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(162, 1, '2011-01-12 22:15:16', '2011-01-12 22:15:16', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very short children\'s story about a bear\'s search for a new home. The original text was found on a Chinese children\'s stories site.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave, hole\r\n造 - [pinyin]zao4[/pinyin] - make, build\r\n挂 - [pinyin]gua4[/pinyin] - hang\r\n砍 - [pinyin]kan3[/pinyin] - to chop\r\n舍不得 - [pinyin]she3 bu4 de[/pinyin] - can\'t bear to\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n小熊一家住在山<strong>洞</strong>里。熊爷爷对小熊说,“你去<strong>造</strong>间木头房子住吧!\"\r\n\r\n春天，小熊走进树林。树上长满了绿叶，他舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n夏天，小熊又走进了树林。树上开满了鲜花，小熊<strong>舍不得砍</strong>。\r\n\r\n秋天，小熊走进树林，树上<strong>挂</strong>满了果实。小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n冬天，小熊走进了树林。树上站着许多小鸟，小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n一年又一年，小熊没有砍树造房子，还是高高兴兴地住在山洞里……\r\n\r\n树林里的小动物非常感谢小熊，他们送给小熊一束束美丽的鲜花.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nSource: <a href=\"http://www.gushi365.com/info/5568.html\">GuShi365.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle bear lived in a mountain cave. Grandfather bear said to Little Bear: \"Go and find a wooden house to live in!\"\r\n\r\nIn spring, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of green leaves, and he couldn\'t hear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn summer, little bear again went into the forest. The trees were full of fresh flowers, and he couldn\'t hear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn autumn, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of hanging fruit, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn winter, little bear went into the forest. Many little birds were living in the trees, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nYears passed, and little bear still hadn\'t made a home out of the trees. He was still living happily in his mountain cave.\r\n\r\nThe little forest animals thanked Little Bear very much, and they gave him a bunch of beautiful fresh flowers. [/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:15:16', '2011-01-12 22:15:16', '', 7, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/7-revision-38/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(163, 1, '2011-01-12 17:48:31', '2011-01-12 17:48:31', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nSinopec, one of China\'s leading oil conglomerates, is currently running an ad targeted at a younger Chinese market on the China Youth Daily home page. <!--more-->The ad encourages young adults to check out Sinopec\'s Flash-animated history of oil, completed with the requisite cartoon oil-drop mascot named \"You Di\" (a homophone for \"oil drop\"). Using typically expansive language, the lead-in introduces the mascot and the theme of the presentation.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.sinopecgroup.com/ydydgs/Pages/default.aspx\">See the original page</a>\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n滴 - [pinyin]di1[/pinyin] - Droplet, drop\r\n微不足道 - [pinyin]wei1 bu4 zu2 dao4[/pinyin] - Insignificant\r\n小看 - [pinyin]xiao3 kan4[/pinyin] - Look down on, underestimate\r\n演化 - [pinyin]yan3 hua4[/pinyin] - Evolution\r\n工序 - [pinyin]gong1 xu4[/pinyin] - Process\r\n汽油柴油 - [pinyin]qi4 you2[/pinyin] - Petrol / gasoline\r\n柴油 - [pinyin]chai2 you2[/pinyin] - Diesel\r\n运转 - [pinyin]yun4 zhuan3[/pinyin] - To work / operate\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">一<strong>滴</strong>油，也许大家觉得<strong>微不足道</strong>，滴在地上只是一个小小的油印，装在车里，车也走不了几米。但大家不要<strong>小看</strong>这小小的一滴油，他的年纪可真不小，他可是经历了上亿年的<strong>演化</strong>，经过数千道各种<strong>工序</strong>才能从最初的生物变成现在用在汽车和各种机器上的<strong>汽油柴油</strong>。下面我们来讲讲这一滴油的故事，我们给这一滴油起一个名字，就叫做“油迪”吧。因为石油真的是地球留给我们人类的最最宝贵的财富。我们现在的工业社会，都是建立在石油工业的基础之上的，如果没有了石油，我们的机器无法<strong>运转</strong>，汽车无法开动，很多日常用品也没有办法生产，就连肥皂和洗衣服这些基本日常用品，都是石油工业的产品。</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nEveryone might think that a single drop of oil is insignificant. A drop on the ground is just a tiny oily smear, and if you put it in a car, the car couldn\'t even go a few meters. But we shouldn\'t underestimate this little drop of oil. It\'s very old, and it\'s experienced hundreds of millions of years of evolution, having passed through many thousands of various processes before finally, from the very first animals, becoming the substance we use today in cars, and the petrol and deisel we use in various machines. After this, we\'ll take a look at the story of this drop of oil, and we\'ll give him a name - how about we call him \"You Di\". Because oil truly is the most precious treasure the earth has given us. Our industrial society was built on the foundation of the oil industry. If we didn\'t have oil, our machines wouldn\'t work, our cars wouldn\'t start, and we\'d have no way to produce many everyday necessities, even basic things like soap and washing clothes, all these are products of the oil industry.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Sinopec Introduction to the History of Oil', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '53-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 17:48:31', '2011-01-12 17:48:31', '', 53, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/53-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(164, 1, '2011-01-12 17:54:15', '2011-01-12 17:54:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay, taken from the Beijing Language and Culture University beginner comprehension textbook, is written from the perspective of a friend visiting Jiang Ping （江苹） before she leaves the country. <!--more--> The language is mostly school-centric as the writer discusses his classmates, Jiang Ping\'s scholarship, and her test results.\r\n\r\nThe crux of the last paragraph hinges on the fact that the Chinese word for \"Goodbye\" (再见) literally translates as \"See you again\", as the writer wonders when or if he\'ll ever really see Jiang Ping again.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n努力 - [pinyin]nu3 li4[/pinyin] - Great effort\r\n参加 - [pinyin]can1 jia1[/pinyin] - Participate\r\n得 - [pinyin]de[/pinyin] - To get, earn\r\n满分 - [pinyin]man3 fen1[/pinyin] - Full marks, 100%\r\n奖学金 - [pinyin]jiang3 xue2 jin1[/pinyin] - Scholarship\r\n留学 - [pinyin]liu2 xue2[/pinyin] - Study abroad\r\n预祝 - [pinyin]yu4 zhu4[/pinyin] - Wish\r\n成功 - [pinyin]cheng2 gong1[/pinyin] - Success\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">今天我去江苹加了。 我和江苹是中学<strong>同学</strong>， 她是我的好朋友， 也是我们全班同学的朋友。 她学习非常<strong>努力</strong>， 是我们班学习最好的学生。 她会学习， 她会玩儿， 还常常帮助别人， 老师和同学都很喜欢她。 她这次<strong>参加</strong>了美国一个大学<strong>考试</strong>。 这个考试非常难，但是她考得很好，<strong>得</strong>了<strong>满分</strong>。 听说全世界只有三个学生得满分。 这个大学给江苹最高的<strong>奖学金</strong>。 我们都为她感到高兴。\r\n\r\n她下星期要去美国<strong>留学</strong>， 我们班的同学都去看他， 给他送行。\r\n\r\n江苹的家在城东边， 离我家比较远。 我下午四点多就从家里出发了， 五点半才到。 我到的时候， 同学们都已经到了。\r\n\r\n江苹很热情地欢迎我们。 同学们好久不见了， 见面以后高兴得又说又笑， 谈得很愉快。 我们<strong>预祝</strong>江苹<strong>成功</strong>。 祝她一路平安。 我说， 一定要常来新啊。 江苹说，一定。 跟他说 “再见”  的时候， 她哭了， 我也哭了。\r\n\r\n回家的路上， 我想， 我们常常说 “再见”， 但是， 有时候 “再见” 是很难的。 我和江苹什么时候能 “再见” 呢？\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nToday I\'m going to Jiang Ping\'s house. Jiang Ping and I are highschool classmates. She\'s my good friend, and she\'s also good friends with everyone in our class. She studies very hard, she\'s the best student in our class. She studies, she plays, and she also often helps others. The teacher and the other students like her. She recently participated in an examination for an American college. That test is very hard, but she did very well - she earned full marks. I heard that only three people in the whole world got full marks. This college gave Jiang Ping their highest scholarship. We\'re all very happy for her.\r\n\r\nNext week she\'s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping\'s house is on the east side of the city very far away from mine. I left my house a little after four o\'clock in the afternoon, and didn\'t get there until 5:30. When I arrived, the rest of our classmates were already there.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping warmly welcomed us. She hadn\'t seen her classmates in a while, and after she greeted us, we talked and smiled, chatting happily. We wished Jiang Ping success. Wished her a pleasant trip. I said, Be sure to write often. Jiang Ping said, Of course. When she said \"Goodbye\", she cried, and I also cried.\r\n\r\nOn my way home, I thought, We often say \"Goodbye\" [lit: see you again], but sometimes \"Goodbye\" is sad. When will Jiang Ping and I be able to see each other again?\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Jiang Ping Going to Study Abroad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '67-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 17:54:15', '2011-01-12 17:54:15', '', 67, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/67-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(165, 1, '2011-01-12 18:07:00', '2011-01-12 18:07:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs vaguely sordid fables go, this one\'s fairly tame, resulting only in some humiliatory retribution and a lost tail or two.<!--more--> \r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n狼 - [pinyin]lang2[/pinyin] - Wolf\r\n欺负 - [pinyin]qi1 fu5[/pinyin] - To bully\r\n狐狸 - [pinyin]hu2 li5[/pinyin] - Fox\r\n觅食 - [pinyin]mi4 shi2[/pinyin] - Forage, scavenge\r\n阵 - [pinyin]zhen4[/pinyin] - Classifier for events of short duration\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave\r\n暗自 - [pinyin]an4 zi4[/pinyin] - Inwardly, secretly\r\n凿 - [pinyin]zuo4[/pinyin] - Bore, dig\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一只小<strong>狼</strong>他总是<strong>欺负</strong>别人。一天小动物们聚在一起商量对付那只小狼的办法，聪明的小<strong>狐狸</strong>想到了一个办法。\r\n\r\n一天小狼出外<strong>觅食</strong>的狼，忽然闻到一<strong>阵</strong>阵烤鱼的香味，小狼跑进山<strong>洞</strong>一看，原来是狐狸在烤鱼。狐狸见狼来了，心里<strong>暗自</strong>高兴。\r\n\r\n狼问, “这些鱼是从哪弄来的？”\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “有一个地方可以钓到好多鱼，我可以给你带路。”\r\n\r\n于时狼就跟着狐狸走啊走，来到了河边，原来是河里的水结了一层冰。\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “只要在冰上<strong>凿</strong>一个洞，把<strong>尾巴</strong>放进河里，等鱼咬住尾巴的时候，就把尾巴提上来，这样就可以钓到好多好多的鱼！”\r\n\r\n狼想着这下钓的鱼吃也吃不光啦，狼等了好久，也没有鱼咬住他的尾巴。狼实在冷得不行了，就想把尾巴提上来，回头一看，尾巴都被冰住了。狼大力拉，哪知他的尾巴“啪”的一声断掉了，狼逃走了。\r\n\r\n小动物们看见狼的惨样子，都哈哈地笑了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLong  ago, there was a wolf who was always bullying others. One day,  the small animals gathered together to discuss a way to solve the problem. The smart fox thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nOne day Wolf went out to forage for food, when suddenly  he smelled the scent of roasting fish. When Little Wolf ran into a  mountain cave and looked, he saw that it was Little Fox that was cooking the fish. Fox saw that Wolf had come, and in his heart he was secretly happy.\r\n\r\nWolf asked \"Where did these fish come from?\"\r\n\r\nFox said, \"There is a place where you can catch many fish, I can take you there.\"\r\n\r\nSo Wolf followed Fox as he walked and walked, until they came to a riverbank. There turned out to be a layer of ice over the water.\r\n\r\nFox said, \"All you have to do is bore a hole in the ice, stick your tail into the river, wait until the fish bite your tail, then pull your tail out. This way, you\'ll catch many, many fish.\r\n\r\nWolf, thinking of how the fish would be more than a full meal, waited quite a while, but no fish bit his tail. Wolf was finally too cold to continue and tried to pull up his tail, but when he turned his head to look, he saw that his tail was stuck in the ice. He gave a  great pull, and what do you know but his tail came off with a \"pa\"  sound. Wolf hopped away.\r\n\r\nWhen the other little animals saw wolf\'s miserable face, they all laughed.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Wolf Goes Fishing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '85-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 18:07:00', '2011-01-12 18:07:00', '', 85, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/85-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(166, 1, '2011-01-12 18:10:51', '2011-01-12 18:10:51', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs pop-psychology self-help books from Japan take aim at the Chinese market, we\'re seeing more and more reads like this one, \"My First Workplace Color Book\", by Zhi Kou Ling Yi (Chinese transliteration of Japanese name). <!--more--> This book synopsis from 青年文摘 (Youth Digest) sums up the benefits of wearing various colors to work, and what you might acheive by doing so.\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分析 - [pinyin]fen1 xi1[/pinyin] - Analysis\r\n直观 - [pinyin]zhi2 guan1[/pinyin] - Intuitive\r\n探究 - [pinyin]tan4 jiu1[/pinyin] - To explore, delve into\r\n决心 - [pinyin]jue2 xin1[/pinyin] - Determination\r\n冷静 - [pinyin]leng3 jing4[/pinyin] - Cool-headed, calm\r\n有效 - [pinyin]you3 xiao4[/pinyin] - Effective\r\n场合 - [pinyin]chang3 he2[/pinyin] - Situation, occasion\r\n得心应手 - [pinyin]de2 xin1 ying4 shou3[/pinyin] - lit. \"What the heart wishes, the hand accomplishes\" - to be skilled at a job\r\n技巧 - [pinyin]ji4 qiao3[/pinyin] - Technique\r\n透露 - [pinyin]tou4 lu4[/pinyin] - Divulge\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本书是日本色彩女王枝口玲己最受欢迎的职场色彩书，她通过对12种主流色彩的<strong>分析</strong>，快速而<strong>直观</strong>地<strong>探究</strong>人最深层的心理本质——在谈判时穿红色套装能表达你的<strong>决心</strong>，戴银色首饰传达出你<strong>冷静</strong>和认真的态度，而白色在你想要表现自己纯洁、干净整洁、诚实的时候特别有效……\r\n\r\n最重要的是，本书提供了适合28个场合的色彩作战方案，无论你是希望享受一段甜蜜的爱情，还是期待在职场上<strong>得心应手</strong>，只要掌握了这些<strong>技巧</strong>，一切都将变得非常简单！\r\n\r\nBe careful，在不经意间，你也向别人<strong>透露</strong>了内心的想法哦！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/book/1/wodediyibenzhichangsecaishu-766.html\">See the original summary</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nThis book is Japanese color queen Zhi Kou Ling Yi\'s first introduction to workplace color, and through analysis of 12 mainstream colors, she quickly and intuitively explores man\'s deepest psychological nature. During negotiations, wearing a red suit expresses your determination, wearing silver jewelry conveys your cool-headed and hard-working attitude, while white shows purity and tidiness, particularly effective when you want to appear honest...\r\n\r\nThe most important thing is that this book provides color-based strategies [lit: operational plans] to suit 28 different situations, whether you want to enjoy sweet love, or you look forward to acheiving what you want at work, as long as you master these techniques, everything will become very easy!\r\n\r\nBe careful, if you don\'t watch out, you might divulge your true intentions to others!\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'My First Workplace Color Book', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '98-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 18:10:51', '2011-01-12 18:10:51', '', 98, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/98-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(168, 1, '2011-01-26 08:00:06', '2011-01-26 08:00:06', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nGotta love dream dictionaries - this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses what it means when someone dreams about a temple (寺庙 - [pinyin]si4 miao4[/pinyin]).<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThough some of the language is undoutedly advanced, the sentence structure is super short and repetitive, so I\'m classifying this as intermediate an intermediate read.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n宇 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\r\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\r\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\r\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\r\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\r\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\r\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n\r\n女人梦见庙<strong>宇</strong> —— 丈夫家的人会<strong>四分五裂</strong>。\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n病人梦见寺庙 —— 病情会加重。\r\n\r\n梦见进入寺庙 —— 一切努力都会<strong>化为泡影</strong>。\r\n\r\n孕妇梦见进入庙宇 —— <strong>胎儿</strong>会有问题。\r\n\r\n商人梦见进入寺庙 —— 生意会大<strong>亏损</strong>。\r\n\r\n梦见别人进了寺庙 —— 一切困难都会过去。\r\n\r\n梦见妻子进了庙宇 —— 夫妻生活和谐、幸福。\r\n\r\n梦见敌人跨入庙门 —— 自己能<strong>降</strong>服敌人，渡过难关。\r\n\r\n梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的<strong>吉兆</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.51jiemeng.com/building/temple.html\">See the source</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA woman dreams about a temple hall: Her husband\'s family will splinter into disharmony.\r\n\r\nA sick person dreams about a temple: The patient\'s condition will become more serious.\r\n\r\nYou dream of entering a temple: All of your hard work will come to nothing.\r\n\r\nA pregnant woman dreams of entering a temple: There will be a problem with the baby.\r\n\r\nA businessperson dreams of entering a temple: The business will suffer a great loss.\r\n\r\nYou dream of another person entering a temple: All of your troubles will pass.\r\n\r\nYou dream of a wife entering a temple: The couple will live in harmony and prosperity.\r\n\r\nYou dream of your enemy stepping into a temple door: If you surrender to your enemy, you can ride out the storm.\r\n\r\nYou dream of yourself sitting inside a temple hall: This is an omen that you will succeed or get married.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually Bad', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'apparently-dreaming-about-temples-is-usually-bad', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:22:16', '2020-04-20 11:22:16', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=168', 0, 'post', '', 1),
(169, 1, '2011-01-12 23:54:11', '2011-01-12 23:54:11', '[two_third]\nGotta love dream dictionaries - this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses what it means when someone dreams about a temple (寺庙 - [pinyin]si4 miao4[/pinyin]).<!--more--> \nThough some of the language is undoutedly advanced, the sentence structure is super short and repetitive, so I\'m classifying this as intermediate an intermediate read.\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\n脱口秀主持人 - tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2 - Talk show host\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n女人梦见庙宇 —— 丈夫家的人会四分五裂。\n\n病人梦见寺庙 —— 病情会加重。\n\n梦见进入寺庙 —— 一切努力都会化为泡影。\n\n孕妇梦见进入庙宇 —— 胎儿会有问题。\n\n商人梦见进入寺庙 —— 生意会大亏损。\n\n梦见别人进了寺庙 —— 一切困难都会过去。\n\n梦见妻子进了庙宇 —— 夫妻生活和谐、幸福。\n\n梦见敌人跨入庙门 —— 自己能降服敌人，渡过难关。\n\n梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的吉兆。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://www.51jiemeng.com/building/temple.html\">See the source</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\n[If...]\n\nA woman dreams about a temple hall: Her husband\'s family will splinter into disharmony.\n\nA sick person dreams about a temple: The patient\'s condition will become more serious. \n\nYou dream of entering a temple: All of your hard work will come to nothing. \n\nA pregnant woman dreams of entering a temple: There will be a problem with the baby. \n\nA businessperson dreams of entering a temple: The business will suffer a great loss. \n\nYou dream of another person entering a temple: All of your troubles will pass.\n\nYou dream of a wife entering a temple: The couple will live in harmony and prosperity. \n\nYou dream of your enemy stepping into a temple door: If you surrender to your enemy, you can ride out the storm.  \n\nYou dream of yourself sitting inside a temple hall: 梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的吉兆。\n[/one_half]', 'Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually Bad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 23:54:11', '2011-01-12 23:54:11', '', 168, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/168-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(170, 1, '2011-01-12 23:54:55', '2011-01-12 23:54:55', '[two_third]\r\nGotta love dream dictionaries - this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses what it means when someone dreams about a temple (寺庙 - [pinyin]si4 miao4[/pinyin]).<!--more--> \r\nThough some of the language is undoutedly advanced, the sentence structure is super short and repetitive, so I\'m classifying this as intermediate an intermediate read.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2 - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n女人梦见庙宇 —— 丈夫家的人会四分五裂。\r\n\r\n病人梦见寺庙 —— 病情会加重。\r\n\r\n梦见进入寺庙 —— 一切努力都会化为泡影。\r\n\r\n孕妇梦见进入庙宇 —— 胎儿会有问题。\r\n\r\n商人梦见进入寺庙 —— 生意会大亏损。\r\n\r\n梦见别人进了寺庙 —— 一切困难都会过去。\r\n\r\n梦见妻子进了庙宇 —— 夫妻生活和谐、幸福。\r\n\r\n梦见敌人跨入庙门 —— 自己能降服敌人，渡过难关。\r\n\r\n梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的吉兆。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.51jiemeng.com/building/temple.html\">See the source</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[If...]\r\n\r\nA woman dreams about a temple hall: Her husband\'s family will splinter into disharmony.\r\n\r\nA sick person dreams about a temple: The patient\'s condition will become more serious. \r\n\r\nYou dream of entering a temple: All of your hard work will come to nothing. \r\n\r\nA pregnant woman dreams of entering a temple: There will be a problem with the baby. \r\n\r\nA businessperson dreams of entering a temple: The business will suffer a great loss. \r\n\r\nYou dream of another person entering a temple: All of your troubles will pass.\r\n\r\nYou dream of a wife entering a temple: The couple will live in harmony and prosperity. \r\n\r\nYou dream of your enemy stepping into a temple door: If you surrender to your enemy, you can ride out the storm.  \r\n\r\nYou dream of yourself sitting inside a temple hall: This is an omen that you will succeed or get married.  \r\n[/one_half]', 'Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually Bad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 23:54:55', '2011-01-12 23:54:55', '', 168, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/168-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(171, 1, '2011-01-12 23:55:04', '2011-01-12 23:55:04', '[two_third]\r\nGotta love dream dictionaries - this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses what it means when someone dreams about a temple (寺庙 - [pinyin]si4 miao4[/pinyin]).<!--more--> \r\nThough some of the language is undoutedly advanced, the sentence structure is super short and repetitive, so I\'m classifying this as intermediate an intermediate read.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2 - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n女人梦见庙宇 —— 丈夫家的人会四分五裂。\r\n\r\n病人梦见寺庙 —— 病情会加重。\r\n\r\n梦见进入寺庙 —— 一切努力都会化为泡影。\r\n\r\n孕妇梦见进入庙宇 —— 胎儿会有问题。\r\n\r\n商人梦见进入寺庙 —— 生意会大亏损。\r\n\r\n梦见别人进了寺庙 —— 一切困难都会过去。\r\n\r\n梦见妻子进了庙宇 —— 夫妻生活和谐、幸福。\r\n\r\n梦见敌人跨入庙门 —— 自己能降服敌人，渡过难关。\r\n\r\n梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的吉兆。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.51jiemeng.com/building/temple.html\">See the source</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[If...]\r\n\r\nA woman dreams about a temple hall: Her husband\'s family will splinter into disharmony.\r\n\r\nA sick person dreams about a temple: The patient\'s condition will become more serious. \r\n\r\nYou dream of entering a temple: All of your hard work will come to nothing. \r\n\r\nA pregnant woman dreams of entering a temple: There will be a problem with the baby. \r\n\r\nA businessperson dreams of entering a temple: The business will suffer a great loss. \r\n\r\nYou dream of another person entering a temple: All of your troubles will pass.\r\n\r\nYou dream of a wife entering a temple: The couple will live in harmony and prosperity. \r\n\r\nYou dream of your enemy stepping into a temple door: If you surrender to your enemy, you can ride out the storm.  \r\n\r\nYou dream of yourself sitting inside a temple hall: This is an omen that you will succeed or get married.  \r\n[/one_half]', 'Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually Bad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 23:55:04', '2011-01-12 23:55:04', '', 168, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/168-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1846, 1, '2020-04-20 07:05:17', '2020-04-20 11:05:17', '[two_third]\n\nThis short essay details a child\'s brush with classroom thievery. <!--more-->\n\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. \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马来西亚 - [pinyin]ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4[/pinyin] - Malaysia\n称不绝口 - [pinyin]cheng1 bu4 jue2 kou3[/pinyin] - Talk continuously, go on and on about sth.\n趁 - [pinyin]chen4[/pinyin] - Take advantage of\n若无其事 - [pinyin]ruo4 wu2 qi2 shi4[/pinyin] - Nonchalantly, as if nothing had happened\n放声大哭 - [pinyin]fang4 sheng1 da4 ku1[/pinyin] - Burst into sobs, cry loudly\n三思而后行 - [pinyin]san1 si4 er2 hou4 xing2[/pinyin] - Think many times before acting\n以免 - [pinyin]yi3 mian3[/pinyin] - So as not to\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\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。\n\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！\n\n</div>\n\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n\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. \n\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! \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'I Did Something Wrong', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '441-autosave-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:05:17', '2020-04-20 11:05:17', '', 441, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/04/20/441-autosave-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(173, 1, '2011-01-12 22:13:44', '2011-01-12 22:13:44', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\". \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW. \r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2 - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook. \r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable. \r\n[/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:13:44', '2011-01-12 22:13:44', '', 154, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/154-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(174, 1, '2011-01-12 23:55:23', '2011-01-12 23:55:23', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nGotta love dream dictionaries - this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses what it means when someone dreams about a temple (寺庙 - [pinyin]si4 miao4[/pinyin]).<!--more-->\r\nThough some of the language is undoutedly advanced, the sentence structure is super short and repetitive, so I\'m classifying this as intermediate an intermediate read.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2 - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">女人梦见庙宇 —— 丈夫家的人会四分五裂。\r\n\r\n病人梦见寺庙 —— 病情会加重。\r\n\r\n梦见进入寺庙 —— 一切努力都会化为泡影。\r\n\r\n孕妇梦见进入庙宇 —— 胎儿会有问题。\r\n\r\n商人梦见进入寺庙 —— 生意会大亏损。\r\n\r\n梦见别人进了寺庙 —— 一切困难都会过去。\r\n\r\n梦见妻子进了庙宇 —— 夫妻生活和谐、幸福。\r\n\r\n梦见敌人跨入庙门 —— 自己能降服敌人，渡过难关。\r\n\r\n梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的吉兆。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.51jiemeng.com/building/temple.html\">See the source</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[If...]\r\n\r\nA woman dreams about a temple hall: Her husband\'s family will splinter into disharmony.\r\n\r\nA sick person dreams about a temple: The patient\'s condition will become more serious.\r\n\r\nYou dream of entering a temple: All of your hard work will come to nothing.\r\n\r\nA pregnant woman dreams of entering a temple: There will be a problem with the baby.\r\n\r\nA businessperson dreams of entering a temple: The business will suffer a great loss.\r\n\r\nYou dream of another person entering a temple: All of your troubles will pass.\r\n\r\nYou dream of a wife entering a temple: The couple will live in harmony and prosperity.\r\n\r\nYou dream of your enemy stepping into a temple door: If you surrender to your enemy, you can ride out the storm.\r\n\r\nYou dream of yourself sitting inside a temple hall: This is an omen that you will succeed or get married.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually Bad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 23:55:23', '2011-01-12 23:55:23', '', 168, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/168-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(175, 1, '2011-01-13 00:05:51', '2011-01-13 00:05:51', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nGotta love dream dictionaries - this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses what it means when someone dreams about a temple (寺庙 - [pinyin]si4 miao4[/pinyin]).<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThough some of the language is undoutedly advanced, the sentence structure is super short and repetitive, so I\'m classifying this as intermediate an intermediate read.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n宇 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\r\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\r\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\r\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\r\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\r\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\r\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">女人梦见庙<strong>宇</strong> —— 丈夫家的人会<strong>四分五裂</strong>。\r\n\r\n病人梦见寺庙 —— 病情会加重。\r\n\r\n梦见进入寺庙 —— 一切努力都会<strong>化为泡影</strong>。\r\n\r\n孕妇梦见进入庙宇 —— <strong>胎儿</strong>会有问题。\r\n\r\n商人梦见进入寺庙 —— 生意会大<strong>亏损</strong>。\r\n\r\n梦见别人进了寺庙 —— 一切困难都会过去。\r\n\r\n梦见妻子进了庙宇 —— 夫妻生活和谐、幸福。\r\n\r\n梦见敌人跨入庙门 —— 自己能<strong>降</strong>服敌人，渡过难关。\r\n\r\n梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的吉兆。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.51jiemeng.com/building/temple.html\">See the source</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[If...]\r\n\r\nA woman dreams about a temple hall: Her husband\'s family will splinter into disharmony.\r\n\r\nA sick person dreams about a temple: The patient\'s condition will become more serious.\r\n\r\nYou dream of entering a temple: All of your hard work will come to nothing.\r\n\r\nA pregnant woman dreams of entering a temple: There will be a problem with the baby.\r\n\r\nA businessperson dreams of entering a temple: The business will suffer a great loss.\r\n\r\nYou dream of another person entering a temple: All of your troubles will pass.\r\n\r\nYou dream of a wife entering a temple: The couple will live in harmony and prosperity.\r\n\r\nYou dream of your enemy stepping into a temple door: If you surrender to your enemy, you can ride out the storm.\r\n\r\nYou dream of yourself sitting inside a temple hall: This is an omen that you will succeed or get married.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually Bad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 00:05:51', '2011-01-13 00:05:51', '', 168, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/168-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(176, 1, '2011-01-13 00:07:32', '2011-01-13 00:07:32', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nGotta love dream dictionaries - this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses what it means when someone dreams about a temple (寺庙 - [pinyin]si4 miao4[/pinyin]).<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThough some of the language is undoutedly advanced, the sentence structure is super short and repetitive, so I\'m classifying this as intermediate an intermediate read.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n宇 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\r\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\r\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\r\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\r\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\r\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\r\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">女人梦见庙<strong>宇</strong> —— 丈夫家的人会<strong>四分五裂</strong>。\r\n\r\n病人梦见寺庙 —— 病情会加重。\r\n\r\n梦见进入寺庙 —— 一切努力都会<strong>化为泡影</strong>。\r\n\r\n孕妇梦见进入庙宇 —— <strong>胎儿</strong>会有问题。\r\n\r\n商人梦见进入寺庙 —— 生意会大<strong>亏损</strong>。\r\n\r\n梦见别人进了寺庙 —— 一切困难都会过去。\r\n\r\n梦见妻子进了庙宇 —— 夫妻生活和谐、幸福。\r\n\r\n梦见敌人跨入庙门 —— 自己能<strong>降</strong>服敌人，渡过难关。\r\n\r\n梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的吉兆。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.51jiemeng.com/building/temple.html\">See the source</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[If...]