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(303, 1, '2011-01-13 14:36:35', '2011-01-13 14:36:35', '[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 14:36:35', '2011-01-13 14:36:35', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/13/190-revision-28/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(304, 1, '2011-01-14 13:33:46', '2011-01-14 18:33:46', '[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 13:33:46', '2011-01-14 18:33:46', '', 236, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/14/236-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(305, 1, '2011-01-15 14:37:57', '2011-01-15 19:37:57', '[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 14:37:57', '2011-01-15 19:37:57', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(306, 1, '2011-01-15 23:56:27', '2011-01-16 04:56:27', '[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][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\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[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:56:27', '2011-01-16 04:56:27', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(311, 1, '2011-01-15 23:07:44', '2011-01-16 04:07:44', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n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 23:07:44', '2011-01-16 04:07:44', '', 287, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/287-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(307, 1, '2011-01-15 22:24:52', '2011-01-16 03:24:52', '[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]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 22:24:52', '2011-01-16 03:24:52', '', 270, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(308, 1, '2011-01-15 23:59:05', '2011-01-16 04:59:05', '[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][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:59:05', '2011-01-16 04:59:05', '', 270, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(309, 1, '2011-01-15 22:53:49', '2011-01-16 03:53:49', '[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 22:53:49', '2011-01-16 03:53:49', '', 279, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/279-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(310, 1, '2011-01-16 00:01:29', '2011-01-16 05:01:29', '[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<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][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][/one_half]', '100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '279-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 00:01:29', '2011-01-16 05:01:29', '', 279, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/279-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(312, 1, '2011-02-01 08:23:43', '2011-02-01 13:23:43', '[two_third]\n\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\n\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"William Qi\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname, like Williams or Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi / Williams\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\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？”\n\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\n\nMr. William Qi was traveling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\n\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-autosave-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:23:43', '2011-02-01 13:23:43', '', 287, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/287-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(313, 1, '2011-01-16 13:35:32', '2011-01-16 18:35:32', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，”这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？“\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 13:35:32', '2011-01-16 18:35:32', '', 287, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/287-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(314, 1, '2011-01-16 13:36:15', '2011-01-16 18:36:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，”这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？“\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 13:36:15', '2011-01-16 18:36:15', '', 287, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/287-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(316, 1, '2011-01-16 00:01:41', '2011-01-16 05:01:41', '[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][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][/one_half]', '100 Killed in India Temple Stampede', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '279-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 00:01:41', '2011-01-16 05:01:41', '', 279, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/279-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(317, 1, '2011-02-11 07:00:43', '2011-02-11 12:00:43', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. <!