:00:12', 'This fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>1)</strong> 春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n<strong>2)</strong> 小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n<strong>3)</strong> 他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>1)</strong>During the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the defeated [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\n<strong>2)</strong>The thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell with all his might. A loud \"gong\" sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this [enterprise] was spoiled, thinking \"that kind of noise is tantamount to telling people that I\'m here stealing the bell, isn\'t it?\" He was worried, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.  \r\n\r\n<strong>3)</strong>The longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all his strength. \"Yi, the sound has lessened, I can\'t hear it anymore!\" The thief became happy again, \"How wonderful! If I cover my ears well, the sound can\'t be heard!\" covered his ears well, he couldn\'t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears, thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell\'s sound either. So he began smashing the bell, hitting it again and again, the ringing of the bell being heard even in far away places. People heard the bells sounds and came in great numbers, catching the thief.  \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Idioms] 掩耳盗铃 - To bury one\'s head in the sand', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'story-behind-the-idiom-yanerdaoling', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:28:36', '2016-11-05 06:28:36', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=476', 0, 'post', '', 3),
(2218, 1, '2016-11-05 02:28:36', '2016-11-05 06:28:36', 'This fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>1)</strong> 春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n<strong>2)</strong> 小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n<strong>3)</strong> 他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>1)</strong>During the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the defeated [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\n<strong>2)</strong>The thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell with all his might. A loud \"gong\" sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this [enterprise] was spoiled, thinking \"that kind of noise is tantamount to telling people that I\'m here stealing the bell, isn\'t it?\" He was worried, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.  \r\n\r\n<strong>3)</strong>The longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all his strength. \"Yi, the sound has lessened, I can\'t hear it anymore!\" The thief became happy again, \"How wonderful! If I cover my ears well, the sound can\'t be heard!\" covered his ears well, he couldn\'t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears, thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell\'s sound either. So he began smashing the bell, hitting it again and again, the ringing of the bell being heard even in far away places. People heard the bells sounds and came in great numbers, catching the thief.  \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Idioms] 掩耳盗铃 - To bury one\'s head in the sand', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:28:36', '2016-11-05 06:28:36', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/476-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1789, 1, '2016-10-31 05:05:05', '2016-10-31 09:05:05', 'This fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n<strong>1)</strong> 春秋时侯，晋国<strong>贵族</strong><strong>智伯</strong>灭掉了<strong>范氏</strong>。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜<strong>铸成</strong>的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n<strong>2)</strong>小偷找来一把大<strong>大锤</strong>，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想<strong>捂住</strong>钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n<strong>3)</strong>他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>1)</strong>During the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the defeated [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\n<strong>2)</strong>The thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell with all his might. A loud \"gong\" sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this [enterprise] was spoiled, thinking \"that kind of noise is tantamount to telling people that I\'m here stealing the bell, isn\'t it?\" He was worried, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.  \r\n\r\n<strong>3)</strong>The longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all his strength. \"Yi, the sound has lessened, I can\'t hear it anymore!\" The thief became happy again, \"How wonderful! If I cover my ears well, the sound can\'t be heard!\" covered his ears well, he couldn\'t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears, thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell\'s sound either. So he began smashing the bell, hitting it again and again, the ringing of the bell being heard even in far away places. People heard the bells sounds and came in great numbers, catching the thief.  \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', '[Chinese Idiom] 掩耳盗铃 - To bury one\'s head in the sand', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-10-31 05:05:05', '2016-10-31 09:05:05', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/10/476-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(454, 1, '2011-01-15 23:59:56', '2011-01-16 04:59:56', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis very short husband and wife joke is courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\r\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\r\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\r\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\r\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\r\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:59:56', '2011-01-16 04:59:56', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(456, 1, '2011-02-01 11:31:32', '2011-02-01 16:31:32', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 11:31:32', '2011-02-01 16:31:32', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(457, 1, '2011-02-10 07:49:45', '2011-02-10 12:49:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-10 07:49:45', '2011-02-10 12:49:45', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/10/366-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(458, 1, '2011-02-10 07:57:53', '2011-02-10 12:57:53', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\nOne of the interesting grammatical points in this story is the phrase 吃光 [pinyin]chi1guang1[/pinyin]. We know that [pinyin]chi1[/pinyin] means \"to eat\", but [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] typically means \"to be bright\" - so what are those two words doing next to each other? A secondary meaning of the word [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] is \"to finish\", or \"to use up\". It\'s usually placed after a verb to indicate that the verb was done until it couldn\'t be done any more, or until something was gone - in this case \"to eat up\".\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人 - [pinyin]fu4ren2[/pinyin] - Married woman\r\n赶走 - [pinyin]gan3zou3[/pinyin] - Drive off, chase away\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个<strong>妇人</strong>，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子<strong>赶走</strong>。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜<strong>吃光</strong>了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-10 07:57:53', '2011-02-10 12:57:53', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/10/366-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(459, 1, '2011-02-10 07:57:55', '2011-02-10 12:57:55', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\nOne of the interesting grammatical points in this story is the phrase 吃光 [pinyin]chi1guang1[/pinyin]. We know that [pinyin]chi1[/pinyin] means \"to eat\", but [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] typically means \"to be bright\" - so what are those two words doing next to each other? A secondary meaning of the word [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] is \"to finish\", or \"to use up\". It\'s usually placed after a verb to indicate that the verb was done until it couldn\'t be done any more, or until something was gone - in this case \"to eat up\".\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人 - [pinyin]fu4ren2[/pinyin] - Married woman\r\n赶走 - [pinyin]gan3zou3[/pinyin] - Drive off, chase away\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个<strong>妇人</strong>，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子<strong>赶走</strong>。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜<strong>吃光</strong>了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-10 07:57:55', '2011-02-10 12:57:55', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/10/366-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(460, 1, '2011-02-10 08:18:07', '2011-02-10 13:18:07', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\nOne of the interesting grammatical points in this story is the phrase 吃光 [pinyin]chi1 guang1[/pinyin]. We know that [pinyin]chi1[/pinyin] means \"to eat\", but [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] typically means \"to be bright\" - so what are those two words doing next to each other? A secondary meaning of the word [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] is \"to finish\", or \"to use up\". It\'s usually placed after a verb to indicate that the verb was done until it couldn\'t be done any more, or until something was gone - in this case \"to eat up\".\r\n\r\nAnother interesting word here is the word 动手 [pinyin]dong4 shou3[/pinyin], literally \"move hands\". In this case, it means \"get going\", or \"get started working [on something]\", as in the phrase 现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧, or \"Start cooking now\".\r\n\r\nI\'d imagine the most confusing piece of this text is the last sentence of the paragraph that begins \"第三天...\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人 - [pinyin]fu4 ren2[/pinyin] - Married woman\r\n赶走 - [pinyin]gan3 zou3[/pinyin] - Drive off, chase away\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n不肯 - [pinyin]bu4 ken3[/pinyin] - To be unwilling\r\n拒绝 - [pinyin]ju4 jue2[/pinyin] - To refuse\r\n牧师 - [pinyin]mu4 shi1[/pinyin] - Clergyman, pastor\r\n主持 - [pinyin]zhu3 chi2[/pinyin] - To manage, oversee\r\n司仪 - [pinyin]si1 yi2[/pinyin] - Master of ceremonies\r\n祭坛 - [pinyin]ji4 tan2[/pinyin] - Altar\r\n抽泣 - [pinyin]chou1 qi4[/pinyin] - Sob hysterically\r\n不耐烦 - [pinyin]bu4 nai4 fan2[/pinyin] - Impatient\r\n沉默 - [pinyin]chen2 mo4[/pinyin] - Silent, uncommunicative\r\n稻草人 - [pinyin]dao4 cao3 ren2[/pinyin] - Scarecrow\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个<strong>妇人</strong>，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子<strong>赶走</strong>。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜<strong>吃光</strong>了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘<strong>不肯</strong>。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是<strong>拒绝</strong>了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是<strong>牧师</strong>，为新郎新娘<strong>主持</strong>婚礼；狐狸是<strong>司仪</strong>，<strong>祭坛</strong>在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地<strong>抽泣</strong>起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经<strong>不耐烦</strong>。”新娘<strong>沉默</strong>着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个<strong>稻草人</strong>身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-autosave-v1', '', '', '2011-02-10 08:18:07', '2011-02-10 13:18:07', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/10/366-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(461, 1, '2011-02-10 08:18:03', '2011-02-10 13:18:03', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\nOne of the interesting grammatical points in this story is the phrase 吃光 [pinyin]chi1 guang1[/pinyin]. We know that [pinyin]chi1[/pinyin] means \"to eat\", but [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] typically means \"to be bright\" - so what are those two words doing next to each other? A secondary meaning of the word [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] is \"to finish\", or \"to use up\". It\'s usually placed after a verb to indicate that the verb was done until it couldn\'t be done any more, or until something was gone - in this case \"to eat up\".\r\n\r\nAnother interesting word here is the word 动手 [pinyin]dong4 shou3[/pinyin], literally \"move hands\". In this case, it means \"get going\", or \"get started working [on something]\", as in the phrase 现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧, or \"Start cooking now\".\r\n\r\nI\'d imagine the most confusing piece of this text is the last sentence of the paragraph that begins \"第三天...\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人 - [pinyin]fu4 ren2[/pinyin] - Married woman\r\n赶走 - [pinyin]gan3 zou3[/pinyin] - Drive off, chase away\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n不肯 - [pinyin]bu4 ken3[/pinyin] - To be unwilling\r\n拒绝 - [pinyin]ju4 jue2[/pinyin] - To refuse\r\n牧师 - [pinyin]mu4 shi1[/pinyin] - Clergyman, pastor\r\n主持 - [pinyin]zhu3 chi2[/pinyin] - To manage, oversee\r\n司仪 - [pinyin]si1 yi2[/pinyin] - Master of ceremonies\r\n祭坛 - [pinyin]ji4 tan2[/pinyin] - Altar\r\n抽泣 - [pinyin]chou1 qi4[/pinyin] - Sob hysterically\r\n不耐烦 - [pinyin]bu4 nai4 fan2[/pinyin] - Impatient\r\n沉默 - [pinyin]chen2 mo4[/pinyin] - Silent, uncommunicative\r\n稻草人 - [pinyin]dao4 cao3 ren2[/pinyin] - Scarecrow\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个<strong>妇人</strong>，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子<strong>赶走</strong>。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜<strong>吃光</strong>了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘<strong>不肯</strong>。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是<strong>拒绝</strong>了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是<strong>牧师</strong>，为新郎新娘<strong>主持</strong>婚礼；狐狸是<strong>司仪</strong>，<strong>祭坛</strong>在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地<strong>抽泣</strong>起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经<strong>不耐烦</strong>。”新娘<strong>沉默</strong>着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个<strong>稻草人</strong>身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-10 08:18:03', '2011-02-10 13:18:03', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/10/366-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(463, 1, '2011-02-10 08:20:41', '2011-02-10 13:20:41', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\nOne of the interesting grammatical points in this story is the phrase 吃光 [pinyin]chi1 guang1[/pinyin]. We know that [pinyin]chi1[/pinyin] means \"to eat\", but [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] typically means \"to be bright\" - so what are those two words doing next to each other? A secondary meaning of the word [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] is \"to finish\", or \"to use up\". It\'s usually placed after a verb to indicate that the verb was done until it couldn\'t be done any more, or until something was gone - in this case \"to eat up\".\r\n\r\nAnother interesting word here is the word 动手 [pinyin]dong4 shou3[/pinyin], literally \"move hands\". In this case, it means \"get going\", or \"get started working [on something]\", as in the phrase 现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧, or \"Start cooking now\".\r\n\r\nI\'d imagine the most confusing piece of this text is the last sentence of the paragraph that begins \"第三天...\". Within the parentheses, the tone of the story randomly changes. This should be read as the first (and only) interjection by the story\'s narrator, who elaborates on what kind of animals attended the wedding.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人 - [pinyin]fu4 ren2[/pinyin] - Married woman\r\n赶走 - [pinyin]gan3 zou3[/pinyin] - Drive off, chase away\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n不肯 - [pinyin]bu4 ken3[/pinyin] - To be unwilling\r\n拒绝 - [pinyin]ju4 jue2[/pinyin] - To refuse\r\n牧师 - [pinyin]mu4 shi1[/pinyin] - Clergyman, pastor\r\n主持 - [pinyin]zhu3 chi2[/pinyin] - To manage, oversee\r\n司仪 - [pinyin]si1 yi2[/pinyin] - Master of ceremonies\r\n祭坛 - [pinyin]ji4 tan2[/pinyin] - Altar\r\n抽泣 - [pinyin]chou1 qi4[/pinyin] - Sob hysterically\r\n不耐烦 - [pinyin]bu4 nai4 fan2[/pinyin] - Impatient\r\n沉默 - [pinyin]chen2 mo4[/pinyin] - Silent, uncommunicative\r\n稻草人 - [pinyin]dao4 cao3 ren2[/pinyin] - Scarecrow\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个<strong>妇人</strong>，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子<strong>赶走</strong>。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜<strong>吃光</strong>了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘<strong>不肯</strong>。