\r\n\r\nA woman dreams about a temple hall: Her husband\'s family will splinter into disharmony.\r\n\r\nA sick person dreams about a temple: The patient\'s condition will become more serious.\r\n\r\nYou dream of entering a temple: All of your hard work will come to nothing.\r\n\r\nA pregnant woman dreams of entering a temple: There will be a problem with the baby.\r\n\r\nA businessperson dreams of entering a temple: The business will suffer a great loss.\r\n\r\nYou dream of another person entering a temple: All of your troubles will pass.\r\n\r\nYou dream of a wife entering a temple: The couple will live in harmony and prosperity.\r\n\r\nYou dream of your enemy stepping into a temple door: If you surrender to your enemy, you can ride out the storm.\r\n\r\nYou dream of yourself sitting inside a temple hall: This is an omen that you will succeed or get married.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually Bad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 00:07:32', '2011-01-13 00:07:32', '', 168, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/168-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(177, 1, '2011-01-13 00:07:40', '2011-01-13 00:07:40', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nGotta love dream dictionaries - this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses what it means when someone dreams about a temple (寺庙 - [pinyin]si4 miao4[/pinyin]).<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThough some of the language is undoutedly advanced, the sentence structure is super short and repetitive, so I\'m classifying this as intermediate an intermediate read.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n宇 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\r\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\r\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\r\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\r\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\r\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\r\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">女人梦见庙<strong>宇</strong> —— 丈夫家的人会<strong>四分五裂</strong>。\r\n\r\n病人梦见寺庙 —— 病情会加重。\r\n\r\n梦见进入寺庙 —— 一切努力都会<strong>化为泡影</strong>。\r\n\r\n孕妇梦见进入庙宇 —— <strong>胎儿</strong>会有问题。\r\n\r\n商人梦见进入寺庙 —— 生意会大<strong>亏损</strong>。\r\n\r\n梦见别人进了寺庙 —— 一切困难都会过去。\r\n\r\n梦见妻子进了庙宇 —— 夫妻生活和谐、幸福。\r\n\r\n梦见敌人跨入庙门 —— 自己能<strong>降</strong>服敌人，渡过难关。\r\n\r\n梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的吉兆。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.51jiemeng.com/building/temple.html\">See the source</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[If...]\r\n\r\nA woman dreams about a temple hall: Her husband\'s family will splinter into disharmony.\r\n\r\nA sick person dreams about a temple: The patient\'s condition will become more serious.\r\n\r\nYou dream of entering a temple: All of your hard work will come to nothing.\r\n\r\nA pregnant woman dreams of entering a temple: There will be a problem with the baby.\r\n\r\nA businessperson dreams of entering a temple: The business will suffer a great loss.\r\n\r\nYou dream of another person entering a temple: All of your troubles will pass.\r\n\r\nYou dream of a wife entering a temple: The couple will live in harmony and prosperity.\r\n\r\nYou dream of your enemy stepping into a temple door: If you surrender to your enemy, you can ride out the storm.\r\n\r\nYou dream of yourself sitting inside a temple hall: This is an omen that you will succeed or get married.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually Bad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 00:07:40', '2011-01-13 00:07:40', '', 168, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/168-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(178, 1, '2011-01-13 00:08:17', '2011-01-13 00:08:17', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nGotta love dream dictionaries - this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses what it means when someone dreams about a temple (寺庙 - [pinyin]si4 miao4[/pinyin]).<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThough some of the language is undoutedly advanced, the sentence structure is super short and repetitive, so I\'m classifying this as intermediate an intermediate read.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n宇 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\r\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\r\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\r\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\r\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\r\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\r\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">女人梦见庙<strong>宇</strong> —— 丈夫家的人会<strong>四分五裂</strong>。\r\n\r\n病人梦见寺庙 —— 病情会加重。\r\n\r\n梦见进入寺庙 —— 一切努力都会<strong>化为泡影</strong>。\r\n\r\n孕妇梦见进入庙宇 —— <strong>胎儿</strong>会有问题。\r\n\r\n商人梦见进入寺庙 —— 生意会大<strong>亏损</strong>。\r\n\r\n梦见别人进了寺庙 —— 一切困难都会过去。\r\n\r\n梦见妻子进了庙宇 —— 夫妻生活和谐、幸福。\r\n\r\n梦见敌人跨入庙门 —— 自己能<strong>降</strong>服敌人，渡过难关。\r\n\r\n梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的<strong>吉兆</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.51jiemeng.com/building/temple.html\">See the source</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[If...]\r\n\r\nA woman dreams about a temple hall: Her husband\'s family will splinter into disharmony.\r\n\r\nA sick person dreams about a temple: The patient\'s condition will become more serious.\r\n\r\nYou dream of entering a temple: All of your hard work will come to nothing.\r\n\r\nA pregnant woman dreams of entering a temple: There will be a problem with the baby.\r\n\r\nA businessperson dreams of entering a temple: The business will suffer a great loss.\r\n\r\nYou dream of another person entering a temple: All of your troubles will pass.\r\n\r\nYou dream of a wife entering a temple: The couple will live in harmony and prosperity.\r\n\r\nYou dream of your enemy stepping into a temple door: If you surrender to your enemy, you can ride out the storm.\r\n\r\nYou dream of yourself sitting inside a temple hall: This is an omen that you will succeed or get married.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually Bad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 00:08:17', '2011-01-13 00:08:17', '', 168, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/168-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(179, 1, '2011-01-12 20:54:03', '2011-01-12 20:54:03', 'After spending six years in China studying Mandarin and working, I took a several-year haitus and returned to my native country. It was alarming how quickly my language skills began distinegrating. I searched online for daily reading practice, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was both at an appropriate reading level, was a topic I was interested in, was presented in a way that was easy to read, and that I was sure I could get through. I ended up spending more time looking for something that was suitable than actually doing any reading.\r\n\r\nAs someone who organizes her thoughts into a series of domain names, it was inevitable I\'d eventually start a website about it, and here you are. This site is not an \"official\" anything - it\'s my personal blog, and I post here whenever I have a few minutes to practice a bit of reading, or enter something interesting I\'ve picked up.\r\n\r\nThis site doesn\'t exist to teach you Chinese from scratch - there are plenty of sites and programs that do that. But this collection might help you keep your skills fresh, or pick up the occasional new vocabulary word.\r\n<h4>About the Translations</h4>\r\nMany of the translations on this site are done by me, and I don\'t post anything unless I\'m sure it\'s correct. Do feel free to comment with corrections if you see anything that ought to have a better translation. Quite a few of the translations, however, are done by others, are taken from old Chinese textbooks or hardcopy magazines I picked up overseas, or were sent in by a third party.\r\n\r\nI post whatever I\'m reading whenever I can - I hope it helps you along.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 20:54:03', '2011-01-12 20:54:03', '', 2, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/2-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(183, 1, '2011-01-13 02:19:16', '2011-01-13 02:19:16', 'After spending six years in China studying Mandarin and working, I took a several-year haitus and returned to my native country. It was alarming how quickly my language skills began distinegrating. I searched online for daily reading practice, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was at an appropriate reading level, was different than the ususal \"ni hao, ni hao\" type of basic conversational reading, was presented in a way that was easy to read, and that I was sure I could get through. I ended up spending more time looking for something that was suitable than actually doing any reading.\r\n\r\nAs someone who organizes her thoughts into a series of domain names, it was inevitable I\'d eventually start a website about it, and here you are. This site is not an \"official\" anything - it\'s my personal blog, and I post here whenever I have a few minutes to practice a bit of reading, or enter something interesting I\'ve picked up.\r\n\r\nThis site doesn\'t exist to teach you Chinese from scratch - there are plenty of sites and programs that do that. But this collection might help you keep your skills fresh, or pick up the occasional new vocabulary word.\r\n<h4>About the Translations</h4>\r\nMany of the translations on this site are done by me, and I don\'t post anything unless I\'ve checked it several times, but that doesn\'t mean I haven\'t missed something. Do feel free to comment if you see anything that ought to have a better translation - it won\'t be taken amiss. Quite a few of the translations, however, are done by others, are taken from old Chinese textbooks or hardcopy magazines I picked up overseas, or were sent in by a third party.\r\n\r\nI post whatever I\'m reading whenever I can - I hope it helps you along.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:19:16', '2011-01-13 02:19:16', '', 2, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/2-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(181, 1, '2011-01-13 00:10:26', '2011-01-13 00:10:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nGotta love dream dictionaries - this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses what it means when someone dreams about a temple (寺庙 - [pinyin]si4 miao4[/pinyin]).<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThough some of the language is undoutedly advanced, the sentence structure is super short and repetitive, so I\'m classifying this as intermediate an intermediate read.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n宇 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\r\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\r\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\r\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\r\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\r\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\r\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n\r\n女人梦见庙<strong>宇</strong> —— 丈夫家的人会<strong>四分五裂</strong>。\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n病人梦见寺庙 —— 病情会加重。\r\n\r\n梦见进入寺庙 —— 一切努力都会<strong>化为泡影</strong>。\r\n\r\n孕妇梦见进入庙宇 —— <strong>胎儿</strong>会有问题。\r\n\r\n商人梦见进入寺庙 —— 生意会大<strong>亏损</strong>。\r\n\r\n梦见别人进了寺庙 —— 一切困难都会过去。\r\n\r\n梦见妻子进了庙宇 —— 夫妻生活和谐、幸福。\r\n\r\n梦见敌人跨入庙门 —— 自己能<strong>降</strong>服敌人，渡过难关。\r\n\r\n梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的<strong>吉兆</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.51jiemeng.com/building/temple.html\">See the source</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[If...]\r\n\r\nA woman dreams about a temple hall: Her husband\'s family will splinter into disharmony.\r\n\r\nA sick person dreams about a temple: The patient\'s condition will become more serious.\r\n\r\nYou dream of entering a temple: All of your hard work will come to nothing.\r\n\r\nA pregnant woman dreams of entering a temple: There will be a problem with the baby.\r\n\r\nA businessperson dreams of entering a temple: The business will suffer a great loss.\r\n\r\nYou dream of another person entering a temple: All of your troubles will pass.\r\n\r\nYou dream of a wife entering a temple: The couple will live in harmony and prosperity.\r\n\r\nYou dream of your enemy stepping into a temple door: If you surrender to your enemy, you can ride out the storm.\r\n\r\nYou dream of yourself sitting inside a temple hall: This is an omen that you will succeed or get married.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually Bad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 00:10:26', '2011-01-13 00:10:26', '', 168, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/168-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(182, 1, '2011-01-13 00:20:48', '2011-01-13 00:20:48', 'After spending six years in China studying Mandarin and working, I took a several-year haitus and returned to my native country. It was alarming how quickly my language skills began distinegrating. I searched online for daily reading practice, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was both at an appropriate reading level, was different than the ususal \"ni hao, ni hao\" type of basic conversational reading, was presented in a way that was easy to read, and that I was sure I could get through. I ended up spending more time looking for something that was suitable than actually doing any reading.\r\n\r\nAs someone who organizes her thoughts into a series of domain names, it was inevitable I\'d eventually start a website about it, and here you are. This site is not an \"official\" anything - it\'s my personal blog, and I post here whenever I have a few minutes to practice a bit of reading, or enter something interesting I\'ve picked up.\r\n\r\nThis site doesn\'t exist to teach you Chinese from scratch - there are plenty of sites and programs that do that. But this collection might help you keep your skills fresh, or pick up the occasional new vocabulary word.\r\n<h4>About the Translations</h4>\r\nMany of the translations on this site are done by me, and I don\'t post anything unless I\'ve checked it several times, but that doesn\'t mean I haven\'t missed something. Do feel free to comment if you see anything that ought to have a better translation - it won\'t be taken amiss. Quite a few of the translations, however, are done by others, are taken from old Chinese textbooks or hardcopy magazines I picked up overseas, or were sent in by a third party.\r\n\r\nI post whatever I\'m reading whenever I can - I hope it helps you along.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 00:20:48', '2011-01-13 00:20:48', '', 2, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/2-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(185, 1, '2011-01-12 19:58:48', '2011-01-12 19:58:48', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n盘缠 - [pinyin]pan2 chan5[/pinyin] - Traveling money\r\n骏马 - [pinyin]jun4 ma3[/pinyin] - Steed\r\n不问青红皂白 - [pinyin]bu4 wen4 qing1 hong2 zao4 bai2[/pinyin] - Doesn\'t distinguish between right and wrong, or between obvious differences\r\n满不在乎 - [pinyin]man3 bu4 zai4 hu5[/pinyin] - Unconcernedly\r\n阻止 - [pinyin]zu3 zhi3[/pinyin] - Prevent\r\n醒悟 - [pinyin]xing3 wu4[/pinyin] - Come to realize\r\n劝阻 -  [pinyin]quan4 zu3[/pinyin] - Dissuade\r\n无奈 - [pinyin]wu2 nai4[/pinyin] - For lack of a better option\r\n劝告 - [pinyin]quan4 gao4[/pinyin] - Urge, exhort\r\n一意孤行 - [pinyin]yi1 yi4 gu4 xing2[/pinyin] - Obstinately stick to, dogmatic\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一个人，从魏国到楚国去。他带上很多的<strong>盘缠</strong>，雇了上好的车，驾上<strong>骏马</strong>，请了驾车技术精湛的车夫，就上路了。楚国在魏国的南面，可这个人<strong>不问青红皂白</strong>让驾车人赶着马车一直向北走去。\r\n\r\n路上有人问他的车是要往哪儿去，他大声回答说: “去楚国！”路人告诉他说: “到楚国去应往南方走，你这是在往北走，方向不对。那人<strong>满不在乎</strong>地说:\"没关系，我的马快着呢!\" 路人替他着急，拉住他的马，<strong>阻止</strong>他说, “方向错了，你的马再快，也到不了楚国呀!\" 那人依然毫不<strong>醒悟</strong>地说: “不要紧，我带的路费多着呢!\" 路人极力<strong>劝阻</strong>他说:“虽说你路费多，可是你走的不是那个方向，你路费多也只能白花呀!\" 那个一心只想着要到楚国去的人有些不耐烦地说: “这有什么难的，我的车夫赶车的本领高着呢!\" 路人<strong>无奈</strong>，只好松开了拉住车把子的手，眼睁睁看着那个盲目上路的魏人走了。\r\n\r\n那个魏国人，不听别人的指点<strong>劝告</strong>，仗着自己的马快、钱多、车夫好等优越条件，朝着相反方向<strong>一意孤行</strong>。那么，他条件越好，他就只会离要去的地方越远，因为他的大方向错了。\r\n\r\n这个故事告诉我们，无论做什么事，都要首先看准方向，才能发充分挥自己的有利条件；如果方向错了，那么有利条件只会起到相反的作用。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a man traveling from the Kingdom of Wei to the Kingdom of Chu. He took a lot of traveling money with him, hired a good carriage, harnessed it to a strong steed, hired an exquisitely skilled driver, and then began his journey. The Kingdom of Chu was to the south of the Kingdom of Wei, but this man couldn\'t tell the difference when the driver rode away towards the north. \r\n\r\nOn the road, a passing traveler asked where they were going. The man loudly answered, \"We\'re going to the Kindom of Chu!\". The traveler told him, \"If you\'re going to Chu, you should go south. You\'re going north, it\'s the wrong direction.\" The man unconcernedly replied, \"No problem! My horse is very fast.\" Worried for him, the traveler pulled at the horse, and warned, \"You\'re going the wrong way. Even if your horse was even faster than it is, you still won\'t reach the Kingdom of Chu!\" Still not seeing the truth, the man said, \"Don\'t worry, I\'ve brought a lot of money with me.\" Making a concerted effort to dissuade him, the traveler said, \"Though you may have a lot of money, you\'re still going the wrong direction, and your money will be spent in vain.\" Thinking of nothing other than getting to the Kingdom of Chu, the man impatiently said, \"It\'s not a problem, my driver is extremely skilled!\" Out of options, the traveler let go of the carriage and watched the aimless man from Wu ride away. \r\n\r\nThe man from Wu didn\'t listen to anyone\'s exhortations, relying on his fast horse, his money, his driver\'s skill and many other favorable conditions, and obstinately continued to go in the opposite direction. Doing this, he could only continue to get further and further away from his goal, because his overall direction was wrong. \r\n\r\nThis story tells us, no matter what the situation is, we\'d better first be sure we\'re going the right way, and only then can we fully employ our other advantages, otherwise those advantages will just cause us pain [lit: have the opposite effect]. \r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'The Story Behind the Idiom NanYuanBeiZhe', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '123-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 19:58:48', '2011-01-12 19:58:48', '', 123, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/123-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(184, 1, '2011-01-13 02:20:36', '2011-01-13 02:20:36', 'After spending six years in China studying Mandarin and working, I took a several-year haitus and returned to my native country. It was alarming how quickly my language skills began distinegrating. I searched online for daily reading practice, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was at an appropriate reading level, was different than the typical way-to-easy or way-too-hard sources available online, was presented in a way that was easy to read, and that I was sure I could get through. I ended up spending more time looking for something that was suitable than actually doing any reading.\r\n\r\nAs someone who organizes her thoughts into a series of domain names, it was inevitable I\'d eventually start a website about it, and here you are. I post here whenever I have a few minutes to practice a bit of reading, or enter something interesting I\'ve picked up.\r\n\r\nThis site doesn\'t exist to teach you Chinese from scratch - there are plenty of sites and programs that do that. But this collection might help you keep your skills fresh, or pick up the occasional new vocabulary word.\r\n<h4>About the Translations</h4>\r\nMany of the translations on this site are done by me, and I don\'t post anything unless I\'ve checked it several times, but that doesn\'t mean I haven\'t missed something. Do feel free to comment if you see anything that ought to have a better translation - it won\'t be taken amiss. Quite a few of the translations, however, are done by others, are taken from old Chinese textbooks or hardcopy magazines I picked up overseas, or were sent in by a third party.\r\n\r\nI post whatever I\'m reading whenever I can - I hope it helps you along.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:20:36', '2011-01-13 02:20:36', '', 2, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/2-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(186, 1, '2011-01-28 02:38:50', '2011-01-28 07:38:50', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nThis one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis piece has uncomplicated sentence structure and mostly simple words with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. You\'ll see brief mention made of 五四运动 [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin], the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement\">May 4th Movement</a>, a period of student protests against the Treaty of Versailles. During that time, China began to see an upsurge in nationalism, and a heavier focus on respecting the working man over the ivory tower intellectual.\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]\r\n\r\n<div class=\"readingPassage\">\r\n[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h4>冰心</h4>\r\n\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　<strong>五四运动</strong>时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在<strong>东京</strong>大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱<strong>祖国</strong>的<strong>后代</strong>，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还<strong>健在</strong>的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 \r\n\r\n冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 她说，他很少得病，有时候得了感冒，吃点儿药就好了。 我问她为什么还这么健康时，她说，就是经常锻炼身体。 \r\n\r\n后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是<strong>爱国</strong>了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show English translation\"]\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a Christian girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \r\n\r\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels \"Segregation\", \"Aunt\", etc., and at the same time translated the works of a few foreign writers. In 1945, BingXin went to Japan. From 1949 to 1951, she taught Chinese literature at Tokyo University, returning home in autumn of 1951. In 1958, the \"People\'s Daily\" published her work \"To Young Readers 2\". BingXin wasn\'t only a literature expert, she was also a teacher. She loved children, she loved the offspring of her motherland, and she used her writings to teach children.\r\n\r\nIn my third year of high school, I read her early poem \"Spring Water\". It was written beautifully and was very moving. After that, I always loved to read BingXin\'s novels. My college thesis was \"On the Aesthetic Style of BingXin\'s Novels\". After I graduated college, I went to work for a publishing company. One summer morning this year, I got the opportunity to interview this master writer who is still with us today. That day was cloudy, cold, and rainy. I got up extremely early, put on a light blue suit, got on the bus and at 8:30 arrived at BingXin\'s house.\r\n\r\nBingXin\'s house was fairly far from the city center, near XinJieKou [a subdivision of Beijing]. She lived in a Beijing retirement community. There were many flowers in the yard.\r\n\r\nBingXin met me in the living room. The living room wasn\'t big, was very clean, and a landscape painting was hanging on the wall. The living room bookshelf held all kinds of books, some were in Chinese, and some were in foreign languages. BingXin had white hair, was short of stature and very thin, but looking at her she didn\'t seem like someone who was in her nineties. After we met, I first enquired after her health. She said that she was rarely sick, and though sometimes she caught cold, a little medicine fixed her right up. When I asked her why she was still so healthy, she said it\'s because of frequent exercise. \r\n\r\nLater, she answered a few of my questions about literature in the thirties. She drank tea as she spoke. When she touched on the topic of modern literature, I asked her, \"Do you still write?\" She said, \"I want to! It\'s just that my eyes aren\'t so good, I can\'t write anymore. Every day I just read the paper or a magazine or something.\" When I asked her why she had gone abroad to study, she asked me, \"Have you been abroad?\" I said, \"No.\" She said to me, \"Go have a look if you have the opportunity, work for a year or two in another country. People who\'ve lived abroad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n\r\nThat day, when I got back to my house, I kept thinking about that one thing she\'d said: \"People who\'ve lived aborad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin 冰心', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'famous-chinese-authoress-bingxin', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:53:05', '2020-04-20 11:53:05', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=186', 0, 'post', '', 4),
(1859, 1, '2020-04-20 07:22:08', '2020-04-20 11:22:08', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nThis one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis piece has uncomplicated sentence structure and mostly simple words with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. You\'ll see brief mention made of 五四运动 [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin], the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement\">May 4th Movement</a>, a period of student protests against the Treaty of Versailles. During that time, China began to see an upsurge in nationalism, and a heavier focus on respecting the working man over the ivory tower intellectual.\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]\r\n\r\n<div class=\"readingPassage\">\r\n[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h4>冰心</h4>\r\n\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　<strong>五四运动</strong>时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在<strong>东京</strong>大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱<strong>祖国</strong>的<strong>后代</strong>，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还<strong>健在</strong>的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 \r\n\r\n冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 她说，他很少得病，有时候得了感冒，吃点儿药就好了。 我问她为什么还这么健康时，她说，就是经常锻炼身体。 \r\n\r\n后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是<strong>爱国</strong>了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show English translation\"]\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a Christian girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \r\n\r\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels \"Segregation\", \"Aunt\", etc., and at the same time translated the works of a few foreign writers. In 1945, BingXin went to Japan. From 1949 to 1951, she taught Chinese literature at Tokyo University, returning home in autumn of 1951. In 1958, the \"People\'s Daily\" published her work \"To Young Readers 2\". BingXin wasn\'t only a literature expert, she was also a teacher. She loved children, she loved the offspring of her motherland, and she used her writings to teach children.\r\n\r\nIn my third year of high school, I read her early poem \"Spring Water\". It was written beautifully and was very moving. After that, I always loved to read BingXin\'s novels. My college thesis was \"On the Aesthetic Style of BingXin\'s Novels\". After I graduated college, I went to work for a publishing company. One summer morning this year, I got the opportunity to interview this master writer who is still with us today. That day was cloudy, cold, and rainy. I got up extremely early, put on a light blue suit, got on the bus and at 8:30 arrived at BingXin\'s house.\r\n\r\nBingXin\'s house was fairly far from the city center, near XinJieKou [a subdivision of Beijing]. She lived in a Beijing retirement community. There were many flowers in the yard.\r\n\r\nBingXin met me in the living room. The living room wasn\'t big, was very clean, and a landscape painting was hanging on the wall. The living room bookshelf held all kinds of books, some were in Chinese, and some were in foreign languages. BingXin had white hair, was short of stature and very thin, but looking at her she didn\'t seem like someone who was in her nineties. After we met, I first enquired after her health. She said that she was rarely sick, and though sometimes she caught cold, a little medicine fixed her right up. When I asked her why she was still so healthy, she said it\'s because of frequent exercise. \r\n\r\nLater, she answered a few of my questions about literature in the thirties. She drank tea as she spoke. When she touched on the topic of modern literature, I asked her, \"Do you still write?\" She said, \"I want to! It\'s just that my eyes aren\'t so good, I can\'t write anymore. Every day I just read the paper or a magazine or something.\" When I asked her why she had gone abroad to study, she asked me, \"Have you been abroad?\" I said, \"No.\" She said to me, \"Go have a look if you have the opportunity, work for a year or two in another country. People who\'ve lived abroad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n\r\nThat day, when I got back to my house, I kept thinking about that one thing she\'d said: \"People who\'ve lived aborad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin 冰心', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:22:08', '2020-04-20 11:22:08', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/04/20/186-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(1858, 1, '2020-04-20 07:21:19', '2020-04-20 11:21:19', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nThis one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis is definitely lower-intermediate reading, with uncomplicated sentence structure and mostly simple words with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. If you\'re an advanced-beginner student and feel up to a challenge, this would be a great exercise to work on. \r\n\r\nYou\'ll see brief mention made of 五四运动 [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin], the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement\">May 4th Movement</a>, a period of student protests against the Treaty of Versailles. During that time, China began to see an upsurge in nationalism, and a heavier focus on respecting the working man over the ivory tower intellectual.\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]\r\n\r\n<div class=\"readingPassage\">\r\n[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h4>冰心</h4>\r\n\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　<strong>五四运动</strong>时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在<strong>东京</strong>大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱<strong>祖国</strong>的<strong>后代</strong>，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还<strong>健在</strong>的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 \r\n\r\n冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 她说，他很少得病，有时候得了感冒，吃点儿药就好了。 我问她为什么还这么健康时，她说，就是经常锻炼身体。 \r\n\r\n后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是<strong>爱国</strong>了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show English translation\"]\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a Christian girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \r\n\r\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels \"Segregation\", \"Aunt\", etc., and at the same time translated the works of a few foreign writers. In 1945, BingXin went to Japan. From 1949 to 1951, she taught Chinese literature at Tokyo University, returning home in autumn of 1951. In 1958, the \"People\'s Daily\" published her work \"To Young Readers 2\". BingXin wasn\'t only a literature expert, she was also a teacher. She loved children, she loved the offspring of her motherland, and she used her writings to teach children.\r\n\r\nIn my third year of high school, I read her early poem \"Spring Water\". It was written beautifully and was very moving. After that, I always loved to read BingXin\'s novels. My college thesis was \"On the Aesthetic Style of BingXin\'s Novels\". After I graduated college, I went to work for a publishing company. One summer morning this year, I got the opportunity to interview this master writer who is still with us today. That day was cloudy, cold, and rainy. I got up extremely early, put on a light blue suit, got on the bus and at 8:30 arrived at BingXin\'s house.\r\n\r\nBingXin\'s house was fairly far from the city center, near XinJieKou [a subdivision of Beijing]. She lived in a Beijing retirement community. There were many flowers in the yard.\r\n\r\nBingXin met me in the living room. The living room wasn\'t big, was very clean, and a landscape painting was hanging on the wall. The living room bookshelf held all kinds of books, some were in Chinese, and some were in foreign languages. BingXin had white hair, was short of stature and very thin, but looking at her she didn\'t seem like someone who was in her nineties. After we met, I first enquired after her health. She said that she was rarely sick, and though sometimes she caught cold, a little medicine fixed her right up. 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(187, 1, '2011-01-13 02:44:54', '2011-01-13 02:44:54', '[two_third]\n\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n盘缠 - [pinyin]pan2 chan5[/pinyin] - Traveling money\n骏马 - [pinyin]jun4 ma3[/pinyin] - Steed\n不问青红皂白 - [pinyin]bu4 wen4 qing1 hong2 zao4 bai2[/pinyin] - Doesn\'t distinguish between right and wrong, or between obvious differences\n满不在乎 - [pinyin]man3 bu4 zai4 hu5[/pinyin] - Unconcernedly\n阻止 - [pinyin]zu3 zhi3[/pinyin] - Prevent\n醒悟 - [pinyin]xing3 wu4[/pinyin] - Come to realize\n劝阻 -  [pinyin]quan4 zu3[/pinyin] - Dissuade\n无奈 - [pinyin]wu2 nai4[/pinyin] - For lack of a better option\n劝告 - [pinyin]quan4 gao4[/pinyin] - Urge, exhort\n一意孤行 - [pinyin]yi1 yi4 gu4 xing2[/pinyin] - Obstinately stick to, dogmatic\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\n\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代dewenxue\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\n\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin. \n\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress Bing Xin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:44:54', '2011-01-13 02:44:54', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(188, 1, '2011-01-13 02:45:39', '2011-01-13 02:45:39', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n盘缠 - [pinyin]pan2 chan5[/pinyin] - Traveling money\r\n骏马 - [pinyin]jun4 ma3[/pinyin] - Steed\r\n不问青红皂白 - [pinyin]bu4 wen4 qing1 hong2 zao4 bai2[/pinyin] - Doesn\'t distinguish between right and wrong, or between obvious differences\r\n满不在乎 - [pinyin]man3 bu4 zai4 hu5[/pinyin] - Unconcernedly\r\n阻止 - [pinyin]zu3 zhi3[/pinyin] - Prevent\r\n醒悟 - [pinyin]xing3 wu4[/pinyin] - Come to realize\r\n劝阻 -  [pinyin]quan4 zu3[/pinyin] - Dissuade\r\n无奈 - [pinyin]wu2 nai4[/pinyin] - For lack of a better option\r\n劝告 - [pinyin]quan4 gao4[/pinyin] - Urge, exhort\r\n一意孤行 - [pinyin]yi1 yi4 gu4 xing2[/pinyin] - Obstinately stick to, dogmatic\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin. \r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress Bing Xin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:45:39', '2011-01-13 02:45:39', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(190, 1, '2011-01-30 13:23:50', '2011-01-30 18:23:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nLike most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe most difficult paragraph here is probably the fourth, particularly the part: 几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来. We can break this down this way:\r\n\r\n几句 - Several sentences [of]\r\n刺耳的话 - Ear-piercing words\r\n从海岸的岩石那边 - From a seashore rock direction (from the direction of a seaside rock)\r\n飞过来 - Flew in (in this case, this is best translated as \"drifted over\".)\r\n\r\nThis tells us that there was more than one speaker, in this case the nest of swifts, who are screeching at Little Gull from nearby.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Show off! Show off!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'gull-girls-pride', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:14:06', '2020-04-20 11:14:06', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=190', 0, 'post', '', 5),