--more--> It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n\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\r\n昨日，铁道部<strong>召开春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show English translation\"]\r\n\r\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'beijing-railway-to-sell-tickets-24-hours-during-busy-spring-festival-season', '', '', '2020-04-20 12:04:51', '2020-04-20 16:04:51', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=317', 0, 'post', '', 2),
(1850, 1, '2020-04-20 07:13:42', '2020-04-20 11:13:42', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. <!--more--> It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n\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\r\n昨日，铁道部<strong>召开春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show English translation\"]\r\n\r\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:13:42', '2020-04-20 11:13:42', '', 317, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/04/20/317-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(318, 1, '2011-01-16 14:19:46', '2011-01-16 19:19:46', '[two_third]\n\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home. <!--more-->\n\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year.\n\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \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\n昨日，铁道部召开春运新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和广铁集团的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡刷卡支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间实行24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nYesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group\'s together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:19:46', '2011-01-16 19:19:46', '', 317, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(319, 1, '2020-04-20 07:12:50', '2020-04-20 11:12:50', '[su_row]\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\n\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. <!--more--> It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\n\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. \n\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \n\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\n\n[/su_column]\n[/su_row]\n\n<div class=\"readingPassage\">\n[su_row]\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n<h4>新闻</h4>\n\n昨日，铁道部<strong>召开春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-autosave-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:12:50', '2020-04-20 11:12:50', '', 317, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(320, 1, '2011-01-16 14:20:28', '2011-01-16 19:20:28', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year.\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n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\r\n昨日，铁道部召开春运新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和广铁集团的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡刷卡支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间实行24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nYesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group\'s together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:20:28', '2011-01-16 19:20:28', '', 317, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(321, 1, '2011-01-16 14:27:05', '2011-01-16 19:27:05', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n昨日，铁道部<strong>召开春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nYesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:27:05', '2011-01-16 19:27:05', '', 317, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(322, 1, '2011-01-16 14:27:50', '2011-01-16 19:27:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n昨日，铁道部<strong>召开春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:27:50', '2011-01-16 19:27:50', '', 317, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(324, 1, '2011-01-16 14:29:47', '2011-01-16 19:29:47', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. <!