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是<strong>拒绝</strong>了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是<strong>牧师</strong>，为新郎新娘<strong>主持</strong>婚礼；狐狸是<strong>司仪</strong>，<strong>祭坛</strong>在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地<strong>抽泣</strong>起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经<strong>不耐烦</strong>。”新娘<strong>沉默</strong>着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个<strong>稻草人</strong>身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-10 08:20:41', '2011-02-10 13:20:41', '', 366, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/10/366-revision-19/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(464, 1, '2011-02-01 08:23:45', '2011-02-01 13:23:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"William Qi\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname, like Williams or Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi / Williams\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was traveling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:23:45', '2011-02-01 13:23:45', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(466, 1, '2011-02-14 07:28:45', '2011-02-14 12:28:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n前天，我做错了一件事。芸熙带了心爱的集邮簿让同学们欣赏。她的集邮簿收集了来自世界各地的邮票，如：欧洲、中国、马来西亚等等。同学们看了都称不绝口。 我很了羡慕芸熙，因为她有来自世界各地的邮票，而我呢！我的集邮簿里只有来自爸爸收到的信上面的本地邮票。 下课时，我趁全部的同学都下课了，我就从芸熙的书包里人拿了她的集邮簿。过后，我就装着若无其事地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就放声大哭。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\r\n\r\n林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要三思而后行，以免犯下大错！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\nThe day before yesterday, I did a bad thing. YunXi brought her beloved stamp album in to let her classmates see it. Her stamp album contains her collected stamps from places all around the world, such as Europe, China, Malaysia, etc. The other students looked through it, talking continuously. I envied YunXi, because she had stamps from all over the world, and me? My stamp album only has a few stamps from local letters my dad got. When class let out, I took advantage of the situation and took the stamp album from YunXi\'s book bag. After a while, I walked back and lined up in the assembly hall, pretending nothing had happened. When we\'d gotten back to the classroom, YunXi opened her book bag and didn\'t see her stamp album, and she burst into tears.  过后，我就装着若无其事地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就放声大哭。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\r\n\r\n林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要三思而后行，以免犯下大错！\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'I Did Something Wrong', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '441-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 07:28:45', '2011-02-14 12:28:45', '', 441, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/441-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2217, 1, '2016-11-05 02:28:13', '2016-11-05 06:28:13', 'This short essay details a child\'s brush with classroom thievery. In my opinion, one of the most interesting sentences here is \"同学们看了都称不绝口\", meaning \"The students all looked [at it], talking continuously.\" This is easy to translate directly, but a direct translation doesn\'t capture the spirit of the sentence. In context, this sentence is tinged with a little envy - the author sees the other students all looking at YunXi\'s stamp album, going on and on, presumably about how great the album is, and so the author is jealous. \n\n<hr />\n[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\n\n1) 前天，我做错了一件事。芸熙带了心爱的<strong>集邮簿</strong>让同学们欣赏。她的集邮簿收集了来自世界各地的邮票，如：欧洲、中国、<strong>马来西亚</strong>等等。同学们看了都<strong>称不绝口</strong>。 我很了羡慕芸熙，因为她有来自世界各地的邮票，而我呢！我的集邮簿里只有来自爸爸收到的信上面的本地邮票。 下课时，我<strong>趁</strong>全部的同学都下课了，我就从芸熙的书包里人拿了她的集邮簿。过后，我就装着<strong>若无其事</strong>地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就<em>放声大哭</em>。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\n\n2) 林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要<strong>三思而后行</strong>，以免犯下大错！\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n1) The day before yesterday, I did a bad thing. YunXi brought her beloved stamp album in to let her classmates see it. Her stamp album contains her collected stamps from places all around the world, such as Europe, China, Malaysia, etc. The other students looked through it, going on and on about it. I envied YunXi, because she had stamps from all over the world, and me? My stamp album only has a few stamps from local letters my dad got. When class let out, I took advantage of the situation and took the stamp album from YunXi\'s book bag. After a while, I walked back and lined up in the assembly hall, pretending nothing had happened. When we\'d gotten back to the classroom, YunXi opened her book bag and didn\'t see her stamp album, and she burst into tears. Teacher Lin asked her what happened, YunXi told the teacher the reason. \n\n2) Teacher Lin questioned all the students, asking who had taken Lu YunXi\'s stamp album. The teacher inquired for a long time, but no one was willing to admit to it. I felt ashamed, got the stamp album, and admitted my error to YunXi. The teacher saw that I was brave enough to admit my mistake and so didn\'t punish me, just lectured me for a bit, and YunXi accepted my apology. I regretted what I\'d done. I told myself that next time I would carefully consider the results of my actions so as to avoid a big mistake! \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', '[Chinese Essays] 我犯错 - I Did Something Wrong', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '441-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:28:13', '2016-11-05 06:28:13', '', 441, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/441-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(469, 1, '2011-02-14 07:51:45', '2011-02-14 12:51:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay details a child\'s brush with classroom thievery. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIn my opinion, one of the most interesting sentences here is \"同学们看了都称不绝口\", meaning \"The students all looked [at it], talking continuously.\" This is easy to translate directly, but a direct translation doesn\'t capture the spirit of the sentence. In context, this sentence is tinged with a little envy - the author sees the other students all looking at YunXi\'s stamp album, going on and on, presumably about how great the album is, and so the author is jealous. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n马来西亚 - [pinyin]ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4[/pinyin] - Malaysia\r\n称不绝口 - [pinyin]cheng1 bu4 jue2 kou3[/pinyin] - Talk continuously, go on and on about sth.\r\n趁 - [pinyin]chen4[/pinyin] - Take advantage of\r\n若无其事 - [pinyin]ruo4 wu2 qi2 shi4[/pinyin] - Nonchalantly, as if nothing had happened\r\n放声大哭 - [pinyin]fang4 sheng1 da4 ku1[/pinyin] - Burst into sobs, cry loudly\r\n三思而后行 - [pinyin]san1 si4 er2 hou4 xing2[/pinyin] - Think many times before acting\r\n以免 - [pinyin]yi3 mian3[/pinyin] - So as not to\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n前天，我做错了一件事。芸熙带了心爱的<strong>集邮簿</strong>让同学们欣赏。她的集邮簿收集了来自世界各地的邮票，如：欧洲、中国、<strong>马来西亚</strong>等等。同学们看了都<strong>称不绝口</strong>。 我很了羡慕芸熙，因为她有来自世界各地的邮票，而我呢！我的集邮簿里只有来自爸爸收到的信上面的本地邮票。 下课时，我<strong>趁</strong>全部的同学都下课了，我就从芸熙的书包里人拿了她的集邮簿。过后，我就装着<strong>若无其事</strong>地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就<em>放声大哭</em>。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\r\n\r\n林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要<strong>三思而后行</strong>，以免犯下大错！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\nThe day before yesterday, I did a bad thing. YunXi brought her beloved stamp album in to let her classmates see it. Her stamp album contains her collected stamps from places all around the world, such as Europe, China, Malaysia, etc. The other students looked through it, going on and on about it. I envied YunXi, because she had stamps from all over the world, and me? My stamp album only has a few stamps from local letters my dad got. When class let out, I took advantage of the situation and took the stamp album from YunXi\'s book bag. After a while, I walked back and lined up in the assembly hall, pretending nothing had happened. When we\'d gotten back to the classroom, YunXi opened her book bag and didn\'t see her stamp album, and she burst into tears. Teacher Lin asked her what happened, YunXi told the teacher the reason. \r\n\r\nTeacher Lin questioned all the students, asking who had taken Lu YunXi\'s stamp album. The teacher inquired for a long time, but no one was willing to admit to it. I felt ashamed, got the stamp album, and admitted my error to YunXi. The teacher saw that I was brave enough to admit my mistake and so didn\'t punish me, just lectured me for a bit, and YunXi accepted my apology. I regretted what I\'d done. I told myself that next time I would carefully consider the results of my actions so as to avoid a big mistake! \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'I Did Something Wrong', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '441-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 07:51:45', '2011-02-14 12:51:45', '', 441, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/441-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(477, 1, '2011-02-14 12:11:13', '2011-02-14 17:11:13', '[two_third]\n\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], meaning \"to bury one\'s head in th<!--more-->\n\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\n　　小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\n　　他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\n\n</div>\n\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:11:13', '2011-02-14 17:11:13', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(478, 1, '2011-02-14 12:11:50', '2011-02-14 17:11:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n　　他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:11:50', '2011-02-14 17:11:50', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(479, 1, '2011-02-14 12:16:13', '2011-02-14 17:16:13', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n　　他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:16:13', '2011-02-14 17:16:13', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(480, 1, '2011-02-14 12:16:18', '2011-02-14 17:16:18', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n　　他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:16:18', '2011-02-14 17:16:18', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(481, 1, '2011-02-14 12:17:07', '2011-02-14 17:17:07', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:17:07', '2011-02-14 17:17:07', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(482, 1, '2011-02-14 12:17:13', '2011-02-14 17:17:13', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:17:13', '2011-02-14 17:17:13', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(483, 1, '2011-02-14 12:24:50', '2011-02-14 17:24:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nDuring the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the escaped [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was very happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:24:50', '2011-02-14 17:24:50', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(485, 1, '2011-01-17 18:50:17', '2011-01-17 23:50:17', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 18:50:17', '2011-01-17 23:50:17', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(487, 1, '2011-02-15 07:38:10', '2011-02-15 12:38:10', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years 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\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-15 07:38:10', '2011-02-15 12:38:10', '', 341, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/15/341-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(488, 1, '2011-02-14 12:37:01', '2011-02-14 17:37:01', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国贵族智伯灭掉了范氏。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜铸成的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大大锤，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想捂住钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nDuring the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the escaped [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\nThe thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell with all his might. A loud \"gong\" sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this [enterprise] was spoiled, thinking \"that kind of noise is tantamount to telling people that I\'m here stealing the bell, isn\'t it?\" His heart was WORRIED, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.  \r\n\r\nThe longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all his strength. \"Yi, the sound has lessened, I can\'t hear it anymore!\" The thief became happy again, \"How wonderful! If I cover my ears well, the sound can\'t be heard!\" covered his ears well, he couldn\'t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears, thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell\'s sound either.  他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 12:37:01', '2011-02-14 17:37:01', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/476-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(490, 1, '2011-02-15 07:51:53', '2011-02-15 12:51:53', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n贵族 - [pinyin]gui4 zu2[/pinyin] - Nobility, lord\r\n智伯  - [pinyin]zhi4 bo2[/pinyin] - One of the great statesmen of the Spring and Autumn Period.\r\n范氏 - [pinyin]fan4 shi4[/pinyin] - The Fan clan\r\n铸成 - [pinyin]zhu4 cheng2[/pinyin] - To mold in metal\r\n大锤 - [pinyin]da4 chui2[/pinyin] - Sledgehammer\r\n捂住 - [pinyin]wu3 zhu4[/pinyin] - To cover sth. / to bury one\'s face \r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国<strong>贵族</strong><strong>智伯</strong>灭掉了<strong>范氏</strong>。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜<strong>铸成</strong>的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大<strong>大锤</strong>，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想<strong>捂住</strong>钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nDuring the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the defeated [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\nThe thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell with all his might. A loud \"gong\" sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this [enterprise] was spoiled, thinking \"that kind of noise is tantamount to telling people that I\'m here stealing the bell, isn\'t it?\" He was worried, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.  \r\n\r\nThe longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all his strength. \"Yi, the sound has lessened, I can\'t hear it anymore!\" The thief became happy again, \"How wonderful! If I cover my ears well, the sound can\'t be heard!\" covered his ears well, he couldn\'t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears, thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell\'s sound either. So he began smashing the bell, hitting it again and again, the ringing of the bell being heard even in far away places. People heard the bells sounds and came in great numbers, catching the thief.  \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-15 07:51:53', '2011-02-15 12:51:53', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/15/476-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(491, 1, '2016-11-05 02:21:29', '2016-11-05 06:21:29', 'This fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".\n\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\n\n<strong>1)</strong> 春秋时侯，晋国<strong>贵族</strong><strong>智伯</strong>灭掉了<strong>范氏</strong>。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜<strong>铸成</strong>的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\n　　\n<strong>2)</strong>小偷找来一把大<strong>大锤</strong>，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想<strong>捂住</strong>钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\n\n<strong>3)</strong>他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\n\n</div>\n\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n<strong>1)</strong>During the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the defeated [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \n　　\n<strong>2)</strong>The thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell with all his might. A loud \"gong\" sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this [enterprise] was spoiled, thinking \"that kind of noise is tantamount to telling people that I\'m here stealing the bell, isn\'t it?\" He was worried, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.  \n\n<strong>3)</strong>The longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all his strength. \"Yi, the sound has lessened, I can\'t hear it anymore!\" The thief became happy again, \"How wonderful! If I cover my ears well, the sound can\'t be heard!