(191, 1, '2011-01-13 13:23:41', '2011-01-13 13:23:41', '[two_third]\nLike most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n宇 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别爱美。\n\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。\n\n大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\n\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是天底下最美的姑娘。\n\n正在小海鸥十分得意的时候，几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕七嘴八舌地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\n\n“哼，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\n\n中午，小海鸥飞到海礁上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\n\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。 大海妈妈对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”\n\n小海鸥点了点头。\n\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\n\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.\n\nThe ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\n\nOpposite the mirror, Little Gull would look, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\n\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a nest of swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\n\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" , said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\n[/one_half]', 'Gull Girl\'s PR', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 13:23:41', '2011-01-13 13:23:41', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(192, 1, '2011-01-13 13:32:52', '2011-01-13 13:32:52', '[two_third]\nLike most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n宇 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别爱美。\n\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。\n\n大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\n\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是天底下最美的姑娘。\n\n正在小海鸥十分得意的时候，几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕七嘴八舌地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\n\n“哼，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\n\n中午，小海鸥飞到海礁上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\n\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。 大海妈妈对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”\n\n小海鸥点了点头。\n\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\n\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.\n\nThe ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\n\nOpposite the mirror, Little Gull would look, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\n\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a nest of swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\n\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" , said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\n\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\n\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful. The great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"\n\nLittle Gull nodded her head.\n\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.\n\n[/one_half]', 'Gull Girl\'s Pride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 13:32:52', '2011-01-13 13:32:52', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(197, 1, '2011-01-13 13:43:36', '2011-01-13 13:43:36', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third] [one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance \r\n翅膀 - [pinyin]chi4 bang3[/pinyin] - Wing \r\n梳 - [pinyin]shu1[/pinyin] - Comb \r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun \r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself \r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing \r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Lucky omen</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别爱美。  早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。  小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是天底下最美的姑娘。  正在小海鸥十分得意的时候，几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕七嘴八舌地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”  “哼，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。  中午，小海鸥飞到海礁上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”  小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。 大海妈妈对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。  后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]  \r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]  Little Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.  In the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.  Opposite the mirror, Little Gull would look, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.  Just when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a nest of swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"  \"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" , said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.  At noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"  Little swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful. The great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.  After that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 13:43:36', '2011-01-13 13:43:36', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(193, 1, '2011-01-15 23:53:59', '2011-01-16 04:53:59', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nLike most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe most difficult paragraph here is probably the fourth, particularly the part: 几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来. We can break this down this way:\r\n\r\n几句 - Several sentences [of]\r\n刺耳的话 - Ear-piercing words\r\n从海岸的岩石那边 - From a seashore rock direction (from the direction of a seaside rock)\r\n飞过来 - Flew in (in this case, this is best translated as \"drifted over\".)\r\n\r\nThis tells us that there was more than one speaker, in this case the nest of swifts, who are screeching at Little Gull from nearby.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-autosave-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:53:59', '2011-01-16 04:53:59', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(196, 1, '2011-01-13 13:34:59', '2011-01-13 13:34:59', '[two_third]\r\nLike most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--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爱美 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\r\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\r\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\r\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\r\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\r\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\r\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别爱美。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。\r\n\r\n大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是天底下最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分得意的时候，几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕七嘴八舌地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“哼，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到海礁上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。 大海妈妈对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”\r\n\r\n小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.\r\n\r\nThe ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nOpposite the mirror, Little Gull would look, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a nest of swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" , said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful. The great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"\r\n\r\nLittle Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 13:34:59', '2011-01-13 13:34:59', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(194, 1, '2011-01-13 13:33:18', '2011-01-13 13:33:18', '[two_third]\r\nLike most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--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宇 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\r\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\r\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\r\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\r\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\r\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\r\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别爱美。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。\r\n\r\n大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是天底下最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分得意的时候，几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕七嘴八舌地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“哼，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到海礁上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。 大海妈妈对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”\r\n\r\n小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.\r\n\r\nThe ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nOpposite the mirror, Little Gull would look, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a nest of swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" , said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful. The great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"\r\n\r\nLittle Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Gull Girl\'s Pride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 13:33:18', '2011-01-13 13:33:18', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(195, 1, '2011-01-13 13:33:46', '2011-01-13 13:33:46', '[two_third]\r\nLike most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--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宇 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\r\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\r\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\r\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\r\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\r\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\r\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别爱美。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。\r\n\r\n大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是天底下最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分得意的时候，几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕七嘴八舌地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“哼，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到海礁上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。 大海妈妈对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”\r\n\r\n小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.\r\n\r\nThe ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nOpposite the mirror, Little Gull would look, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a nest of swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" , said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful. The great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"\r\n\r\nLittle Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 13:33:46', '2011-01-13 13:33:46', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(198, 1, '2011-01-13 13:46:49', '2011-01-13 13:46:49', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third] [one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance \r\n翅膀 - [pinyin]chi4 bang3[/pinyin] - Wing \r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun \r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself \r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing \r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别爱美。  \r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。  \r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是天底下最美的姑娘。  \r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分得意的时候，几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕七嘴八舌地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”  \r\n\r\n“哼，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。  \r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到海礁上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”  \r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。 \r\n\r\n大海妈妈对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。  \r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]  \r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]  Little Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.  \r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.  \r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.  \r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a nest of swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"  \r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.  \r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"  \r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful. \r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.  \r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 13:46:49', '2011-01-13 13:46:49', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(199, 1, '2011-01-13 14:02:13', '2011-01-13 14:02:13', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third] [one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance \r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun \r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself \r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing \r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。  \r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。  \r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。  \r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”  \r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。  \r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”  \r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。 \r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。  \r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]  \r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]  Little Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.  \r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.  \r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.  \r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"  \r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.  \r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"  \r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful. \r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.  \r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:02:13', '2011-01-13 14:02:13', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(201, 1, '2011-01-13 14:06:01', '2011-01-13 14:06:01', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third]\r\n\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n\r\n小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:06:01', '2011-01-13 14:06:01', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(202, 1, '2011-01-13 14:06:27', '2011-01-13 14:06:27', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third]\r\n\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n\r\n小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:06:27', '2011-01-13 14:06:27', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(200, 1, '2011-01-13 14:05:30', '2011-01-13 14:05:30', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third] \r\n\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance \r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun \r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself \r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing \r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。  \r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。  \r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。  \r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”  \r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。  \r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”  \r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。 \r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。  \r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]  \r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]  Little Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.  \r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.  \r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.  \r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"  \r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.  \r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"  \r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful. \r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.  \r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:05:30', '2011-01-13 14:05:30', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(203, 1, '2011-01-13 14:07:52', '2011-01-13 14:07:52', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third]\r\n\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n\r\n<p>小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。</p>\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\n<p>Little Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.</p>\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:07:52', '2011-01-13 14:07:52', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(204, 1, '2011-01-13 14:08:13', '2011-01-13 14:08:13', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third]\r\n\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n\r\n小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:08:13', '2011-01-13 14:08:13', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(205, 1, '2011-01-13 14:10:07', '2011-01-13 14:10:07', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third]\r\n\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:10:07', '2011-01-13 14:10:07', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(206, 1, '2011-01-13 14:10:36', '2011-01-13 14:10:36', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third]\r\n\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:10:36', '2011-01-13 14:10:36', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(207, 1, '2011-01-13 14:10:53', '2011-01-13 14:10:53', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third]\r\n\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one is Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:10:53', '2011-01-13 14:10:53', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(208, 1, '2011-01-13 14:11:26', '2011-01-13 14:11:26', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third]\r\n\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:11:26', '2011-01-13 14:11:26', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(209, 1, '2011-01-12 22:15:34', '2011-01-12 22:15:34', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very short children\'s story about a bear\'s search for a new home. The original text was found on a Chinese children\'s stories site.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave, hole\r\n造 - [pinyin]zao4[/pinyin] - make, build\r\n挂 - [pinyin]gua4[/pinyin] - hang\r\n砍 - [pinyin]kan3[/pinyin] - to chop\r\n舍不得 - [pinyin]she3 bu4 de[/pinyin] - can\'t bear to\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n小熊一家住在山<strong>洞</strong>里。熊爷爷对小熊说,“你去<strong>造</strong>间木头房子住吧!\"\r\n\r\n春天，小熊走进树林。树上长满了绿叶，他舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n夏天，小熊又走进了树林。树上开满了鲜花，小熊<strong>舍不得砍</strong>。\r\n\r\n秋天，小熊走进树林，树上<strong>挂</strong>满了果实。小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n冬天，小熊走进了树林。树上站着许多小鸟，小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n一年又一年，小熊没有砍树造房子，还是高高兴兴地住在山洞里……\r\n\r\n树林里的小动物非常感谢小熊，他们送给小熊一束束美丽的鲜花.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nSource: <a href=\"http://www.gushi365.com/info/5568.html\">GuShi365.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle bear lived in a mountain cave. Grandfather bear said to Little Bear: \"Go and find a wooden house to live in!\"\r\n\r\nIn spring, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of green leaves, and he couldn\'t hear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn summer, little bear again went into the forest. The trees were full of fresh flowers, and he couldn\'t hear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn autumn, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of hanging fruit, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn winter, little bear went into the forest. Many little birds were living in the trees, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nYears passed, and little bear still hadn\'t made a home out of the trees. He was still living happily in his mountain cave.\r\n\r\nThe little forest animals thanked Little Bear very much, and they gave him a bunch of beautiful fresh flowers. [/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:15:34', '2011-01-12 22:15:34', '', 7, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/7-revision-39/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(210, 1, '2011-01-12 23:59:40', '2011-01-12 23:59:40', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 23:59:40', '2011-01-12 23:59:40', '', 154, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/154-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(211, 1, '2011-01-13 00:48:00', '2011-01-13 00:48:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nGotta love dream dictionaries - this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses what it means when someone dreams about a temple (寺庙 - [pinyin]si4 miao4[/pinyin]).<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThough some of the language is undoutedly advanced, the sentence structure is super short and repetitive, so I\'m classifying this as intermediate an intermediate read.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n宇 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\r\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\r\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\r\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\r\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\r\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\r\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n\r\n女人梦见庙<strong>宇</strong> —— 丈夫家的人会<strong>四分五裂</strong>。\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n病人梦见寺庙 —— 病情会加重。\r\n\r\n梦见进入寺庙 —— 一切努力都会<strong>化为泡影</strong>。\r\n\r\n孕妇梦见进入庙宇 —— <strong>胎儿</strong>会有问题。\r\n\r\n商人梦见进入寺庙 —— 生意会大<strong>亏损</strong>。\r\n\r\n梦见别人进了寺庙 —— 一切困难都会过去。\r\n\r\n梦见妻子进了庙宇 —— 夫妻生活和谐、幸福。\r\n\r\n梦见敌人跨入庙门 —— 自己能<strong>降</strong>服敌人，渡过难关。\r\n\r\n梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的<strong>吉兆</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.51jiemeng.com/building/temple.html\">See the source</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[If...]\r\n\r\nA woman dreams about a temple hall: Her husband\'s family will splinter into disharmony.\r\n\r\nA sick person dreams about a temple: The patient\'s condition will become more serious.\r\n\r\nYou dream of entering a temple: All of your hard work will come to nothing.\r\n\r\nA pregnant woman dreams of entering a temple: There will be a problem with the baby.\r\n\r\nA businessperson dreams of entering a temple: The business will suffer a great loss.\r\n\r\nYou dream of another person entering a temple: All of your troubles will pass.\r\n\r\nYou dream of a wife entering a temple: The couple will live in harmony and prosperity.\r\n\r\nYou dream of your enemy stepping into a temple door: If you surrender to your enemy, you can ride out the storm.\r\n\r\nYou dream of yourself sitting inside a temple hall: This is an omen that you will succeed or get married.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually Bad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 00:48:00', '2011-01-13 00:48:00', '', 168, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/168-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(212, 1, '2011-01-12 22:23:23', '2011-01-12 22:23:23', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs vaguely sordid fables go, this one\'s fairly tame, resulting only in some humiliatory retribution and a lost tail or two.<!--more--> \r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n狼 - [pinyin]lang2[/pinyin] - Wolf\r\n欺负 - [pinyin]qi1 fu5[/pinyin] - To bully\r\n狐狸 - [pinyin]hu2 li5[/pinyin] - Fox\r\n觅食 - [pinyin]mi4 shi2[/pinyin] - Forage, scavenge\r\n阵 - [pinyin]zhen4[/pinyin] - Classifier for events of short duration\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave\r\n暗自 - [pinyin]an4 zi4[/pinyin] - Inwardly, secretly\r\n凿 - [pinyin]zuo4[/pinyin] - Bore, dig\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一只小<strong>狼</strong>他总是<strong>欺负</strong>别人。一天小动物们聚在一起商量对付那只小狼的办法，聪明的小<strong>狐狸</strong>想到了一个办法。\r\n\r\n一天小狼出外<strong>觅食</strong>的狼，忽然闻到一<strong>阵</strong>阵烤鱼的香味，小狼跑进山<strong>洞</strong>一看，原来是狐狸在烤鱼。狐狸见狼来了，心里<strong>暗自</strong>高兴。\r\n\r\n狼问, “这些鱼是从哪弄来的？”\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “有一个地方可以钓到好多鱼，我可以给你带路。”\r\n\r\n于时狼就跟着狐狸走啊走，来到了河边，原来是河里的水结了一层冰。\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “只要在冰上<strong>凿</strong>一个洞，把<strong>尾巴</strong>放进河里，等鱼咬住尾巴的时候，就把尾巴提上来，这样就可以钓到好多好多的鱼！”\r\n\r\n狼想着这下钓的鱼吃也吃不光啦，狼等了好久，也没有鱼咬住他的尾巴。狼实在冷得不行了，就想把尾巴提上来，回头一看，尾巴都被冰住了。狼大力拉，哪知他的尾巴“啪”的一声断掉了，狼逃走了。\r\n\r\n小动物们看见狼的惨样子，都哈哈地笑了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLong  ago, there was a wolf who was always bullying others. One day,  the small animals gathered together to discuss a way to solve the problem. The smart fox thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nOne day Wolf went out to forage for food, when suddenly  he smelled the scent of roasting fish. When Little Wolf ran into a  mountain cave and looked, he saw that it was Little Fox that was cooking the fish. Fox saw that Wolf had come, and in his heart he was secretly happy.\r\n\r\nWolf asked \"Where did these fish come from?\"\r\n\r\nFox said, \"There is a place where you can catch many fish, I can take you there.\"\r\n\r\nSo Wolf followed Fox as he walked and walked, until they came to a riverbank. There turned out to be a layer of ice over the water.\r\n\r\nFox said, \"All you have to do is bore a hole in the ice, stick your tail into the river, wait until the fish bite your tail, then pull your tail out. This way, you\'ll catch many, many fish.\r\n\r\nWolf, thinking of how the fish would be more than a full meal, waited quite a while, but no fish bit his tail. Wolf was finally too cold to continue and tried to pull up his tail, but when he turned his head to look, he saw that his tail was stuck in the ice. He gave a  great pull, and what do you know but his tail came off with a \"pa\"  sound. Wolf hopped away.\r\n\r\nWhen the other little animals saw wolf\'s miserable face, they all laughed.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Wolf Goes Fishing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '85-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:23:23', '2011-01-12 22:23:23', '', 85, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/85-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(213, 1, '2011-01-13 14:19:57', '2011-01-13 14:19:57', '', 'Chinese Reading Practice: Gull Girl\'s Pride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '20110130-pride-of-gull-girl', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:19:57', '2011-01-13 14:19:57', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/20110130-pride-of-gull-girl.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(214, 1, '2011-01-13 14:11:38', '2011-01-13 14:11:38', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third]\r\n\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:11:38', '2011-01-13 14:11:38', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(215, 1, '2011-01-13 14:20:27', '2011-01-13 14:20:27', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third]\r\n\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:20:27', '2011-01-13 14:20:27', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-19/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(216, 1, '2011-01-13 14:31:16', '2011-01-13 14:31:16', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more--> [/two_third]\r\n\r\nThe most difficult paragraph here is probably the fourth, particularly the part: 几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来. We can break this down this way: \r\n\r\n几句 - Several sentences of\r\n刺耳的话 - Ear-piercing words\r\n从海岸的岩石那边 - From a seashore rock direction (from the direction of a seaside rock)\r\n飞过来 - Flew in (in this case, this is best translated as \"drifted over\".)