--more--> It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n昨日，铁道部<strong>召开春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:29:47', '2011-01-16 19:29:47', '', 317, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(326, 1, '2011-01-15 23:57:40', '2011-01-16 04:57:40', '[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][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\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[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Red Bean Paste Pearl Soup', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '249-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:57:40', '2011-01-16 04:57:40', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/249-revision-19/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(327, 1, '2011-02-13 15:25:30', '2011-02-13 20:25:30', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nMmm... Jiaozi. Nothing beats traditional Chinese dumplings. Steamed, boiled, or (as is more often the case in Japan) fried, Jiaozi has been around for thousands of years, and is most traditionally eaten on New Years Eve. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis short essay from ChinaVegan.com introduces the dish and covers its traditional significance.\r\n\r\nYou\'ll notice a reference to 破五 [pinyin]po4 wu3[/pinyin], the fifth day of New Years festivities. During the first four days, tradition dictates that it\'s forbidden to cook, clean, or argue, but on the fifth day, these rules may all be broken, hence the name \"Broken Five\" festival.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n馅儿 - [pinyin]xian4 er5[/pinyin] - Stuffing, filling\r\n五花八门 - [pinyin]wu3 hua1 ba1 men2[/pinyin] - Myriad, all kinds\r\n老少皆宜 - [pinyin]lao3 shao4 jie1 yi2[/pinyin] - Suitable for all ages\r\n寓意 - [pinyin]yu4 yi4[/pinyin] - Metaphorical meaning\r\n元宝 - [pinyin]yuan2 bao3[/pinyin] - Fake gold brick burnt as an offering in ancient times\r\n承载 - [pinyin]cheng2 zai4[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n千丝万缕 - [pinyin]qian1 si1 wan4 lv3[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n饺子用面粉做皮儿，里面的<strong>馅儿</strong>则是<strong>五花八门</strong>，可以依据个人的口味来调制。因此，饺子是一种不分地域，不分季节，<strong>老少皆宜</strong>的食品，中国人爱吃饺子，除了它多样的口味之外，更主要的原因，是饺子在几千年的发展过程中，已经带有一种吉祥<strong>寓意</strong>的食品。饺子的形状是扁圆的，它和古代象征财富的<strong>元宝</strong>的样子很相似。尤其是在过年的时候，辞旧迎新之际，一家人团圆吃饺子，那么就寓意着在新的一年里头，可以增加财富，可以过上更好的日子。那么，更重要的是因为饺子它是包馅的，馅里头可以包进去各种各样的吉祥的寓意，比如说人们结婚的时候，饺子的馅里可以包上花生和栗子，就寓意早生贵子。小小的饺子<strong>承载</strong>了那么多吉祥的寓意，使它和中国传统风俗有了<strong>千丝万缕</strong>的联系。自古以来，民间就有许多吃饺子的习俗，像除夕吃饺子、破五吃饺子。 \r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.chinavegan.com/2004/welcome_to_china_vegan@2004829233412.htm\">Read the original article on ChinaVegan.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJiaozi uses flour to make the wrapping [lit: skin], but the stuffing can be made from myriad things, and modified to suit individual tastes. Because of this, jiaozi is a food enjoyed by people in every region, in every season, both young and old alike. Chinese people love to eat jiaozi, and with the exception of its multitude of flavors, the main reason is that over the course of its several-thousand-year [culinary] development, jiaozi is a food that has come to represent good luck. Jiaozi is oval in shape, and thus it looks very similar to the ancient fake gold ingots that signified wealth. Especially during Chinese New Year, when welcome the new and dismiss the old, families reunite and eat jiaozi, which [if eaten] at the beginning of the year can increase wealth and can bring even better days. Even more importantly, because jiaozi is filled with stuffing, you can fill it with many different types of [food that traditionally has an] auspicious significance. For example, if someone\'s getting married, you can stuff the jiaozi with peanuts or chestnuts to mean that you hope the couple will give birth to a son soon. Such little jiaozi carries so much significance, and it\'s been linked to China\'s social traditions in countless ways. Since ancient times, people have had many customs about eating jiaozi, such as eating it on New Year\'s eve, and eating it on PoWu [Broken Five festival]. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'JiaoZi and Chinese New Year', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'jiaozi-and-chinese-new-year', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:11:48', '2020-04-20 11:11:48', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=327', 0, 'post', '', 1),
