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One picky little horse doesn't appreciate the food he is served, until he sees what everyone else is eating. Upper-beginner, bordering on intermediate, HSK 4.

<h4>Some language stuff</h4>
Quite a bit of the harder vocab in this piece revolves around eating. We've got  津津有味 [pinyin]jin1 jin1 you3 wei4[/pinyin], to eat something with joyous relish, 啃 [pinyin]ken3[/pinyin], to gnaw on, 狼吞虎咽 [pinyin]lang2 tun1 hu3 yan4[/pinyin], to fiercely gobble something up, and 饥肠辘辘 [pinyin]ji1 chang2 lu4 lu4[/pinyin], to be so hungry one's stomach is rumbling. 

饥肠辘辘 is actually a pretty interesting phrase. 饥肠 means "an empty stomach", and 辘辘 is being used as an onomatopoeia, <em>lu lu</em> being the sound of one's stomach grumbling from hunger.  

<strong>爱挑食</strong> [pinyin]ai4 tiao1 shi2[/pinyin] - Three different words here, 爱, to love, 挑, to be picky, and 食, food. The literal translation here is "loves to be picky about food". It bears pointing out that in this case, "love" does not really mean "to have fondness for", but rather, "to do something often". We use "love" this way in English as well, as in, "You just love to start an argument, don't you?"

<strong>转一圈</strong> [pinyin]zhuan3 yi1 quan1[/pinyin] - 转 is "to turn around" and 一圈 is "a circle" or "a loop". That might sound like it means "to spin around in a circle while standing in place", but it doesn't. It means "to make a circular pass through a place" - imagine shopping at a farmer's market or something, you walk all around to the different stalls to see what everyone is selling. 

<strong>一幕</strong> [pinyin]yi1 mu4[/pinyin] - You'll notice my popup dictionary translates this as "a curtain", a "screen" or "an act of a play". A 幕 is indeed the measure word for "an act of a play", but this is being used figuratively, what it means here is "scene", as in, "When my eyes came to rest upon that ugly scene..." 

<strong>那儿</strong> [pinyin]na4 er[/pinyin] - Literally means "there", but when it comes after a noun, it means "over where [noun] is", or "[noun's] place". I just covered a similar usage of "这儿" in the <a href="http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/05/20/chinese-fable-the-learned-son/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">last beginner post</a>. 

<a href="http://www.rensheng5.com/xiaogushi/id-9965.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Source here</a>
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<h4>最可口的食物</h4>

在一个农场里养着很多动物。其中有一匹<span class="highlightText">爱挑食</span>的小马，它总是不满意农场主给它的食物。于是它决定去转<span class="highlightText">一圈</span>，看看别的动物们<span class="highlightText">那儿</span>有什么好吃的。
　　
它很快就发现了几只鸡正在愉快地吃着什么，上前一看，是谷子，它尝了一口，却马上又吐了出来，“一点味没有，不好吃！”说着就走了。
　　
不久它又看到一只狗在<span class="highlightText">津津有味</span>地<span class="highlightText">啃</span>着骨头，还有一只猫一边唱着歌一边<span class="highlightText">撕咬</span>着一条鱼。这些食物，它看了都害怕，那气味快使它呕吐。它赶紧走开了。
　　
走了好一会儿，小马有点渴了，它来到水塘边喝水。看到两只鸭子正在抢夺一条蚯蚓，蚯蚓被它们拉扯的又细又长，最后断成两截，两只鸭子<span class="highlightText">狼吞虎咽</span>地吃下了各自的半截，又开始寻找起来。看到这残忍的<span class="highlightText">一幕</span>，小马水也<span class="highlightText">顾不上</span>喝就跑开了，“真恐怖！”它说。
　　
跑了<span class="highlightText">一大圈</span>，它看到的动物吃的东西，都不合它的胃口，有的甚至还让它感得恶心。小马饥肠辘辘的回到马厩，才发现主人为它预备的草料，才是它最喜爱最可口的食物。
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There was a farm where many animals were raised. Among them was one little horse that was very picky about his food, he was always unsatisfied with what the farmer gave him to eat. So he decided to go walk around, to see what yummy things the other animals had to eat. 
　　
He quickly discovered a few chickens happily eating something, so he went over to look, it was grain, so he tried a mouthful, but he spit out, "[This] has no flavor, it's gross!", he said and left.　
　　
Not long after he saw a dog gnawing on a bone with relish, and a cat singing a song while tearing into a fish. Just looking at these foods frightened him, and the smell made him retch, so he quickly took his leave. 　
　　
After walking for a while, the little horse was a bit thirsty, so he went to the pond to drink some water. He saw two ducks fighting over an earthworm, they stretched the earthworm out long and thin, and finally broke it into two pieces, and the two ducks each gobbled down their piece, and started looking about [for another]. Seeing this cruel scene, the little horse couldn't even stand to drink any water and quickly ran away, "Truly horrifying!" he said. 
　　
He ran all around, and everything he saw the other animals eating didn't suit his own tastes, and some even disgusted him. He returned to his pen with his stomach rumbling, and found that the grass master had prepared for him to eat was his favorite delicious food after all.  
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