\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:31:16', '2011-01-13 14:31:16', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-20/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(217, 1, '2011-01-13 14:32:07', '2011-01-13 14:32:07', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe most difficult paragraph here is probably the fourth, particularly the part: 几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来. We can break this down this way: \r\n\r\n几句 - Several sentences of\r\n刺耳的话 - Ear-piercing words\r\n从海岸的岩石那边 - From a seashore rock direction (from the direction of a seaside rock)\r\n飞过来 - Flew in (in this case, this is best translated as \"drifted over\".)\r\n [/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:32:07', '2011-01-13 14:32:07', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-21/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(218, 1, '2011-01-13 14:33:40', '2011-01-13 14:33:40', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe most difficult paragraph here is probably the fourth, particularly the part: 几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来. We can break this down this way: \r\n\r\n几句 - Several sentences [of]\r\n刺耳的话 - Ear-piercing words\r\n从海岸的岩石那边 - From a seashore rock direction (from the direction of a seaside rock)\r\n飞过来 - Flew in (in this case, this is best translated as \"drifted over\".)\r\n\r\nThis tells us that there was more than one speaker (Several sentences of), in this case, the nest of swifts, who are screeching at Little Gull from nearby.\r\n [/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:33:40', '2011-01-13 14:33:40', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-22/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(220, 1, '2011-01-13 14:34:16', '2011-01-13 14:34:16', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe most difficult paragraph here is probably the fourth, particularly the part: 几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来. We can break this down this way:\r\n\r\n几句 - Several sentences [of]\r\n刺耳的话 - Ear-piercing words\r\n从海岸的岩石那边 - From a seashore rock direction (from the direction of a seaside rock)\r\n飞过来 - Flew in (in this case, this is best translated as \"drifted over\".)\r\n\r\nThis tells us that there was more than one speaker (Several sentences of), in this case, the nest of swifts, who are screeching at Little Gull from nearby.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:34:16', '2011-01-13 14:34:16', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-24/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(219, 1, '2011-01-13 14:33:58', '2011-01-13 14:33:58', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\nThe most difficult paragraph here is probably the fourth, particularly the part: 几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来. We can break this down this way: \r\n\r\n几句 - Several sentences [of]\r\n刺耳的话 - Ear-piercing words\r\n从海岸的岩石那边 - From a seashore rock direction (from the direction of a seaside rock)\r\n飞过来 - Flew in (in this case, this is best translated as \"drifted over\".)\r\n\r\nThis tells us that there was more than one speaker (Several sentences of), in this case, the nest of swifts, who are screeching at Little Gull from nearby.\r\n [/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:33:58', '2011-01-13 14:33:58', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-23/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(221, 1, '2011-01-13 14:34:36', '2011-01-13 14:34:36', '[two_third] Like most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe most difficult paragraph here is probably the fourth, particularly the part: 几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来. We can break this down this way:\r\n\r\n几句 - Several sentences [of]\r\n刺耳的话 - Ear-piercing words\r\n从海岸的岩石那边 - From a seashore rock direction (from the direction of a seaside rock)\r\n飞过来 - Flew in (in this case, this is best translated as \"drifted over\".)\r\n\r\nThis tells us that there was more than one speaker (Several sentences of), in this case, the nest of swifts, who are screeching at Little Gull from nearby.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:34:36', '2011-01-13 14:34:36', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-25/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(223, 1, '2011-01-13 14:36:10', '2011-01-13 14:36:10', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nLike most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe most difficult paragraph here is probably the fourth, particularly the part: 几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来. We can break this down this way:\r\n\r\n几句 - Several sentences [of]\r\n刺耳的话 - Ear-piercing words\r\n从海岸的岩石那边 - From a seashore rock direction (from the direction of a seaside rock)\r\n飞过来 - Flew in (in this case, this is best translated as \"drifted over\".)\r\n\r\nThis tells us that there was more than one speaker, in this case, the nest of swifts, who are screeching at Little Gull from nearby.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:36:10', '2011-01-13 14:36:10', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-27/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(222, 1, '2011-01-13 14:35:08', '2011-01-13 14:35:08', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nLike most children\'s fables, this story features a simple sentence structure, but an upper-intermediate word list, perfect for picking up a lot of vocabulary and a couple of tame colloquialisms. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe most difficult paragraph here is probably the fourth, particularly the part: 几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来. We can break this down this way:\r\n\r\n几句 - Several sentences [of]\r\n刺耳的话 - Ear-piercing words\r\n从海岸的岩石那边 - From a seashore rock direction (from the direction of a seaside rock)\r\n飞过来 - Flew in (in this case, this is best translated as \"drifted over\".)\r\n\r\nThis tells us that there was more than one speaker (Several sentences of), in this case, the nest of swifts, who are screeching at Little Gull from nearby.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\r\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\r\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\r\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\r\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\r\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\r\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\r\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\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小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\r\n\r\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\r\n\r\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\r\n\r\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\r\n\r\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\r\n\r\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\r\n\r\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\r\n\r\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\r\n\r\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\r\n\r\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\r\n\r\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\r\n\r\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\r\n\r\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\r\n\r\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\r\n\r\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\r\n\r\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\r\n\r\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'The Pride of Gull Girl', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '190-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:35:08', '2011-01-13 14:35:08', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-26/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(224, 1, '2011-01-13 02:22:12', '2011-01-13 02:22:12', 'After spending six years in China studying Mandarin and working, I took a several-year haitus and returned to my native country. It was alarming how quickly my language skills began distinegrating. I searched online for daily reading practice, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was at an appropriate reading level, was different than the typical way-to-easy or way-too-hard sources available online, was presented in a way that was easy to read, and that I was sure I could get through. I ended up spending more time looking for something that was suitable than actually doing any reading.\r\n\r\nAs someone who organizes her thoughts into a series of domain names, it was inevitable I\'d eventually start a website about it, and here you are. I post here whenever I have a few minutes to practice a bit of reading, or enter something interesting I\'ve picked up.\r\n\r\nThis site doesn\'t exist to teach you Chinese from scratch - there are plenty of sites and programs that do that. But this collection might help you keep your skills fresh, or pick up the occasional new vocabulary word.\r\n<h4>About the Translations</h4>\r\nMany of the translations on this site are done by me, and I don\'t post anything unless I\'ve checked it several times, but that doesn\'t mean I haven\'t missed something. Do feel free to comment if you see anything that ought to have a better translation - it won\'t be taken amiss. Quite a few of the translations, however, are done by others, are taken from old Chinese textbooks or hardcopy magazines I picked up overseas, or were sent in by a third party.\r\n\r\nI post whatever I\'m reading whenever I can - I hope it helps you along.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:22:12', '2011-01-13 02:22:12', '', 2, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/2-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(366, 1, '2011-02-25 07:30:22', '2011-02-25 12:30:22', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\nOne of the interesting grammatical points in this story is the phrase 吃光 [pinyin]chi1 guang1[/pinyin]. We know that [pinyin]chi1[/pinyin] means \"to eat\", but [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] typically means \"to be bright\" - so what are those two words doing next to each other? A secondary meaning of the word [pinyin]guang1[/pinyin] is \"to finish\", or \"to use up\". It\'s usually placed after a verb to indicate that the verb was done until it couldn\'t be done any more, or until something was gone - in this case \"to eat up\".\r\n\r\nAnother interesting word here is the word 动手 [pinyin]dong4 shou3[/pinyin], literally \"move hands\". In this case, it means \"get going\", or \"get started working [on something]\", as in the phrase 现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧, or \"Start cooking now\".\r\n\r\nI\'d imagine the most confusing piece of this text is the last sentence of the paragraph that begins \"第三天...\". Within the parentheses, the tone of the story randomly changes. This should be read as the first (and only) interjection by the story\'s narrator, who elaborates on what kind of animals attended the wedding.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n妇人 - [pinyin]fu4 ren2[/pinyin] - Married woman\r\n赶走 - [pinyin]gan3 zou3[/pinyin] - Drive off, chase away\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n不肯 - [pinyin]bu4 ken3[/pinyin] - To be unwilling\r\n拒绝 - [pinyin]ju4 jue2[/pinyin] - To refuse\r\n牧师 - [pinyin]mu4 shi1[/pinyin] - Clergyman, pastor\r\n主持 - [pinyin]zhu3 chi2[/pinyin] - To manage, oversee\r\n司仪 - [pinyin]si1 yi2[/pinyin] - Master of ceremonies\r\n祭坛 - [pinyin]ji4 tan2[/pinyin] - Altar\r\n抽泣 - [pinyin]chou1 qi4[/pinyin] - Sob hysterically\r\n不耐烦 - [pinyin]bu4 nai4 fan2[/pinyin] - Impatient\r\n沉默 - [pinyin]chen2 mo4[/pinyin] - Silent, uncommunicative\r\n稻草人 - [pinyin]dao4 cao3 ren2[/pinyin] - Scarecrow\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个<strong>妇人</strong>，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子<strong>赶走</strong>。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜<strong>吃光</strong>了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘<strong>不肯</strong>。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是<strong>拒绝</strong>了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在<strong>动手</strong>烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是<strong>牧师</strong>，为新郎新娘<strong>主持</strong>婚礼；狐狸是<strong>司仪</strong>，<strong>祭坛</strong>在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地<strong>抽泣</strong>起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经<strong>不耐烦</strong>。”新娘<strong>沉默</strong>着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个<strong>稻草人</strong>身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-rabbits-bride', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:06:05', '2020-04-20 11:06:05', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=366', 0, 'post', '', 16),
(325, 1, '2011-01-13 18:44:30', '2011-01-13 18:44:30', 'After spending six years in China studying Mandarin and working, I took a several-year haitus and returned to my native country. It was alarming how quickly my language skills began distinegrating. I searched online for daily reading practice, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was at an appropriate reading level, was different than the typical way-to-easy or way-too-hard sources available online, was presented in a way that was easy to read, and that I was sure I could get through. I ended up spending more time looking for something that was suitable than actually doing any reading.\r\n\r\nAs someone who organizes her thoughts into a series of domain names, it was inevitable I\'d eventually start a website about it, and here you are. I post here whenever I have a few minutes to practice a bit of reading, or enter something interesting I\'ve picked up.\r\n\r\nThis site doesn\'t exist to teach you Chinese from scratch - there are plenty of sites and programs that do that. But this collection might help you keep your skills fresh, or pick up the occasional new vocabulary word.\r\n<h4>About the Translations</h4>\r\nMany of the translations on this site are done by me, and I don\'t post anything unless I\'ve checked it several times, but that doesn\'t mean I haven\'t missed something. Do feel free to comment if you see anything that ought to have a better translation - it won\'t be taken amiss. Quite a few of the translations, however, are done by others, are taken from old Chinese textbooks or hardcopy magazines I picked up overseas, or were sent in by a third party.\r\n\r\nIt\'s often quite difficult to do a word-for-word translation, as Chinese words that fit well into a particular Chinese sentence read very awkwardly after they\'ve been translated - sometimes a direct translation just sounds \"off\". This is more and more true the higher your reading level. I stick to a word-for-word translation when it\'s appropriate, but I\'ll often change a sentence a little so that it makes sense or reads well in English.\r\n\r\nYou\'ll also notice that I often remove commas, split long Chinese sentences into two or more English sentences, or rearrange the order of clauses, which is necessary to accommodate Chinese grammar.  The translation is meant as a guidepost to help point you in the right direction and keep you grounded in the text when needed - it\'s up to you to dissect sentence structure.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'About', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 18:44:30', '2011-01-13 18:44:30', '', 2, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/2-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(225, 1, '2011-01-13 17:49:32', '2011-01-13 17:49:32', 'After spending six years in China studying Mandarin and working, I took a several-year haitus and returned to my native country. It was alarming how quickly my language skills began distinegrating. I searched online for daily reading practice, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was at an appropriate reading level, was different than the typical way-to-easy or way-too-hard sources available online, was presented in a way that was easy to read, and that I was sure I could get through. I ended up spending more time looking for something that was suitable than actually doing any reading.\r\n\r\nAs someone who organizes her thoughts into a series of domain names, it was inevitable I\'d eventually start a website about it, and here you are. I post here whenever I have a few minutes to practice a bit of reading, or enter something interesting I\'ve picked up.\r\n\r\nThis site doesn\'t exist to teach you Chinese from scratch - there are plenty of sites and programs that do that. But this collection might help you keep your skills fresh, or pick up the occasional new vocabulary word.\r\n<h4>About the Translations</h4>\r\nMany of the translations on this site are done by me, and I don\'t post anything unless I\'ve checked it several times, but that doesn\'t mean I haven\'t missed something. Do feel free to comment if you see anything that ought to have a better translation - it won\'t be taken amiss. Quite a few of the translations, however, are done by others, are taken from old Chinese textbooks or hardcopy magazines I picked up overseas, or were sent in by a third party.\r\n\r\nIt\'s often quite difficult to do a word-for-word translation, as Chinese words that fit well into a particular Chinese sentence read very awkwardly after they\'ve been translated - sometimes a direct translation just sounds \"off\". This is more and more true the higher your reading level. I stick to a word-for-word translation when it\'s appropriate, but I\'ll often change a sentence a little so that it makes sense or reads well in English.\r\n\r\nYou\'ll also notice that I often remove commas, split long Chinese sentences into two or more English sentences, or rearrange the order of clauses, which is necessary to accommodate Chinese grammar.  The translation is meant as a guidepost to help point you in the right direction and keep you grounded in the text when needed - it\'s up to you to dissect sentence structure.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'What\'s this all about?', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 17:49:32', '2011-01-13 17:49:32', '', 2, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/2-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(226, 1, '2011-01-13 02:55:19', '2011-01-13 02:55:19', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n盘缠 - [pinyin]pan2 chan5[/pinyin] - Traveling money\r\n骏马 - [pinyin]jun4 ma3[/pinyin] - Steed\r\n不问青红皂白 - [pinyin]bu4 wen4 qing1 hong2 zao4 bai2[/pinyin] - Doesn\'t distinguish between right and wrong, or between obvious differences\r\n满不在乎 - [pinyin]man3 bu4 zai4 hu5[/pinyin] - Unconcernedly\r\n阻止 - [pinyin]zu3 zhi3[/pinyin] - Prevent\r\n醒悟 - [pinyin]xing3 wu4[/pinyin] - Come to realize\r\n劝阻 -  [pinyin]quan4 zu3[/pinyin] - Dissuade\r\n无奈 - [pinyin]wu2 nai4[/pinyin] - For lack of a better option\r\n劝告 - [pinyin]quan4 gao4[/pinyin] - Urge, exhort\r\n一意孤行 - [pinyin]yi1 yi4 gu4 xing2[/pinyin] - Obstinately stick to, dogmatic\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　五四运动时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来，\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin. \r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:55:19', '2011-01-13 02:55:19', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(227, 1, '2011-01-13 22:25:01', '2011-01-13 22:25:01', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　五四运动时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在东京大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱祖国的后代，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还健在的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 22:25:01', '2011-01-13 22:25:01', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(228, 1, '2011-01-13 22:42:50', '2011-01-13 22:42:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　五四运动时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在东京大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱祖国的后代，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还健在的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 22:42:50', '2011-01-13 22:42:50', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(230, 1, '2011-01-13 23:04:00', '2011-01-13 23:04:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis one-page essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. <!--more-->\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　五四运动时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在东京大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱祖国的后代，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还健在的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \r\n\r\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels \"Segregation\", \"Aunt\", etc., and at the same time translated the works of a few foreign writers. \r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 23:04:00', '2011-01-13 23:04:00', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(229, 1, '2011-01-13 22:57:46', '2011-01-13 22:57:46', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　五四运动时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在东京大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱祖国的后代，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还健在的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \r\n\r\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels \"\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 22:57:46', '2011-01-13 22:57:46', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(231, 1, '2020-04-20 07:20:40', '2020-04-20 11:20:40', '[su_row]\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\n\nThis one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. <!--more-->\n\nThis is definitely lower-intermediate reading, with uncomplicated sentence structure and mostly simple words with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. If you\'re an advanced-beginner student and feel up to a challenge, this would be a great exercise to work on. \n\nYou\'ll see breif mention made of 五四运动 [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin], the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement\">May 4th Movement</a>, a period of student protests against the Treaty of Versailles. During that time, China began to see an upsurge in nationalism, and a heavier focus on respecting the working man over the ivory tower intellectual.\n\n\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\n\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　<strong>五四运动</strong>时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\n\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在<strong>东京</strong>大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱<strong>祖国</strong>的<strong>后代</strong>，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\n\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还<strong>健在</strong>的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\n\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 \n\n冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 她说，他很少得病，有时候得了感冒，吃点儿药就好了。 我问她为什么还这么健康时，她说，就是经常锻炼身体。 \n\n后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是<strong>爱国</strong>了。”\n\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\n\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\n\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a Christian girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \n\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels \"Segregation\", \"Aunt\", etc., and at the same time translated the works of a few foreign writers. In 1945, BingXin went to Japan. From 1949 to 1951, she taught Chinese literature at Tokyo University, returning home in autumn of 1951. In 1958, the \"People\'s Daily\" published her work \"To Young Readers 2\". BingXin wasn\'t only a literature expert, she was also a teacher. She loved children, she loved the offspring of her motherland, and she used her writings to teach children.\n\nIn my third year of high school, I read her early poem \"Spring Water\". It was written beautifully and was very moving. After that, I always loved to read BingXin\'s novels. My college thesis was \"On the Aesthetic Style of BingXin\'s Novels\". After I graduated college, I went to work for a publishing company. One summer morning this year, I got the opportunity to interview this master writer who is still with us today. That day was cloudy, cold, and rainy. I got up extremely early, put on a light blue suit, got on the bus and at 8:30 arrived at BingXin\'s house.\n\nBingXin\'s house was fairly far from the city center, near XinJieKou [a subdivision of Beijing]. She lived in a Beijing retirement community. There were many flowers in the yard.\n\nBingXin met me in the living room. The living room wasn\'t big, was very clean, and a landscape painting was hanging on the wall. The living room bookshelf held all kinds of books, some were in Chinese, and some were in foreign languages. BingXin had white hair, was short of stature and very thin, but looking at her she didn\'t seem like someone who was in her nineties. After we met, I first enquired after her health. She said that she was rarely sick, and though sometimes she caught cold, a little medicine fixed her right up. When I asked her why she was still so healthy, she said it\'s because of frequent exercise. \n\nLater, she answered a few of my questions about literature in the thirties. She drank tea as she spoke. When she touched on the topic of modern literature, I asked her, \"Do you still write?\" She said, \"I want to! It\'s just that my eyes aren\'t so good, I can\'t write anymore. Every day I just read the paper or a magazine or something.\" When I asked her why she had gone abroad to study, she asked me, \"Have you been abroad?\" I said, \"No.\" She said to me, \"Go have a look if you have the opportunity, work for a year or two in another country. People who\'ve lived abroad know what patriotism means.\"\n\nThat day, when I got back to my house, I kept thinking about that one thing she\'d said: \"People who\'ve lived aborad know what patriotism means.\"\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin 冰心', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-autosave-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:20:40', '2020-04-20 11:20:40', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(232, 1, '2011-01-13 23:33:08', '2011-01-13 23:33:08', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis is definitely lower-intermediate reading, with uncomplicated sentence structure and mostly simple words with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. If you\'re an advanced-beginner student and feel up to a challenge, this would be a great exercise to work on. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　五四运动时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在东京大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱祖国的后代，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还健在的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 她说，他很少得病，有时候得了感冒，吃点儿药就好了。 我问她为什么还这么健康时，她说，就是经常锻炼身体。 \r\n\r\n后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \r\n\r\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels \"Segregation\", \"Aunt\", etc., and at the same time translated the works of a few foreign writers. In 1945, BingXin went to Japan. From 1949 to 1951, she taught Chinese literature at Tokyo University, returning home in autumn of 1951. In 1958, the \"People\'s Daily\" published her \"To Young Readers 2\". BingXin wasn\'t only a literature expert, she was also a teacher. She loved children, she loved the offspring of her motherland, and she used her writings to teach children.\r\n\r\nIn my third year of high school, I read her early poem \"Spring water\". It was written beautifully and was very moving. After that, I always loved to read BingXin\'s novels. My college thesis was \"On the Aesthetic Style of BingXin\'s Novels\". After I graduated college, I went to work for a publishing company. On summer morning this year, I got the opportunity to interview this master writer who is still with us today. That day was cloudy, cold, and rainy. I got up extremely early, put on a light blue suit, got on the bus and at 8:30 arrived at BingXin\'s house.\r\n\r\nBingXin\'s house was fairly far from the city center, near XinJieKou [a subdivision of Beijing]. She lived in a Beijing retirement community. There were many flowers in the yard.\r\n\r\nBingXin met me in the living room. The living room wasn\'t big, was very clean, and a landscape painting was hanging on the wall. The living room bookshelf held all kinds of books, some were in Chinese, and some were in foreign languages. BingXin had white hair, was short of stature and very thin, but looking at her she didn\'t seem like someone who was in her nineties. After we met, I first enquired after her health. She said that she was rarely sick, and though sometimes she caught cold, a little medicine fixed her right up. When I asked her why she was still so healthy, she said it\'s because of frequent exercise. \r\n\r\nLater, she answered a few of my questions about literature in the thirties. She drank tea as she spoke. When she touched on the topic of modern literature, I asked her, \"Do you still write?\" She said, \"I want to! It\'s just that my eyes aren\'t so good, I can\'t write anymore. Every day I just read the paper or a magazine or something.\" When I asked her why she had gone abroad to study, she asked me, \"Have you been abroad?\" I said, \"No.\" She said to me, \"Go have a look if you have the opportunity, work for a year or two in another country. People who\'ve lived abroad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n\r\nThat day, when I got back to my house, I kept thinking about that one thing she\'d said: \"People who\'ve lived aborad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 23:33:08', '2011-01-13 23:33:08', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(233, 1, '2011-01-13 23:48:31', '2011-01-13 23:48:31', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis is definitely lower-intermediate reading, with uncomplicated sentence structure and mostly simple words with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. If you\'re an advanced-beginner student and feel up to a challenge, this would be a great exercise to work on. \r\n\r\nYou\'ll see breif mention made of 五四运动 [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin], the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement\">May 4th Movement</a>, a period of student protests against the Treaty of Versailles. During that time, China began to see an upsurge in nationalism, and a heavier focus on respecting the working man over the ivory tower intellectual.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n五四运动 - [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin] - May 4th Movement\r\n东京 - [pinyin]dong1 jing1[/pinyin] - Tokyo\r\n祖国 - [pinyin]zu3 guo2[/pinyin] - Motherland\r\n后代 - [pinyin]hou4 dai4[/pinyin] - Later generations\r\n健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n爱国- [pinyin]ai4 guo2[/pinyin] - Patriotic, love one\'s country\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　<strong>五四运动</strong>时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在<strong>东京</strong>大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱<strong>祖国</strong>的<strong>后代</strong>，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还<strong>健在</strong>的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 她说，他很少得病，有时候得了感冒，吃点儿药就好了。 我问她为什么还这么健康时，她说，就是经常锻炼身体。 \r\n\r\n后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是<strong>爱国</strong>了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \r\n\r\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. 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I got up extremely early, put on a light blue suit, got on the bus and at 8:30 arrived at BingXin\'s house.\r\n\r\nBingXin\'s house was fairly far from the city center, near XinJieKou [a subdivision of Beijing]. She lived in a Beijing retirement community. There were many flowers in the yard.\r\n\r\nBingXin met me in the living room. The living room wasn\'t big, was very clean, and a landscape painting was hanging on the wall. The living room bookshelf held all kinds of books, some were in Chinese, and some were in foreign languages. BingXin had white hair, was short of stature and very thin, but looking at her she didn\'t seem like someone who was in her nineties. After we met, I first enquired after her health. She said that she was rarely sick, and though sometimes she caught cold, a little medicine fixed her right up. 