\" covered his ears well, he couldn\'t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears, thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell\'s sound either. So he began smashing the bell, hitting it again and again, the ringing of the bell being heard even in far away places. People heard the bells sounds and came in great numbers, catching the thief.  \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', '[Chinese Idioms] 掩耳盗铃 - To bury one\'s head in the sand', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:21:29', '2016-11-05 06:21:29', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/15/476-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(492, 1, '2011-02-15 07:58:55', '2011-02-15 12:58:55', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n贵族 - [pinyin]gui4 zu2[/pinyin] - Nobility, lord\r\n智伯  - [pinyin]zhi4 bo2[/pinyin] - One of the great statesmen of the Spring and Autumn Period.\r\n范氏 - [pinyin]fan4 shi4[/pinyin] - The Fan clan\r\n铸成 - [pinyin]zhu4 cheng2[/pinyin] - To mold in metal\r\n大锤 - [pinyin]da4 chui2[/pinyin] - Sledgehammer\r\n捂住 - [pinyin]wu3 zhu4[/pinyin] - To cover sth. / to bury one\'s face \r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国<strong>贵族</strong><strong>智伯</strong>灭掉了<strong>范氏</strong>。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜<strong>铸成</strong>的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大<strong>大锤</strong>，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想<strong>捂住</strong>钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nDuring the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the defeated [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\nThe thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell with all his might. A loud \"gong\" sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this [enterprise] was spoiled, thinking \"that kind of noise is tantamount to telling people that I\'m here stealing the bell, isn\'t it?\" He was worried, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.  \r\n\r\nThe longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all his strength. \"Yi, the sound has lessened, I can\'t hear it anymore!\" The thief became happy again, \"How wonderful! If I cover my ears well, the sound can\'t be heard!\" covered his ears well, he couldn\'t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears, thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell\'s sound either. So he began smashing the bell, hitting it again and again, the ringing of the bell being heard even in far away places. People heard the bells sounds and came in great numbers, catching the thief.  \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom YanErDaoLing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-15 07:58:55', '2011-02-15 12:58:55', '', 476, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/15/476-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(493, 1, '2011-02-01 09:15:27', '2011-02-01 14:15:27', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:15:27', '2011-02-01 14:15:27', '', 403, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(494, 1, '2011-03-18 07:00:29', '2011-03-18 11:00:29', 'Mummies! Tombs! Grave Robbers! I love mystery novels, especially the trashy ones. This synopsis\'ll get you up to speed on all that evil grave robbing vocabulary you missed in class. There are three names in this text that are Chinese transliterations of English names, so I\'ve given it my best guess. The first, 弗里德曼, I didn\'t even try to translate, so I stuck with Fulideman (Fleiderman?). For the second, 利普霍恩, I went with Philip Horn. And the third, 吉姆•契, I went with Jim Qi. If anyone\'s got a more standard translation for these names, please leave a comment!\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n1) 历史悠久的印第安古墓吸引着大批专业考古学家，同时也吸引着心狠手辣的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\r\n　　\r\n2) 年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\r\n\r\n3) 盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://book.douban.com/subject/5383581/\">See the original on Douban</a>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) A historically important American Indian tomb has attracted a large number of expert archaeologists, but has also attracted a viscous and merciless grave robber known as \"The Theif of Time\". \r\n　　\r\n2) Young archaeologist Dr. Fulideman has gone missing; two incidents of theft have happened near the police station; a mysterious missionary appears and vanishes; a grave robber dies tragically near the tomb... what is the connection between these events? How will widower Phillip Horn and down-on-his-luck Jim Qi untangle the riddle?  \r\n\r\n3) Those who rob graves and disturb the souls of the dead inevitably will suffer retribution.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Book Synopsis in Chinese] 《时间之贼》The Thief of Time', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-theif-of-time', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:11:47', '2016-11-05 06:11:47', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=494', 0, 'post', '', 3),
(2209, 1, '2016-11-05 02:11:47', '2016-11-05 06:11:47', 'Mummies! Tombs! Grave Robbers! I love mystery novels, especially the trashy ones. This synopsis\'ll get you up to speed on all that evil grave robbing vocabulary you missed in class. There are three names in this text that are Chinese transliterations of English names, so I\'ve given it my best guess. The first, 弗里德曼, I didn\'t even try to translate, so I stuck with Fulideman (Fleiderman?). For the second, 利普霍恩, I went with Philip Horn. And the third, 吉姆•契, I went with Jim Qi. If anyone\'s got a more standard translation for these names, please leave a comment!\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n1) 历史悠久的印第安古墓吸引着大批专业考古学家，同时也吸引着心狠手辣的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\r\n　　\r\n2) 年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\r\n\r\n3) 盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://book.douban.com/subject/5383581/\">See the original on Douban</a>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) A historically important American Indian tomb has attracted a large number of expert archaeologists, but has also attracted a viscous and merciless grave robber known as \"The Theif of Time\". \r\n　　\r\n2) Young archaeologist Dr. Fulideman has gone missing; two incidents of theft have happened near the police station; a mysterious missionary appears and vanishes; a grave robber dies tragically near the tomb... what is the connection between these events? How will widower Phillip Horn and down-on-his-luck Jim Qi untangle the riddle?  \r\n\r\n3) Those who rob graves and disturb the souls of the dead inevitably will suffer retribution.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Book Synopsis in Chinese] 《时间之贼》The Thief of Time', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '494-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:11:47', '2016-11-05 06:11:47', '', 494, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/494-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(504, 1, '2011-02-14 08:11:39', '2011-02-14 13:11:39', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay details a child\'s brush with classroom thievery. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIn my opinion, one of the most interesting sentences here is \"同学们看了都称不绝口\", meaning \"The students all looked [at it], talking continuously.\" This is easy to translate directly, but a direct translation doesn\'t capture the spirit of the sentence. In context, this sentence is tinged with a little envy - the author sees the other students all looking at YunXi\'s stamp album, going on and on, presumably about how great the album is, and so the author is jealous. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n马来西亚 - [pinyin]ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4[/pinyin] - Malaysia\r\n称不绝口 - [pinyin]cheng1 bu4 jue2 kou3[/pinyin] - Talk continuously, go on and on about sth.\r\n趁 - [pinyin]chen4[/pinyin] - Take advantage of\r\n若无其事 - [pinyin]ruo4 wu2 qi2 shi4[/pinyin] - Nonchalantly, as if nothing had happened\r\n放声大哭 - [pinyin]fang4 sheng1 da4 ku1[/pinyin] - Burst into sobs, cry loudly\r\n三思而后行 - [pinyin]san1 si4 er2 hou4 xing2[/pinyin] - Think many times before acting\r\n以免 - [pinyin]yi3 mian3[/pinyin] - So as not to\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n前天，我做错了一件事。芸熙带了心爱的<strong>集邮簿</strong>让同学们欣赏。她的集邮簿收集了来自世界各地的邮票，如：欧洲、中国、<strong>马来西亚</strong>等等。同学们看了都<strong>称不绝口</strong>。 我很了羡慕芸熙，因为她有来自世界各地的邮票，而我呢！我的集邮簿里只有来自爸爸收到的信上面的本地邮票。 下课时，我<strong>趁</strong>全部的同学都下课了，我就从芸熙的书包里人拿了她的集邮簿。过后，我就装着<strong>若无其事</strong>地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就<em>放声大哭</em>。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\r\n\r\n林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要<strong>三思而后行</strong>，以免犯下大错！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\nThe day before yesterday, I did a bad thing. YunXi brought her beloved stamp album in to let her classmates see it. Her stamp album contains her collected stamps from places all around the world, such as Europe, China, Malaysia, etc. The other students looked through it, going on and on about it. I envied YunXi, because she had stamps from all over the world, and me? My stamp album only has a few stamps from local letters my dad got. When class let out, I took advantage of the situation and took the stamp album from YunXi\'s book bag. After a while, I walked back and lined up in the assembly hall, pretending nothing had happened. When we\'d gotten back to the classroom, YunXi opened her book bag and didn\'t see her stamp album, and she burst into tears. Teacher Lin asked her what happened, YunXi told the teacher the reason. \r\n\r\nTeacher Lin questioned all the students, asking who had taken Lu YunXi\'s stamp album. The teacher inquired for a long time, but no one was willing to admit to it. I felt ashamed, got the stamp album, and admitted my error to YunXi. The teacher saw that I was brave enough to admit my mistake and so didn\'t punish me, just lectured me for a bit, and YunXi accepted my apology. I regretted what I\'d done. I told myself that next time I would carefully consider the results of my actions so as to avoid a big mistake! \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'I Did Something Wrong', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '441-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-14 08:11:39', '2011-02-14 13:11:39', '', 441, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/14/441-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(505, 1, '2011-02-20 15:12:31', '2011-02-20 20:12:31', '', 'Intermediate Chinese Reading Materials: Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '20110219-inline-turkey-and-bull', '', '', '2011-02-20 15:12:31', '2011-02-20 20:12:31', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110219-INLINE-turkey-and-bull.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(506, 1, '2011-01-19 15:10:22', '2011-01-19 20:10:22', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的<strong>顶端</strong>，<strong>可惜</strong>现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的<strong>粪便</strong>呢，里面可是富含<strong>营养</strong>哟，呵呵。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡<strong>极目远眺</strong>，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\r\n\r\n这则寓言的寓意: <strong>舔</strong>别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 15:10:22', '2011-01-19 20:10:22', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(507, 1, '2011-02-20 15:13:12', '2011-02-20 20:13:12', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110219-INLINE-turkey-and-bull.jpg\" alt=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Materials: Turkey and the Bull\" title=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Materials: Turkey and the Bull\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. I tried to think of a corresponding allegory in English, but nothing quite as poignant comes to mind. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的<strong>顶端</strong>，<strong>可惜</strong>现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的<strong>粪便</strong>呢，里面可是富含<strong>营养</strong>哟，呵呵。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡<strong>极目远眺</strong>，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\r\n\r\n这则寓言的寓意: <strong>舔</strong>别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-20 15:13:12', '2011-02-20 20:13:12', '', 361, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/20/361-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(509, 1, '2011-01-18 18:24:16', '2011-01-18 23:24:16', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe punchline of the last joke, \"I Won\'t Let You Die\", hinges on the Chinese slang [verb]死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn\'t actually have anything to do with death, but rather means \"very\". For example, 饿死了, literally \"die from hunger\", means \"very hungry\", similar to the English phrase \"I\'m starving to death!\" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, \"happy to death\", or \"very happy\". \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n冰糕 - [pinyin]bing1 gao1[/pinyin] - Popsicle\r\n陪 - [pinyin]pei2[/pinyin] - To accompany, go with\r\n标签 - [pinyin]biao1 qian1[/pinyin] - Label\r\n遗失 - [pinyin]yi2 shi1[/pinyin] - To lose\r\n自黏 - [pinyin]zi4 nian2[/pinyin] - Self-adhesive\r\n多余 - [pinyin]duo1 yi2[/pinyin] - Unnecessarily\r\n孝子 - [pinyin]xiao4 zi3[/pinyin] - Obedient / filial son\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜<strong>陪</strong>妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校<strong>遗失</strong>许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多<strong>自黏</strong>标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle and we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE LABEL</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive labels, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a label, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>I WON\'T LET YOU DIE</strong>\r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, if I\'m ever first in my class, what would you do?\"\r\n\r\nFather: \"Well, I\'d be so happy I\'d die!\" \r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, you don\'t need to worry unnecessarily, I\'m a filial son, I won\'t let you die.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:24:16', '2011-01-18 23:24:16', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(510, 1, '2011-02-20 15:17:55', '2011-02-20 20:17:55', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110217-INLINE-one-liners.jpg\" alt=\"Beginner Chinese Reading Practice: Super Simple One Liners\" title=\"Beginner Chinese Reading Practice: Super Simple One Liners\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The punchline of the last joke, \"I Won\'t Let You Die\", hinges on the Chinese slang [verb]死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn\'t actually have anything to do with death, but rather means \"very\". For example, 饿死了, literally \"die from hunger\", means \"very hungry\", similar to the English phrase \"I\'m starving to death!\" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, \"happy to death\", or \"very happy\". \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n冰糕 - [pinyin]bing1 gao1[/pinyin] - Popsicle\r\n陪 - [pinyin]pei2[/pinyin] - To accompany, go with\r\n标签 - [pinyin]biao1 qian1[/pinyin] - Label\r\n遗失 - [pinyin]yi2 shi1[/pinyin] - To lose\r\n自黏 - [pinyin]zi4 nian2[/pinyin] - Self-adhesive\r\n多余 - [pinyin]duo1 yi2[/pinyin] - Unnecessarily\r\n孝子 - [pinyin]xiao4 zi3[/pinyin] - Obedient / filial son\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜<strong>陪</strong>妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校<strong>遗失</strong>许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多<strong>自黏</strong>标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle and we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE LABEL</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive labels, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a label, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>I WON\'T LET YOU DIE</strong>\r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, if I\'m ever first in my class, what would you do?\"\r\n\r\nFather: \"Well, I\'d be so happy I\'d die!\" \r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, you don\'t need to worry unnecessarily, I\'m a filial son, I won\'t let you die.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-20 15:17:55', '2011-02-20 20:17:55', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/20/354-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(539, 1, '2011-03-16 20:34:03', '2011-03-17 00:34:03', 'A very simple story about three friendly butterflies (蝴蝶) who stick up for each other.\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\r\n1) 花园里有三只蝴蝶，一只是红色的，一只是黄色的，一只是白色的。三个好朋友天天都在一起玩，可好了。一天，他们正玩得，天突然下起了雨。三只蝴蝶的翅膀都被雨打湿了，浑身冻得发抖。\r\n\r\n2) 三只小蝴蝶一起飞到红花那里，对红花说: “红花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\r\n\r\n3) 红花说: “红蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n4) 三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n5) 他们又飞到黄花那里，对黄花说: “黄花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”黄花说: “黄蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n6) 三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n7) 然后，他们又飞到白花那里，对白花说: “白花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\r\n\r\n8) 可是白花也说: “白蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n9) 这三个好朋友还是一齐摇摇头，对白花说: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n10) 这时，太阳公公看见了，赶忙把乌云赶走，叫雨停下。\r\n\r\n11) 天终于晴了，这三个好朋友又一起在花丛中跳舞玩游戏了。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) In the garden there were three butterflies, one red one, one yellow one, and one white one. Every day the three good friends played together, it was great. One day just as they were playing, it suddenly began to rain. The three butterflies\' wings were drenched by the rain, their whole bodies were trembling with cold. \r\n\r\n2) The three butterflies few together to a red flower, and said to it: \"Big Sister Red Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" \r\n\r\n3) The red flower said: \"The red butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\r\n\r\n4) The three good friends shook their heads together: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\n5) They flew off to a yellow flower, and to the yellow flower said, \"Big Sister Yellow Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" The yellow flower said: \"The yellow butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\r\n\r\n6) The three good friends shook their heads and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\n7) Then, they flew away to the white flower, and to the white flower said: \"Big Sister White Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves!\"  \r\n\r\n8) But the white flower said to them: \"The white butterfly can come in, but the rest must leave.\" \r\n\r\n9) The three good friends still shook their heads together and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\n10) At this time, Old Man Sun saw what was happening, and he hurriedly chased the black clouds away and made the rain stop.     \r\n\r\n11) The sky was finally clear, and the three friends again went again to play and dance among the flowers. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Short Stories] 三个好朋友 - Three Good Friends', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'three-good-friends', '', '', '2016-11-04 04:18:27', '2016-11-04 08:18:27', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=539', 0, 'post', '', 7),
