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<h4>The language</h4>

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<h4>大树公公</h4>
很久很久以前，在一片大森林里，生长着一棵大树。大森林里的小动物们，都喜欢在大树下唱歌跳舞做游戏，大家都叫他："大树公公"。

那时候，小动物们都没有耳朵，听不到风声雨声，听不到欢歌笑语，也听不到彼此的呼唤。

看着小动物们天真无邪的笑脸，大树公公十分着急，他想了九天九夜，忽然想到了自己满身的树叶儿，要是把它们送给小动物们当耳朵，不是一件很好的事情吗？

风阿姨看出了大树公公的心事，她对大树公公说："不能这样做，把身上的树叶儿都摘掉，你会有生命危险的。"

雨婆婆知道了大树公公的想法，她对大树公公说："树叶儿是你生命中重要的组成部分，你要用叶绿素进行光合作用，制造养料。失去树叶儿，就等于失去了自己的生命。"

大树公公笑着说："你们不要劝我，只要小动物们能拥有两只，可以听到各种美妙声音的耳朵，我愿意付出自己的一切。"

就这样，大树公公摘下了他身上的一片片树叶儿，送给每一个小动物。

大象得到了两片大大的树叶儿，他有了两只大大的耳朵。小老鼠得到了两片小小的树叶儿，他有了两只小小的耳朵。小白兔、小松鼠、小胖猪、小花狗，所有的`小动物，都有了两只可以听到各种声音的小耳朵。

就在大树公公摘下他身上的最后一片树叶儿，就要失去绿色生命的时候，小动物们都哭了。小动物们的眼泪浸湿了大树公公身上所有的枝条。枝条们纷纷落在地上，生根发芽，变成了一棵棵绿油油的小树苗。

大树公公微笑着，慢慢溶入了他脚下的土地。

后来，那些小树苗长成了一棵棵枝繁叶茂的大树，一棵棵大树又组成一片大大的森林。

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Respected Mr. Yoshino, Hello!

I'm very sorry I haven't written you a letter since I left Sendai, but I've always remembered you with deep fondness. I still clearly remember, when I clearly saw an unassuming man with dark hands, an arrow-shaped beard, wearing a large pair of glasses and teaching a medical class with great enthusiasm. 

I also remember that year, I went to Sendai looking for a way to save China, and when I arrived in Sendai my most basic purpose was to study medicine to heal the lives of the Chinese people. But when I saw a [certain] movie I finally knew: what [most] needed healing was the Chinese people's spirit, and from this their lives could be healed. So I didn't study biology, but gave up medicine for literature. China was a weak country then, but we are diligently making progress in igniting the people's spirit，I believe that Mr. Yoshino can certainly understand my patriotic heart! 

I still must thank Mr. Yoshino for showing me every possible care and consideration during those days in Sendai. You were not biased towards [my] nationality, bestowed [your knowledge in] the medical arts upon me without regret, as well as meticulously corrected my lecture materials, attentively and seriously redressed [me during] my anatomy internship, realistically understood Chinese foot-binding practices... all this I will remember my whole life, and benefit from my whole life. I don't know if Mr. Yoshino still remembers those very thick lecture materials of mine that you corrected, pity that when I was moving house they were burned up and destroyed, all that's left is your picture. Whenever it's late and I'm weary, and I'm just beginning to think of loafing off, hidden in the lamplight I glimpse your thin, dark face [looking] as if you're about to speak in that rising and falling cadence of yours, and it makes me suddenly discover my conscience once again, and raises my courage. And so I light a cigarette, and keep writing those words which are so abhorrent to "proper gentlemen" types. 

I'm determined to struggle and shout with my compatriots, a pen as a gun, as a dagger, like the resistance forces attacking bravely. More that that, I hope you will support my approach. 

How is everything with you now? In short I'll wrap up my many words in one sentence: A little smile is all it takes to make you ten years younger. 

Wishing you: Health and smooth dealings in all matters.
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