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(235, 1, '2011-01-13 23:51:50', '2011-01-13 23:51:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis is definitely lower-intermediate reading, with uncomplicated sentence structure and mostly simple words with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. If you\'re an advanced-beginner student and feel up to a challenge, this would be a great exercise to work on. \r\n\r\nYou\'ll see breif mention made of 五四运动 [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin], the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement\">May 4th Movement</a>, a period of student protests against the Treaty of Versailles. During that time, China began to see an upsurge in nationalism, and a heavier focus on respecting the working man over the ivory tower intellectual.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n五四运动 - [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin] - May 4th Movement\r\n东京 - [pinyin]dong1 jing1[/pinyin] - Tokyo\r\n祖国 - [pinyin]zu3 guo2[/pinyin] - Motherland\r\n后代 - [pinyin]hou4 dai4[/pinyin] - Later generations\r\n健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n爱国- [pinyin]ai4 guo2[/pinyin] - Patriotic, love one\'s country\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　<strong>五四运动</strong>时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在<strong>东京</strong>大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱<strong>祖国</strong>的<strong>后代</strong>，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还<strong>健在</strong>的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 \r\n\r\n冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 她说，他很少得病，有时候得了感冒，吃点儿药就好了。 我问她为什么还这么健康时，她说，就是经常锻炼身体。 \r\n\r\n后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是<strong>爱国</strong>了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \r\n\r\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels \"Segregation\", \"Aunt\", etc., and at the same time translated the works of a few foreign writers. In 1945, BingXin went to Japan. From 1949 to 1951, she taught Chinese literature at Tokyo University, returning home in autumn of 1951. In 1958, the \"People\'s Daily\" published her work \"To Young Readers 2\". BingXin wasn\'t only a literature expert, she was also a teacher. She loved children, she loved the offspring of her motherland, and she used her writings to teach children.\r\n\r\nIn my third year of high school, I read her early poem \"Spring Water\". It was written beautifully and was very moving. After that, I always loved to read BingXin\'s novels. My college thesis was \"On the Aesthetic Style of BingXin\'s Novels\". After I graduated college, I went to work for a publishing company. One summer morning this year, I got the opportunity to interview this master writer who is still with us today. That day was cloudy, cold, and rainy. I got up extremely early, put on a light blue suit, got on the bus and at 8:30 arrived at BingXin\'s house.\r\n\r\nBingXin\'s house was fairly far from the city center, near XinJieKou [a subdivision of Beijing]. She lived in a Beijing retirement community. There were many flowers in the yard.\r\n\r\nBingXin met me in the living room. The living room wasn\'t big, was very clean, and a landscape painting was hanging on the wall. The living room bookshelf held all kinds of books, some were in Chinese, and some were in foreign languages. BingXin had white hair, was short of stature and very thin, but looking at her she didn\'t seem like someone who was in her nineties. After we met, I first enquired after her health. She said that she was rarely sick, and though sometimes she caught cold, a little medicine fixed her right up. When I asked her why she was still so healthy, she said it\'s because of frequent exercise. \r\n\r\nLater, she answered a few of my questions about literature in the thirties. She drank tea as she spoke. When she touched on the topic of modern literature, I asked her, \"Do you still write?\" She said, \"I want to! It\'s just that my eyes aren\'t so good, I can\'t write anymore. Every day I just read the paper or a magazine or something.\" When I asked her why she had gone abroad to study, she asked me, \"Have you been abroad?\" I said, \"No.\" She said to me, \"Go have a look if you have the opportunity, work for a year or two in another country. People who\'ve lived abroad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n\r\nThat day, when I got back to my house, I kept thinking about that one thing she\'d said: \"People who\'ve lived aborad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 23:51:50', '2011-01-13 23:51:50', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/186-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(236, 1, '2011-02-01 06:30:36', '2011-02-01 06:30:36', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nUnlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand (and which I won\'t even attempt without a translation handy), this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n逆风 - [pinyin]ni4 feng1[/pinyin] - Against the wind\r\n脸庞 - [pinyin]lian3 pang2[/pinyin] - Face\r\n跳跃 - [pinyin]tiao4 yue4[/pinyin] - Leap, skip\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风行走 感受花瓣吹向脸庞\r\n仿佛那是白的、黄的、粉的蝴蝶在空中跳跃\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风奔跑 望着风筝越飞越高\r\n仿佛自己的梦想在空中自由飞翔\r\n\r\n \r\n小时候 是坐在父亲高大的自行车横档 感受他的怀抱\r\n后来 坐在他身后 叽叽喳喳地讲着一天的新鲜事儿\r\n现在 是坐在他的斜后边 静静地看着他的各种动作\r\n越来越远 是的 越来越远\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI don\'t know when it started  &nbsp; I like to walk against the wind  &nbsp; feel the petals blowing against my face<br />\r\nThey\'re like white, yellow and pink butterflies skipping in the air<br />\r\nI don\'t know when it started &nbsp; I like to run against the wind &nbsp; gazing at the kites getting farther away as they go higher<br />\r\nThey\'re like my own dreams flying in the air\r\n\r\nWhen I was small &nbsp; I sat on the handles of my father\'s tall bicycle  &nbsp; and felt his embrace<br />\r\nLater, I sat behind him &nbsp; and chattered on about the things that had happened that day<br />\r\nNow, I sit on the slope behind him &nbsp; quietly watching him go about his day<br />\r\nFarther and farther away &nbsp; truly &nbsp; farther and farther away.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The House Behind Me', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-house-behind-me', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:19:30', '2020-04-20 11:19:30', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=236', 0, 'post', '', 1),
(238, 1, '2011-01-14 13:56:38', '2011-01-14 13:56:38', '[two_third]\n\nUnlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand (and which I won\'t even attempt without a translation handy), this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. <!--more-->\n\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n逆风 - [pinyin]ne4 feng1[/pinyin] - Against the wind\n脸庞 - [pinyin]lian3 pang2[/pinyin] - Face\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风行走 感受花瓣吹向脸庞\n仿佛那是白的、黄的、粉的蝴蝶在空中跳跃\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风奔跑 望着风筝越飞越高\n仿佛自己的梦想在空中自由飞翔\n\n \n小时候 是坐在父亲高大的自行车横档 感受他的怀抱\n后来 坐在他身后 叽叽喳喳地讲着一天的新鲜事儿\n现在 是坐在他的斜后边 静静地看着他的各种动作\n越来越远 是的 越来越远\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\n\nI don\'t know when it started  &nbsp; I like to walk against the wind  &nbsp; \n\n[/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:56:38', '2011-01-14 13:56:38', '', 236, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(239, 1, '2011-01-14 13:56:50', '2011-01-14 13:56:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nUnlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand (and which I won\'t even attempt without a translation handy), this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n逆风 - [pinyin]ne4 feng1[/pinyin] - Against the wind\r\n脸庞 - [pinyin]lian3 pang2[/pinyin] - Face\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风行走 感受花瓣吹向脸庞\r\n仿佛那是白的、黄的、粉的蝴蝶在空中跳跃\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风奔跑 望着风筝越飞越高\r\n仿佛自己的梦想在空中自由飞翔\r\n\r\n \r\n小时候 是坐在父亲高大的自行车横档 感受他的怀抱\r\n后来 坐在他身后 叽叽喳喳地讲着一天的新鲜事儿\r\n现在 是坐在他的斜后边 静静地看着他的各种动作\r\n越来越远 是的 越来越远\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nI don\'t know when it started  &nbsp; I like to walk against the wind  &nbsp; \r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:56:50', '2011-01-14 13:56:50', '', 236, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(237, 1, '2011-01-14 13:14:49', '2011-01-14 13:14:49', '[two_third]\n\nUnlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand, this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly straightforward, very short, and extremely melancholy. <!--more-->\n\nThe most difficult paragraph here is probably the fourth, particularly the part: 几句刺耳的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来. We can break this down this way:\n\n几句 - Several sentences [of]\n刺耳的话 - Ear-piercing words\n从海岸的岩石那边 - From a seashore rock direction (from the direction of a seaside rock)\n飞过来 - Flew in (in this case, this is best translated as \"drifted over\".)\n\nThis tells us that there was more than one speaker, in this case the nest of swifts, who are screeching at Little Gull from nearby.\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n爱美 - [pinyin]ai4 mei3[/pinyin] - Set store by appearance\n天底下 - [pinyin]tian1 di3 xia4[/pinyin] - Under the sun\n得意 - [pinyin]de2 yi4[/pinyin] - Pleased with oneself\n刺耳 - [pinyin]ci4 er3[/pinyin] - Ear-piercing\n七嘴八舌 - [pinyin]qi1 zui3 ba1 she2[/pinyin] - Chattering, everyone talking at once\n哼 - [pinyin]heng1[/pinyin] - Sound for \"Hmph!\"\n海礁 - [pinyin]hai3 jiao1[/pinyin] - Reef\n大海妈妈 - [pinyin]da4 hai3 ma1 ma5[/pinyin] - Sea Mother (Mythical)\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n小海鸥十分漂亮，她特别<strong>爱美</strong>。\n\n早晨，小海鸥拍打着翅膀飞到大海上。  大海是小海鸥的镜子，她每天都到这儿来梳洗打扮。\n\n小海鸥对着这面镜子瞧啊，照啊，她一会儿扭动身躯，一会儿梳理羽毛，自以为是<strong>天底下</strong>最美的姑娘。\n\n正在小海鸥十分<strong>得意</strong>的时候，几句<strong>刺耳</strong>的话从海岸的岩石那边儿飞过来：“臭美：臭美：”造燕窝的小雨燕<strong>七嘴八舌</strong>地议论，“不劳动，没人喜欢你！”\n\n“<strong>哼</strong>，你们嫉妒我！”小海鸥不服地扭过身子，继续照镜子。\n\n中午，小海鸥飞到<strong>海礁</strong>上，啄食岸边晾晒的鱼虾。突然，海燕跑过来说：“懒家伙，不许吃，那是我们捕的鱼虾！”\n\n小海鸥坐在岸边的礁石上哭了，哭得好伤心哟！镜子里的她一点儿也不美。\n\n<strong>大海妈妈</strong>对她说：“劳动，是最高尚的美德，你为什么不和他们一起劳动呢？”  小海鸥点了点头。\n\n后来，海鸟劳动者的队伍里又多了一只美丽的海鸟，她就是小海鸥。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/ertong/ertong1940.html\">See the original story</a> [/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\n\nLittle Gull was very beautiful, and she set great store by her appearance.\n\nIn the mornings, Little Gull would flap her wings and fly out onto the ocean.  The ocean was her mirror, and she went there every day to wash and make herself up.\n\nLooking into the mirror [lit: opposite the mirror], Little Gull would gaze, and stare, twisting this way and that and combing her feathers. She thought she was the most beautiful girl under the sun.\n\nJust when she was feeling quite proud of herself, she heard some piercing screeches coming from the vicinity of a seaside rock: \"Snob! Snob!\", chattered a bunch of nest-making swifts, \"You don\'t work, no one likes you!\"\n\n\"Hmph! You\'re just jealous of me!\" said Little Gull, refusing to accept the truth, and she continuing to turn about in the mirror.\n\nAt noon, Little Gull flew out to a reef, and began to peck at some fish she found drying in the sun. Suddenly, a swallow ran up to her and said, \"Hey lazybones! Don\'t eat that, we [swallows] caught that fish!\"\n\nLittle swallow sat on the reef and cried, cried from such sadness! The gull she saw in the mirror didn\'t look at all beautiful.\n\nThe great Sea Mother said to her, \"To work is one of the noblest virtues. Why don\'t you go work with them?\"  Little Gull nodded her head.\n\nAfter that, the ranks of worker seabirds grew by one, and that one was Little Gull.  [/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:14:49', '2011-01-14 13:14:49', '', 236, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(240, 1, '2011-01-14 09:02:09', '2011-01-14 14:02:09', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nUnlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand (and which I won\'t even attempt without a translation handy), this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n逆风 - [pinyin]ne4 feng1[/pinyin] - Against the wind\r\n脸庞 - [pinyin]lian3 pang2[/pinyin] - Face\r\n跳跃 - [pinyin]tiao4 yue4[/pinyin] - Leap, skip\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风行走 感受花瓣吹向脸庞\r\n仿佛那是白的、黄的、粉的蝴蝶在空中跳跃\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风奔跑 望着风筝越飞越高\r\n仿佛自己的梦想在空中自由飞翔\r\n\r\n \r\n小时候 是坐在父亲高大的自行车横档 感受他的怀抱\r\n后来 坐在他身后 叽叽喳喳地讲着一天的新鲜事儿\r\n现在 是坐在他的斜后边 静静地看着他的各种动作\r\n越来越远 是的 越来越远\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nI don\'t know when it started  &nbsp; I like to walk against the wind  &nbsp; feel the petals blowing against my face\r\n\r\nThey\'re like white, yellow and pink butterflies skipping in the air\r\n\r\nThey\'re like my own dreams flying in the air\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 09:02:09', '2011-01-14 14:02:09', '', 236, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(241, 1, '2011-01-14 13:07:43', '2011-01-14 18:07:43', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nUnlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand (and which I won\'t even attempt without a translation handy), this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n逆风 - [pinyin]ne4 feng1[/pinyin] - Against the wind\r\n脸庞 - [pinyin]lian3 pang2[/pinyin] - Face\r\n跳跃 - [pinyin]tiao4 yue4[/pinyin] - Leap, skip\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风行走 感受花瓣吹向脸庞\r\n仿佛那是白的、黄的、粉的蝴蝶在空中跳跃\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风奔跑 望着风筝越飞越高\r\n仿佛自己的梦想在空中自由飞翔\r\n\r\n \r\n小时候 是坐在父亲高大的自行车横档 感受他的怀抱\r\n后来 坐在他身后 叽叽喳喳地讲着一天的新鲜事儿\r\n现在 是坐在他的斜后边 静静地看着他的各种动作\r\n越来越远 是的 越来越远\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nI don\'t know when it started  &nbsp; I like to walk against the wind  &nbsp; feel the petals blowing against my face<br />\r\nThey\'re like white, yellow and pink butterflies skipping in the air<br />\r\nI don\'t know when it started &nbsp; I like to run against the wind &nbsp; gazing at the kites getting farther away as they go higher<br />\r\nThey\'re like my own dreams flying in the air\r\n\r\nWhen I was small &nbsp; I sat on the handles of my father\'s tall bicycle  &nbsp; and felt his embrace<br />\r\nLater, I sat behind him &nbsp; and chattered on about the things that had happened that day<br />\r\nNow, I sit on the slope behind him &nbsp; quietly watching him go about his day<br />\r\nFarther and farther away &nbsp; it\'s &nbsp; farther and farther away.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:07:43', '2011-01-14 18:07:43', '', 236, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(242, 1, '2011-01-14 13:07:55', '2011-01-14 18:07:55', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nUnlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand (and which I won\'t even attempt without a translation handy), this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n逆风 - [pinyin]ne4 feng1[/pinyin] - Against the wind\r\n脸庞 - [pinyin]lian3 pang2[/pinyin] - Face\r\n跳跃 - [pinyin]tiao4 yue4[/pinyin] - Leap, skip\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风行走 感受花瓣吹向脸庞\r\n仿佛那是白的、黄的、粉的蝴蝶在空中跳跃\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风奔跑 望着风筝越飞越高\r\n仿佛自己的梦想在空中自由飞翔\r\n\r\n \r\n小时候 是坐在父亲高大的自行车横档 感受他的怀抱\r\n后来 坐在他身后 叽叽喳喳地讲着一天的新鲜事儿\r\n现在 是坐在他的斜后边 静静地看着他的各种动作\r\n越来越远 是的 越来越远\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nI don\'t know when it started  &nbsp; I like to walk against the wind  &nbsp; feel the petals blowing against my face<br />\r\nThey\'re like white, yellow and pink butterflies skipping in the air<br />\r\nI don\'t know when it started &nbsp; I like to run against the wind &nbsp; gazing at the kites getting farther away as they go higher<br />\r\nThey\'re like my own dreams flying in the air\r\n\r\nWhen I was small &nbsp; I sat on the handles of my father\'s tall bicycle  &nbsp; and felt his embrace<br />\r\nLater, I sat behind him &nbsp; and chattered on about the things that had happened that day<br />\r\nNow, I sit on the slope behind him &nbsp; quietly watching him go about his day<br />\r\nFarther and farther away &nbsp; it\'s &nbsp; farther and farther away.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:07:55', '2011-01-14 18:07:55', '', 236, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(243, 1, '2011-01-14 13:09:07', '2011-01-14 18:09:07', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nUnlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand (and which I won\'t even attempt without a translation handy), this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n逆风 - [pinyin]ne4 feng1[/pinyin] - Against the wind\r\n脸庞 - [pinyin]lian3 pang2[/pinyin] - Face\r\n跳跃 - [pinyin]tiao4 yue4[/pinyin] - Leap, skip\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风行走 感受花瓣吹向脸庞\r\n仿佛那是白的、黄的、粉的蝴蝶在空中跳跃\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风奔跑 望着风筝越飞越高\r\n仿佛自己的梦想在空中自由飞翔\r\n\r\n \r\n小时候 是坐在父亲高大的自行车横档 感受他的怀抱\r\n后来 坐在他身后 叽叽喳喳地讲着一天的新鲜事儿\r\n现在 是坐在他的斜后边 静静地看着他的各种动作\r\n越来越远 是的 越来越远\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nI don\'t know when it started  &nbsp; I like to walk against the wind  &nbsp; feel the petals blowing against my face<br />\r\nThey\'re like white, yellow and pink butterflies skipping in the air<br />\r\nI don\'t know when it started &nbsp; I like to run against the wind &nbsp; gazing at the kites getting farther away as they go higher<br />\r\nThey\'re like my own dreams flying in the air\r\n\r\nWhen I was small &nbsp; I sat on the handles of my father\'s tall bicycle  &nbsp; and felt his embrace<br />\r\nLater, I sat behind him &nbsp; and chattered on about the things that had happened that day<br />\r\nNow, I sit on the slope behind him &nbsp; quietly watching him go about his day<br />\r\nFarther and farther away &nbsp; truly &nbsp; farther and farther away.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:09:07', '2011-01-14 18:09:07', '', 236, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(244, 1, '2011-01-14 13:23:06', '2011-01-14 18:23:06', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nUnlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand (and which I won\'t even attempt without a translation handy), this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n逆风 - [pinyin]ni4 feng1[/pinyin] - Against the wind\r\n脸庞 - [pinyin]lian3 pang2[/pinyin] - Face\r\n跳跃 - [pinyin]tiao4 yue4[/pinyin] - Leap, skip\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风行走 感受花瓣吹向脸庞\r\n仿佛那是白的、黄的、粉的蝴蝶在空中跳跃\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风奔跑 望着风筝越飞越高\r\n仿佛自己的梦想在空中自由飞翔\r\n\r\n \r\n小时候 是坐在父亲高大的自行车横档 感受他的怀抱\r\n后来 坐在他身后 叽叽喳喳地讲着一天的新鲜事儿\r\n现在 是坐在他的斜后边 静静地看着他的各种动作\r\n越来越远 是的 越来越远\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nI don\'t know when it started  &nbsp; I like to walk against the wind  &nbsp; feel the petals blowing against my face<br />\r\nThey\'re like white, yellow and pink butterflies skipping in the air<br />\r\nI don\'t know when it started &nbsp; I like to run against the wind &nbsp; gazing at the kites getting farther away as they go higher<br />\r\nThey\'re like my own dreams flying in the air\r\n\r\nWhen I was small &nbsp; I sat on the handles of my father\'s tall bicycle  &nbsp; and felt his embrace<br />\r\nLater, I sat behind him &nbsp; and chattered on about the things that had happened that day<br />\r\nNow, I sit on the slope behind him &nbsp; quietly watching him go about his day<br />\r\nFarther and farther away &nbsp; truly &nbsp; farther and farther away.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Direction of a Backwards-Facing House', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:23:06', '2011-01-14 18:23:06', '', 236, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(247, 1, '2011-01-14 13:24:22', '2011-01-14 18:24:22', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nUnlike most Chinese poetry, which requires about 7 billion years of specialized study to understand (and which I won\'t even attempt without a translation handy), this poem, originally found in the online version of Youth Digest magazine, is fairly short, only mildly abstract, and extremely melancholy. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n逆风 - [pinyin]ni4 feng1[/pinyin] - Against the wind\r\n脸庞 - [pinyin]lian3 pang2[/pinyin] - Face\r\n跳跃 - [pinyin]tiao4 yue4[/pinyin] - Leap, skip\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风行走 感受花瓣吹向脸庞\r\n仿佛那是白的、黄的、粉的蝴蝶在空中跳跃\r\n不知从何时起 喜欢逆风奔跑 望着风筝越飞越高\r\n仿佛自己的梦想在空中自由飞翔\r\n\r\n \r\n小时候 是坐在父亲高大的自行车横档 感受他的怀抱\r\n后来 坐在他身后 叽叽喳喳地讲着一天的新鲜事儿\r\n现在 是坐在他的斜后边 静静地看着他的各种动作\r\n越来越远 是的 越来越远\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nI don\'t know when it started  &nbsp; I like to walk against the wind  &nbsp; feel the petals blowing against my face<br />\r\nThey\'re like white, yellow and pink butterflies skipping in the air<br />\r\nI don\'t know when it started &nbsp; I like to run against the wind &nbsp; gazing at the kites getting farther away as they go higher<br />\r\nThey\'re like my own dreams flying in the air\r\n\r\nWhen I was small &nbsp; I sat on the handles of my father\'s tall bicycle  &nbsp; and felt his embrace<br />\r\nLater, I sat behind him &nbsp; and chattered on about the things that had happened that day<br />\r\nNow, I sit on the slope behind him &nbsp; quietly watching him go about his day<br />\r\nFarther and farther away &nbsp; truly &nbsp; farther and farther away.\r\n[/one_half]', 'The House Behind Me', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '236-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 13:24:22', '2011-01-14 18:24:22', '', 236, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(249, 1, '2011-02-03 07:00:48', '2011-02-03 12:00:48', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean (also known as \"Azuki bean\") paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110203-INLINE-red-bean-paste-soup.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Reading Materials: Recipe for Red Bean Paste Soup\" title=\"Chinese Reading Materials: Recipe for Red Bean Paste Soup\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />If you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky, like huge tapioca balls. \r\n\r\nI had a considerable amount of trouble with the phrase \"水淀粉勾芡\", but eventually found the answer <a href=\"http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/41527200\">here</a>, on the Chinese equivalent of Yahoo! answers. Essentially, this is a recipe-specific phrase describing a kind of thickening process similar to adding corn starch to a jelly; the cook sprinkles starch on hot water, simultaneously stirring with the other hand until the starch dissolves into the water. The starchy water is then stirred into the main dish.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n浸泡 - [pinyin]jin4 pao4[/pinyin] - Soak\r\n高压锅 - [pinyin]gao1 ya1 guo1 [/pinyin] - Pressure cooker\r\n气阀 - [pinyin]qi4 fa1[/pinyin] - Steam valve\r\n舀 - [pinyin]yao3[/pinyin] - Scoop (verb)\r\n拌机搅 - [pinyin]jiao3 ban4 ji1[/pinyin] - Blender\r\n勾芡 - [pinyin]gou1 qian4[/pinyin] - A brand of thickening agent\r\n呈现 - [pinyin]cheng2 xian4[/pinyin] - Appear, emerge\r\n撮 - [pinyin]cuo1[/pinyin] - Bring together, gather up\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆<strong>浸泡</strong>过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用<strong>高压锅</strong>煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li><strong>气阀</strong>落下后，将红豆<strong>舀</strong>出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用<strong>搅拌机</strong>搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉<strong>勾芡</strong>，使得红豆糊<strong>呈现</strong>粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水<strong>撮</strong>成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\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\nZhuSun [author\'s son] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave ZhuSun one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Soak the red beans overnight.</li>\r\n	<li>Take one part red beans and three to four parts water and boil them together in a pressure cooker. When steam comes out, adjust to medium heat, and let cook for another 10 minutes [lit: 10 minutes should do].</li>\r\n	<li>Once the pressure valve drops, scoop out the beans, leaving the soup liquid in the pot.</li>\r\n	<li>Put the beans and a dash of the soup liquid into a blender and blend into a paste.</li>\r\n	<li>Pour the paste from the blender back into the pot with the soup, add heat, and add sugar to taste. I used rock sugar. [lit: ice sugar - a common form chunky sugar sold in Chinese grocery stories that looks like pieces of rock candy.]</li>\r\n	<li>Add a bowl of water with the starchy thickening agent in it, and turn off the heat when the soup appears to have the consistency of a milkshake. [Word \"consistency\" doesn\'t actually appear in the Chinese sentence, but it is implied].</li>\r\n	<li>Prepare the pearls by mixing glutinous rice flour with water and shaping it into balls.</li>\r\n	<li>Bring water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. They\'re done when they float.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the glutinous rice balls to the red bean paste soup, and you\'re done. I don\'t add whole boiled red beans to the soup, because it makes the red bean flavor is too strong, but the sticky rice soup balls make it very tasty.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'recipe-for-red-bean-paste-pearl-soup', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:04:06', '2020-04-20 11:04:06', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=249', 0, 'post', '', 3),
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(251, 1, '2011-01-15 12:43:51', '2011-01-15 17:43:51', '[two_third]\n\nI absolutely love red bean paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from Becky Blog, a chine<!--more--> The language is mostly school-centric as the writer discusses his classmates, Jiang Ping\'s scholarship, and her test results.\n\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.\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\n努力 - [pinyin]nu3 li4[/pinyin] - Great effort\n参加 - [pinyin]can1 jia1[/pinyin] - Participate\n得 - [pinyin]de[/pinyin] - To get, earn\n满分 - [pinyin]man3 fen1[/pinyin] - Full marks, 100%\n奖学金 - [pinyin]jiang3 xue2 jin1[/pinyin] - Scholarship\n留学 - [pinyin]liu2 xue2[/pinyin] - Study abroad\n预祝 - [pinyin]yu4 zhu4[/pinyin] - Wish\n成功 - [pinyin]cheng2 gong1[/pinyin] - Success\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\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。\n\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。\n\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。\n\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。\n\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？\n\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\n\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.\n\nNext week she\'s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.\n\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.\n\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.\n\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?\n\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Sweet Red Bean Paste Dumpling Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 12:43:51', '2011-01-15 17:43:51', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(253, 1, '2011-01-15 12:52:33', '2011-01-15 17:52:33', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky. If you\'ve ever had Japanese mochi ice-cream, you\'ll know exactly what I mean.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\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\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nToday I\'m going to Jiang Ping\'s house. Jiang Ping and I are highschool classmates. She\'s my good friend, and she\'s also good friends with everyone in our class. She studies very hard, she\'s the best student in our class. She studies, she plays, and she also often helps others. The teacher and the other students like her. She recently participated in an examination for an American college. That test is very hard, but she did very well - she earned full marks. I heard that only three people in the whole world got full marks. This college gave Jiang Ping their highest scholarship. We\'re all very happy for her.\r\n\r\nNext week she\'s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping\'s house is on the east side of the city very far away from mine. I left my house a little after four o\'clock in the afternoon, and didn\'t get there until 5:30. When I arrived, the rest of our classmates were already there.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping warmly welcomed us. She hadn\'t seen her classmates in a while, and after she greeted us, we talked and smiled, chatting happily. We wished Jiang Ping success. Wished her a pleasant trip. I said, Be sure to write often. Jiang Ping said, Of course. When she said \"Goodbye\", she cried, and I also cried.\r\n\r\nOn my way home, I thought, We often say \"Goodbye\" [lit: see you again], but sometimes \"Goodbye\" is sad. When will Jiang Ping and I be able to see each other again?\r\n\r\n[/one_half]</a>', 'Recipe for Sweet Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 12:52:33', '2011-01-15 17:52:33', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(252, 1, '2011-01-15 12:44:44', '2011-01-15 17:44:44', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from Becky Blog, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more--> The language is mostly school-centric as the writer discusses his classmates, Jiang Ping\'s scholarship, and her test results.\r\n\r\nThe crux of the last paragraph hinges on the fact that the Chinese word for \"Goodbye\" (再见) literally translates as \"See you again\", as the writer wonders when or if he\'ll ever really see Jiang Ping again.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n努力 - [pinyin]nu3 li4[/pinyin] - Great effort\r\n参加 - [pinyin]can1 jia1[/pinyin] - Participate\r\n得 - [pinyin]de[/pinyin] - To get, earn\r\n满分 - [pinyin]man3 fen1[/pinyin] - Full marks, 100%\r\n奖学金 - [pinyin]jiang3 xue2 jin1[/pinyin] - Scholarship\r\n留学 - [pinyin]liu2 xue2[/pinyin] - Study abroad\r\n预祝 - [pinyin]yu4 zhu4[/pinyin] - Wish\r\n成功 - [pinyin]cheng2 gong1[/pinyin] - Success\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">今天我去江苹加了。 我和江苹是中学<strong>同学</strong>， 她是我的好朋友， 也是我们全班同学的朋友。 她学习非常<strong>努力</strong>， 是我们班学习最好的学生。 她会学习， 她会玩儿， 还常常帮助别人， 老师和同学都很喜欢她。 她这次<strong>参加</strong>了美国一个大学<strong>考试</strong>。 这个考试非常难，但是她考得很好，<strong>得</strong>了<strong>满分</strong>。 听说全世界只有三个学生得满分。 这个大学给江苹最高的<strong>奖学金</strong>。 我们都为她感到高兴。\r\n\r\n她下星期要去美国<strong>留学</strong>， 我们班的同学都去看他， 给他送行。\r\n\r\n江苹的家在城东边， 离我家比较远。 我下午四点多就从家里出发了， 五点半才到。 我到的时候， 同学们都已经到了。\r\n\r\n江苹很热情地欢迎我们。 同学们好久不见了， 见面以后高兴得又说又笑， 谈得很愉快。 我们<strong>预祝</strong>江苹<strong>成功</strong>。 祝她一路平安。 我说， 一定要常来新啊。 江苹说，一定。 跟他说 “再见”  的时候， 她哭了， 我也哭了。\r\n\r\n回家的路上， 我想， 我们常常说 “再见”， 但是， 有时候 “再见” 是很难的。 我和江苹什么时候能 “再见” 呢？\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nToday I\'m going to Jiang Ping\'s house. Jiang Ping and I are highschool classmates. She\'s my good friend, and she\'s also good friends with everyone in our class. She studies very hard, she\'s the best student in our class. She studies, she plays, and she also often helps others. The teacher and the other students like her. She recently participated in an examination for an American college. That test is very hard, but she did very well - she earned full marks. I heard that only three people in the whole world got full marks. This college gave Jiang Ping their highest scholarship. We\'re all very happy for her.\r\n\r\nNext week she\'s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping\'s house is on the east side of the city very far away from mine. I left my house a little after four o\'clock in the afternoon, and didn\'t get there until 5:30. When I arrived, the rest of our classmates were already there.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping warmly welcomed us. She hadn\'t seen her classmates in a while, and after she greeted us, we talked and smiled, chatting happily. We wished Jiang Ping success. Wished her a pleasant trip. I said, Be sure to write often. Jiang Ping said, Of course. When she said \"Goodbye\", she cried, and I also cried.