(2007, 1, '2016-11-04 04:17:58', '2016-11-04 08:17:58', 'A very simple story about three friendly butterflies (蝴蝶) who stick up for each other.\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\r\n1) 花园里有三只蝴蝶，一只是红色的，一只是黄色的，一只是白色的。三个好朋友天天都在一起玩，可好了。一天，他们正玩得，天突然下起了雨。三只蝴蝶的翅膀都被雨打湿了，浑身冻得发抖。\r\n\r\n2) 三只小蝴蝶一起飞到红花那里，对红花说: “红花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\r\n\r\n3) 红花说: “红蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n4) 三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n5) 他们又飞到黄花那里，对黄花说: “黄花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”黄花说: “黄蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n6) 三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n7) 然后，他们又飞到白花那里，对白花说: “白花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\r\n\r\n8) 可是白花也说: “白蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n9) 这三个好朋友还是一齐摇摇头，对白花说: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n10) 这时，太阳公公看见了，赶忙把乌云赶走，叫雨停下。\r\n\r\n11) 天终于晴了，这三个好朋友又一起在花丛中跳舞玩游戏了。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) In the garden there were three butterflies, one red one, one yellow one, and one white one. Every day the three good friends played together, it was great. One day just as they were playing, it suddenly began to rain. The three butterflies\' wings were drenched by the rain, their whole bodies were trembling with cold. \r\n\r\n2) The three butterflies few together to a red flower, and said to it: \"Big Sister Red Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" \r\n\r\n3) The red flower said: \"The red butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\r\n\r\n4) The three good friends shook their heads together: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\n5) They flew off to a yellow flower, and to the yellow flower said, \"Big Sister Yellow Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" The yellow flower said: \"The yellow butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\r\n\r\n6) The three good friends shook their heads and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\n7) Then, they flew away to the white flower, and to the white flower said: \"Big Sister White Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves!\"  \r\n\r\n8) But the white flower said to them: \"The white butterfly can come in, but the rest must leave.\" \r\n\r\n9) The three good friends still shook their heads together and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\n10) At this time, Old Man Sun saw what was happening, and he hurriedly chased the black clouds away and made the rain stop.     \r\n\r\n11) The sky was finally clear, and the three friends again went again to play and dance among the flowers. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Short Stories] 三个好朋友 - Three Good Friends', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '539-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-04 04:17:58', '2016-11-04 08:17:58', '', 539, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/539-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2006, 1, '2016-11-04 04:17:17', '2016-11-04 08:17:17', 'A very simple story about three friendly butterflies (蝴蝶) who stick up for each other.\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese Text</h3>\r\n1) 花园里有三只<strong>蝴蝶</strong>，一只是红色的，一只是黄色的，一只是白色的。三个好朋友天天都在一起玩，可好了。一天，他们正玩得，天突然下起了雨。三只蝴蝶的<strong>翅膀</strong>都被雨打湿了，浑身冻得发抖。\r\n\r\n2) 三只小蝴蝶一起飞到红花那里，对红花说: “红花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲<strong>躲</strong>雨吧！”\r\n\r\n3) 红花说: “红蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n4) 三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n5) 他们又飞到黄花那里，对黄花说: “黄花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”黄花说: “黄蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n6) 三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n7) 然后，他们又飞到白花那里，对白花说: “白花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\r\n\r\n8) 可是白花也说: “白蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n9) 这三个好朋友还是一齐摇摇头，对白花说: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n10) 这时，太阳公公看见了，赶忙把乌云赶走，叫雨停下。\r\n\r\n11) 天终于晴了，这三个好朋友又一起在花丛中跳舞玩游戏了。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) In the garden there were three butterflies, one red one, one yellow one, and one white one. Every day the three good friends played together, it was great. One day just as they were playing, it suddenly began to rain. The three butterflies\' wings were drenched by the rain, their whole bodies were trembling with cold. \r\n\r\n2) The three butterflies few together to a red flower, and said to it: \"Big Sister Red Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" \r\n\r\n3) The red flower said: \"The red butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\r\n\r\n4) The three good friends shook their heads together: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\n5) They flew off to a yellow flower, and to the yellow flower said, \"Big Sister Yellow Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" The yellow flower said: \"The yellow butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\r\n\r\n6) The three good friends shook their heads and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\n7) Then, they flew away to the white flower, and to the white flower said: \"Big Sister White Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves!\"  \r\n\r\n8) But the white flower said to them: \"The white butterfly can come in, but the rest must leave.\" \r\n\r\n9) The three good friends still shook their heads together and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\n10) At this time, Old Man Sun saw what was happening, and he hurriedly chased the black clouds away and made the rain stop.     \r\n\r\n11) The sky was finally clear, and the three friends again went again to play and dance among the flowers. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Short Stories] 三个好朋友 - Three Good Friends', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '539-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-04 04:17:17', '2016-11-04 08:17:17', '', 539, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/539-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(519, 1, '2011-03-09 07:00:16', '2011-03-09 12:00:16', 'This not-too-dirty-but-not-really-clean joke comes from a great blog on the Sina blog network, the Chinese equivalent of Blogger. The joke is about a woman whose new parrot (鹦鹉 - [pinyin]ying1 wu3[/pinyin]) is a bit of a flirt. The parrot\'s constant come-ons are so embarrassing to the woman that she tries to take action, but her plan doesn\'t quite work out the way she wanted. \r\n\r\nI had a bit of trouble translating the phrase 近朱者赤, literally, \"If you stand next to something red, you\'ll become red yourself.\" This idiom isn\'t in the dictionary, but it means that people are influenced by the things in their environment. \r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n1) 话说某位女士一时兴起，买了一只母<strong>鹦鹉</strong>。没想到带回家里，它说的第一句话就是: “想跟我上床吗？”\r\n\r\n2) 女士一听，心想: 坏了，外人还以为这话是我教的呢，这不把我的淑女形象全给毁了。于是她想尽办法，想交那只鹦鹉说些高雅的东西，可是那只母鹦鹉算是铁了心了，只会说一句话: “想跟我上床吗？”\r\n\r\n3) 怎么办呢？在那位女士失去主张的时候，听说神父那儿也养了一只鹦鹉（公的），而且那只鹦鹉，不但不讲粗话，反而是个虔诚的教徒，每天大部分时间里都在祷告。于是那位女士去找神父求助。神父明白她的来意之后，面色微难的说:“这个，很难办呀，其实那只鹦鹉，也并没有刻意的教它什么，它之所以这么虔诚，也可能是长期在此受熏陶的缘故吧。”\r\n\r\n4) 神父见女士很失落，便说道: “这样吧，你把那只鹦鹉带到我这里来，我把它们放在一起。希望经过一段时间，你那只鹦鹉能够被感化。我只能做这些了，有没有效果，就看神的旨意了……”\r\n\r\n5) 女士一听，也只能这样了，不是有句话叫: <strong>近朱者赤</strong>吗？试试吧。于是她把鹦鹉带到神父那里。神父依照诺言把两只鹦鹉放在了一起。开始母鹦鹉还有些拘谨，看那只公鹦鹉在笼子的一角，默默的祷告，还真不忍心打扰。可是她还是管不住自己，终于朗声说道:“想跟我上床吗？“\r\n\r\n6) 公鹦鹉听到这话，停止了祷告，转身看了看母鹦鹉，忽然泪如雨下: “感谢上帝，我祷告这么多年的愿望终于实现了……”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_7648f7170100qdty.html\">Read the original</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) There once was a woman who bought a female parrot. But little did she know, when she brought the parrot home she found it could only say one sentence: \"Will you sleep with me?\"\r\n\r\n2) As soon as the woman heard this, she thought: \"Oh no! If anyone else hears the parrot speak they\'ll think I taught the parrot to say that, it\'ll destroy my reputation as a virtuous woman.\" By way of a solution, she thought maybe she could teach the parrot to say something dainty instead, but it seemed the parrot had a heart of iron, it would only say one thing, \"Will you sleep with me?\"　\r\n\r\n3) What was she to do? Just when she had about given up, she heard of a priest who also owned a parrot (a male one), and moreover his parrot not only didn\'t say vulgar things, it was actually a devout disciple; it spent most of its time in prayer. So the women went to see the priest. When the priest understood the woman\'s reason for coming, he said a little sadly, \"This is a hard problem to solve. In actual fact, I didn\'t teach my parrot anything, maybe the reason it\'s like that is because it\'s spent a long time in this [church] environment.\"　　\r\n\r\n4) The priest saw the woman\'s disappointment, so he said, \"How about this: bring your parrot here to me, I\'ll put it with my own. We can hope that after a little while, your parrot will be correctively influenced by mine. This is all I can do, whether it will work or not is up to God...\"　\r\n\r\n5) The woman listened [to his suggestions], and [also thought] that this was her only option. After all, isn\'t there a saying: \"Proximity to red will turn you red\"? She figured she might as well try it. So the woman brought her parrot to the priest. The priest honored his promise and put the two birds together. At first, the female parrot was a little cautious, seeing the male bird over in one corner of the cage, silently praying, she didn\'t have the heart to disturb him. But [after a while] she couldn\'t help herself, and finaly said, \"Will you sleep with me?\"\r\n\r\n6) The male parrot heard her say this, stopped praying, turned around and looked at her, and suddenly with tears streaming down its face said, \"Thank you God, the thing I\'ve prayed for all of these long years has finally happened...\" \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Jokes] 两只鹦鹉 - The Two Parrots', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-two-parrots', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:19:22', '2016-11-05 06:19:22', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=519', 0, 'post', '', 2),
(2212, 1, '2016-11-05 02:19:22', '2016-11-05 06:19:22', 'This not-too-dirty-but-not-really-clean joke comes from a great blog on the Sina blog network, the Chinese equivalent of Blogger. The joke is about a woman whose new parrot (鹦鹉 - [pinyin]ying1 wu3[/pinyin]) is a bit of a flirt. The parrot\'s constant come-ons are so embarrassing to the woman that she tries to take action, but her plan doesn\'t quite work out the way she wanted. \r\n\r\nI had a bit of trouble translating the phrase 近朱者赤, literally, \"If you stand next to something red, you\'ll become red yourself.\" This idiom isn\'t in the dictionary, but it means that people are influenced by the things in their environment. \r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n\r\n1) 话说某位女士一时兴起，买了一只母<strong>鹦鹉</strong>。没想到带回家里，它说的第一句话就是: “想跟我上床吗？”\r\n\r\n2) 女士一听，心想: 坏了，外人还以为这话是我教的呢，这不把我的淑女形象全给毁了。于是她想尽办法，想交那只鹦鹉说些高雅的东西，可是那只母鹦鹉算是铁了心了，只会说一句话: “想跟我上床吗？”\r\n\r\n3) 怎么办呢？在那位女士失去主张的时候，听说神父那儿也养了一只鹦鹉（公的），而且那只鹦鹉，不但不讲粗话，反而是个虔诚的教徒，每天大部分时间里都在祷告。于是那位女士去找神父求助。神父明白她的来意之后，面色微难的说:“这个，很难办呀，其实那只鹦鹉，也并没有刻意的教它什么，它之所以这么虔诚，也可能是长期在此受熏陶的缘故吧。”\r\n\r\n4) 神父见女士很失落，便说道: “这样吧，你把那只鹦鹉带到我这里来，我把它们放在一起。希望经过一段时间，你那只鹦鹉能够被感化。我只能做这些了，有没有效果，就看神的旨意了……”\r\n\r\n5) 女士一听，也只能这样了，不是有句话叫: <strong>近朱者赤</strong>吗？试试吧。于是她把鹦鹉带到神父那里。神父依照诺言把两只鹦鹉放在了一起。开始母鹦鹉还有些拘谨，看那只公鹦鹉在笼子的一角，默默的祷告，还真不忍心打扰。可是她还是管不住自己，终于朗声说道:“想跟我上床吗？“\r\n\r\n6) 公鹦鹉听到这话，停止了祷告，转身看了看母鹦鹉，忽然泪如雨下: “感谢上帝，我祷告这么多年的愿望终于实现了……”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_7648f7170100qdty.html\">Read the original</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n1) There once was a woman who bought a female parrot. But little did she know, when she brought the parrot home she found it could only say one sentence: \"Will you sleep with me?\"\r\n\r\n2) As soon as the woman heard this, she thought: \"Oh no! If anyone else hears the parrot speak they\'ll think I taught the parrot to say that, it\'ll destroy my reputation as a virtuous woman.\" By way of a solution, she thought maybe she could teach the parrot to say something dainty instead, but it seemed the parrot had a heart of iron, it would only say one thing, \"Will you sleep with me?\"　\r\n\r\n3) What was she to do? Just when she had about given up, she heard of a priest who also owned a parrot (a male one), and moreover his parrot not only didn\'t say vulgar things, it was actually a devout disciple; it spent most of its time in prayer. So the women went to see the priest. When the priest understood the woman\'s reason for coming, he said a little sadly, \"This is a hard problem to solve. In actual fact, I didn\'t teach my parrot anything, maybe the reason it\'s like that is because it\'s spent a long time in this [church] environment.\"　　\r\n\r\n4) The priest saw the woman\'s disappointment, so he said, \"How about this: bring your parrot here to me, I\'ll put it with my own. We can hope that after a little while, your parrot will be correctively influenced by mine. This is all I can do, whether it will work or not is up to God...\"　\r\n\r\n5) The woman listened [to his suggestions], and [also thought] that this was her only option. After all, isn\'t there a saying: \"Proximity to red will turn you red\"? She figured she might as well try it. So the woman brought her parrot to the priest. The priest honored his promise and put the two birds together. At first, the female parrot was a little cautious, seeing the male bird over in one corner of the cage, silently praying, she didn\'t have the heart to disturb him. But [after a while] she couldn\'t help herself, and finaly said, \"Will you sleep with me?\"\r\n\r\n6) The male parrot heard her say this, stopped praying, turned around and looked at her, and suddenly with tears streaming down its face said, \"Thank you God, the thing I\'ve prayed for all of these long years has finally happened...\" \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', '[Chinese Jokes] 两只鹦鹉 - The Two Parrots', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '519-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:19:22', '2016-11-05 06:19:22', '', 519, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/519-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(520, 1, '2011-02-23 08:59:18', '2011-02-23 13:59:18', '[two_third]\n\nThis joke <!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n祈祷 - [pinyin]qi2 dao3[/pinyin] - To pray\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n 一个坐在树下的孩子他静静的<strong>祈祷</strong>着没有人知道，只有一棵大树了解他。