(329, 1, '2011-01-16 15:29:34', '2011-01-16 20:29:34', '[two_third]\n\nMmm... Jiaozi. <!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n浸泡 - [pinyin]jin4 pao4[/pinyin] - Soak\n高压锅 - [pinyin]gao1 ya1 guo1 [/pinyin] - Pressure cooker\n气阀 - [pinyin]qi4 fa1[/pinyin] - Steam valve\n舀 - [pinyin]yao3[/pinyin] - Scoop (verb)\n拌机搅 - [pinyin]jiao3 ban4 ji1[/pinyin] - Blender\n勾芡 - [pinyin]gou1 qian4[/pinyin] - A brand of thickening agent\n呈现 - [pinyin]cheng2 xian4[/pinyin] - Appear, emerge\n撮 - [pinyin]cuo1[/pinyin] - Bring together, gather up\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n饺子用面粉做皮儿，里面的馅儿则是五花八门，可以依据个人的口味来调制。因此，饺子是一种不分地域，不分季节，老少皆宜的食品，中国人爱吃饺子，除了它多样的口味之外，更主要的原因，是饺子在几千年的发展过程中，已经带有一种吉祥寓意的食品。饺子的形状是扁圆的，它和古代象征财富的元宝的样子很相似。尤其是在过年的时候，辞旧迎新之际，一家人团圆吃饺子，那么就寓意着在新的一年里头，可以增加财富，可以过上更好的日子。那么，更重要的是因为饺子它是包馅的，馅里头可以包进去各种各样的吉祥的寓意，比如说人们结婚的时候，饺子的馅里可以包上花生和栗子，就寓意早生贵子。小小的饺子承载了那么多吉祥的寓意，使它和中国传统风俗有了千丝万缕的联系。自古以来，民间就有许多吃饺子的习俗，像除夕吃饺子、破五吃饺子。 \n\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'JiaoZi and Chinese New Year', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '327-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 15:29:34', '2011-01-16 20:29:34', '', 327, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/327-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(328, 1, '2011-01-16 15:00:23', '2011-01-16 20:00:23', '[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\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 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-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 15:00:23', '2011-01-16 20:00:23', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/249-revision-20/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(330, 1, '2011-01-16 15:30:16', '2011-01-16 20:30:16', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nMmm... Jiaozi. Nothing beats traditional Chinese dumplings . <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n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\">\r\n\r\n饺子用面粉做皮儿，里面的馅儿则是五花八门，可以依据个人的口味来调制。因此，饺子是一种不分地域，不分季节，老少皆宜的食品，中国人爱吃饺子，除了它多样的口味之外，更主要的原因，是饺子在几千年的发展过程中，已经带有一种吉祥寓意的食品。饺子的形状是扁圆的，它和古代象征财富的元宝的样子很相似。尤其是在过年的时候，辞旧迎新之际，一家人团圆吃饺子，那么就寓意着在新的一年里头，可以增加财富，可以过上更好的日子。那么，更重要的是因为饺子它是包馅的，馅里头可以包进去各种各样的吉祥的寓意，比如说人们结婚的时候，饺子的馅里可以包上花生和栗子，就寓意早生贵子。小小的饺子承载了那么多吉祥的寓意，使它和中国传统风俗有了千丝万缕的联系。自古以来，民间就有许多吃饺子的习俗，像除夕吃饺子、破五吃饺子。 \r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'JiaoZi and Chinese New Year', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '327-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 15:30:16', '2011-01-16 20:30:16', '', 327, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/327-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(331, 1, '2011-01-15 23:53:46', '2011-01-16 04:53:46', '[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-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:53:46', '2011-01-16 04:53:46', '', 190, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/190-revision-29/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(332, 1, '2011-01-15 23:43:18', '2011-01-16 04:43:18', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n盘缠 - [pinyin]pan2 chan5[/pinyin] - Traveling money\r\n骏马 - [pinyin]jun4 ma3[/pinyin] - Steed\r\n不问青红皂白 - [pinyin]bu4 wen4 qing1 hong2 zao4 bai2[/pinyin] - Doesn\'t distinguish between right and wrong, or between obvious differences\r\n满不在乎 - [pinyin]man3 bu4 zai4 hu5[/pinyin] - Unconcernedly\r\n阻止 - [pinyin]zu3 zhi3[/pinyin] - Prevent\r\n醒悟 - [pinyin]xing3 wu4[/pinyin] - Come to realize\r\n劝阻 -  [pinyin]quan4 zu3[/pinyin] - Dissuade\r\n无奈 - [pinyin]wu2 nai4[/pinyin] - For lack of a better option\r\n劝告 - [pinyin]quan4 gao4[/pinyin] - Urge, exhort\r\n一意孤行 - [pinyin]yi1 yi4 gu4 xing2[/pinyin] - Obstinately stick to, dogmatic\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一个人，从魏国到楚国去。他带上很多的<strong>盘缠</strong>，雇了上好的车，驾上<strong>骏马</strong>，请了驾车技术精湛的车夫，就上路了。楚国在魏国的南面，可这个人<strong>不问青红皂白</strong>让驾车人赶着马车一直向北走去。\r\n\r\n路上有人问他的车是要往哪儿去，他大声回答说: “去楚国！”路人告诉他说: “到楚国去应往南方走，你这是在往北走，方向不对。那人<strong>满不在乎</strong>地说:\"没关系，我的马快着呢!\" 路人替他着急，拉住他的马，<strong>阻止</strong>他说, “方向错了，你的马再快，也到不了楚国呀!\" 那人依然毫不<strong>醒悟</strong>地说: “不要紧，我带的路费多着呢!\" 路人极力<strong>劝阻</strong>他说:“虽说你路费多，可是你走的不是那个方向，你路费多也只能白花呀!\" 那个一心只想着要到楚国去的人有些不耐烦地说: “这有什么难的，我的车夫赶车的本领高着呢!\" 路人<strong>无奈</strong>，只好松开了拉住车把子的手，眼睁睁看着那个盲目上路的魏人走了。\r\n\r\n那个魏国人，不听别人的指点<strong>劝告</strong>，仗着自己的马快、钱多、车夫好等优越条件，朝着相反方向<strong>一意孤行</strong>。那么，他条件越好，他就只会离要去的地方越远，因为他的大方向错了。\r\n\r\n这个故事告诉我们，无论做什么事，都要首先看准方向，才能发充分挥自己的有利条件；如果方向错了，那么有利条件只会起到相反的作用。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a man traveling from the Kingdom of Wei to the Kingdom of Chu. He took a lot of traveling money with him, hired a good carriage, harnessed it to a strong steed, hired an exquisitely skilled driver, and then began his journey. The Kingdom of Chu was to the south of the Kingdom of Wei, but this man couldn\'t tell the difference when the driver rode away towards the north.