\r\n\r\nOn my way home, I thought, We often say \"Goodbye\" [lit: see you again], but sometimes \"Goodbye\" is sad. When will Jiang Ping and I be able to see each other again?\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Sweet Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 12:44:44', '2011-01-15 17:44:44', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(254, 1, '2011-01-15 13:02:05', '2011-01-15 18:02:05', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky. If you\'ve ever had Japanese mochi ice-cream, you\'ll know exactly what I mean.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\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\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆浸泡过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用高压锅煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li>气阀落下后，将红豆舀出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用搅拌机搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉勾芡，使得红豆糊呈现粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水撮成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy little one absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 13:02:05', '2011-01-15 18:02:05', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(255, 1, '2011-01-15 13:12:00', '2011-01-15 18:12:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky. If you\'ve ever had Japanese mochi ice-cream, you\'ll know exactly what I mean.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\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\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆浸泡过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用高压锅煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li>气阀落下后，将红豆舀出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用搅拌机搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉勾芡，使得红豆糊呈现粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水撮成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy little one [lit: bamboo shoot] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave our little one one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat so much fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 13:12:00', '2011-01-15 18:12:00', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(256, 1, '2011-01-16 17:13:07', '2011-01-16 22:13:07', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean (also known as \"Azuki bean\") paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110203-INLINE-red-bean-paste-soup.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Reading Materials: Recipe for Red Bean Paste Soup\" title=\"Chinese Reading Materials: Recipe for Red Bean Paste Soup\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />If you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky, like huge tapioca balls. \r\n\r\nI had a considerable amount of trouble with the phrase \"水淀粉勾芡\", but eventually found the answer <a href=\"http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/41527200\">here</a>, on the Chinese equivalent of Yahoo! answers. Essentially, this is a recipe-specific phrase describing a kind of thickening process similar to adding corn starch to a jelly; the cook sprinkles starch on hot water, simultaneously stirring with the other hand until the starch dissolves into the water. The starchy water is then stirred into the main dish.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n浸泡 - [pinyin]jin4 pao4[/pinyin] - Soak\r\n高压锅 - [pinyin]gao1 ya1 guo1 [/pinyin] - Pressure cooker\r\n气阀 - [pinyin]qi4 fa1[/pinyin] - Steam valve\r\n舀 - [pinyin]yao3[/pinyin] - Scoop (verb)\r\n拌机搅 - [pinyin]jiao3 ban4 ji1[/pinyin] - Blender\r\n勾芡 - [pinyin]gou1 qian4[/pinyin] - A brand of thickening agent\r\n呈现 - [pinyin]cheng2 xian4[/pinyin] - Appear, emerge\r\n撮 - [pinyin]cuo1[/pinyin] - Bring together, gather up\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆<strong>浸泡</strong>过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用<strong>高压锅</strong>煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li><strong>气阀</strong>落下后，将红豆<strong>舀</strong>出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用<strong>搅拌机</strong>搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉<strong>勾芡</strong>，使得红豆糊<strong>呈现</strong>粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水<strong>撮</strong>成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\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\nZhuSun [author\'s son] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave ZhuSun one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Soak the red beans overnight.</li>\r\n	<li>Take one part red beans and three to four parts water and boil them together in a pressure cooker. When steam comes out, adjust to medium heat, and let cook for another 10 minutes [lit: 10 minutes should do].</li>\r\n	<li>Once the pressure valve drops, scoop out the beans, leaving the soup liquid in the pot.</li>\r\n	<li>Put the beans and a dash of the soup liquid into a blender and blend into a paste.</li>\r\n	<li>Pour the paste from the blender back into the pot with the soup, add heat, and add sugar to taste. I used rock sugar. [lit: ice sugar - a common form chunky sugar sold in Chinese grocery stories that looks like pieces of rock candy.]</li>\r\n	<li>Add a bowl of water with the starchy thickening agent in it, and turn off the heat when the soup appears to have the consistency of a milkshake. [Word \"consistency\" doesn\'t actually appear in the Chinese sentence, but it is implied].</li>\r\n	<li>Prepare the pearls by mixing glutinous rice flour with water and shaping it into balls.</li>\r\n	<li>Bring water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. They\'re done when they float.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the glutinous rice balls to the red bean paste soup, and you\'re done. I don\'t add whole boiled red beans to the soup, because it makes the red bean flavor is too strong, but the sticky rice soup balls make it very tasty.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-autosave-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 17:13:07', '2011-01-16 22:13:07', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(257, 1, '2011-01-15 13:26:59', '2011-01-15 18:26:59', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky. If you\'ve ever had Japanese mochi ice-cream, you\'ll know exactly what I mean.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\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\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆浸泡过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用高压锅煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li>气阀落下后，将红豆舀出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用搅拌机搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉勾芡，使得红豆糊呈现粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水撮成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy little one [lit: bamboo shoot] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave our little one one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat so much fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n\r\nSoak the red beans overnight.\r\n\r\nTake one part red beans and three to four parts water and boil them together in a pressure cooker. When steam comes out, adjust to medium heat, and let cook for another 10 minutes [lit: 10 minutes should do].\r\n\r\nOnce you depressurize the pot, scoop out the beans, leaving the soup liquid in the pot.\r\n\r\nPut the beans and a dash of the soup liquid into a blender and blend into a paste.\r\n\r\nPour the paste from the blender back into the pot with the soup, add heat, and add sugar to taste. I used rock sugar. [lit: ice sugar - a common form chunky sugar sold in Chinese grocery stories that looks like pieces of rock candy.]\r\n\r\nAdd a bowl of WHAT THE FUCK starch, and turn off the heat when the soup appears to have the consistency of a milkshake. [Word \"consistency\" doesn\'t actually appear in the Chinese sentence, but it is implied].\r\n\r\nPrepare the pearls by mixing glutinous rice flour with water and shaping it into balls.\r\n\r\nBring water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. They\'re done when they float.\r\n\r\nAdd the glutinous rice balls to the red bean paste soup, and you\'re done. I don\'t add whole boiled red beans to the soup, because it makes the red bean flavor is too strong, but the sticky rice soup balls make it very tasty.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 13:26:59', '2011-01-15 18:26:59', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(259, 1, '2011-01-15 13:28:38', '2011-01-15 18:28:38', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky. If you\'ve ever had Japanese mochi ice-cream, you\'ll know exactly what I mean.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\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\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆浸泡过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用高压锅煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li>气阀落下后，将红豆舀出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用搅拌机搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉勾芡，使得红豆糊呈现粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水撮成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy little one [lit: bamboo shoot] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave our little one one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat so much fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Soak the red beans overnight.</li>\r\n	<li>Take one part red beans and three to four parts water and boil them together in a pressure cooker. When steam comes out, adjust to medium heat, and let cook for another 10 minutes [lit: 10 minutes should do].</li>\r\n	<li>Once you depressurize the pot, scoop out the beans, leaving the soup liquid in the pot.</li>\r\n	<li>Put the beans and a dash of the soup liquid into a blender and blend into a paste.</li>\r\n	<li>Pour the paste from the blender back into the pot with the soup, add heat, and add sugar to taste. I used rock sugar. [lit: ice sugar - a common form chunky sugar sold in Chinese grocery stories that looks like pieces of rock candy.]</li>\r\n	<li>Add a bowl of starch, and turn off the heat when the soup appears to have the consistency of a milkshake. [Word \"consistency\" doesn\'t actually appear in the Chinese sentence, but it is implied].</li>\r\n	<li>Prepare the pearls by mixing glutinous rice flour with water and shaping it into balls.</li>\r\n	<li>Bring water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. They\'re done when they float.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the glutinous rice balls to the red bean paste soup, and you\'re done. I don\'t add whole boiled red beans to the soup, because it makes the red bean flavor is too strong, but the sticky rice soup balls make it very tasty.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 13:28:38', '2011-01-15 18:28:38', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(258, 1, '2011-01-15 13:27:53', '2011-01-15 18:27:53', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky. If you\'ve ever had Japanese mochi ice-cream, you\'ll know exactly what I mean.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\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\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆浸泡过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用高压锅煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li>气阀落下后，将红豆舀出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用搅拌机搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉勾芡，使得红豆糊呈现粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水撮成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy little one [lit: bamboo shoot] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave our little one one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat so much fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Soak the red beans overnight.</li>\r\n	<li>Take one part red beans and three to four parts water and boil them together in a pressure cooker. When steam comes out, adjust to medium heat, and let cook for another 10 minutes [lit: 10 minutes should do].</li>\r\n	<li>Once you depressurize the pot, scoop out the beans, leaving the soup liquid in the pot.</li>\r\n	<li>Put the beans and a dash of the soup liquid into a blender and blend into a paste.</li>\r\n	<li>Pour the paste from the blender back into the pot with the soup, add heat, and add sugar to taste. I used rock sugar. [lit: ice sugar - a common form chunky sugar sold in Chinese grocery stories that looks like pieces of rock candy.]</li>\r\n	<li>Add a bowl of WHAT THE FUCK starch, and turn off the heat when the soup appears to have the consistency of a milkshake. [Word \"consistency\" doesn\'t actually appear in the Chinese sentence, but it is implied].</li>\r\n	<li>Prepare the pearls by mixing glutinous rice flour with water and shaping it into balls.</li>\r\n	<li>Bring water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. They\'re done when they float.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the glutinous rice balls to the red bean paste soup, and you\'re done. I don\'t add whole boiled red beans to the soup, because it makes the red bean flavor is too strong, but the sticky rice soup balls make it very tasty.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 13:27:53', '2011-01-15 18:27:53', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(260, 1, '2011-01-15 13:30:02', '2011-01-15 18:30:02', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky. If you\'ve ever had Japanese mochi ice-cream, you\'ll know exactly what I mean.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\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\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆浸泡过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用高压锅煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li>气阀落下后，将红豆舀出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用搅拌机搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉勾芡，使得红豆糊呈现粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水撮成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy little one [lit: bamboo shoot] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave our little one one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Soak the red beans overnight.</li>\r\n	<li>Take one part red beans and three to four parts water and boil them together in a pressure cooker. When steam comes out, adjust to medium heat, and let cook for another 10 minutes [lit: 10 minutes should do].</li>\r\n	<li>Once you depressurize the pot, scoop out the beans, leaving the soup liquid in the pot.</li>\r\n	<li>Put the beans and a dash of the soup liquid into a blender and blend into a paste.</li>\r\n	<li>Pour the paste from the blender back into the pot with the soup, add heat, and add sugar to taste. I used rock sugar. [lit: ice sugar - a common form chunky sugar sold in Chinese grocery stories that looks like pieces of rock candy.]</li>\r\n	<li>Add a bowl of starch, and turn off the heat when the soup appears to have the consistency of a milkshake. [Word \"consistency\" doesn\'t actually appear in the Chinese sentence, but it is implied].</li>\r\n	<li>Prepare the pearls by mixing glutinous rice flour with water and shaping it into balls.</li>\r\n	<li>Bring water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. They\'re done when they float.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the glutinous rice balls to the red bean paste soup, and you\'re done. I don\'t add whole boiled red beans to the soup, because it makes the red bean flavor is too strong, but the sticky rice soup balls make it very tasty.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 13:30:02', '2011-01-15 18:30:02', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(261, 1, '2011-01-15 13:52:13', '2011-01-15 18:52:13', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky. If you\'ve ever had Japanese mochi ice-cream, you\'ll know exactly what I mean.\r\n\r\nI had a considerable amount of trouble with the phrase \"水淀粉勾芡\", but eventually found the answer <a href=\"http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/41527200\">here</a>, on the Chinese equivalent of Yahoo! answers. Essentially, this is a recipe-specific phrase describing a kind of thickening process similar to adding corn starch to a jelly; the cook sprinkles starch on hot water, simultaneously stirring with the other hand until the starch dissolves into the water. The starchy water is then incorporated into the main dish.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\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\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆浸泡过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用高压锅煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li>气阀落下后，将红豆舀出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用搅拌机搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉勾芡，使得红豆糊呈现粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水撮成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy little one [lit: bamboo shoot] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave our little one one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Soak the red beans overnight.</li>\r\n	<li>Take one part red beans and three to four parts water and boil them together in a pressure cooker. When steam comes out, adjust to medium heat, and let cook for another 10 minutes [lit: 10 minutes should do].</li>\r\n	<li>Once you depressurize the pot, scoop out the beans, leaving the soup liquid in the pot.</li>\r\n	<li>Put the beans and a dash of the soup liquid into a blender and blend into a paste.</li>\r\n	<li>Pour the paste from the blender back into the pot with the soup, add heat, and add sugar to taste. I used rock sugar. [lit: ice sugar - a common form chunky sugar sold in Chinese grocery stories that looks like pieces of rock candy.]</li>\r\n	<li>Add a bowl of starch, and turn off the heat when the soup appears to have the consistency of a milkshake. [Word \"consistency\" doesn\'t actually appear in the Chinese sentence, but it is implied].</li>\r\n	<li>Prepare the pearls by mixing glutinous rice flour with water and shaping it into balls.</li>\r\n	<li>Bring water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. They\'re done when they float.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the glutinous rice balls to the red bean paste soup, and you\'re done. I don\'t add whole boiled red beans to the soup, because it makes the red bean flavor is too strong, but the sticky rice soup balls make it very tasty.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 13:52:13', '2011-01-15 18:52:13', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(262, 1, '2011-01-15 14:07:50', '2011-01-15 19:07:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky, like huge tapioca balls. \r\n\r\nI had a considerable amount of trouble with the phrase \"水淀粉勾芡\", but eventually found the answer <a href=\"http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/41527200\">here</a>, on the Chinese equivalent of Yahoo! answers. Essentially, this is a recipe-specific phrase describing a kind of thickening process similar to adding corn starch to a jelly; the cook sprinkles starch on hot water, simultaneously stirring with the other hand until the starch dissolves into the water. The starchy water is then stirred into the main dish.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n浸泡 - [pinyin]jin4 pao4[/pinyin] - Soak\r\n高压锅 - [pinyin]gao1 ya1 guo1 [/pinyin] - Pressure cooker\r\n气阀 - [pinyin]qi4 fa1[/pinyin] - Steam valve\r\n舀 - [pinyin]yao3[/pinyin] - Scoop (verb)\r\n拌机搅 - [pinyin]jiao3 ban4 ji1[/pinyin] - Blender\r\n勾芡 - [pinyin]gou1 qian4[/pinyin] - Thicken\r\n呈现 - [pinyin]cheng2 xian4[/pinyin] - Appear, emerge\r\n撮 - [pinyin]cuo1[/pinyin] - Bring together, gather up\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆<strong>浸泡</strong>过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用<strong>高压锅</strong>煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li><strong>气阀</strong>落下后，将红豆<strong>舀</strong>出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用<strong>搅拌机</strong>搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉<strong>勾芡</strong>，使得红豆糊<strong>呈现</strong>粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水<strong>撮</strong>成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy little one [lit: bamboo shoot] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave our little one one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Soak the red beans overnight.</li>\r\n	<li>Take one part red beans and three to four parts water and boil them together in a pressure cooker. When steam comes out, adjust to medium heat, and let cook for another 10 minutes [lit: 10 minutes should do].</li>\r\n	<li>Once you depressurize the pot, scoop out the beans, leaving the soup liquid in the pot.</li>\r\n	<li>Put the beans and a dash of the soup liquid into a blender and blend into a paste.</li>\r\n	<li>Pour the paste from the blender back into the pot with the soup, add heat, and add sugar to taste. I used rock sugar. [lit: ice sugar - a common form chunky sugar sold in Chinese grocery stories that looks like pieces of rock candy.]</li>\r\n	<li>Add a bowl of starch, and turn off the heat when the soup appears to have the consistency of a milkshake. [Word \"consistency\" doesn\'t actually appear in the Chinese sentence, but it is implied].</li>\r\n	<li>Prepare the pearls by mixing glutinous rice flour with water and shaping it into balls.</li>\r\n	<li>Bring water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. They\'re done when they float.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the glutinous rice balls to the red bean paste soup, and you\'re done. I don\'t add whole boiled red beans to the soup, because it makes the red bean flavor is too strong, but the sticky rice soup balls make it very tasty.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 14:07:50', '2011-01-15 19:07:50', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(264, 1, '2011-01-15 14:14:42', '2011-01-15 19:14:42', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean (also known as \"Azuki bean\") paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky, like huge tapioca balls. \r\n\r\nI had a considerable amount of trouble with the phrase \"水淀粉勾芡\", but eventually found the answer <a href=\"http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/41527200\">here</a>, on the Chinese equivalent of Yahoo! answers. Essentially, this is a recipe-specific phrase describing a kind of thickening process similar to adding corn starch to a jelly; the cook sprinkles starch on hot water, simultaneously stirring with the other hand until the starch dissolves into the water. The starchy water is then stirred into the main dish.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n浸泡 - [pinyin]jin4 pao4[/pinyin] - Soak\r\n高压锅 - [pinyin]gao1 ya1 guo1 [/pinyin] - Pressure cooker\r\n气阀 - [pinyin]qi4 fa1[/pinyin] - Steam valve\r\n舀 - [pinyin]yao3[/pinyin] - Scoop (verb)\r\n拌机搅 - [pinyin]jiao3 ban4 ji1[/pinyin] - Blender\r\n勾芡 - [pinyin]gou1 qian4[/pinyin] - Thicken\r\n呈现 - [pinyin]cheng2 xian4[/pinyin] - Appear, emerge\r\n撮 - [pinyin]cuo1[/pinyin] - Bring together, gather up\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆<strong>浸泡</strong>过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用<strong>高压锅</strong>煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li><strong>气阀</strong>落下后，将红豆<strong>舀</strong>出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用<strong>搅拌机</strong>搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉<strong>勾芡</strong>，使得红豆糊<strong>呈现</strong>粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水<strong>撮</strong>成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy little one [lit: bamboo shoot] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave our little one one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Soak the red beans overnight.</li>\r\n	<li>Take one part red beans and three to four parts water and boil them together in a pressure cooker. When steam comes out, adjust to medium heat, and let cook for another 10 minutes [lit: 10 minutes should do].</li>\r\n	<li>Once you depressurize the pot, scoop out the beans, leaving the soup liquid in the pot.</li>\r\n	<li>Put the beans and a dash of the soup liquid into a blender and blend into a paste.</li>\r\n	<li>Pour the paste from the blender back into the pot with the soup, add heat, and add sugar to taste. I used rock sugar. [lit: ice sugar - a common form chunky sugar sold in Chinese grocery stories that looks like pieces of rock candy.]</li>\r\n	<li>Add a bowl of starch, and turn off the heat when the soup appears to have the consistency of a milkshake. [Word \"consistency\" doesn\'t actually appear in the Chinese sentence, but it is implied].</li>\r\n	<li>Prepare the pearls by mixing glutinous rice flour with water and shaping it into balls.</li>\r\n	<li>Bring water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. They\'re done when they float.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the glutinous rice balls to the red bean paste soup, and you\'re done. I don\'t add whole boiled red beans to the soup, because it makes the red bean flavor is too strong, but the sticky rice soup balls make it very tasty.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 14:14:42', '2011-01-15 19:14:42', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(266, 1, '2011-01-15 14:32:26', '2011-01-15 19:32:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean (also known as \"Azuki bean\") paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky, like huge tapioca balls. \r\n\r\nI had a considerable amount of trouble with the phrase \"水淀粉勾芡\", but eventually found the answer <a href=\"http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/41527200\">here</a>, on the Chinese equivalent of Yahoo! answers. Essentially, this is a recipe-specific phrase describing a kind of thickening process similar to adding corn starch to a jelly; the cook sprinkles starch on hot water, simultaneously stirring with the other hand until the starch dissolves into the water. The starchy water is then stirred into the main dish.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n浸泡 - [pinyin]jin4 pao4[/pinyin] - Soak\r\n高压锅 - [pinyin]gao1 ya1 guo1 [/pinyin] - Pressure cooker\r\n气阀 - [pinyin]qi4 fa1[/pinyin] - Steam valve\r\n舀 - [pinyin]yao3[/pinyin] - Scoop (verb)\r\n拌机搅 - [pinyin]jiao3 ban4 ji1[/pinyin] - Blender\r\n勾芡 - [pinyin]gou1 qian4[/pinyin] - Thicken\r\n呈现 - [pinyin]cheng2 xian4[/pinyin] - Appear, emerge\r\n撮 - [pinyin]cuo1[/pinyin] - Bring together, gather up\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆<strong>浸泡</strong>过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用<strong>高压锅</strong>煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li><strong>气阀</strong>落下后，将红豆<strong>舀</strong>出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用<strong>搅拌机</strong>搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉<strong>勾芡</strong>，使得红豆糊<strong>呈现</strong>粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水<strong>撮</strong>成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy little one [lit: bamboo shoot] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave our little one one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Soak the red beans overnight.</li>\r\n	<li>Take one part red beans and three to four parts water and boil them together in a pressure cooker. When steam comes out, adjust to medium heat, and let cook for another 10 minutes [lit: 10 minutes should do].</li>\r\n	<li>Once you depressurize the pot, scoop out the beans, leaving the soup liquid in the pot.</li>\r\n	<li>Put the beans and a dash of the soup liquid into a blender and blend into a paste.</li>\r\n	<li>Pour the paste from the blender back into the pot with the soup, add heat, and add sugar to taste. I used rock sugar. [lit: ice sugar - a common form chunky sugar sold in Chinese grocery stories that looks like pieces of rock candy.]</li>\r\n	<li>Add a bowl of starch, and turn off the heat when the soup appears to have the consistency of a milkshake. [Word \"consistency\" doesn\'t actually appear in the Chinese sentence, but it is implied].</li>\r\n	<li>Prepare the pearls by mixing glutinous rice flour with water and shaping it into balls.</li>\r\n	<li>Bring water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. They\'re done when they float.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the glutinous rice balls to the red bean paste soup, and you\'re done. I don\'t add whole boiled red beans to the soup, because it makes the red bean flavor is too strong, but the sticky rice soup balls make it very tasty.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 14:32:26', '2011-01-15 19:32:26', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(267, 1, '2011-01-15 14:36:19', '2011-01-15 19:36:19', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean (also known as \"Azuki bean\") paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110203-INLINE-red-bean-paste-soup.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Reading Materials: Recipe for Red Bean Paste Soup\" title=\"Chinese Reading Materials: Recipe for Red Bean Paste Soup\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder\" />If you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky, like huge tapioca balls. \r\n\r\nI had a considerable amount of trouble with the phrase \"水淀粉勾芡\", but eventually found the answer <a href=\"http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/41527200\">here</a>, on the Chinese equivalent of Yahoo! answers. Essentially, this is a recipe-specific phrase describing a kind of thickening process similar to adding corn starch to a jelly; the cook sprinkles starch on hot water, simultaneously stirring with the other hand until the starch dissolves into the water. The starchy water is then stirred into the main dish.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n浸泡 - [pinyin]jin4 pao4[/pinyin] - Soak\r\n高压锅 - [pinyin]gao1 ya1 guo1 [/pinyin] - Pressure cooker\r\n气阀 - [pinyin]qi4 fa1[/pinyin] - Steam valve\r\n舀 - [pinyin]yao3[/pinyin] - Scoop (verb)\r\n拌机搅 - [pinyin]jiao3 ban4 ji1[/pinyin] - Blender\r\n勾芡 - [pinyin]gou1 qian4[/pinyin] - Thicken\r\n呈现 - [pinyin]cheng2 xian4[/pinyin] - Appear, emerge\r\n撮 - [pinyin]cuo1[/pinyin] - Bring together, gather up\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆<strong>浸泡</strong>过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用<strong>高压锅</strong>煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li><strong>气阀</strong>落下后，将红豆<strong>舀</strong>出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用<strong>搅拌机</strong>搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉<strong>勾芡</strong>，使得红豆糊<strong>呈现</strong>粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水<strong>撮</strong>成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy little one [lit: bamboo shoot] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave our little one one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Soak the red beans overnight.</li>\r\n	<li>Take one part red beans and three to four parts water and boil them together in a pressure cooker. When steam comes out, adjust to medium heat, and let cook for another 10 minutes [lit: 10 minutes should do].</li>\r\n	<li>Once you depressurize the pot, scoop out the beans, leaving the soup liquid in the pot.</li>\r\n	<li>Put the beans and a dash of the soup liquid into a blender and blend into a paste.</li>\r\n	<li>Pour the paste from the blender back into the pot with the soup, add heat, and add sugar to taste. I used rock sugar. [lit: ice sugar - a common form chunky sugar sold in Chinese grocery stories that looks like pieces of rock candy.]</li>\r\n	<li>Add a bowl of starch, and turn off the heat when the soup appears to have the consistency of a milkshake. [Word \"consistency\" doesn\'t actually appear in the Chinese sentence, but it is implied].</li>\r\n	<li>Prepare the pearls by mixing glutinous rice flour with water and shaping it into balls.</li>\r\n	<li>Bring water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. They\'re done when they float.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the glutinous rice balls to the red bean paste soup, and you\'re done. I don\'t add whole boiled red beans to the soup, because it makes the red bean flavor is too strong, but the sticky rice soup balls make it very tasty.