这是一棵几十岁的老树，但它依然那样的挺拔高大。村子里的人都知道它以前是一个树皮慢慢脱落将要老死的一棵树。但是被它主人用一句简短的话语而活下来了，别人都问这个小姑娘你是如何让它好起来的，女孩甜甜的一笑说：“这是秘密。”人们都疑惑不解。几年后，女孩为了弟弟的学费。而去了一个遥远的地方。老远的地方。老树又静静的地下了头。又过了几个春秋，老树已经快死了，在他的旁边又有一棵新树。而新树总是瞧不起老树总是说：“糟老头，你看看你又老又脏切~~~~你看看我年轻呀!。”老树看了看小树叹了一口气。小树说：“糟老头看什么看。”老树不再说什么了。老树总是默默地在夜里哭泣。\n    又过了一年女孩回来了。女孩看到老树如此憔悴，心里也很难受。他又和老树说了几句话。老树居然又像以前那样的挺拔高大了。来往的村民都赞叹不已。一个星期后，女孩又要走了。女孩的妈妈哭着说：“闺女，我和你爹对不住你。”女孩也哭着说：“你们别这么说。能把弟弟叫来吗？”“当然可以”姐姐对弟弟说：“这棵老树姐姐送你了，你见到他就像见到我一样一定要好好学习，对得起我，对得起爹和娘。一定要好好保管。姐可能一去又要3~5年了。照顾好爹娘，才算对得起我。”弟弟说：“姐我知道了我一定会用功的，我也会照顾好老树的。”女孩摸了摸老树转头就走了。日子一天天过去了男孩慢慢长大他白天在大树下学习玩耍，晚上，他靠着大树坐着静静的祈祷。又过了几个月男孩跑到山头大声地说了一句他很想说的话：“姐姐，你回来吧!”几年后，突然传来噩耗，说女孩为了救一个小女孩而死了。这是几年前的事了，这几年的钱都是那个小孩的妈妈寄来的。因为这是女孩临终前的最后一个要求。\n    人人都说好人死后可以上天堂我想那个女孩一定在天堂里看着弟弟呢吧！\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tom61.com/youxiuzuowen/xiaoxueliunianjizuowen/2011-01-05/1294159632180144.html\">Read the original</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'The Two Parrots', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '519-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-23 08:59:18', '2011-02-23 13:59:18', '', 519, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/23/519-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(521, 1, '2011-02-23 09:00:09', '2011-02-23 14:00:09', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis joke <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n祈祷 - [pinyin]qi2 dao3[/pinyin] - To pray\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n 一个坐在树下的孩子他静静的<strong>祈祷</strong>着没有人知道，只有一棵大树了解他。这是一棵几十岁的老树，但它依然那样的挺拔高大。村子里的人都知道它以前是一个树皮慢慢脱落将要老死的一棵树。但是被它主人用一句简短的话语而活下来了，别人都问这个小姑娘你是如何让它好起来的，女孩甜甜的一笑说：“这是秘密。”人们都疑惑不解。几年后，女孩为了弟弟的学费。而去了一个遥远的地方。老远的地方。老树又静静的地下了头。又过了几个春秋，老树已经快死了，在他的旁边又有一棵新树。而新树总是瞧不起老树总是说：“糟老头，你看看你又老又脏切~~~~你看看我年轻呀!。”老树看了看小树叹了一口气。小树说：“糟老头看什么看。”老树不再说什么了。老树总是默默地在夜里哭泣。\r\n    又过了一年女孩回来了。女孩看到老树如此憔悴，心里也很难受。他又和老树说了几句话。老树居然又像以前那样的挺拔高大了。来往的村民都赞叹不已。一个星期后，女孩又要走了。女孩的妈妈哭着说：“闺女，我和你爹对不住你。”女孩也哭着说：“你们别这么说。能把弟弟叫来吗？”“当然可以”姐姐对弟弟说：“这棵老树姐姐送你了，你见到他就像见到我一样一定要好好学习，对得起我，对得起爹和娘。一定要好好保管。姐可能一去又要3~5年了。照顾好爹娘，才算对得起我。”弟弟说：“姐我知道了我一定会用功的，我也会照顾好老树的。”女孩摸了摸老树转头就走了。日子一天天过去了男孩慢慢长大他白天在大树下学习玩耍，晚上，他靠着大树坐着静静的祈祷。又过了几个月男孩跑到山头大声地说了一句他很想说的话：“姐姐，你回来吧!”几年后，突然传来噩耗，说女孩为了救一个小女孩而死了。这是几年前的事了，这几年的钱都是那个小孩的妈妈寄来的。因为这是女孩临终前的最后一个要求。\r\n    人人都说好人死后可以上天堂我想那个女孩一定在天堂里看着弟弟呢吧！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.tom61.com/youxiuzuowen/xiaoxueliunianjizuowen/2011-01-05/1294159632180144.html\">Read the original</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Two Parrots', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '519-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-23 09:00:09', '2011-02-23 14:00:09', '', 519, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/23/519-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(522, 1, '2011-02-23 09:15:10', '2011-02-23 14:15:10', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis joke not-too-dirty-but-not-really-clean joke comes from a <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n祈祷 - [pinyin]qi2 dao3[/pinyin] - To pray\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    话说某位女士一时兴起，买了一只母鹦鹉。没想到带回家里，它说的第一句话就是: “想跟我上床吗？”\r\n\r\n　　女士一听，心想: 坏了，外人还以为这话是我教的呢，这不把我的淑女形象全给毁了。于是她想尽办法，想交那只鹦鹉说些高雅的东西，可是那只母鹦鹉算是铁了心了，只会说一句话: “想跟我上床吗？”\r\n\r\n　　…… 怎么办呢？在那位女士失去主张的时候，听说神父那儿也养了一只鹦鹉（公的），而且那只鹦鹉，不但不讲粗话，反而是个虔诚的教徒，每天大部分时间里都在祷告。于是那位女士去找神父求助。神父明白她的来意之后，面色微难的说:“这个，很难办呀，其实那只鹦鹉，也并没有刻意的教它什么，它之所以这么虔诚，也可能是长期在此受熏陶的缘故吧。”\r\n\r\n　　神父见女士很失落，便说道: “这样吧，你把那只鹦鹉带到我这里来，我把它们放在一起。希望经过一段时间，你那只鹦鹉能够被感化。我只能做这些了，有没有效果，就看神的旨意了……”\r\n\r\n　　女士一听，也只能这样了，不是有句话叫: 近朱者赤吗？试试吧。于是她把鹦鹉带到神父那里。神父依照诺言把两只鹦鹉放在了一起。开始母鹦鹉还有些拘谨，看那只公鹦鹉在笼子的一角，默默的祷告，还真不忍心打扰。可是她还是管不住自己，终于朗声说道:“想跟我上床吗？“\r\n\r\n　　公鹦鹉听到这话，停止了祷告，转身看了看母鹦鹉，忽然泪如雨下: “感谢上帝，我祷告这么多年的愿望终于实现了……”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_7648f7170100qdty.html\">Read the original</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nThere once was a woman who bought a female parrot. But little did she know, when she brought the parrot home she found it could only say one sentence: \"Will you sleep with me?\"\r\n\r\nAs soon as the woman heard this, she thought: \"Oh no! If anyone else hears the parrot speak they\'ll think I taught the parrot to say that, it\'ll destroy my reputation as a virtuous woman.\" By way of a solution, she thought maybe she could teach the parrot to say something dainty instead, but it seemed the parrot had a heart of iron, it would only say one thing, \"Will you sleep with me?\"　\r\n\r\nWhat was she to do? Just when she had about given up, she heard of a priest who also owned a parrot (a male one), and moreover his parrot not only didn\'t say vulgar things, it was actually a devout disciple; it spent most of its time in prayer. So the women went to see the priest. When the priest understood the woman\'s reason for coming, he said a little sadly, \"This is a hard problem to solve. In actual fact, I didn\'t teach the bird anything, maybe the reason it\'s like that is because it\'s spent a long time in this [church] environment.\"　　\r\n\r\n　　神父见女士很失落，便说道: “这样吧，你把那只鹦鹉带到我这里来，我把它们放在一起。希望经过一段时间，你那只鹦鹉能够被感化。我只能做这些了，有没有效果，就看神的旨意了……”\r\n\r\n　　女士一听，也只能这样了，不是有句话叫: 近朱者赤吗？试试吧。于是她把鹦鹉带到神父那里。神父依照诺言把两只鹦鹉放在了一起。开始母鹦鹉还有些拘谨，看那只公鹦鹉在笼子的一角，默默的祷告，还真不忍心打扰。可是她还是管不住自己，终于朗声说道:“想跟我上床吗？“\r\n\r\n　　公鹦鹉听到这话，停止了祷告，转身看了看母鹦鹉，忽然泪如雨下: “感谢上帝，我祷告这么多年的愿望终于实现了……”\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Two Parrots', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '519-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-23 09:15:10', '2011-02-23 14:15:10', '', 519, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/23/519-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(523, 1, '2011-02-20 15:18:26', '2011-02-20 20:18:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for young kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110217-INLINE-one-liners.jpg\" alt=\"Beginner Chinese Reading Practice: Super Simple One Liners\" title=\"Beginner Chinese Reading Practice: Super Simple One Liners\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The punchline of the last joke, \"I Won\'t Let You Die\", hinges on the Chinese slang [verb]死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn\'t actually have anything to do with death, but rather means \"very\". For example, 饿死了, literally \"die from hunger\", means \"very hungry\", similar to the English phrase \"I\'m starving to death!\" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, \"happy to death\", or \"very happy\". \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n冰糕 - [pinyin]bing1 gao1[/pinyin] - Popsicle\r\n陪 - [pinyin]pei2[/pinyin] - To accompany, go with\r\n标签 - [pinyin]biao1 qian1[/pinyin] - Label\r\n遗失 - [pinyin]yi2 shi1[/pinyin] - To lose\r\n自黏 - [pinyin]zi4 nian2[/pinyin] - Self-adhesive\r\n多余 - [pinyin]duo1 yi2[/pinyin] - Unnecessarily\r\n孝子 - [pinyin]xiao4 zi3[/pinyin] - Obedient / filial son\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜<strong>陪</strong>妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校<strong>遗失</strong>许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多<strong>自黏</strong>标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle and we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE LABEL</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive labels, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a label, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>I WON\'T LET YOU DIE</strong>\r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, if I\'m ever first in my class, what would you do?\"\r\n\r\nFather: \"Well, I\'d be so happy I\'d die!\" \r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, you don\'t need to worry unnecessarily, I\'m a filial son, I won\'t let you die.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-20 15:18:26', '2011-02-20 20:18:26', '', 354, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/20/354-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(524, 1, '2011-02-11 10:01:26', '2011-02-11 15:01:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"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[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi / Williams\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. 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\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-11 10:01:26', '2011-02-11 15:01:26', '', 287, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/11/287-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(525, 1, '2011-02-06 09:00:07', '2011-02-06 14:00:07', '[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，也就是说，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-06 09:00:07', '2011-02-06 14:00:07', '', 270, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/06/270-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(528, 1, '2011-02-23 09:35:22', '2011-02-23 14:35:22', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis not-too-dirty-but-not-really-clean joke comes from a great blog on the Sina blog network, the Chinese equivalent of Blogger. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe joke is about a woman whose new parrot can\'t seem to stop saying one particular come hither phrase. The phrase so embarasses the woman that she tries to take action, but her plan doesn\'t quite work out the way she wanted. \r\n\r\nI had a bit of trouble translating the phrase 近朱者赤, which appears to mean \"If you stand next to something red, you\'ll become red yourself.\" This idiom isn\'t in the dictionary, but I believe it means that people are influenced by the things in their environment. \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鹦鹉 - [pinyin]ying1 wu3[/pinyin] - Parrot\r\n上床 - [pinyin]shang4 chuang2[/pinyin] - [colloquial] To sleep with sb., have sex \r\n淑女 - [pinyin]shu1 nv3[/pinyin] - A wise and virtuous woman\r\n高雅 - [pinyin]gao1 ya1[/pinyin] - Dainty, refined\r\n神父 - [pinyin]shen2 fu4[/pinyin] - Preist \r\n粗话 - [pinyin]cu1 hua4[/pinyin] - Vulgar words\r\n祷告 - [pinyin]dao3 gao4[/pinyin] - To pray\r\n感化 - [pinyin]gan3 hua4[/pinyin] - A corrective influence\r\n实现 - [pinyin]shi2 xian4[/pinyin] - To be realized (as wishes / dreams)\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n话说某位女士一时兴起，买了一只母<strong>鹦鹉</strong>。没想到带回家里，它说的第一句话就是: “想跟我<strong>上床</strong>吗？”\r\n\r\n女士一听，心想: 坏了，外人还以为这话是我教的呢，这不把我的<strong>淑女</strong>形象全给毁了。于是她想尽办法，想交那只鹦鹉说些<strong>高雅</strong>的东西，可是那只母鹦鹉算是铁了心了，只会说一句话: “想跟我上床吗？”\r\n\r\n　　…… 怎么办呢？在那位女士失去主张的时候，听说<strong>神父</strong>那儿也养了一只鹦鹉（公的），而且那只鹦鹉，不但不讲<strong>粗话</strong>，反而是个虔诚的教徒，每天大部分时间里都在<strong>祷告</strong>。于是那位女士去找神父求助。神父明白她的来意之后，面色微难的说:“这个，很难办呀，其实那只鹦鹉，也并没有刻意的教它什么，它之所以这么虔诚，也可能是长期在此受熏陶的缘故吧。”\r\n\r\n神父见女士很失落，便说道: “这样吧，你把那只鹦鹉带到我这里来，我把它们放在一起。希望经过一段时间，你那只鹦鹉能够被<strong>感化</strong>。我只能做这些了，有没有效果，就看神的旨意了……”\r\n\r\n女士一听，也只能这样了，不是有句话叫: <strong>近朱者赤</strong>吗？试试吧。于是她把鹦鹉带到神父那里。神父依照诺言把两只鹦鹉放在了一起。开始母鹦鹉还有些拘谨，看那只公鹦鹉在笼子的一角，默默的祷告，还真不忍心打扰。可是她还是管不住自己，终于朗声说道:“想跟我上床吗？“\r\n\r\n公鹦鹉听到这话，停止了祷告，转身看了看母鹦鹉，忽然泪如雨下: “感谢上帝，我祷告这么多年的愿望终于<strong>实现</strong>了……”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_7648f7170100qdty.html\">Read the original</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nThere once was a woman who bought a female parrot. But little did she know, when she brought the parrot home she found it could only say one sentence: \"Will you sleep with me?\"\r\n\r\nAs soon as the woman heard this, she thought: \"Oh no! If anyone else hears the parrot speak they\'ll think I taught the parrot to say that, it\'ll destroy my reputation as a virtuous woman.\" By way of a solution, she thought maybe she could teach the parrot to say something dainty instead, but it seemed the parrot had a heart of iron, it would only say one thing, \"Will you sleep with me?\"　\r\n\r\nWhat was she to do? Just when she had about given up, she heard of a priest who also owned a parrot (a male one), and moreover his parrot not only didn\'t say vulgar things, it was actually a devout disciple; it spent most of its time in prayer. So the women went to see the priest. When the priest understood the woman\'s reason for coming, he said a little sadly, \"This is a hard problem to solve. In actual fact, I didn\'t teach my parrot anything, maybe the reason it\'s like that is because it\'s spent a long time in this [church] environment.\"　　\r\n\r\nThe priest saw the woman\'s disappointment, so he said, \"How about this: bring your parrot here to me, I\'ll put it with my own. We can hope that after a little while, your parrot will be correctively influenced by mine. This is all I can do, whether it will work or not is up to God...\"　\r\n\r\nThe woman listened [to his suggestions], and [also thought] that this was her only option, after all, isn\'t there a saying: \"Proximity to red will turn you red\"? She figured she might as well try it. So the woman brought her parrot to the priest. The priest honored his promise and put the two birds together. At first, the female parrot was a little cautious, seeing the male bird over in one corner of the cage, silently praying, she didn\'t have the heart to disturb him. But [after a while] she couldn\'t help herself, and finaly said, \"Will you sleep with me?\"\r\n\r\nThe male parrot heard her say this, stopped praying, turned around and looked at her, and suddenly with tears streaming down its face said, \"Thank you God, the thing I\'ve prayed for all of these long years has finally happened...\" \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Two Parrots', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '519-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-23 09:35:22', '2011-02-23 14:35:22', '', 519, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/23/519-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(2210, 1, '2016-11-05 02:18:21', '2016-11-05 06:18:21', 'This not-too-dirty-but-not-really-clean joke comes from a great blog on the Sina blog network, the Chinese equivalent of Blogger. The joke is about a woman whose new parrot (鹦鹉 - [pinyin]ying1 wu3[/pinyin]) is a bit of a flirt. The parrot\'s constant come-ons are so embarrassing to the woman that she tries to take action, but her plan doesn\'t quite work out the way she wanted. \n\nI had a bit of trouble translating the phrase 近朱者赤, literally, \"If you stand next to something red, you\'ll become red yourself.\" This idiom isn\'t in the dictionary, but it means that people are influenced by the things in their environment. \n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\n\n1) 话说某位女士一时兴起，买了一只母<strong>鹦鹉</strong>。没想到带回家里，它说的第一句话就是: “想跟我上床吗？”\n\n2) 女士一听，心想: 坏了，外人还以为这话是我教的呢，这不把我的淑女形象全给毁了。于是她想尽办法，想交那只鹦鹉说些高雅的东西，可是那只母鹦鹉算是铁了心了，只会说一句话: “想跟我上床吗？”\n\n3) 怎么办呢？在那位女士失去主张的时候，听说神父那儿也养了一只鹦鹉（公的），而且那只鹦鹉，不但不讲粗话，反而是个虔诚的教徒，每天大部分时间里都在祷告。于是那位女士去找神父求助。神父明白她的来意之后，面色微难的说:“这个，很难办呀，其实那只鹦鹉，也并没有刻意的教它什么，它之所以这么虔诚，也可能是长期在此受熏陶的缘故吧。”\n\n4) 神父见女士很失落，便说道: “这样吧，你把那只鹦鹉带到我这里来，我把它们放在一起。希望经过一段时间，你那只鹦鹉能够被感化。我只能做这些了，有没有效果，就看神的旨意了……”\n\n5) 女士一听，也只能这样了，不是有句话叫: <strong>近朱者赤</strong>吗？试试吧。于是她把鹦鹉带到神父那里。神父依照诺言把两只鹦鹉放在了一起。开始母鹦鹉还有些拘谨，看那只公鹦鹉在笼子的一角，默默的祷告，还真不忍心打扰。可是她还是管不住自己，终于朗声说道:“想跟我上床吗？“\n\n6) 公鹦鹉听到这话，停止了祷告，转身看了看母鹦鹉，忽然泪如雨下: “感谢上帝，我祷告这么多年的愿望终于实现了……”\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_7648f7170100qdty.html\">Read the original</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n1) There once was a woman who bought a female parrot. But little did she know, when she brought the parrot home she found it could only say one sentence: \"Will you sleep with me?\"\n\n2) As soon as the woman heard this, she thought: \"Oh no! If anyone else hears the parrot speak they\'ll think I taught the parrot to say that, it\'ll destroy my reputation as a virtuous woman.\" By way of a solution, she thought maybe she could teach the parrot to say something dainty instead, but it seemed the parrot had a heart of iron, it would only say one thing, \"Will you sleep with me?\"　\n\n3) What was she to do? Just when she had about given up, she heard of a priest who also owned a parrot (a male one), and moreover his parrot not only didn\'t say vulgar things, it was actually a devout disciple; it spent most of its time in prayer. So the women went to see the priest. When the priest understood the woman\'s reason for coming, he said a little sadly, \"This is a hard problem to solve. In actual fact, I didn\'t teach my parrot anything, maybe the reason it\'s like that is because it\'s spent a long time in this [church] environment.\"　　\n\n4) The priest saw the woman\'s disappointment, so he said, \"How about this: bring your parrot here to me, I\'ll put it with my own. We can hope that after a little while, your parrot will be correctively influenced by mine. This is all I can do, whether it will work or not is up to God...\"　\n\n5) The woman listened [to his suggestions], and [also thought] that this was her only option. After all, isn\'t there a saying: \"Proximity to red will turn you red\"? She figured she might as well try it. So the woman brought her parrot to the priest. The priest honored his promise and put the two birds together. At first, the female parrot was a little cautious, seeing the male bird over in one corner of the cage, silently praying, she didn\'t have the heart to disturb him. But [after a while] she couldn\'t help herself, and finaly said, \"Will you sleep with me?