\r\n\r\nOn the road, a passing traveler asked where they were going. The man loudly answered, \"We\'re going to the Kindom of Chu!\". The traveler told him, \"If you\'re going to Chu, you should go south. You\'re going north, it\'s the wrong direction.\" The man unconcernedly replied, \"No problem! My horse is very fast.\" Worried for him, the traveler pulled at the horse, and warned, \"You\'re going the wrong way. Even if your horse was even faster than it is, you still won\'t reach the Kingdom of Chu!\" Still not seeing the truth, the man said, \"Don\'t worry, I\'ve brought a lot of money with me.\" Making a concerted effort to dissuade him, the traveler said, \"Though you may have a lot of money, you\'re still going the wrong direction, and your money will be spent in vain.\" Thinking of nothing other than getting to the Kingdom of Chu, the man impatiently said, \"It\'s not a problem, my driver is extremely skilled!\" Out of options, the traveler let go of the carriage and watched 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[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Story Behind the Idiom NanYuanBeiZhe', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '123-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:43:18', '2011-01-16 04:43:18', '', 123, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/123-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(333, 1, '2011-01-16 15:31:50', '2011-01-16 20:31:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nMmm... Jiaozi. Nothing beats traditional Chinese dumplings . <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n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\">\r\n\r\n饺子用面粉做皮儿，里面的馅儿则是五花八门，可以依据个人的口味来调制。因此，饺子是一种不分地域，不分季节，老少皆宜的食品，中国人爱吃饺子，除了它多样的口味之外，更主要的原因，是饺子在几千年的发展过程中，已经带有一种吉祥寓意的食品。饺子的形状是扁圆的，它和古代象征财富的元宝的样子很相似。尤其是在过年的时候，辞旧迎新之际，一家人团圆吃饺子，那么就寓意着在新的一年里头，可以增加财富，可以过上更好的日子。那么，更重要的是因为饺子它是包馅的，馅里头可以包进去各种各样的吉祥的寓意，比如说人们结婚的时候，饺子的馅里可以包上花生和栗子，就寓意早生贵子。小小的饺子承载了那么多吉祥的寓意，使它和中国传统风俗有了千丝万缕的联系。自古以来，民间就有许多吃饺子的习俗，像除夕吃饺子、破五吃饺子。 \r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.chinavegan.com/2004/welcome_to_china_vegan@2004829233412.htm\">Read the original article on ChinaVegan.com</a>\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'JiaoZi and Chinese New Year', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '327-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 15:31:50', '2011-01-16 20:31:50', '', 327, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/327-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(334, 1, '2011-01-17 12:48:18', '2011-01-17 17:48:18', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nMmm... Jiaozi. Nothing beats traditional Chinese dumplings. Steamed, boiled, or (as is more often the case in Japan) fried, Jiaozi has been around for thousands of years, and is most traditionally eaten on New Years Eve. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis short essay from ChinaVegan.com introduces the dish and covers its traditional significance.\r\n\r\nYou\'ll notice a reference to 破五 [pinyin]po4 wu3[/pinyin], the fifth day of New Years festivities. During the first four days, tradition dictates that it\'s forbidden to cook, clean, or argue, but on the fifth day, these rules may all be broken, hence the name \"Broken Five\" festival.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n馅儿 - [pinyin]xian4 er5[/pinyin] - Stuffing, filling\r\n五花八门 - [pinyin]wu3 hua1 ba1 men2[/pinyin] - Myriad, all kinds\r\n老少皆宜 - [pinyin]lao3 shao4 jie1 yi2[/pinyin] - Suitable for all ages\r\n寓意 - [pinyin]yu4 yi4[/pinyin] - Metaphorical meaning\r\n元宝 - [pinyin]yuan2 bao3[/pinyin] - Fake gold brick burnt as an offering in ancient times\r\n承载 - [pinyin]cheng2 zai4[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n千丝万缕 - [pinyin]qian1 si1 wan4 lv3[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n饺子用面粉做皮儿，里面的<strong>馅儿</strong>则是<strong>五花八门</strong>，可以依据个人的口味来调制。因此，饺子是一种不分地域，不分季节，<strong>老少皆宜</strong>的食品，中国人爱吃饺子，除了它多样的口味之外，更主要的原因，是饺子在几千年的发展过程中，已经带有一种吉祥<strong>寓意</strong>的食品。饺子的形状是扁圆的，它和古代象征财富的<strong>元宝</strong>的样子很相似。尤其是在过年的时候，辞旧迎新之际，一家人团圆吃饺子，那么就寓意着在新的一年里头，可以增加财富，可以过上更好的日子。那么，更重要的是因为饺子它是包馅的，馅里头可以包进去各种各样的吉祥的寓意，比如说人们结婚的时候，饺子的馅里可以包上花生和栗子，就寓意早生贵子。小小的饺子<strong>承载</strong>了那么多吉祥的寓意，使它和中国传统风俗有了<strong>千丝万缕</strong>的联系。自古以来，民间就有许多吃饺子的习俗，像除夕吃饺子、破五吃饺子。 \r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.chinavegan.com/2004/welcome_to_china_vegan@2004829233412.htm\">Read the original article on ChinaVegan.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJiaozi uses flour to make the wrapping [lit: skin], but the stuffing can be made from myriad things, and modified to suit individual tastes. Because of this, jiaozi is a food enjoyed by people in every region, in every season, both young and old alike. Chinese people love to eat jiaozi, and with the exception of its multitude of flavors, the main reason is that over the course of its several-thousand-year [culinary] development, jiaozi is a food that has come to represent good luck. Jiaozi is oval in shape, and thus it looks very similar to the ancient fake gold ingots that signified wealth. Especially during Chinese New Year, when welcome the new and dismiss the old, families reunite and eat jiaozi, which [if eaten] at the beginning of the year can increase wealth and can bring even better days. Even more importantly, because jiaozi is filled with stuffing, you can fill it with many different types of [food that traditionally has an] auspicious significance. For example, if someone\'s getting married, you can stuff the jiaozi with peanuts or chestnuts to mean that you hope the couple will give birth to a son soon. Such little jiaozi carries so much significance, and it\'s been linked to China\'s social traditions in countless ways. Since ancient times, people have had many customs about eating jiaozi, such as eating it on New Year\'s eve, and eating it on PoWu [Broken Five festival]. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'JiaoZi and Chinese New Year', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '327-autosave-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 12:48:18', '2011-01-17 17:48:18', '', 327, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/327-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(335, 1, '2011-01-17 07:29:28', '2011-01-17 12:29:28', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nMmm... Jiaozi. Nothing beats traditional Chinese dumplings . <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n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\">\r\n\r\n饺子用面粉做皮儿，里面的馅儿则是五花八门，可以依据个人的口味来调制。因此，饺子是一种不分地域，不分季节，老少皆宜的食品，中国人爱吃饺子，除了它多样的口味之外，更主要的原因，是饺子在几千年的发展过程中，已经带有一种吉祥寓意的食品。饺子的形状是扁圆的，它和古代象征财富的元宝的样子很相似。尤其是在过年的时候，辞旧迎新之际，一家人团圆吃饺子，那么就寓意着在新的一年里头，可以增加财富，可以过上更好的日子。那么，更重要的是因为饺子它是包馅的，馅里头可以包进去各种各样的吉祥的寓意，比如说人们结婚的时候，饺子的馅里可以包上花生和栗子，就寓意早生贵子。小小的饺子承载了那么多吉祥的寓意，使它和中国传统风俗有了千丝万缕的联系。自古以来，民间就有许多吃饺子的习俗，像除夕吃饺子、破五吃饺子。 \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.chinavegan.com/2004/welcome_to_china_vegan@2004829233412.htm\">Read the original article on ChinaVegan.com</a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'JiaoZi and Chinese New Year', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '327-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 07:29:28', '2011-01-17 12:29:28', '', 327, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/327-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(336, 1, '2011-01-17 12:32:15', '2011-01-17 17:32:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nMmm... Jiaozi. Nothing beats traditional Chinese dumplings . <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n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\">\r\n\r\n饺子用面粉做皮儿，里面的馅儿则是五花八门，可以依据个人的口味来调制。因此，饺子是一种不分地域，不分季节，老少皆宜的食品，中国人爱吃饺子，除了它多样的口味之外，更主要的原因，是饺子在几千年的发展过程中，已经带有一种吉祥寓意的食品。饺子的形状是扁圆的，它和古代象征财富的元宝的样子很相似。尤其是在过年的时候，辞旧迎新之际，一家人团圆吃饺子，那么就寓意着在新的一年里头，可以增加财富，可以过上更好的日子。那么，更重要的是因为饺子它是包馅的，馅里头可以包进去各种各样的吉祥的寓意，比如说人们结婚的时候，饺子的馅里可以包上花生和栗子，就寓意早生贵子。小小的饺子承载了那么多吉祥的寓意，使它和中国传统风俗有了千丝万缕的联系。自古以来，民间就有许多吃饺子的习俗，像除夕吃饺子、破五吃饺子。 \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.chinavegan.com/2004/welcome_to_china_vegan@2004829233412.htm\">Read the original article on ChinaVegan.com</a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJiaozi uses flour to make the wrapping [lit: skin], but the stuffing can be made from all sorts of things, and modified to suit individual tastes. Because of this, jiaozi is a food enjoyed by people in every region, in every season, both young and old alike. Chinese people love to eat jiaozi, and with the exception of its multitude of flavors, the main reason is that over the course of its several thousand year DEVELOPMENT, jiaozi is a food that has come to represent good luck. Jiaozi is oval in shape, and thus it looks very similar to the ancient fake gold ingots that signified wealth. Especially during Chinese New Year, when welcome the new