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 14:36:19', '2011-01-15 19:36:19', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(268, 1, '2011-01-15 14:37:49', '2011-01-15 19:37:49', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI absolutely love red bean (also known as \"Azuki bean\") paste. I like it in ice cream, I like in fried dumplings, I like it in boiled dumplings, and I love it in mooncakes. This recipe, taken from <a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/\">Becky Blog</a>, a Chinese food and recipe journal, walks you through the recipe for making red bean paste soup with glutinous rice flour pearls. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110203-INLINE-red-bean-paste-soup.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Reading Materials: Recipe for Red Bean Paste Soup\" title=\"Chinese Reading Materials: Recipe for Red Bean Paste Soup\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />If you\'ve never been to China, you\'ve probably never had this dish. The soup is thick and a bit starchy, and flavored with red bean and sugar. The \"pearls\" are boiled rice balls with a texture something between gummy and sticky, like huge tapioca balls. \r\n\r\nI had a considerable amount of trouble with the phrase \"水淀粉勾芡\", but eventually found the answer <a href=\"http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/41527200\">here</a>, on the Chinese equivalent of Yahoo! answers. Essentially, this is a recipe-specific phrase describing a kind of thickening process similar to adding corn starch to a jelly; the cook sprinkles starch on hot water, simultaneously stirring with the other hand until the starch dissolves into the water. The starchy water is then stirred into the main dish.\r\n\r\nI don\'t want to cut into Becky\'s \'net traffic, so I\'m not posting her pictures here, text only. In the original post, she snaps photos of each step of the cooking process, so you might want to check out the original post to get a good feel for the dish.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://beckyblog.com/read.php?229\">See Becky\'s original recipe</a>\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n浸泡 - [pinyin]jin4 pao4[/pinyin] - Soak\r\n高压锅 - [pinyin]gao1 ya1 guo1 [/pinyin] - Pressure cooker\r\n气阀 - [pinyin]qi4 fa1[/pinyin] - Steam valve\r\n舀 - [pinyin]yao3[/pinyin] - Scoop (verb)\r\n拌机搅 - [pinyin]jiao3 ban4 ji1[/pinyin] - Blender\r\n勾芡 - [pinyin]gou1 qian4[/pinyin] - Thicken\r\n呈现 - [pinyin]cheng2 xian4[/pinyin] - Appear, emerge\r\n撮 - [pinyin]cuo1[/pinyin] - Bring together, gather up\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">甜点一道，竹笋的大爱。\r\n\r\n这道甜点不是来自网络的菜谱，而是我们这个周五去星星家吃饭，她的妈妈做了红豆珍珠圆来当甜点。就是用红豆/红枣煮好再加入小小的实心汤圆， 很好吃，我和老公一人吃了一大碗， 回家自己发挥了一下，有了这个甜点。原本只给了竹笋一勺，没想他一声声喊着“还要”，一人居然吃了三小碗，我们担心他吃坏了就不给了，但是儿子这么喜欢吃，做妈的心里还是有点小得意，赶紧整理菜谱，大家一起分享。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>红豆<strong>浸泡</strong>过夜</li>\r\n	<li>一份红豆，三到四份清水一起用<strong>高压锅</strong>煮，上汽后改中火压十分钟即可。</li>\r\n	<li><strong>气阀</strong>落下后，将红豆<strong>舀</strong>出，红豆汤依然留在锅中。</li>\r\n	<li>将红豆加少许红豆汤一起用<strong>搅拌机</strong>搅伴成糊状。</li>\r\n	<li>再将红豆糊倒入红豆汤里，加热，并加糖调到自己喜欢的甜度。 我加的是冰糖。</li>\r\n	<li>加入一碗水淀粉<strong>勾芡</strong>，使得红豆糊<strong>呈现</strong>粘粘的奶昔状,关火。</li>\r\n	<li>事先准备好糯米粉加水<strong>撮</strong>成小的糯米粉圆。</li>\r\n	<li>水烧开，加入糯米粉圆，粉圆浮起就算煮好了。</li>\r\n	<li>在红豆糊里加入小的粉圆，就是成品了。 我不直接用红豆来煮的原因是这么处理后，汤羹很有红豆沙的感觉，配上糯糯的汤圆，非常可口。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy little one [lit: bamboo shoot] absolutely loves this dessert.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t find this recipe on the internet. On Friday, we went to XingXing\'s house to eat, and her mom made Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup for dessert. It\'s made by boiling red beans or red dates and then adding little soup balls. It\'s delicious - my husband and I each ate a large bowl, and after we\'d gone home, I made a dinner myself that featured this dessert. We originally just gave our little one one spoonful, I didn\'t expect the constant cries of \"More please!\" He ate three whole bowls by himself, and we worried that he\'d make himself sick, so we didn\'t give him any more, but making something that her son loves to eat fills a mother\'s heart with pride, so I quickly tidied up the recipe to share with everyone.\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Soak the red beans overnight.</li>\r\n	<li>Take one part red beans and three to four parts water and boil them together in a pressure cooker. When steam comes out, adjust to medium heat, and let cook for another 10 minutes [lit: 10 minutes should do].</li>\r\n	<li>Once you depressurize the pot, scoop out the beans, leaving the soup liquid in the pot.</li>\r\n	<li>Put the beans and a dash of the soup liquid into a blender and blend into a paste.</li>\r\n	<li>Pour the paste from the blender back into the pot with the soup, add heat, and add sugar to taste. I used rock sugar. [lit: ice sugar - a common form chunky sugar sold in Chinese grocery stories that looks like pieces of rock candy.]</li>\r\n	<li>Add a bowl of starch, and turn off the heat when the soup appears to have the consistency of a milkshake. [Word \"consistency\" doesn\'t actually appear in the Chinese sentence, but it is implied].</li>\r\n	<li>Prepare the pearls by mixing glutinous rice flour with water and shaping it into balls.</li>\r\n	<li>Bring water to a boil and add the glutinous rice balls. They\'re done when they float.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the glutinous rice balls to the red bean paste soup, and you\'re done. I don\'t add whole boiled red beans to the soup, because it makes the red bean flavor is too strong, but the sticky rice soup balls make it very tasty.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n[/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 14:37:49', '2011-01-15 19:37:49', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(270, 1, '2011-02-05 17:08:20', '2011-02-05 22:08:20', '[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>吓了一跳</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', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'birthday-present', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:19:21', '2020-04-20 11:19:21', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=270', 0, 'post', '', 9),
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(272, 1, '2011-01-15 17:45:22', '2011-01-15 22:45:22', '[two_third]\n\nA very short husba.  <!--more-->\n\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实吓了一条。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last]\n\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \n[/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 17:45:22', '2011-01-15 22:45:22', '', 270, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(273, 1, '2011-01-16 00:00:04', '2011-01-16 05:00:04', '[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-autosave-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 00:00:04', '2011-01-16 05:00:04', '', 270, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(274, 1, '2011-01-15 17:45:39', '2011-01-15 22:45:39', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very short husba.  <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\r\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\r\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\r\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\r\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\r\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实吓了一条。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n[/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 17:45:39', '2011-01-15 22:45:39', '', 270, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(275, 1, '2011-01-15 17:46:14', '2011-01-15 22:46:14', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very short husba.  <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\r\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\r\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\r\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\r\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\r\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n[/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 17:46:14', '2011-01-15 22:46:14', '', 270, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(277, 1, '2011-01-15 17:47:15', '2011-01-15 22:47:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis very short husband and wife joke, courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\r\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\r\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\r\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\r\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\r\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n[/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 17:47:15', '2011-01-15 22:47:15', '', 270, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(278, 1, '2011-01-15 18:08:00', '2011-01-15 23:08:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis very short husband and wife joke, courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\r\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\r\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\r\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\r\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\r\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n[/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 18:08:00', '2011-01-15 23:08:00', '', 270, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(279, 1, '2011-02-07 07:00:32', '2011-02-07 12:00:32', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nA short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in India. <a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203872\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]\r\n\r\n<div class=\"readingPassage\">\r\n[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h4>新闻</h4>\r\n印度西南<strong>喀拉拉邦</strong>14日晚发生重大踩踏事件，目前造成至少104人死亡。踩踏事件是在信众参加印度教庆祝活动后返回时发生的。印度总理<strong>辛格</strong>决定，为每位<strong>遇难</strong>者的家属提供10万卢比（1美元约合45卢比）的抚恤金，为每位伤者提供5万卢比的补偿金。\r\n</div>\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show English translation\"]\r\nA major stampede took place the night of [January] 14th in India\'s southwestern Kerala state, leaving at least 104 people dead. The trampling incident happened when a crowd participating in a Hindu festival left. Indian Prime Minister Singh is offering 100,000 rupees in compensation to the family members of each of the deceased (1 US Dollar is approximately 45 rupees), and 50,000 rupees in compensation to the injured.\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>', '100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', 'A short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in India. ', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', '100-killed-in-india-temple-stampede', '', '', '2020-04-28 19:32:37', '2020-04-28 23:32:37', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=279', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(280, 1, '2011-01-15 22:06:29', '2011-01-16 03:06:29', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis very short husband and wife joke is courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\r\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\r\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\r\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\r\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\r\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/hi/xinqingriji/200801/01-82803.html\">See the original poem</a> [/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n[/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 22:06:29', '2011-01-16 03:06:29', '', 270, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(281, 1, '2011-01-15 22:44:37', '2011-01-16 03:44:37', '[two_third]\n\nA short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in India. <!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n喀拉拉邦 - [pinyin]Ka1 la1 la1 bang1[/pinyin] - Kerala\n踩踏 - [pinyin]cai3 ta4[/pinyin] - Trample on\n辛格 - [pinyin]xin1 ge2[/pinyin] - Sikh name \"Singh\"\n遇难 - [pinyin]yu4 nan4[/pinyin] - Be killed, perish [lit: meet difficulty]\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n印度西南<strong>喀拉拉邦</strong>14日晚发生重大踩踏事件，目前造成至少104人死亡。踩踏事件是在信众参加印度教庆祝活动后返回时发生的。印度总理<strong>辛格</strong>决定，为每位<strong>遇难</strong>者的家属提供10万卢比（1美元约合45卢比）的抚恤金，为每位伤者提供5万卢比的补偿金。\n</div>\n\n\n[one_half last=last]\nA major stampede took place the night of [January] 14th in India\'s southwestern Kerala state, leaving at least 104 people dead. The trampling incident happened when a crowd participating in a Hindu festival left. Indian Prime Minister Singh is offering 100,000 rupees in compensation to the family members of each of the deceased (1 US Dollar is approximately 45 rupees), and 50,000 rupees in compensation to the injured.\n[/one_half]', '100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '279-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 22:44:37', '2011-01-16 03:44:37', '', 279, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/279-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(282, 1, '2011-01-15 22:45:29', '2011-01-16 03:45:29', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in India. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n喀拉拉邦 - [pinyin]Ka1 la1 la1 bang1[/pinyin] - Kerala\r\n踩踏 - [pinyin]cai3 ta4[/pinyin] - Trample on\r\n辛格 - [pinyin]xin1 ge2[/pinyin] - Sikh name \"Singh\"\r\n遇难 - [pinyin]yu4 nan4[/pinyin] - Be killed, perish [lit: meet difficulty]\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n印度西南<strong>喀拉拉邦</strong>14日晚发生重大踩踏事件，目前造成至少104人死亡。踩踏事件是在信众参加印度教庆祝活动后返回时发生的。印度总理<strong>辛格</strong>决定，为每位<strong>遇难</strong>者的家属提供10万卢比（1美元约合45卢比）的抚恤金，为每位伤者提供5万卢比的补偿金。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\nA major stampede took place the night of [January] 14th in India\'s southwestern Kerala state, leaving at least 104 people dead. The trampling incident happened when a crowd participating in a Hindu festival left. Indian Prime Minister Singh is offering 100,000 rupees in compensation to the family members of each of the deceased (1 US Dollar is approximately 45 rupees), and 50,000 rupees in compensation to the injured.\r\n[/one_half]', '100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '279-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 22:45:29', '2011-01-16 03:45:29', '', 279, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/279-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(284, 1, '2011-01-15 22:46:00', '2011-01-16 03:46:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in India. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n喀拉拉邦 - [pinyin]Ka1 la1 la1 bang1[/pinyin] - Kerala\r\n踩踏 - [pinyin]cai3 ta4[/pinyin] - Trample on\r\n辛格 - [pinyin]xin1 ge2[/pinyin] - Sikh name \"Singh\"\r\n遇难 - [pinyin]yu4 nan4[/pinyin] - Be killed, perish [lit: meet difficulty]\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n印度西南<strong>喀拉拉邦</strong>14日晚发生重大踩踏事件，目前造成至少104人死亡。踩踏事件是在信众参加印度教庆祝活动后返回时发生的。印度总理<strong>辛格</strong>决定，为每位<strong>遇难</strong>者的家属提供10万卢比（1美元约合45卢比）的抚恤金，为每位伤者提供5万卢比的补偿金。\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203872\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\nA major stampede took place the night of [January] 14th in India\'s southwestern Kerala state, leaving at least 104 people dead. The trampling incident happened when a crowd participating in a Hindu festival left. Indian Prime Minister Singh is offering 100,000 rupees in compensation to the family members of each of the deceased (1 US Dollar is approximately 45 rupees), and 50,000 rupees in compensation to the injured.\r\n[/one_half]', '100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '279-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 22:46:00', '2011-01-16 03:46:00', '', 279, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/279-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(285, 1, '2011-01-15 22:46:37', '2011-01-16 03:46:37', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in India. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n喀拉拉邦 - [pinyin]Ka1 la1 la1 bang1[/pinyin] - Kerala\r\n踩踏 - [pinyin]cai3 ta4[/pinyin] - Trample on\r\n辛格 - [pinyin]xin1 ge2[/pinyin] - Sikh name \"Singh\"\r\n遇难 - [pinyin]yu4 nan4[/pinyin] - Be killed, perish [lit: meet difficulty]\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n印度西南<strong>喀拉拉邦</strong>14日晚发生重大踩踏事件，目前造成至少104人死亡。踩踏事件是在信众参加印度教庆祝活动后返回时发生的。印度总理<strong>辛格</strong>决定，为每位<strong>遇难</strong>者的家属提供10万卢比（1美元约合45卢比）的抚恤金，为每位伤者提供5万卢比的补偿金。\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203872\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\nA major stampede took place the night of [January] 14th in India\'s southwestern Kerala state, leaving at least 104 people dead. The trampling incident happened when a crowd participating in a Hindu festival left. Indian Prime Minister Singh is offering 100,000 rupees in compensation to the family members of each of the deceased (1 US Dollar is approximately 45 rupees), and 50,000 rupees in compensation to the injured.\r\n[/one_half]', '100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '279-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 22:46:37', '2011-01-16 03:46:37', '', 279, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/279-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(286, 1, '2011-01-15 22:46:44', '2011-01-16 03:46:44', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in India. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n喀拉拉邦 - [pinyin]Ka1 la1 la1 bang1[/pinyin] - Kerala\r\n踩踏 - [pinyin]cai3 ta4[/pinyin] - Trample on\r\n辛格 - [pinyin]xin1 ge2[/pinyin] - Sikh name \"Singh\"\r\n遇难 - [pinyin]yu4 nan4[/pinyin] - Be killed, perish [lit: meet difficulty]\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n印度西南<strong>喀拉拉邦</strong>14日晚发生重大踩踏事件，目前造成至少104人死亡。踩踏事件是在信众参加印度教庆祝活动后返回时发生的。印度总理<strong>辛格</strong>决定，为每位<strong>遇难</strong>者的家属提供10万卢比（1美元约合45卢比）的抚恤金，为每位伤者提供5万卢比的补偿金。\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203872\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\nA major stampede took place the night of [January] 14th in India\'s southwestern Kerala state, leaving at least 104 people dead. The trampling incident happened when a crowd participating in a Hindu festival left. Indian Prime Minister Singh is offering 100,000 rupees in compensation to the family members of each of the deceased (1 US Dollar is approximately 45 rupees), and 50,000 rupees in compensation to the injured.\r\n[/one_half]', '100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '279-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 22:46:44', '2011-01-16 03:46:44', '', 279, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/279-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(287, 1, '2011-02-09 23:07:01', '2011-02-10 04:07:01', '[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', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'white-hair-black-beard', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:15:42', '2020-04-20 11:15:42', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=287', 0, 'post', '', 6),
(290, 1, '2011-01-13 14:11:54', '2011-01-13 14:11:54', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very short children\'s story about a bear\'s search for a new home. The original text was found on a Chinese children\'s stories site.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave, hole\r\n造 - [pinyin]zao4[/pinyin] - make, build\r\n挂 - [pinyin]gua4[/pinyin] - hang\r\n砍 - [pinyin]kan3[/pinyin] - to chop\r\n舍不得 - [pinyin]she3 bu4 de[/pinyin] - can\'t bear to\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n小熊一家住在山<strong>洞</strong>里。熊爷爷对小熊说,“你去<strong>造</strong>间木头房子住吧!\"\r\n\r\n春天，小熊走进树林。树上长满了绿叶，他舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n夏天，小熊又走进了树林。树上开满了鲜花，小熊<strong>舍不得砍</strong>。\r\n\r\n秋天，小熊走进树林，树上<strong>挂</strong>满了果实。小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n冬天，小熊走进了树林。树上站着许多小鸟，小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n一年又一年，小熊没有砍树造房子，还是高高兴兴地住在山洞里……\r\n\r\n树林里的小动物非常感谢小熊，他们送给小熊一束束美丽的鲜花.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nSource: <a href=\"http://www.gushi365.com/info/5568.html\">GuShi365.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLittle bear lived in a mountain cave. Grandfather bear said to Little Bear: \"Go and find a wooden house to live in!\"\r\n\r\nIn spring, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of green leaves, and he couldn\'t hear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn summer, little bear again went into the forest. The trees were full of fresh flowers, and he couldn\'t hear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn autumn, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of hanging fruit, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn winter, little bear went into the forest. Many little birds were living in the trees, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nYears passed, and little bear still hadn\'t made a home out of the trees. He was still living happily in his mountain cave.\r\n\r\nThe little forest animals thanked Little Bear very much, and they gave him a bunch of beautiful fresh flowers. [/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:11:54', '2011-01-13 14:11:54', '', 7, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/7-revision-40/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(288, 1, '2011-01-15 23:01:13', '2011-01-16 04:01:13', '[two_third]\n\nThis very short husband and wife joke is courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  <!--more-->\n\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\n</div>\n\n[one_half last=last]\n\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \n[/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:01:13', '2011-01-16 04:01:13', '', 287, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/287-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(289, 1, '2011-01-15 23:07:00', '2011-01-16 04:07:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis very short husband and wife joke is courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\r\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\r\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\r\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\r\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\r\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n[/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:07:00', '2011-01-16 04:07:00', '', 287, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/287-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(291, 1, '2011-01-15 23:17:20', '2011-01-16 04:17:20', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very short children\'s story about a bear\'s search for a new home. The original text was found on a Chinese children\'s stories site.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave, hole\r\n造 - [pinyin]zao4[/pinyin] - make, build\r\n挂 - [pinyin]gua4[/pinyin] - hang\r\n砍 - [pinyin]kan3[/pinyin] - to chop\r\n舍不得 - [pinyin]she3 bu4 de[/pinyin] - can\'t bear to\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n小熊一家住在山<strong>洞</strong>里。熊爷爷对小熊说,“你去<strong>造</strong>间木头房子住吧!\"\r\n\r\n春天，小熊走进树林。树上长满了绿叶，他舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n夏天，小熊又走进了树林。树上开满了鲜花，小熊<strong>舍不得砍</strong>。\r\n\r\n秋天，小熊走进树林，树上<strong>挂</strong>满了果实。小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n冬天，小熊走进了树林。树上站着许多小鸟，小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n一年又一年，小熊没有砍树造房子，还是高高兴兴地住在山洞里……\r\n\r\n树林里的小动物非常感谢小熊，他们送给小熊一束束美丽的鲜花.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nSource: <a href=\"http://www.gushi365.com/info/5568.html\">GuShi365.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nLittle bear lived in a mountain cave. Grandfather bear said to Little Bear: \"Go and find a wooden house to live in!\"\r\n\r\nIn spring, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of green leaves, and he couldn\'t hear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn summer, little bear again went into the forest. The trees were full of fresh flowers, and he couldn\'t hear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn autumn, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of hanging fruit, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn winter, little bear went into the forest. Many little birds were living in the trees, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nYears passed, and little bear still hadn\'t made a home out of the trees. He was still living happily in his mountain cave.\r\n\r\nThe little forest animals thanked Little Bear very much, and they gave him a bunch of beautiful fresh flowers. \r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:17:20', '2011-01-16 04:17:20', '', 7, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/7-revision-41/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(292, 1, '2011-01-15 23:27:22', '2011-01-16 04:27:22', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very short children\'s story about a bear\'s search for a new home. The original text was found on a Chinese children\'s stories site.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave, hole\r\n造 - [pinyin]zao4[/pinyin] - make, build\r\n挂 - [pinyin]gua4[/pinyin] - hang\r\n砍 - [pinyin]kan3[/pinyin] - to chop\r\n舍不得 - [pinyin]she3 bu4 de[/pinyin] - can\'t bear to\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n小熊一家住在山<strong>洞</strong>里。熊爷爷对小熊说,“你去<strong>造</strong>间木头房子住吧!\"\r\n\r\n春天，小熊走进树林。树上长满了绿叶，他舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n夏天，小熊又走进了树林。树上开满了鲜花，小熊<strong>舍不得砍</strong>。\r\n\r\n秋天，小熊走进树林，树上<strong>挂</strong>满了果实。小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n冬天，小熊走进了树林。树上站着许多小鸟，小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n一年又一年，小熊没有砍树造房子，还是高高兴兴地住在山洞里……\r\n\r\n树林里的小动物非常感谢小熊，他们送给小熊一束束美丽的鲜花.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nSource: <a href=\"http://www.gushi365.com/info/5568.html\">GuShi365.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLittle bear lived in a mountain cave. Grandfather bear said to Little Bear: \"Go and find a wooden house to live in!\"\r\n\r\nIn spring, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of green leaves, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn summer, little bear again went into the forest. The trees were full of fresh flowers, and he couldn\'t hear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn autumn, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of hanging fruit, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn winter, little bear went into the forest. Many little birds were living in the trees, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nYears passed, and little bear still hadn\'t made a home out of the trees. He was still living happily in his mountain cave.\r\n\r\nThe little forest animals thanked Little Bear very much, and they gave him a bunch of beautiful fresh flowers.\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:27:22', '2011-01-16 04:27:22', '', 7, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/7-revision-42/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(293, 1, '2011-01-12 22:22:49', '2011-01-12 22:22:49', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nSinopec, one of China\'s leading oil conglomerates, is currently running an ad targeted at a younger Chinese market on the China Youth Daily home page. <!--more-->The ad encourages young adults to check out Sinopec\'s Flash-animated history of oil, completed with the requisite cartoon oil-drop mascot named \"You Di\" (a homophone for \"oil drop\"). Using typically expansive language, the lead-in introduces the mascot and the theme of the presentation.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.sinopecgroup.com/ydydgs/Pages/default.aspx\">See the original page</a>\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n滴 - [pinyin]di1[/pinyin] - Droplet, drop\r\n微不足道 - [pinyin]wei1 bu4 zu2 dao4[/pinyin] - Insignificant\r\n小看 - [pinyin]xiao3 kan4[/pinyin] - Look down on, underestimate\r\n演化 - [pinyin]yan3 hua4[/pinyin] - Evolution\r\n工序 - [pinyin]gong1 xu4[/pinyin] - Process\r\n汽油柴油 - [pinyin]qi4 you2[/pinyin] - Petrol / gasoline\r\n柴油 - [pinyin]chai2 you2[/pinyin] - Diesel\r\n运转 - [pinyin]yun4 zhuan3[/pinyin] - To work / operate\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">一<strong>滴</strong>油，也许大家觉得<strong>微不足道</strong>，滴在地上只是一个小小的油印，装在车里，车也走不了几米。但大家不要<strong>小看</strong>这小小的一滴油，他的年纪可真不小，他可是经历了上亿年的<strong>演化</strong>，经过数千道各种<strong>工序</strong>才能从最初的生物变成现在用在汽车和各种机器上的<strong>汽油柴油</strong>。下面我们来讲讲这一滴油的故事，我们给这一滴油起一个名字，就叫做“油迪”吧。因为石油真的是地球留给我们人类的最最宝贵的财富。我们现在的工业社会，都是建立在石油工业的基础之上的，如果没有了石油，我们的机器无法<strong>运转</strong>，汽车无法开动，很多日常用品也没有办法生产，就连肥皂和洗衣服这些基本日常用品，都是石油工业的产品。</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nEveryone might think that a single drop of oil is insignificant. A drop on the ground is just a tiny oily smear, and if you put it in a car, the car couldn\'t even go a few meters. But we shouldn\'t underestimate this little drop of oil. It\'s very old, and it\'s experienced hundreds of millions of years of evolution, having passed through many thousands of various processes before finally, from the very first animals, becoming the substance we use today in cars, and the petrol and deisel we use in various machines. After this, we\'ll take a look at the story of this drop of oil, and we\'ll give him a name - how about we call him \"You Di\". Because oil truly is the most precious treasure the earth has given us. Our industrial society was built on the foundation of the oil industry. If we didn\'t have oil, our machines wouldn\'t work, our cars wouldn\'t start, and we\'d have no way to produce many everyday necessities, even basic things like soap and washing clothes, all these are products of the oil industry.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Sinopec Introduction to the History of Oil', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '53-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:22:49', '2011-01-12 22:22:49', '', 53, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/53-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(294, 1, '2011-01-12 22:23:05', '2011-01-12 22:23:05', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay, taken from the Beijing Language and Culture University beginner comprehension textbook, is written from the perspective of a friend visiting Jiang Ping （江苹） before she leaves the country. <!--more--> The language is mostly school-centric as the writer discusses his classmates, Jiang Ping\'s scholarship, and her test results.\r\n\r\nThe crux of the last paragraph hinges on the fact that the Chinese word for \"Goodbye\" (再见) literally translates as \"See you again\", as the writer wonders when or if he\'ll ever really see Jiang Ping again.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n努力 - [pinyin]nu3 li4[/pinyin] - Great effort\r\n参加 - [pinyin]can1 jia1[/pinyin] - Participate\r\n得 - [pinyin]de[/pinyin] - To get, earn\r\n满分 - [pinyin]man3 fen1[/pinyin] - Full marks, 100%\r\n奖学金 - [pinyin]jiang3 xue2 jin1[/pinyin] - Scholarship\r\n留学 - [pinyin]liu2 xue2[/pinyin] - Study abroad\r\n预祝 - [pinyin]yu4 zhu4[/pinyin] - Wish\r\n成功 - [pinyin]cheng2 gong1[/pinyin] - Success\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">今天我去江苹加了。 我和江苹是中学<strong>同学</strong>， 她是我的好朋友， 也是我们全班同学的朋友。 她学习非常<strong>努力</strong>， 是我们班学习最好的学生。 她会学习， 她会玩儿， 还常常帮助别人， 老师和同学都很喜欢她。 她这次<strong>参加</strong>了美国一个大学<strong>考试</strong>。 这个考试非常难，但是她考得很好，<strong>得</strong>了<strong>满分</strong>。 听说全世界只有三个学生得满分。 这个大学给江苹最高的<strong>奖学金</strong>。 我们都为她感到高兴。\r\n\r\n她下星期要去美国<strong>留学</strong>， 我们班的同学都去看他， 给他送行。\r\n\r\n江苹的家在城东边， 离我家比较远。 我下午四点多就从家里出发了， 五点半才到。 我到的时候， 同学们都已经到了。\r\n\r\n江苹很热情地欢迎我们。 同学们好久不见了， 见面以后高兴得又说又笑， 谈得很愉快。 我们<strong>预祝</strong>江苹<strong>成功</strong>。 祝她一路平安。 我说， 一定要常来新啊。 江苹说，一定。 跟他说 “再见”  的时候， 她哭了， 我也哭了。\r\n\r\n回家的路上， 我想， 我们常常说 “再见”， 但是， 有时候 “再见” 是很难的。 我和江苹什么时候能 “再见” 呢？\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nToday I\'m going to Jiang Ping\'s house. Jiang Ping and I are highschool classmates. She\'s my good friend, and she\'s also good friends with everyone in our class. She studies very hard, she\'s the best student in our class. She studies, she plays, and she also often helps others. The teacher and the other students like her. She recently participated in an examination for an American college. That test is very hard, but she did very well - she earned full marks. I heard that only three people in the whole world got full marks. This college gave Jiang Ping their highest scholarship. We\'re all very happy for her.