\"\n\n6) The male parrot heard her say this, stopped praying, turned around and looked at her, and suddenly with tears streaming down its face said, \"Thank you God, the thing I\'ve prayed for all of these long years has finally happened...\" \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', '[Chinese Jokes] 两只鹦鹉 - The Two Parrots', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '519-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:18:21', '2016-11-05 06:18:21', '', 519, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/519-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(540, 1, '2011-03-16 20:25:11', '2011-03-17 00:25:11', '[two_third]\n\nA very simple story about three friendly butterflies who stick up for each other.<!--more-->\n\n<img src=\"http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20110309-INLINE-two-parrots.jpg\" alt=\"Simplified Chinese Reading Study Intermediate: The Two Parrots\" title=\"Simplified Chinese Reading Study Intermediate: The Two Parrots\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n鹦鹉 - [pinyin]ying1 wu3[/pinyin] - Parrot\n上床 - [pinyin]shang4 chuang2[/pinyin] - [colloquial] To sleep with sb., have sex \n淑女 - [pinyin]shu1 nv3[/pinyin] - A wise and virtuous woman\n高雅 - [pinyin]gao1 ya1[/pinyin] - Dainty, refined\n神父 - [pinyin]shen2 fu4[/pinyin] - Preist \n粗话 - [pinyin]cu1 hua4[/pinyin] - Vulgar words\n祷告 - [pinyin]dao3 gao4[/pinyin] - To pray\n感化 - [pinyin]gan3 hua4[/pinyin] - A corrective influence\n实现 - [pinyin]shi2 xian4[/pinyin] - To be realized (as wishes / dreams)\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n    花园里有三只蝴蝶，一只是红色的，一只是黄色的，一只是白色的。三个好朋友天天都在一起玩，可好了。一天，他们正玩得，天突然下起了雨。三只蝴蝶的翅膀都被雨打湿了，浑身冻得发抖。\n\n    三只小蝴蝶一起飞到红花那里，对红花说: “红花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\n\n   红花说: “红蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\n\n   三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\n\n   他们又飞到黄花那里，对黄花说: “黄花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”黄花说: “黄蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\n\n     三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\n\n   然后，他们又飞到白花那里，对白花说: “白花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\n\n   可是白花也说: “白蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\n\n     这三个好朋友还是一齐摇摇头，对白花说: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\n\n     这时，太阳公公看见了，赶忙把乌云赶走，叫雨停下。\n\n     天终于晴了，这三个好朋友又一起在花丛中跳舞玩游戏了。\n</div>\n\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nIn the garden there were three butterflies, one red one, one yellow one, and one white one. Every day the three good friends played together, it was great. One day just as they were playing, it suddenly began to rain. The three butterflies\' wings were drenched by the rain, their whole bodies were trembling with cold. \n\nThe three butterflies few together to a red flower, and said to it: \"Big Sister Red Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" \n\nThe red flower said: \"The red butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\n\nThe three good friends shook their heads together: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\n\nThey flew off to a yellow flower, and to the yellow flower said, \"Big Sister Yellow Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" The yellow flower said: \"他们又飞到黄花那里，对黄花说: “黄花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”黄花说: “黄蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\n\n     三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\n\n   然后，他们又飞到白花那里，对白花说: “白花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\n\n   可是白花也说: “白蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\n\n     这三个好朋友还是一齐摇摇头，对白花说: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\n\n     这时，太阳公公看见了，赶忙把乌云赶走，叫雨停下。\n\n     天终于晴了，这三个好朋友又一起在花丛中跳舞玩游戏了。\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'Three Good Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '539-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-16 20:25:11', '2011-03-17 00:25:11', '', 539, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/16/539-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(541, 1, '2011-03-16 20:29:48', '2011-03-17 00:29:48', '[two_third]\n\nA very simple story about three friendly butterflies who stick up for each other.<!--more-->\n\n<img src=\"http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20110309-INLINE-two-parrots.jpg\" alt=\"Simplified Chinese Reading Study Intermediate: The Two Parrots\" title=\"Simplified Chinese Reading Study Intermediate: The Two Parrots\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n鹦鹉 - [pinyin]ying1 wu3[/pinyin] - Parrot\n上床 - [pinyin]shang4 chuang2[/pinyin] - [colloquial] To sleep with sb., have sex \n淑女 - [pinyin]shu1 nv3[/pinyin] - A wise and virtuous woman\n高雅 - [pinyin]gao1 ya1[/pinyin] - Dainty, refined\n神父 - [pinyin]shen2 fu4[/pinyin] - Preist \n粗话 - [pinyin]cu1 hua4[/pinyin] - Vulgar words\n祷告 - [pinyin]dao3 gao4[/pinyin] - To pray\n感化 - [pinyin]gan3 hua4[/pinyin] - A corrective influence\n实现 - [pinyin]shi2 xian4[/pinyin] - To be realized (as wishes / dreams)\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n    花园里有三只蝴蝶，一只是红色的，一只是黄色的，一只是白色的。三个好朋友天天都在一起玩，可好了。一天，他们正玩得，天突然下起了雨。三只蝴蝶的翅膀都被雨打湿了，浑身冻得发抖。\n\n    三只小蝴蝶一起飞到红花那里，对红花说: “红花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\n\n   红花说: “红蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\n\n   三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\n\n   他们又飞到黄花那里，对黄花说: “黄花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”黄花说: “黄蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\n\n     三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\n\n   然后，他们又飞到白花那里，对白花说: “白花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\n\n   可是白花也说: “白蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\n\n     这三个好朋友还是一齐摇摇头，对白花说: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\n\n     这时，太阳公公看见了，赶忙把乌云赶走，叫雨停下。\n\n     天终于晴了，这三个好朋友又一起在花丛中跳舞玩游戏了。\n</div>\n\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nIn the garden there were three butterflies, one red one, one yellow one, and one white one. Every day the three good friends played together, it was great. One day just as they were playing, it suddenly began to rain. The three butterflies\' wings were drenched by the rain, their whole bodies were trembling with cold. \n\nThe three butterflies few together to a red flower, and said to it: \"Big Sister Red Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" \n\nThe red flower said: \"The red butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\n\nThe three good friends shook their heads together: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\n\nThey flew off to a yellow flower, and to the yellow flower said, \"Big Sister Yellow Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" The yellow flower said: \"The yellow butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\n\nThe three good friends shook their heads and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\n\nThen, they flew away to the white flower, and to the white flower said: \"Big Sister White Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves!\"  \n\nBut the white flower said to them: \"The white butterfly can come in, but the rest must leave.\" \n\nThe three good friends still shook their heads together and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together and we\'ll leave together.\"\n\nAt this time, Old Man Sun saw what was happening, and he hurriedly chased the black clouds away and made the rain stop.     \n\nThe sky was finally clear, and the three friends     天终于晴了，这三个好朋友又一起在花丛中跳舞玩游戏了。\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'Three Good Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '539-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-16 20:29:48', '2011-03-17 00:29:48', '', 539, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/16/539-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(542, 1, '2011-03-16 20:33:30', '2011-03-17 00:33:30', '[two_third]\n\nA very simple story about three friendly butterflies who stick up for each other.<!--more-->\n\n<img src=\"http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20110309-INLINE-two-parrots.jpg\" alt=\"Simplified Chinese Reading Study Intermediate: The Two Parrots\" title=\"Simplified Chinese Reading Study Intermediate: The Two Parrots\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n蝴蝶 - [pinyin]hu2 die2[/pinyin] - Butterfly\n翅膀 - [pinyin]chi4 bang3[/pinyin] - [colloquial] Wings\n躲 - [pinyin]duo3[/pinyin] - Hide\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\n乌云 - [pinyin]shen2 fu4[/pinyin] - Preist \n\n粗话 - [pinyin]cu1 hua4[/pinyin] - Vulgar words\n祷告 - [pinyin]dao3 gao4[/pinyin] - To pray\n感化 - [pinyin]gan3 hua4[/pinyin] - A corrective influence\n实现 - [pinyin]shi2 xian4[/pinyin] - To be realized (as wishes / dreams)\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n    花园里有三只<strong>蝴蝶</strong>，一只是红色的，一只是黄色的，一只是白色的。三个好朋友天天都在一起玩，可好了。一天，他们正玩得，天突然下起了雨。三只蝴蝶的<strong>翅膀</strong>都被雨打湿了，浑身冻得发抖。\n\n    三只小蝴蝶一起飞到红花那里，对红花说: “红花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲<strong>躲</strong>雨吧！”\n\n   红花说: “红蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\n\n   三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，<strong>一块</strong>儿来，也一块儿走。”\n\n   他们又飞到黄花那里，对黄花说: “黄花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”黄花说: “黄蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\n\n     三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\n\n   然后，他们又飞到白花那里，对白花说: “白花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\n\n   可是白花也说: “白蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\n\n     这三个好朋友还是一齐摇摇头，对白花说: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\n\n     这时，太阳公公看见了，赶忙把<strong>乌云</strong>赶走，叫雨停下。\n\n     天终于晴了，这三个好朋友又一起在花丛中跳舞玩游戏了。\n</div>\n\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nIn the garden there were three butterflies, one red one, one yellow one, and one white one. Every day the three good friends played together, it was great. One day just as they were playing, it suddenly began to rain. The three butterflies\' wings were drenched by the rain, their whole bodies were trembling with cold. \n\nThe three butterflies few together to a red flower, and said to it: \"Big Sister Red Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" \n\nThe red flower said: \"The red butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\n\nThe three good friends shook their heads together: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\n\nThey flew off to a yellow flower, and to the yellow flower said, \"Big Sister Yellow Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" The yellow flower said: \"The yellow butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\n\nThe three good friends shook their heads and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\n\nThen, they flew away to the white flower, and to the white flower said: \"Big Sister White Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves!\"  \n\nBut the white flower said to them: \"The white butterfly can come in, but the rest must leave.\" \n\nThe three good friends still shook their heads together and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together and we\'ll leave together.\"\n\nAt this time, Old Man Sun saw what was happening, and he hurriedly chased the black clouds away and made the rain stop.     \n\nThe sky was finally clear, and the three friends again went again to play and dance among the flowers. \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'Three Good Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '539-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-16 20:33:30', '2011-03-17 00:33:30', '', 539, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/16/539-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(544, 1, '2011-03-16 20:34:03', '2011-03-17 00:34:03', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very simple story about three friendly butterflies who stick up for each other.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20110309-INLINE-two-parrots.jpg\" alt=\"Simplified Chinese Reading Study Intermediate: The Two Parrots\" title=\"Simplified Chinese Reading Study Intermediate: The Two Parrots\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />\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蝴蝶 - [pinyin]hu2 die2[/pinyin] - Butterfly\r\n翅膀 - [pinyin]chi4 bang3[/pinyin] - [colloquial] Wings\r\n躲 - [pinyin]duo3[/pinyin] - Hide\r\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\r\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n    花园里有三只<strong>蝴蝶</strong>，一只是红色的，一只是黄色的，一只是白色的。三个好朋友天天都在一起玩，可好了。一天，他们正玩得，天突然下起了雨。三只蝴蝶的<strong>翅膀</strong>都被雨打湿了，浑身冻得发抖。\r\n\r\n    三只小蝴蝶一起飞到红花那里，对红花说: “红花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲<strong>躲</strong>雨吧！”\r\n\r\n   红花说: “红蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n   三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，<strong>一块</strong>儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n   他们又飞到黄花那里，对黄花说: “黄花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”黄花说: “黄蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n     三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n   然后，他们又飞到白花那里，对白花说: “白花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\r\n\r\n   可是白花也说: “白蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n     这三个好朋友还是一齐摇摇头，对白花说: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n     这时，太阳公公看见了，赶忙把<strong>乌云</strong>赶走，叫雨停下。\r\n\r\n     天终于晴了，这三个好朋友又一起在花丛中跳舞玩游戏了。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn the garden there were three butterflies, one red one, one yellow one, and one white one. Every day the three good friends played together, it was great. One day just as they were playing, it suddenly began to rain. The three butterflies\' wings were drenched by the rain, their whole bodies were trembling with cold. \r\n\r\nThe three butterflies few together to a red flower, and said to it: \"Big Sister Red Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" \r\n\r\nThe red flower said: \"The red butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\r\n\r\nThe three good friends shook their heads together: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\nThey flew off to a yellow flower, and to the yellow flower said, \"Big Sister Yellow Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" The yellow flower said: \"The yellow butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\r\n\r\nThe three good friends shook their heads and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\nThen, they flew away to the white flower, and to the white flower said: \"Big Sister White Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves!\"  \r\n\r\nBut the white flower said to them: \"The white butterfly can come in, but the rest must leave.\" \r\n\r\nThe three good friends still shook their heads together and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\nAt this time, Old Man Sun saw what was happening, and he hurriedly chased the black clouds away and made the rain stop.     \r\n\r\nThe sky was finally clear, and the three friends again went again to play and dance among the flowers. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'Three Good Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '539-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-16 20:34:03', '2011-03-17 00:34:03', '', 539, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/16/539-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(545, 1, '2011-03-16 20:40:30', '2011-03-17 00:40:30', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very simple story about three friendly butterflies who stick up for each other.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20110309-INLINE-two-parrots.jpg\" alt=\"Simplified Chinese Reading Study Intermediate: The Two Parrots\" title=\"Simplified Chinese Reading Study Intermediate: The Two Parrots\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />\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蝴蝶 - [pinyin]hu2 die2[/pinyin] - Butterfly\r\n翅膀 - [pinyin]chi4 bang3[/pinyin] - [colloquial] Wings\r\n躲 - [pinyin]duo3[/pinyin] - Hide\r\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\r\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n    花园里有三只<strong>蝴蝶</strong>，一只是红色的，一只是黄色的，一只是白色的。三个好朋友天天都在一起玩，可好了。一天，他们正玩得，天突然下起了雨。三只蝴蝶的<strong>翅膀</strong>都被雨打湿了，浑身冻得发抖。\r\n\r\n    三只小蝴蝶一起飞到红花那里，对红花说: “红花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲<strong>躲</strong>雨吧！”\r\n\r\n   红花说: “红蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n   三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，<strong>一块</strong>儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n   他们又飞到黄花那里，对黄花说: “黄花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”黄花说: “黄蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n     三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n   然后，他们又飞到白花那里，对白花说: “白花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\r\n\r\n   可是白花也说: “白蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n     这三个好朋友还是一齐摇摇头，对白花说: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n     这时，太阳公公看见了，赶忙把<strong>乌云</strong>赶走，叫雨停下。