and dismiss the old, families reunite and eat jiaozi, which [if eaten] at the beginning of the year can increase wealth and can bring even better days. Even more importantly, because jiaozi is filled with stuffing, you can fill it with many different types of [food that traditionally has an] auspicious significance. For example, if someone\'s getting married, you can stuff the jiaozi with peanuts or chestnuts to mean that you hope the couple will give birth to a son soon. Such little jiaozi carries so much significance, and it\'s been linked to China\'s social traditions in countless ways. Since ancient times, people have had many customs about eating jiaozi, such as eating it on New Year\'s eve, and eating it on WuPo [Broken Five festival]. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'JiaoZi and Chinese New Year', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '327-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 12:32:15', '2011-01-17 17:32:15', '', 327, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/327-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(337, 1, '2011-01-17 12:41:50', '2011-01-17 17:41:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nMmm... Jiaozi. Nothing beats traditional Chinese dumplings . <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n馅儿 - [pinyin]xian4 er5[/pinyin] - Stuffing, filling\r\n五花八门 - [pinyin]wu3 hua1 ba1 men2[/pinyin] - Myriad, all kinds\r\n老少皆宜 - [pinyin]lao3 shao4 jie1 yi2[/pinyin] - Suitable for all ages\r\n寓意 - [pinyin]yu4 yi4[/pinyin] - Metaphorical meaning\r\n元宝 - [pinyin]yuan2 bao3[/pinyin] - Fake gold brick burnt as an offering in ancient times\r\n承载 - [pinyin]cheng2 zai4[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n千丝万缕 - [pinyin]qian1 si1 wan4 lv3[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n饺子用面粉做皮儿，里面的<strong>馅儿</strong>则是<strong>五花八门</strong>，可以依据个人的口味来调制。因此，饺子是一种不分地域，不分季节，<strong>老少皆宜</strong>的食品，中国人爱吃饺子，除了它多样的口味之外，更主要的原因，是饺子在几千年的发展过程中，已经带有一种吉祥<strong>寓意</strong>的食品。饺子的形状是扁圆的，它和古代象征财富的<strong>元宝</strong>的样子很相似。尤其是在过年的时候，辞旧迎新之际，一家人团圆吃饺子，那么就寓意着在新的一年里头，可以增加财富，可以过上更好的日子。那么，更重要的是因为饺子它是包馅的，馅里头可以包进去各种各样的吉祥的寓意，比如说人们结婚的时候，饺子的馅里可以包上花生和栗子，就寓意早生贵子。小小的饺子<strong>承载</strong>了那么多吉祥的寓意，使它和中国传统风俗有了千丝万缕的联系。自古以来，民间就有许多吃饺子的习俗，像除夕吃饺子、破五吃饺子。 \r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.chinavegan.com/2004/welcome_to_china_vegan@2004829233412.htm\">Read the original article on ChinaVegan.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJiaozi uses flour to make the wrapping [lit: skin], but the stuffing can be made from myriad things, and modified to suit individual tastes. Because of this, jiaozi is a food enjoyed by people in every region, in every season, both young and old alike. Chinese people love to eat jiaozi, and with the exception of its multitude of flavors, the main reason is that over the course of its several-thousand-year [culinary] development, jiaozi is a food that has come to represent good luck. Jiaozi is oval in shape, and thus it looks very similar to the ancient fake gold ingots that signified wealth. Especially during Chinese New Year, when welcome the new and dismiss the old, families reunite and eat jiaozi, which [if eaten] at the beginning of the year can increase wealth and can bring even better days. Even more importantly, because jiaozi is filled with stuffing, you can fill it with many different types of [food that traditionally has an] auspicious significance. For example, if someone\'s getting married, you can stuff the jiaozi with peanuts or chestnuts to mean that you hope the couple will give birth to a son soon. Such little jiaozi carries so much significance, and it\'s been linked to China\'s social traditions in countless ways. Since ancient times, people have had many customs about eating jiaozi, such as eating it on New Year\'s eve, and eating it on WuPo [Broken Five festival]. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'JiaoZi and Chinese New Year', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '327-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 12:41:50', '2011-01-17 17:41:50', '', 327, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/327-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(338, 1, '2011-01-17 12:42:02', '2011-01-17 17:42:02', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nMmm... Jiaozi. Nothing beats traditional Chinese dumplings . <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n馅儿 - [pinyin]xian4 er5[/pinyin] - Stuffing, filling\r\n五花八门 - [pinyin]wu3 hua1 ba1 men2[/pinyin] - Myriad, all kinds\r\n老少皆宜 - [pinyin]lao3 shao4 jie1 yi2[/pinyin] - Suitable for all ages\r\n寓意 - [pinyin]yu4 yi4[/pinyin] - Metaphorical meaning\r\n元宝 - [pinyin]yuan2 bao3[/pinyin] - Fake gold brick burnt as an offering in ancient times\r\n承载 - [pinyin]cheng2 zai4[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n千丝万缕 - [pinyin]qian1 si1 wan4 lv3[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n饺子用面粉做皮儿，里面的<strong>馅儿</strong>则是<strong>五花八门</strong>，可以依据个人的口味来调制。