\r\n\r\nNext week she\'s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping\'s house is on the east side of the city very far away from mine. I left my house a little after four o\'clock in the afternoon, and didn\'t get there until 5:30. When I arrived, the rest of our classmates were already there.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping warmly welcomed us. She hadn\'t seen her classmates in a while, and after she greeted us, we talked and smiled, chatting happily. We wished Jiang Ping success. Wished her a pleasant trip. I said, Be sure to write often. Jiang Ping said, Of course. When she said \"Goodbye\", she cried, and I also cried.\r\n\r\nOn my way home, I thought, We often say \"Goodbye\" [lit: see you again], but sometimes \"Goodbye\" is sad. When will Jiang Ping and I be able to see each other again?\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Jiang Ping Going to Study Abroad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '67-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:23:05', '2011-01-12 22:23:05', '', 67, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/67-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(295, 1, '2011-01-13 14:13:22', '2011-01-13 14:13:22', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs vaguely sordid fables go, this one\'s fairly tame, resulting only in some humiliatory retribution and a lost tail or two.<!--more--> \r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n狼 - [pinyin]lang2[/pinyin] - Wolf\r\n欺负 - [pinyin]qi1 fu5[/pinyin] - To bully\r\n狐狸 - [pinyin]hu2 li5[/pinyin] - Fox\r\n觅食 - [pinyin]mi4 shi2[/pinyin] - Forage, scavenge\r\n阵 - [pinyin]zhen4[/pinyin] - Classifier for events of short duration\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave\r\n暗自 - [pinyin]an4 zi4[/pinyin] - Inwardly, secretly\r\n凿 - [pinyin]zuo4[/pinyin] - Bore, dig\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一只小<strong>狼</strong>他总是<strong>欺负</strong>别人。一天小动物们聚在一起商量对付那只小狼的办法，聪明的小<strong>狐狸</strong>想到了一个办法。\r\n\r\n一天小狼出外<strong>觅食</strong>的狼，忽然闻到一<strong>阵</strong>阵烤鱼的香味，小狼跑进山<strong>洞</strong>一看，原来是狐狸在烤鱼。狐狸见狼来了，心里<strong>暗自</strong>高兴。\r\n\r\n狼问, “这些鱼是从哪弄来的？”\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “有一个地方可以钓到好多鱼，我可以给你带路。”\r\n\r\n于时狼就跟着狐狸走啊走，来到了河边，原来是河里的水结了一层冰。\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “只要在冰上<strong>凿</strong>一个洞，把<strong>尾巴</strong>放进河里，等鱼咬住尾巴的时候，就把尾巴提上来，这样就可以钓到好多好多的鱼！”\r\n\r\n狼想着这下钓的鱼吃也吃不光啦，狼等了好久，也没有鱼咬住他的尾巴。狼实在冷得不行了，就想把尾巴提上来，回头一看，尾巴都被冰住了。狼大力拉，哪知他的尾巴“啪”的一声断掉了，狼逃走了。\r\n\r\n小动物们看见狼的惨样子，都哈哈地笑了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLong  ago, there was a wolf who was always bullying others. One day,  the small animals gathered together to discuss a way to solve the problem. The smart fox thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nOne day Wolf went out to forage for food, when suddenly  he smelled the scent of roasting fish. When Little Wolf ran into a  mountain cave and looked, he saw that it was Little Fox that was cooking the fish. Fox saw that Wolf had come, and in his heart he was secretly happy.\r\n\r\nWolf asked \"Where did these fish come from?\"\r\n\r\nFox said, \"There is a place where you can catch many fish, I can take you there.\"\r\n\r\nSo Wolf followed Fox as he walked and walked, until they came to a riverbank. There turned out to be a layer of ice over the water.\r\n\r\nFox said, \"All you have to do is bore a hole in the ice, stick your tail into the river, wait until the fish bite your tail, then pull your tail out. This way, you\'ll catch many, many fish.\r\n\r\nWolf, thinking of how the fish would be more than a full meal, waited quite a while, but no fish bit his tail. Wolf was finally too cold to continue and tried to pull up his tail, but when he turned his head to look, he saw that his tail was stuck in the ice. He gave a  great pull, and what do you know but his tail came off with a \"pa\"  sound. Wolf hopped away.\r\n\r\nWhen the other little animals saw wolf\'s miserable face, they all laughed.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'Wolf Goes Fishing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '85-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:13:22', '2011-01-13 14:13:22', '', 85, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/85-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(296, 1, '2011-01-15 23:38:28', '2011-01-16 04:38:28', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs vaguely sordid fables go, this one\'s fairly tame, resulting only in some humiliatory retribution and a lost tail or two.<!--more--> \r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n狼 - [pinyin]lang2[/pinyin] - Wolf\r\n欺负 - [pinyin]qi1 fu5[/pinyin] - To bully\r\n狐狸 - [pinyin]hu2 li5[/pinyin] - Fox\r\n觅食 - [pinyin]mi4 shi2[/pinyin] - Forage, scavenge\r\n阵 - [pinyin]zhen4[/pinyin] - Classifier for events of short duration\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave\r\n暗自 - [pinyin]an4 zi4[/pinyin] - Inwardly, secretly\r\n凿 - [pinyin]zuo4[/pinyin] - Bore, dig\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一只小<strong>狼</strong>他总是<strong>欺负</strong>别人。一天小动物们聚在一起商量对付那只小狼的办法，聪明的小<strong>狐狸</strong>想到了一个办法。\r\n\r\n一天小狼出外<strong>觅食</strong>的狼，忽然闻到一<strong>阵</strong>阵烤鱼的香味，小狼跑进山<strong>洞</strong>一看，原来是狐狸在烤鱼。狐狸见狼来了，心里<strong>暗自</strong>高兴。\r\n\r\n狼问, “这些鱼是从哪弄来的？”\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “有一个地方可以钓到好多鱼，我可以给你带路。”\r\n\r\n于时狼就跟着狐狸走啊走，来到了河边，原来是河里的水结了一层冰。\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “只要在冰上<strong>凿</strong>一个洞，把<strong>尾巴</strong>放进河里，等鱼咬住尾巴的时候，就把尾巴提上来，这样就可以钓到好多好多的鱼！”\r\n\r\n狼想着这下钓的鱼吃也吃不光啦，狼等了好久，也没有鱼咬住他的尾巴。狼实在冷得不行了，就想把尾巴提上来，回头一看，尾巴都被冰住了。狼大力拉，哪知他的尾巴“啪”的一声断掉了，狼逃走了。\r\n\r\n小动物们看见狼的惨样子，都哈哈地笑了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong  ago, there was a wolf who was always bullying others. One day,  the small animals gathered together to discuss a way to solve the problem. The smart fox thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nOne day Wolf went out to forage for food, when suddenly  he smelled the scent of roasting fish. When Little Wolf ran into a  mountain cave and looked, he saw that it was Little Fox that was cooking the fish. Fox saw that Wolf had come, and in his heart he was secretly happy.\r\n\r\nWolf asked \"Where did these fish come from?\"\r\n\r\nFox said, \"There is a place where you can catch many fish, I can take you there.\"\r\n\r\nSo Wolf followed Fox as he walked and walked, until they came to a riverbank. There turned out to be a layer of ice over the water.\r\n\r\nFox said, \"All you have to do is bore a hole in the ice, stick your tail into the river, wait until the fish bite your tail, then pull your tail out. This way, you\'ll catch many, many fish.\r\n\r\nWolf, thinking of how the fish would be more than a full meal, waited quite a while, but no fish bit his tail. Wolf was finally too cold to continue and tried to pull up his tail, but when he turned his head to look, he saw that his tail was stuck in the ice. He gave a  great pull, and what do you know but his tail came off with a \"pa\"  sound. Wolf hopped away.\r\n\r\nWhen the other little animals saw wolf\'s miserable face, they all laughed.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Wolf Goes Fishing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '85-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:38:28', '2011-01-16 04:38:28', '', 85, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/85-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(297, 1, '2011-01-12 22:25:33', '2011-01-12 22:25:33', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs pop-psychology self-help books from Japan take aim at the Chinese market, we\'re seeing more and more reads like this one, \"My First Workplace Color Book\", by Zhi Kou Ling Yi (Chinese transliteration of Japanese name). <!--more--> This book synopsis from 青年文摘 (Youth Digest) sums up the benefits of wearing various colors to work, and what you might acheive by doing so.\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分析 - [pinyin]fen1 xi1[/pinyin] - Analysis\r\n直观 - [pinyin]zhi2 guan1[/pinyin] - Intuitive\r\n探究 - [pinyin]tan4 jiu1[/pinyin] - To explore, delve into\r\n决心 - [pinyin]jue2 xin1[/pinyin] - Determination\r\n冷静 - [pinyin]leng3 jing4[/pinyin] - Cool-headed, calm\r\n有效 - [pinyin]you3 xiao4[/pinyin] - Effective\r\n场合 - [pinyin]chang3 he2[/pinyin] - Situation, occasion\r\n得心应手 - [pinyin]de2 xin1 ying4 shou3[/pinyin] - lit. \"What the heart wishes, the hand accomplishes\" - to be skilled at a job\r\n技巧 - [pinyin]ji4 qiao3[/pinyin] - Technique\r\n透露 - [pinyin]tou4 lu4[/pinyin] - Divulge\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本书是日本色彩女王枝口玲己最受欢迎的职场色彩书，她通过对12种主流色彩的<strong>分析</strong>，快速而<strong>直观</strong>地<strong>探究</strong>人最深层的心理本质——在谈判时穿红色套装能表达你的<strong>决心</strong>，戴银色首饰传达出你<strong>冷静</strong>和认真的态度，而白色在你想要表现自己纯洁、干净整洁、诚实的时候特别有效……\r\n\r\n最重要的是，本书提供了适合28个场合的色彩作战方案，无论你是希望享受一段甜蜜的爱情，还是期待在职场上<strong>得心应手</strong>，只要掌握了这些<strong>技巧</strong>，一切都将变得非常简单！\r\n\r\nBe careful，在不经意间，你也向别人<strong>透露</strong>了内心的想法哦！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/book/1/wodediyibenzhichangsecaishu-766.html\">See the original summary</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nThis book is Japanese color queen Zhi Kou Ling Yi\'s first introduction to workplace color, and through analysis of 12 mainstream colors, she quickly and intuitively explores man\'s deepest psychological nature. During negotiations, wearing a red suit expresses your determination, wearing silver jewelry conveys your cool-headed and hard-working attitude, while white shows purity and tidiness, particularly effective when you want to appear honest...\r\n\r\nThe most important thing is that this book provides color-based strategies [lit: operational plans] to suit 28 different situations, whether you want to enjoy sweet love, or you look forward to acheiving what you want at work, as long as you master these techniques, everything will become very easy!\r\n\r\nBe careful, if you don\'t watch out, you might divulge your true intentions to others!\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'My First Workplace Color Book', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '98-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 22:25:33', '2011-01-12 22:25:33', '', 98, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/98-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(298, 1, '2011-01-13 02:38:45', '2011-01-13 02:38:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n盘缠 - [pinyin]pan2 chan5[/pinyin] - Traveling money\r\n骏马 - [pinyin]jun4 ma3[/pinyin] - Steed\r\n不问青红皂白 - [pinyin]bu4 wen4 qing1 hong2 zao4 bai2[/pinyin] - Doesn\'t distinguish between right and wrong, or between obvious differences\r\n满不在乎 - [pinyin]man3 bu4 zai4 hu5[/pinyin] - Unconcernedly\r\n阻止 - [pinyin]zu3 zhi3[/pinyin] - Prevent\r\n醒悟 - [pinyin]xing3 wu4[/pinyin] - Come to realize\r\n劝阻 -  [pinyin]quan4 zu3[/pinyin] - Dissuade\r\n无奈 - [pinyin]wu2 nai4[/pinyin] - For lack of a better option\r\n劝告 - [pinyin]quan4 gao4[/pinyin] - Urge, exhort\r\n一意孤行 - [pinyin]yi1 yi4 gu4 xing2[/pinyin] - Obstinately stick to, dogmatic\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一个人，从魏国到楚国去。他带上很多的<strong>盘缠</strong>，雇了上好的车，驾上<strong>骏马</strong>，请了驾车技术精湛的车夫，就上路了。楚国在魏国的南面，可这个人<strong>不问青红皂白</strong>让驾车人赶着马车一直向北走去。\r\n\r\n路上有人问他的车是要往哪儿去，他大声回答说: “去楚国！”路人告诉他说: “到楚国去应往南方走，你这是在往北走，方向不对。那人<strong>满不在乎</strong>地说:\"没关系，我的马快着呢!\" 路人替他着急，拉住他的马，<strong>阻止</strong>他说, “方向错了，你的马再快，也到不了楚国呀!\" 那人依然毫不<strong>醒悟</strong>地说: “不要紧，我带的路费多着呢!\" 路人极力<strong>劝阻</strong>他说:“虽说你路费多，可是你走的不是那个方向，你路费多也只能白花呀!\" 那个一心只想着要到楚国去的人有些不耐烦地说: “这有什么难的，我的车夫赶车的本领高着呢!\" 路人<strong>无奈</strong>，只好松开了拉住车把子的手，眼睁睁看着那个盲目上路的魏人走了。\r\n\r\n那个魏国人，不听别人的指点<strong>劝告</strong>，仗着自己的马快、钱多、车夫好等优越条件，朝着相反方向<strong>一意孤行</strong>。那么，他条件越好，他就只会离要去的地方越远，因为他的大方向错了。\r\n\r\n这个故事告诉我们，无论做什么事，都要首先看准方向，才能发充分挥自己的有利条件；如果方向错了，那么有利条件只会起到相反的作用。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a man traveling from the Kingdom of Wei to the Kingdom of Chu. He took a lot of traveling money with him, hired a good carriage, harnessed it to a strong steed, hired an exquisitely skilled driver, and then began his journey. The Kingdom of Chu was to the south of the Kingdom of Wei, but this man couldn\'t tell the difference when the driver rode away towards the north.\r\n\r\nOn the road, a passing traveler asked where they were going. The man loudly answered, \"We\'re going to the Kindom of Chu!\". The traveler told him, \"If you\'re going to Chu, you should go south. You\'re going north, it\'s the wrong direction.\" The man unconcernedly replied, \"No problem! My horse is very fast.\" Worried for him, the traveler pulled at the horse, and warned, \"You\'re going the wrong way. Even if your horse was even faster than it is, you still won\'t reach the Kingdom of Chu!\" Still not seeing the truth, the man said, \"Don\'t worry, I\'ve brought a lot of money with me.\" Making a concerted effort to dissuade him, the traveler said, \"Though you may have a lot of money, you\'re still going the wrong direction, and your money will be spent in vain.\" Thinking of nothing other than getting to the Kingdom of Chu, the man impatiently said, \"It\'s not a problem, my driver is extremely skilled!\" Out of options, the traveler let go of the carriage and watched the aimless man from Wu ride away.\r\n\r\nThe man from Wu didn\'t listen to anyone\'s exhortations, relying on his fast horse, his money, his driver\'s skill and many other favorable conditions, and obstinately continued to go in the opposite direction. Doing this, he could only continue to get further and further away from his goal, because his overall direction was wrong.\r\n\r\nThis story tells us, no matter what the situation is, we\'d better first be sure we\'re going the right way, and only then can we fully employ our other advantages, otherwise those advantages will just cause us pain [lit: have the opposite effect].\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'The Story Behind the Idiom NanYuanBeiZhe', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '123-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 02:38:45', '2011-01-13 02:38:45', '', 123, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/123-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(299, 1, '2011-01-12 20:52:09', '2011-01-12 20:52:09', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA passage from a BLCU textbook in which a university student laments about catching a cold. <!--more--> This essay focuses on mostly illness-centric beginner language, such as 感冒 [pinyin]gan3 mao4[/pinyin], meaning \"to have a cold\"， and 打针 [pinyin]da3 zhen1[/pinyin], meaning \"to get an IV drip or shot\".\r\n\r\nLest it seems a little dramatic to you that the writer would go to the hospital over a 24-hour cold, the Chinese typically don\'t use private clinics (except in the case of accupuncture and massage), and commonly go to the hospital for almost every health-related issue, including colds and small fevers.\r\n\r\nOf special interest is the phrase \"还开了一些药\", or \"and also prescribed me some medicine\". Literally, it says, \"Also opened a bit of medicine\". But the word 开 [pinyin]kai1[/pinyin], which usually means \"open\", is also the verb used to describe a doctor writing a perscription. This tells us that the doctor didn\'t give (给[pinyin]gei3[/pinyin]) the student any medicine himself, but perscribed it instead.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n发烧 - [pinyin]fa1 shao1[/pinyin] - Have a fever\r\n咳嗽 - [pinyin]ke2 sou5[/pinyin] - Cough\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n寂寞 - [pinyin]ji4 mo4[/pinyin] - Lonely\r\n不舒服 - [pinyin]bu4 shu1 fu5[/pinyin] - Feel unwell, uncomfortable\r\n检查 - [pinyin]jian3 cha2[/pinyin] - Check, examine\r\n果然 - [pinyin]guo3 ran2[/pinyin] - Sure enough\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n我病了。　头疼，<strong>发烧</strong>，嗓子也疼，不想吃东西，晚上<strong>咳嗽</strong>的很厉害。　上午同学们都去上课了，我一个人在宿舍里，感到很寂寞。　寂寞了就容易想家。　我家里人很多，有哥哥，姐姐，还有一个弟弟。　在家的时候，我们常一起玩儿。　现在，我在北京学习汉语，寂寞的时候就常常想他们。\r\n\r\n因为不<strong>舒服</strong>，所以我今天起得很晚。　起了床就去医院了。　大夫给我<strong>检查</strong>了一下儿，说我感冒了。　给我打了一针，<strong>还开了一些药</strong>。　他说，吃了药病就好了。\r\n\r\n老师和同学们知道我病了，都来看我。　林老师听说我不想吃东西，还做了一碗面条给我吃。　吃了面条，身上出了很多汗，老师说，出了汗可能不发烧了。\r\n\r\n下午，<strong>果然</strong>不发烧了，喜庆也好了。　我用　Ｅｍａｉｌ　个哦姐姐发了一封信。　我说，我在这儿生活得很好，我有很好的老师，还有很多好同学，好朋友，和他们在一起，我感到很愉快。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nI\'m sick. My head hurts, I have a fever, my throat also hurts, I don\'t want to eat anything, and at night I have a serious cough. In the morning my classmates all went to class, and I was the only one left in the dormitory. I feel very lonely. When you\'re lonely, it\'s easy to miss home. I have a lot of family members - an older brother, older sister, and also a younger brother. When I\'m at home, we often play together. Right now, I\'m in Beijing studying Chinese, and when I\'m lonely I miss them.\r\n\r\nBecause I don\'t feel well, I got up late today. When I got up, I went to the hospital. The doctor gave me a quick checkup and said I have a cold. He gave me one shot [also: IV drip], and also prescribed some medicine. He said, take the medicine and you\'ll get better.\r\n\r\nMy teacher and classmates know I\'m sick, so they all came to see me. Teacher Lin heard that I didn\'t want to eat anything, so she made me a bowl of noodles. After I ate the noodles, I began to pour sweat. Teacher said, if you sweat, maybe your fever will go away.\r\n\r\nIn the afternoon, sure enough my fever was gone, and I was in a good mood. I emailed my older sister. I said, I have a very good life here, I have a good teacher and good classmates and good friends, and all together they make me very happy.\r\n\r\n[/one_half]', 'I\'m Feeling Sick', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '139-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-12 20:52:09', '2011-01-12 20:52:09', '', 139, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/12/139-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(300, 1, '2011-01-13 14:12:17', '2011-01-13 14:12:17', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:12:17', '2011-01-13 14:12:17', '', 154, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/154-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(398, 1, '2011-01-24 07:28:11', '2011-01-24 12:28:11', '[two_third]\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:28:11', '2011-01-24 12:28:11', '', 154, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(301, 1, '2011-01-13 14:12:40', '2011-01-13 14:12:40', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nGotta love dream dictionaries - this online Chinese dream interpretation site categorizes dream meanings based on symbolism. This page addresses what it means when someone dreams about a temple (寺庙 - [pinyin]si4 miao4[/pinyin]).<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThough some of the language is undoutedly advanced, the sentence structure is super short and repetitive, so I\'m classifying this as intermediate an intermediate read.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n宇 - [pinyin]yu3[/pinyin] - Room, hall\r\n四分五裂 - [pinyin]si4 fen1 wu3 lie4[/pinyin] - Splinter, be disharmonious\r\n化为泡影 - [pinyin]hua4 wei2 pao4 ying3[/pinyin] - To become nothing [lit: to become a soap bubble]\r\n胎儿 - [pinyin]tai1 er2[/pinyin] - Unborn child\r\n亏损 - [pinyin]kui1 sun3[/pinyin] - Deficit, loss\r\n降 - [pinyin]xiang2[/pinyin] - Surrender\r\n吉兆 - [pinyin]ji2 zhao4[/pinyin] - Lucky omen\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n\r\n女人梦见庙<strong>宇</strong> —— 丈夫家的人会<strong>四分五裂</strong>。\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n病人梦见寺庙 —— 病情会加重。\r\n\r\n梦见进入寺庙 —— 一切努力都会<strong>化为泡影</strong>。\r\n\r\n孕妇梦见进入庙宇 —— <strong>胎儿</strong>会有问题。\r\n\r\n商人梦见进入寺庙 —— 生意会大<strong>亏损</strong>。\r\n\r\n梦见别人进了寺庙 —— 一切困难都会过去。\r\n\r\n梦见妻子进了庙宇 —— 夫妻生活和谐、幸福。\r\n\r\n梦见敌人跨入庙门 —— 自己能<strong>降</strong>服敌人，渡过难关。\r\n\r\n梦见自己坐在庙宇里 —— 这是成功或成亲的<strong>吉兆</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://www.51jiemeng.com/building/temple.html\">See the source</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[If...]\r\n\r\nA woman dreams about a temple hall: Her husband\'s family will splinter into disharmony.\r\n\r\nA sick person dreams about a temple: The patient\'s condition will become more serious.\r\n\r\nYou dream of entering a temple: All of your hard work will come to nothing.\r\n\r\nA pregnant woman dreams of entering a temple: There will be a problem with the baby.\r\n\r\nA businessperson dreams of entering a temple: The business will suffer a great loss.\r\n\r\nYou dream of another person entering a temple: All of your troubles will pass.\r\n\r\nYou dream of a wife entering a temple: The couple will live in harmony and prosperity.\r\n\r\nYou dream of your enemy stepping into a temple door: If you surrender to your enemy, you can ride out the storm.\r\n\r\nYou dream of yourself sitting inside a temple hall: This is an omen that you will succeed or get married.\r\n[/one_half]', 'Apparently, Dreaming about Temples is Usually Bad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-13 14:12:40', '2011-01-13 14:12:40', '', 168, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/168-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(302, 1, '2011-01-14 00:29:06', '2011-01-14 00:29:06', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis is definitely lower-intermediate reading, with uncomplicated sentence structure and mostly simple words with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. If you\'re an advanced-beginner student and feel up to a challenge, this would be a great exercise to work on. \r\n\r\nYou\'ll see breif mention made of 五四运动 [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin], the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement\">May 4th Movement</a>, a period of student protests against the Treaty of Versailles. During that time, China began to see an upsurge in nationalism, and a heavier focus on respecting the working man over the ivory tower intellectual.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n五四运动 - [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin] - May 4th Movement\r\n东京 - [pinyin]dong1 jing1[/pinyin] - Tokyo\r\n祖国 - [pinyin]zu3 guo2[/pinyin] - Motherland\r\n后代 - [pinyin]hou4 dai4[/pinyin] - Later generations\r\n健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n爱国- [pinyin]ai4 guo2[/pinyin] - Patriotic, love one\'s country\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　<strong>五四运动</strong>时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在<strong>东京</strong>大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱<strong>祖国</strong>的<strong>后代</strong>，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还<strong>健在</strong>的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 \r\n\r\n冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 她说，他很少得病，有时候得了感冒，吃点儿药就好了。 我问她为什么还这么健康时，她说，就是经常锻炼身体。 \r\n\r\n后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是<strong>爱国</strong>了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \r\n\r\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels \"Segregation\", \"Aunt\", etc., and at the same time translated the works of a few foreign writers. In 1945, BingXin went to Japan. From 1949 to 1951, she taught Chinese literature at Tokyo University, returning home in autumn of 1951. In 1958, the \"People\'s Daily\" published her work \"To Young Readers 2\". BingXin wasn\'t only a literature expert, she was also a teacher. She loved children, she loved the offspring of her motherland, and she used her writings to teach children.\r\n\r\nIn my third year of high school, I read her early poem \"Spring Water\". It was written beautifully and was very moving. After that, I always loved to read BingXin\'s novels. My college thesis was \"On the Aesthetic Style of BingXin\'s Novels\". After I graduated college, I went to work for a publishing company. One summer morning this year, I got the opportunity to interview this master writer who is still with us today. That day was cloudy, cold, and rainy. I got up extremely early, put on a light blue suit, got on the bus and at 8:30 arrived at BingXin\'s house.\r\n\r\nBingXin\'s house was fairly far from the city center, near XinJieKou [a subdivision of Beijing]. She lived in a Beijing retirement community. There were many flowers in the yard.\r\n\r\nBingXin met me in the living room. The living room wasn\'t big, was very clean, and a landscape painting was hanging on the wall. The living room bookshelf held all kinds of books, some were in Chinese, and some were in foreign languages. BingXin had white hair, was short of stature and very thin, but looking at her she didn\'t seem like someone who was in her nineties. After we met, I first enquired after her health. She said that she was rarely sick, and though sometimes she caught cold, a little medicine fixed her right up. When I asked her why she was still so healthy, she said it\'s because of frequent exercise. \r\n\r\nLater, she answered a few of my questions about literature in the thirties. She drank tea as she spoke. When she touched on the topic of modern literature, I asked her, \"Do you still write?\" She said, \"I want to! It\'s just that my eyes aren\'t so good, I can\'t write anymore. Every day I just read the paper or a magazine or something.\" When I asked her why she had gone abroad to study, she asked me, \"Have you been abroad?\" I said, \"No.\" She said to me, \"Go have a look if you have the opportunity, work for a year or two in another country. People who\'ve lived abroad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n\r\nThat day, when I got back to my house, I kept thinking about that one thing she\'d said: \"People who\'ve lived aborad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n[/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-14 00:29:06', '2011-01-14 00:29:06', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/186-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(472, 1, '2011-01-15 23:50:20', '2011-01-16 04:50:20', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis one-page lower-intermediate essay covers the biography of BingXin, a famous authoress from the early 1900\'s. The essay writer also chronicles an interview he did with BingXin, and records some parts of their discussion. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis is definitely lower-intermediate reading, with uncomplicated sentence structure and mostly simple words with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. If you\'re an advanced-beginner student and feel up to a challenge, this would be a great exercise to work on. \r\n\r\nYou\'ll see breif mention made of 五四运动 [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin], the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Fourth_Movement\">May 4th Movement</a>, a period of student protests against the Treaty of Versailles. During that time, China began to see an upsurge in nationalism, and a heavier focus on respecting the working man over the ivory tower intellectual.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n五四运动 - [pinyin]wu3 si4 yun4 dong4[/pinyin] - May 4th Movement\r\n东京 - [pinyin]dong1 jing1[/pinyin] - Tokyo\r\n祖国 - [pinyin]zu3 guo2[/pinyin] - Motherland\r\n后代 - [pinyin]hou4 dai4[/pinyin] - Later generations\r\n健在 - [pinyin]jian4 zai4[/pinyin] - Alive, still with us\r\n爱国- [pinyin]ai4 guo2[/pinyin] - Patriotic, love one\'s country\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n冰心是中国现代著名女作家，全国人大代表。　她姓谢，冰心是她的笔名，所以也有人叫她谢冰心。\r\n\r\n冰心是南方人，1900年出生，上小学时就已经读了不少中国古代的文学作品。　1914年她到北京一所教会女子中学读书。　<strong>五四运动</strong>时，她在北京上大学，参加了当时的学生运动。　同时，她也开始写作小说和现代和现代诗。　1921年她参加了当时有名的\"文学研究会\"。　1923年她到美国去留学。　在美国，她一是研究文学，二是把在国外的见闻写出来， 寄回国内发表， 这就是后来的 《寄小读者》一书。\r\n\r\n1926年冰心回国。回国后她在北京大学工作，教中国文学。 1929年到1933年她写有小说《分 》，《姑姑》等，同时还翻译了一些外国作家的作品。 1945年冰心去日本。 1949年到1951年她在<strong>东京</strong>大学教中国文学，1951年秋回国。 1958年《人民日报》发表了她的《再寄小读者》。 冰心不但是文学家，而且还是个教育家。 她非常爱孩子，爱<strong>祖国</strong>的<strong>后代</strong>，她用她的作品来教育孩子们。\r\n\r\n在上中学三年级时我就读过她的早年诗作《春水》。 她的诗写得好美，非常感人。 后来，我一直喜欢看冰心的小说。 我大学的毕业论文就是《论冰心小说的美学风格》。大学毕业后我到一家报社工作。 今年夏天的一个上午，我有机会访问了这位还<strong>健在</strong>的老作家。 那天是阴天，气温不高，下着小雨。 早晨我起得特别早，穿了件浅蓝色的西服，坐公共汽车八点半就到了冰心家。\r\n\r\n冰心家里市中心比较远，在新街口附近。 她住的是北京一所老师的院子，院子里种的很多花儿。 \r\n\r\n冰心是在客厅里会见的我。 客厅不大，很干净，墙上挂着一张山水画。 客厅书架上放着许多书，有中文的，也有外文的。 冰心一头白发，个子不高，瘦瘦的，看上去，不像是九十来岁的人。 一见面，我先问候了一下她的身体。 她说，他很少得病，有时候得了感冒，吃点儿药就好了。 我问她为什么还这么健康时，她说，就是经常锻炼身体。 \r\n\r\n后来，她回答了我几个有关三十年代文学的问题。 他一边喝茶，一边说。 当她进到当代文学时，我问他， \"现在还写东西吗?\" 她说，“想写啊！ 就是眼睛不好了，写不动了。 每天就是看看报和杂志什么的。“ 当我问她当年为什么去美国留学时，她问我，“你出国了吗？” 我说，“没有。” 她对我说，“有机会要出去看看，在国外工作一两年。 在国外生活过的人就知道什么是<strong>爱国</strong>了。”\r\n\r\n那天回到家，我一直想着她说的那句话，“在国外生活过的人就知道什么是爱国了“。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBing Xin is a famous modern Chinese writer who represents all her countrymen. Her last name is Xie, BingXin is her pen name, so there are still some people that call her Xie BingXin.\r\n\r\nBingXin is a southerner. She was born in the year 1900, and by the time she began primary school, she\'d already read quite a few works of ancient Chinese literature. In 1914, she attended a girl\'s high school in Beijing. During the May 4th Movement, she was attending college in Beijing, and she participated in the student movement of that time. At the same time, she also began writing novels and modern poetry. In 1921, she participated in the famous \"Literature Research Conference\". In 1923, she left to study abroad in America. In America, she researched literature, and at the same time wrote down the things she saw and heard overseas, sending them back to China. These works later became the basis of the  book \"To Young Readers\". \r\n\r\nIn 1926, BingXin returned from abroad. After she returned, she worked at Beijing University teaching Chinese literature. From 1929 to 1933 she wrote the novels \"Segregation\", \"Aunt\", etc., and at the same time translated the works of a few foreign writers. In 1945, BingXin went to Japan. From 1949 to 1951, she taught Chinese literature at Tokyo University, returning home in autumn of 1951. In 1958, the \"People\'s Daily\" published her work \"To Young Readers 2\". BingXin wasn\'t only a literature expert, she was also a teacher. She loved children, she loved the offspring of her motherland, and she used her writings to teach children.\r\n\r\nIn my third year of high school, I read her early poem \"Spring Water\". It was written beautifully and was very moving. After that, I always loved to read BingXin\'s novels. My college thesis was \"On the Aesthetic Style of BingXin\'s Novels\". After I graduated college, I went to work for a publishing company. One summer morning this year, I got the opportunity to interview this master writer who is still with us today. That day was cloudy, cold, and rainy. I got up extremely early, put on a light blue suit, got on the bus and at 8:30 arrived at BingXin\'s house.\r\n\r\nBingXin\'s house was fairly far from the city center, near XinJieKou [a subdivision of Beijing]. She lived in a Beijing retirement community. There were many flowers in the yard.\r\n\r\nBingXin met me in the living room. The living room wasn\'t big, was very clean, and a landscape painting was hanging on the wall. The living room bookshelf held all kinds of books, some were in Chinese, and some were in foreign languages. BingXin had white hair, was short of stature and very thin, but looking at her she didn\'t seem like someone who was in her nineties. After we met, I first enquired after her health. She said that she was rarely sick, and though sometimes she caught cold, a little medicine fixed her right up. 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People who\'ve lived abroad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n\r\nThat day, when I got back to my house, I kept thinking about that one thing she\'d said: \"People who\'ve lived aborad know what patriotism means.\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Famous Chinese Authoress BingXin', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '186-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:50:20', '2011-01-16 04:50:20', '', 186, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/186-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