\r\n\r\n     天终于晴了，这三个好朋友又一起在花丛中跳舞玩游戏了。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn the garden there were three butterflies, one red one, one yellow one, and one white one. Every day the three good friends played together, it was great. One day just as they were playing, it suddenly began to rain. The three butterflies\' wings were drenched by the rain, their whole bodies were trembling with cold. \r\n\r\nThe three butterflies few together to a red flower, and said to it: \"Big Sister Red Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" \r\n\r\nThe red flower said: \"The red butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\r\n\r\nThe three good friends shook their heads together: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\nThey flew off to a yellow flower, and to the yellow flower said, \"Big Sister Yellow Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" The yellow flower said: \"The yellow butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\r\n\r\nThe three good friends shook their heads and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\nThen, they flew away to the white flower, and to the white flower said: \"Big Sister White Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves!\"  \r\n\r\nBut the white flower said to them: \"The white butterfly can come in, but the rest must leave.\" \r\n\r\nThe three good friends still shook their heads together and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\nAt this time, Old Man Sun saw what was happening, and he hurriedly chased the black clouds away and made the rain stop.     \r\n\r\nThe sky was finally clear, and the three friends again went again to play and dance among the flowers. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'Three Good Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '539-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-16 20:40:30', '2011-03-17 00:40:30', '', 539, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/16/539-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(549, 1, '2011-03-17 20:50:43', '2011-03-18 00:50:43', '[two_third]\n\nINTRO GOES HERE\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n蝴蝶 - [pinyin]hu2 die2[/pinyin] - Butterfly\n翅膀 - [pinyin]chi4 bang3[/pinyin] - [colloquial] Wings\n躲 - [pinyin]duo3[/pinyin] - Hide\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n历史悠久的印第安古墓吸引着大批专业考古学家，同时也吸引着心狠手辣的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\n　　\n年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\n\n盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://book.douban.com/subject/5383581/\">See the original on Douban</a>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n历史悠久的印第安古墓吸引着大批专业考古学家，同时也吸引着心狠手辣的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\n　　\n年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\n\n盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n', 'The Theif of Time', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '494-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-17 20:50:43', '2011-03-18 00:50:43', '', 494, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/17/494-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(548, 1, '2011-03-17 20:40:30', '2011-03-18 00:40:30', '[two_third]\n\nINTRO GOES HERE\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n蝴蝶 - [pinyin]hu2 die2[/pinyin] - Butterfly\n翅膀 - [pinyin]chi4 bang3[/pinyin] - [colloquial] Wings\n躲 - [pinyin]duo3[/pinyin] - Hide\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\nA historically important American Indian tomb has attracted a large number of expert archaeologists, but has also attracted a viscious and merciless grve robber k历史悠久的印第安古墓吸引着大批专业考古学家，同时也吸引着心狠手辣的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\n　　\n年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\n\n盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://book.douban.com/subject/5383581/\">See the original on Douban</a>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n历史悠久的印第安古墓吸引着大批专业考古学家，同时也吸引着心狠手辣的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\n　　\n年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\n\n盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'The Theif of Time', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '494-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-17 20:40:30', '2011-03-18 00:40:30', '', 494, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/17/494-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(547, 1, '2011-03-17 20:35:37', '2011-03-18 00:35:37', '[two_third]\n\nA very simple story about three friendly butterflies who stick up for each other.<!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n蝴蝶 - [pinyin]hu2 die2[/pinyin] - Butterfly\n翅膀 - [pinyin]chi4 bang3[/pinyin] - [colloquial] Wings\n躲 - [pinyin]duo3[/pinyin] - Hide\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n历史悠久的印第安古墓吸引着大批专业考古学家，同时也吸引着心狠手辣的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\n　　\n年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\n　　盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\n</div>\n\nSee the original\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nIn the garden there were three butterflies, one red one, one yellow one, and one white one. Every day the three good friends played together, it was great. One day just as they were playing, it suddenly began to rain. The three butterflies\' wings were drenched by the rain, their whole bodies were trembling with cold. \n\nThe three butterflies few together to a red flower, and said to it: \"Big Sister Red Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" \n\nThe red flower said: \"The red butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\n\nThe three good friends shook their heads together: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\n\nThey flew off to a yellow flower, and to the yellow flower said, \"Big Sister Yellow Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" The yellow flower said: \"The yellow butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\n\nThe three good friends shook their heads and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\n\nThen, they flew away to the white flower, and to the white flower said: \"Big Sister White Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves!\"  \n\nBut the white flower said to them: \"The white butterfly can come in, but the rest must leave.\" \n\nThe three good friends still shook their heads together and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together and we\'ll leave together.\"\n\nAt this time, Old Man Sun saw what was happening, and he hurriedly chased the black clouds away and made the rain stop.     \n\nThe sky was finally clear, and the three friends again went again to play and dance among the flowers. \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'The Theif of Time', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '494-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-17 20:35:37', '2011-03-18 00:35:37', '', 494, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/17/494-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(550, 1, '2011-03-17 20:58:15', '2011-03-18 00:58:15', '[two_third]\n\nScary mystery novels. \n\nThere are three names in this text that are Chinese transliterations of English names, so I\'ve given it my best guess. The first, 弗里德曼, I didn\'t even try to translate, so I stuck with Fulideman (Fleiderman?). For the second, 利普霍恩, I went with Philip Horn. And the third, 吉姆•契, I went with Jim Qi. If anyone\'s got a more standard translation f, please leave a comment!\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n古墓 - [pinyin]gu3 mu4[/pinyin] - Ancient tomb\n考古学家 - [pinyin]kao3 gu3 xue2 jia1[/pinyin] - Archaeologist\n心狠手辣 - [pinyin]xin1 hen3 shou3 la4[/pinyin] - Viscious and merciless\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n历史悠久的印第安<strong>古墓</strong>吸引着大批专业<strong>考古学家</strong>，同时也吸引着<strong>心狠手辣</strong>的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\n　　\n年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\n\n盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://book.douban.com/subject/5383581/\">See the original on Douban</a>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nA historically important American Indian tomb has attracted a large number of expert archaeologists, but has also attracted a viscious and merciless grve robber known as \"The Theif of Time\". \n　　\nYoung archaeologist Dr. Fulideman has gone missing; two incidents of theft have happened near the police station; a mysterious missionary appears and vanishes; a grave robber dies tragically near the tomb... what is the connection between these events? How will widower Phillip Horn and down-on-his-luck Jim Qi untangle the riddle?  \n\nThose who rob graves and disturb the souls of the dead inevitably will suffer retribution.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n', 'The Theif of Time', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '494-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-17 20:58:15', '2011-03-18 00:58:15', '', 494, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/17/494-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(551, 1, '2011-03-17 21:02:28', '2011-03-18 01:02:28', '[two_third]\n\nI love mystery novels, especially the trashy ones. This synopsis .<!--more-->\n\nThere are three names in this text that are Chinese transliterations of English names, so I\'ve given it my best guess. The first, 弗里德曼, I didn\'t even try to translate, so I stuck with Fulideman (Fleiderman?). For the second, 利普霍恩, I went with Philip Horn. And the third, 吉姆•契, I went with Jim Qi. If anyone\'s got a more standard translation for these names, please leave a comment!\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n古墓 - [pinyin]gu3 mu4[/pinyin] - Ancient tomb\n考古学家 - [pinyin]kao3 gu3 xue2 jia1[/pinyin] - Archaeologist\n心狠手辣 - [pinyin]xin1 hen3 shou3 la4[/pinyin] - Viscious and merciless\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n历史悠久的印第安<strong>古墓</strong>吸引着大批专业<strong>考古学家</strong>，同时也吸引着<strong>心狠手辣</strong>的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\n　　\n年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\n\n盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://book.douban.com/subject/5383581/\">See the original on Douban</a>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nA historically important American Indian tomb has attracted a large number of expert archaeologists, but has also attracted a viscious and merciless grve robber known as \"The Theif of Time\". \n　　\nYoung archaeologist Dr. Fulideman has gone missing; two incidents of theft have happened near the police station; a mysterious missionary appears and vanishes; a grave robber dies tragically near the tomb... what is the connection between these events? How will widower Phillip Horn and down-on-his-luck Jim Qi untangle the riddle?  \n\nThose who rob graves and disturb the souls of the dead inevitably will suffer retribution.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n', 'The Theif of Time', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '494-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-17 21:02:28', '2011-03-18 01:02:28', '', 494, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/17/494-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(552, 1, '2016-11-05 02:10:05', '2016-11-05 06:10:05', 'Mummies! Tombs! Grave Robbers! I love mystery novels, especially the trashy ones. This synopsis\'ll get you up to speed on all that evil grave robbing vocabulary you missed in class. There are three names in this text that are Chinese transliterations of English names, so I\'ve given it my best guess. The first, 弗里德曼, I didn\'t even try to translate, so I stuck with Fulideman (Fleiderman?). For the second, 利普霍恩, I went with Philip Horn. And the third, 吉姆•契, I went with Jim Qi. If anyone\'s got a more standard translation for these names, please leave a comment!\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\n\n1) 历史悠久的印第安古墓吸引着大批专业考古学家，同时也吸引着心狠手辣的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\n　　\n2) 年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\n\n3) 盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://book.douban.com/subject/5383581/\">See the original on Douban</a>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n1) A historically important American Indian tomb has attracted a large number of expert archaeologists, but has also attracted a viscous and merciless grave robber known as \"The Theif of Time\". \n　　\n2) Young archaeologist Dr. Fulideman has gone missing; two incidents of theft have happened near the police station; a mysterious missionary appears and vanishes; a grave robber dies tragically near the tomb... what is the connection between these events? How will widower Phillip Horn and down-on-his-luck Jim Qi untangle the riddle?  \n\n3) Those who rob graves and disturb the souls of the dead inevitably will suffer retribution.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n', '[Book Synopsis in Chinese] 《时间之贼》The Thief of Time', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '494-autosave-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:10:05', '2016-11-05 06:10:05', '', 494, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/17/494-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(555, 1, '2011-03-17 21:02:59', '2011-03-18 01:02:59', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI love mystery novels, especially the trashy ones. This synopsis\'ll get you up to speed on all that evil grave robbing vocabulary you missed in class.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThere are three names in this text that are Chinese transliterations of English names, so I\'ve given it my best guess. The first, 弗里德曼, I didn\'t even try to translate, so I stuck with Fulideman (Fleiderman?). For the second, 利普霍恩, I went with Philip Horn. And the third, 吉姆•契, I went with Jim Qi. If anyone\'s got a more standard translation for these names, please leave a comment!\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古墓 - [pinyin]gu3 mu4[/pinyin] - Ancient tomb\r\n考古学家 - [pinyin]kao3 gu3 xue2 jia1[/pinyin] - Archaeologist\r\n心狠手辣 - [pinyin]xin1 hen3 shou3 la4[/pinyin] - Viscious and merciless\r\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\r\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n历史悠久的印第安<strong>古墓</strong>吸引着大批专业<strong>考古学家</strong>，同时也吸引着<strong>心狠手辣</strong>的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\r\n　　\r\n年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\r\n\r\n盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://book.douban.com/subject/5383581/\">See the original on Douban</a>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA historically important American Indian tomb has attracted a large number of expert archaeologists, but has also attracted a viscious and merciless grve robber known as \"The Theif of Time\". \r\n　　\r\nYoung archaeologist Dr. Fulideman has gone missing; two incidents of theft have happened near the police station; a mysterious missionary appears and vanishes; a grave robber dies tragically near the tomb... what is the connection between these events? How will widower Phillip Horn and down-on-his-luck Jim Qi untangle the riddle?  \r\n\r\nThose who rob graves and disturb the souls of the dead inevitably will suffer retribution.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Theif of Time', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '494-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-17 21:02:59', '2011-03-18 01:02:59', '', 494, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/17/494-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(562, 1, '2011-03-17 21:07:36', '2011-03-18 01:07:36', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI love mystery novels, especially the trashy ones. This synopsis\'ll get you up to speed on all that evil grave robbing vocabulary you missed in class.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20110318-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Practice Advanced Chinese Reading: Theif of Time\" title=\"Practice Advanced Chinese Reading: Theif of Time\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />There are three names in this text that are Chinese transliterations of English names, so I\'ve given it my best guess. The first, 弗里德曼, I didn\'t even try to translate, so I stuck with Fulideman (Fleiderman?). For the second, 利普霍恩, I went with Philip Horn. And the third, 吉姆•契, I went with Jim Qi. If anyone\'s got a more standard translation for these names, please leave a comment!\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古墓 - [pinyin]gu3 mu4[/pinyin] - Ancient tomb\r\n考古学家 - [pinyin]kao3 gu3 xue2 jia1[/pinyin] - Archaeologist\r\n心狠手辣 - [pinyin]xin1 hen3 shou3 la4[/pinyin] - Viscious and merciless\r\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\r\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n历史悠久的印第安<strong>古墓</strong>吸引着大批专业<strong>考古学家</strong>，同时也吸引着<strong>心狠手辣</strong>的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\r\n　　\r\n年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\r\n\r\n盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://book.douban.com/subject/5383581/\">See the original on Douban</a>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA historically important American Indian tomb has attracted a large number of expert archaeologists, but has also attracted a viscious and merciless grve robber known as \"The Theif of Time\". \r\n　　\r\nYoung archaeologist Dr. Fulideman has gone missing; two incidents of theft have happened near the police station; a mysterious missionary appears and vanishes; a grave robber dies tragically near the tomb... what is the connection between these events? How will widower Phillip Horn and down-on-his-luck Jim Qi untangle the riddle?  \r\n\r\nThose who rob graves and disturb the souls of the dead inevitably will suffer retribution.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Theif of Time', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '494-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-17 21:07:36', '2011-03-18 01:07:36', '', 494, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/17/494-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(563, 1, '2011-03-16 20:41:10', '2011-03-17 00:41:10', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very simple story about three friendly butterflies who stick up for each other.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n蝴蝶 - [pinyin]hu2 die2[/pinyin] - Butterfly\r\n翅膀 - [pinyin]chi4 bang3[/pinyin] - [colloquial] Wings\r\n躲 - [pinyin]duo3[/pinyin] - Hide\r\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\r\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n    花园里有三只<strong>蝴蝶</strong>，一只是红色的，一只是黄色的，一只是白色的。三个好朋友天天都在一起玩，可好了。一天，他们正玩得，天突然下起了雨。三只蝴蝶的<strong>翅膀</strong>都被雨打湿了，浑身冻得发抖。\r\n\r\n    三只小蝴蝶一起飞到红花那里，对红花说: “红花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲<strong>躲</strong>雨吧！”\r\n\r\n   红花说: “红蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n   三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，<strong>一块</strong>儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n   他们又飞到黄花那里，对黄花说: “黄花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”黄花说: “黄蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n     三个好朋友一齐摇摇头: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n   然后，他们又飞到白花那里，对白花说: “白花姐姐，让我们飞到你的叶子下面躲躲雨吧！”\r\n\r\n   可是白花也说: “白蝴蝶进来吧，其他的快飞开！”\r\n\r\n     这三个好朋友还是一齐摇摇头，对白花说: “我们是好朋友，一块儿来，也一块儿走。”\r\n\r\n     这时，太阳公公看见了，赶忙把<strong>乌云</strong>赶走，叫雨停下。\r\n\r\n     天终于晴了，这三个好朋友又一起在花丛中跳舞玩游戏了。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn the garden there were three butterflies, one red one, one yellow one, and one white one. Every day the three good friends played together, it was great. One day just as they were playing, it suddenly began to rain. The three butterflies\' wings were drenched by the rain, their whole bodies were trembling with cold. \r\n\r\nThe three butterflies few together to a red flower, and said to it: \"Big Sister Red Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" \r\n\r\nThe red flower said: \"The red butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\r\n\r\nThe three good friends shook their heads together: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\nThey flew off to a yellow flower, and to the yellow flower said, \"Big Sister Yellow Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves.\" The yellow flower said: \"The yellow butterfly can come in, but the others must leave.\"\r\n\r\nThe three good friends shook their heads and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together, and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\nThen, they flew away to the white flower, and to the white flower said: \"Big Sister White Flower, let us hide from the rain under your leaves!\"  \r\n\r\nBut the white flower said to them: \"The white butterfly can come in, but the rest must leave.\" \r\n\r\nThe three good friends still shook their heads together and said: \"We\'re good friends, we came together and we\'ll leave together.\"\r\n\r\nAt this time, Old Man Sun saw what was happening, and he hurriedly chased the black clouds away and made the rain stop.     \r\n\r\nThe sky was finally clear, and the three friends again went again to play and dance among the flowers. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'Three Good Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '539-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-16 20:41:10', '2011-03-17 00:41:10', '', 539, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/16/539-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(564, 1, '2011-03-20 21:05:49', '2011-03-21 01:05:49', 'My heart goes out to the many who lost family, friends or homes in Japan this week. This straightforward Chinese article reviews the Japanese death tolls in the recent earthquake. The tragedy in Japan has been big news in Asia (as it has been everywhere in the world), particularly as many fear the radiation from the failed nuclear reactors will hit their shores. This article is chalk full of words you hate to read but which newspapers seems to love so much: fatality, refugee camp, disaster, missing persons, etc.\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n1) 日本地震已致7653人死亡11746人失踪. \r\n\r\n2) 中新网3月20日电  据“中央社”报道，日本3月11日强震和海啸灾难，今天迈入第10天，警察厅指出，截至19日深夜11时为止，确认死亡人数达7653人，下落不明者增至1万1746人，死亡和失踪人数合计1万9399人。\r\n\r\n3) 警察厅指出，罹难者遍布12都县，其中宫城县4449人、岩手县2501人、福岛县647人，此3县沿海地区遭海啸侵袭，灾情最惨重。警方接获的行踪不明者通报，岩手县有4253人、福岛县4503人、宫城县2895人，另外3县也有人失踪。\r\n\r\n4) 此外，仍栖身避难所的灾民总数约36万3000人。其中宫城县约有15万5000人、福岛县约13万2000人、岩手县约4万9000人。很多人因避难生活长期化而健康恶化，灾民依然处于严峻状况下。 \r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n1) 7653 Dead in Japan Earthquake and 11746 Missing\r\n\r\n2) China News Service, March 20 via [Taiwan] Central News Agency Report:</strong> The March 11 Japan mega-quake disaster is entering its 10th day and according to Japan\'s National Police Agency has confirmed that, as of [March] 19th at 11:00p.m., the death toll has reached 7653 people, and the number of persons unaccounted for has increased to 11,746 people, with the missing and dead totaling 19,399 people.   \r\n\r\n3) The National Police Agency reports that the fatalities are spread over 12 districts, included among these are Miyagi with 4449 people, Iwate with 2501 people, and Fukushima with 647 people - these three districts are coastal areas where the tsunami was most disastrous. The police recieved reports of 4253 missing persons in Iwate, 4503 in Fukushima, and 2895 in Miyagi. Three other districts additionally have [reported] missing persons. \r\n\r\n4) In addition, there are still 363,000 victims living in refugee shelters. That number includes 155,000 people in Miyagi, 132,000 people in Fukushima, and 49,000 from Iwate. Due to long-term stays in the shelters, the health of many refugees is worsening, leaving many in a grim situation. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[News in Chinese] 7653 Dead in Japan Earthquake and 11746 Missing', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', '7653-dead-in-japan-earthquake-and-11746-missing', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:07:08', '2016-11-05 06:07:08', '', 0, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=564', 0, 'post', '', 1),
(2207, 1, '2016-11-05 02:07:08', '2016-11-05 06:07:08', 'My heart goes out to the many who lost family, friends or homes in Japan this week. This straightforward Chinese article reviews the Japanese death tolls in the recent earthquake. The tragedy in Japan has been big news in Asia (as it has been everywhere in the world), particularly as many fear the radiation from the failed nuclear reactors will hit their shores. This article is chalk full of words you hate to read but which newspapers seems to love so much: fatality, refugee camp, disaster, missing persons, etc.\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div class=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h3>Chinese text</h3>\r\n1) 日本地震已致7653人死亡11746人失踪. \r\n\r\n2) 中新网3月20日电  据“中央社”报道，日本3月11日强震和海啸灾难，今天迈入第10天，警察厅指出，截至19日深夜11时为止，确认死亡人数达7653人，下落不明者增至1万1746人，死亡和失踪人数合计1万9399人。\r\n\r\n3) 警察厅指出，罹难者遍布12都县，其中宫城县4449人、岩手县2501人、福岛县647人，此3县沿海地区遭海啸侵袭，灾情最惨重。警方接获的行踪不明者通报，岩手县有4253人、福岛县4503人、宫城县2895人，另外3县也有人失踪。\r\n\r\n4) 此外，仍栖身避难所的灾民总数约36万3000人。其中宫城县约有15万5000人、福岛县约13万2000人、岩手县约4万9000人。很多人因避难生活长期化而健康恶化，灾民依然处于严峻状况下。 \r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n1) 7653 Dead in Japan Earthquake and 11746 Missing\r\n\r\n2) China News Service, March 20 via [Taiwan] Central News Agency Report:</strong> The March 11 Japan mega-quake disaster is entering its 10th day and according to Japan\'s National Police Agency has confirmed that, as of [March] 19th at 11:00p.m., the death toll has reached 7653 people, and the number of persons unaccounted for has increased to 11,746 people, with the missing and dead totaling 19,399 people.   \r\n\r\n3) The National Police Agency reports that the fatalities are spread over 12 districts, included among these are Miyagi with 4449 people, Iwate with 2501 people, and Fukushima with 647 people - these three districts are coastal areas where the tsunami was most disastrous. The police recieved reports of 4253 missing persons in Iwate, 4503 in Fukushima, and 2895 in Miyagi. Three other districts additionally have [reported] missing persons. \r\n\r\n4) In addition, there are still 363,000 victims living in refugee shelters. That number includes 155,000 people in Miyagi, 132,000 people in Fukushima, and 49,000 from Iwate. Due to long-term stays in the shelters, the health of many refugees is worsening, leaving many in a grim situation. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '[News in Chinese] 7653 Dead in Japan Earthquake and 11746 Missing', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '564-revision-v1', '', '', '2016-11-05 02:07:08', '2016-11-05 06:07:08', '', 564, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2016/11/564-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(565, 1, '2011-03-20 20:26:29', '2011-03-21 00:26:29', '[two_third]\n\nThe tragedy in Japan has been big news in Asia (as it has been everywhere in the world), particularly as many fear the radiation from the failed nuclear reactors will hit their shores. This straightforward article reviews the Japanese death tolls in the recent earthquake. \n\nChinese Title: 日本地震已致7653人死亡11746人失踪. <!--more-->\n\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n古墓 - [pinyin]gu3 mu4[/pinyin] - Ancient tomb\n考古学家 - [pinyin]kao3 gu3 xue2 jia1[/pinyin] - Archaeologist\n心狠手辣 - [pinyin]xin1 hen3 shou3 la4[/pinyin] - Viscious and merciless\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n历史悠久的印第安<strong>古墓</strong>吸引着大批专业<strong>考古学家</strong>，同时也吸引着<strong>心狠手辣</strong>的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\n　　\n年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\n\n盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://book.douban.com/subject/5383581/\">See the original on Douban</a>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nA historically important American Indian tomb has attracted a large number of expert archaeologists, but has also attracted a viscious and merciless grave robber known as \"The Theif of Time\". \n　　\nYoung archaeologist Dr. Fulideman has gone missing; two incidents of theft have happened near the police station; a mysterious missionary appears and vanishes; a grave robber dies tragically near the tomb... what is the connection between these events? How will widower Phillip Horn and down-on-his-luck Jim Qi untangle the riddle?  \n\nThose who rob graves and disturb the souls of the dead inevitably will suffer retribution.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '7653 Dead in Japan Earthquake and 11746 Missing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '564-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-20 20:26:29', '2011-03-21 00:26:29', '', 564, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/20/564-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(566, 1, '2011-03-20 20:41:34', '2011-03-21 00:41:34', '[two_third]\n\nThe tragedy in Japan has been big news in Asia (as it has been everywhere in the world), particularly as many fear the radiation from the failed nuclear reactors will hit their shores. This straightforward article reviews the Japanese death tolls in the recent earthquake. \n\nChinese Title: 日本地震已致7653人死亡11746人失踪. <!--more-->\n\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n古墓 - [pinyin]gu3 mu4[/pinyin] - Ancient tomb\n考古学家 - [pinyin]kao3 gu3 xue2 jia1[/pinyin] - Archaeologist\n心狠手辣 - [pinyin]xin1 hen3 shou3 la4[/pinyin] - Viscious and merciless\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n中新网3月20日电  据“中央社”报道，日本3月11日强震和海啸灾难，今天迈入第10天，警察厅指出，截至19日深夜11时为止，确认死亡人数达7653人，下落不明者增至1万1746人，死亡和失踪人数合计1万9399人。\n\n警察厅指出，罹难者遍布12都县，其中宫城县4449人、岩手县2501人、福岛县647人，此3县沿海地区遭海啸侵袭，灾情最惨重。警方接获的行踪不明者通报，岩手县有4253人、福岛县4503人、宫城县2895人，另外3县也有人失踪。\n\n此外，仍栖身避难所的灾民总数约36万3000人。其中宫城县约有15万5000人、福岛县约13万2000人、岩手县约4万9000人。很多人因避难生活长期化而健康恶化，灾民依然处于严峻状况下。 \n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n<strong>China News Service, March 20 via [Taiwan] Central News Agency Report:</strong> The March 11 Japan mega-quake disaster is entering its 10th day and according to Japan\'s National Police Agency, SOMETHING, has confirmed that the death toll has reached 7653 people, and the number of missing has increased to 11,746 people, with the missing and dead totaling 19,399 people.   \n\nThe National Police Agency reports that the fatalities are spread over 12 districts, included among these are Miyagi with 4449 people, Iwate with 2501 people, and Fukushima with 647 people - these three districts are coastal areas where the tsunami was most disastrous. The police recieved reports of 4253 missing persons in Iwate, 4503 in Fukushima, and 2895 in Miyagi. Three other districts additionally have [reported] missing persons. \n\n此外，仍栖身避难所的灾民总数约36万3000人。其中宫城县约有15万5000人、福岛县约13万2000人、岩手县约4万9000人。很多人因避难生活长期化而健康恶化，灾民依然处于严峻状况下。 \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '7653 Dead in Japan Earthquake and 11746 Missing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '564-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-20 20:41:34', '2011-03-21 00:41:34', '', 564, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/20/564-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(567, 1, '2011-03-20 20:45:39', '2011-03-21 00:45:39', '[two_third]\n\nThe tragedy in Japan has been big news in Asia (as it has been everywhere in the world), particularly as many fear the radiation from the failed nuclear reactors will hit their shores. This straightforward article reviews the Japanese death tolls in the recent earthquake. \n\nChinese Title: 日本地震已致7653人死亡11746人失踪. <!--more-->\n\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n古墓 - [pinyin]gu3 mu4[/pinyin] - Ancient tomb\n考古学家 - [pinyin]kao3 gu3 xue2 jia1[/pinyin] - Archaeologist\n心狠手辣 - [pinyin]xin1 hen3 shou3 la4[/pinyin] - Viscious and merciless\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n中新网3月20日电  据“中央社”报道，日本3月11日强震和海啸灾难，今天迈入第10天，警察厅指出，截至19日深夜11时为止，确认死亡人数达7653人，下落不明者增至1万1746人，死亡和失踪人数合计1万9399人。\n\n警察厅指出，罹难者遍布12都县，其中宫城县4449人、岩手县2501人、福岛县647人，此3县沿海地区遭海啸侵袭，灾情最惨重。警方接获的行踪不明者通报，岩手县有4253人、福岛县4503人、宫城县2895人，另外3县也有人失踪。\n\n此外，仍栖身避难所的灾民总数约36万3000人。其中宫城县约有15万5000人、福岛县约13万2000人、岩手县约4万9000人。很多人因避难生活长期化而健康恶化，灾民依然处于严峻状况下。 \n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n<strong>China News Service, March 20 via [Taiwan] Central News Agency Report:</strong> The March 11 Japan mega-quake disaster is entering its 10th day and according to Japan\'s National Police Agency, SOMETHING, has confirmed that the death toll has reached 7653 people, and the number of missing has increased to 11,746 people, with the missing and dead totaling 19,399 people.   \n\nThe National Police Agency reports that the fatalities are spread over 12 districts, included among these are Miyagi with 4449 people, Iwate with 2501 people, and Fukushima with 647 people - these three districts are coastal areas where the tsunami was most disastrous. The police recieved reports of 4253 missing persons in Iwate, 4503 in Fukushima, and 2895 in Miyagi. Three other districts additionally have [reported] missing persons. \n\nIn addition, there are still 363,000 victims living in refugee shelters. That number includes 155,000 people in Miyagi, 132,000 people in Fukushima, and 49,000 from Iwate. Due to long-term stays in the shelters, the health of many refugees is worsening.  此外，仍栖身避难所的灾民总数约36万3000人。其中宫城县约有15万5000人、福岛县约13万2000人、岩手县约4万9000人。很多人因避难生活长期化而健康恶化，灾民依然处于严峻状况下。 \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', '7653 Dead in Japan Earthquake and 11746 Missing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '564-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-20 20:45:39', '2011-03-21 00:45:39', '', 564, 'http://devenv.chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/20/564-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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