因此，饺子是一种不分地域，不分季节，<strong>老少皆宜</strong>的食品，中国人爱吃饺子，除了它多样的口味之外，更主要的原因，是饺子在几千年的发展过程中，已经带有一种吉祥<strong>寓意</strong>的食品。饺子的形状是扁圆的，它和古代象征财富的<strong>元宝</strong>的样子很相似。尤其是在过年的时候，辞旧迎新之际，一家人团圆吃饺子，那么就寓意着在新的一年里头，可以增加财富，可以过上更好的日子。那么，更重要的是因为饺子它是包馅的，馅里头可以包进去各种各样的吉祥的寓意，比如说人们结婚的时候，饺子的馅里可以包上花生和栗子，就寓意早生贵子。小小的饺子<strong>承载</strong>了那么多吉祥的寓意，使它和中国传统风俗有了<strong>千丝万缕</strong>的联系。自古以来，民间就有许多吃饺子的习俗，像除夕吃饺子、破五吃饺子。 \r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.chinavegan.com/2004/welcome_to_china_vegan@2004829233412.htm\">Read the original article on ChinaVegan.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJiaozi uses flour to make the wrapping [lit: skin], but the stuffing can be made from myriad things, and modified to suit individual tastes. Because of this, jiaozi is a food enjoyed by people in every region, in every season, both young and old alike. Chinese people love to eat jiaozi, and with the exception of its multitude of flavors, the main reason is that over the course of its several-thousand-year [culinary] development, jiaozi is a food that has come to represent good luck. Jiaozi is oval in shape, and thus it looks very similar to the ancient fake gold ingots that signified wealth. Especially during Chinese New Year, when welcome the new and dismiss the old, families reunite and eat jiaozi, which [if eaten] at the beginning of the year can increase wealth and can bring even better days. Even more importantly, because jiaozi is filled with stuffing, you can fill it with many different types of [food that traditionally has an] auspicious significance. For example, if someone\'s getting married, you can stuff the jiaozi with peanuts or chestnuts to mean that you hope the couple will give birth to a son soon. Such little jiaozi carries so much significance, and it\'s been linked to China\'s social traditions in countless ways. Since ancient times, people have had many customs about eating jiaozi, such as eating it on New Year\'s eve, and eating it on WuPo [Broken Five festival]. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'JiaoZi and Chinese New Year', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '327-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 12:42:02', '2011-01-17 17:42:02', '', 327, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/327-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(340, 1, '2011-01-17 12:48:14', '2011-01-17 17:48:14', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nMmm... Jiaozi. Nothing beats traditional Chinese dumplings. Steamed, boiled, or (as is more often the case in Japan) fried, Jiaozi has been around for thousands of years, and is most traditionally eaten on New Years Eve. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThis short essay from ChinaVegan.com introduces the dish and covers its traditional significance.\r\n\r\nYou\'ll notice a reference to 破五 [pinyin]po4 wu3[/pinyin], the fifth day of New Years festivities. During the first four days, tradition dictates that it\'s forbidden to cook, clean, or argue, but on the fifth day, these rules may all be broken, hence the name \"Broken Five\" festival.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n馅儿 - [pinyin]xian4 er5[/pinyin] - Stuffing, filling\r\n五花八门 - [pinyin]wu3 hua1 ba1 men2[/pinyin] - Myriad, all kinds\r\n老少皆宜 - [pinyin]lao3 shao4 jie1 yi2[/pinyin] - Suitable for all ages\r\n寓意 - [pinyin]yu4 yi4[/pinyin] - Metaphorical meaning\r\n元宝 - [pinyin]yuan2 bao3[/pinyin] - Fake gold brick burnt as an offering in ancient times\r\n承载 - [pinyin]cheng2 zai4[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n千丝万缕 - [pinyin]qian1 si1 wan4 lv3[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n饺子用面粉做皮儿，里面的<strong>馅儿</strong>则是<strong>五花八门</strong>，可以依据个人的口味来调制。因此，饺子是一种不分地域，不分季节，<strong>老少皆宜</strong>的食品，中国人爱吃饺子，除了它多样的口味之外，更主要的原因，是饺子在几千年的发展过程中，已经带有一种吉祥<strong>寓意</strong>的食品。饺子的形状是扁圆的，它和古代象征财富的<strong>元宝</strong>的样子很相似。尤其是在过年的时候，辞旧迎新之际，一家人团圆吃饺子，那么就寓意着在新的一年里头，可以增加财富，可以过上更好的日子。那么，更重要的是因为饺子它是包馅的，馅里头可以包进去各种各样的吉祥的寓意，比如说人们结婚的时候，饺子的馅里可以包上花生和栗子，就寓意早生贵子。小小的饺子<strong>承载</strong>了那么多吉祥的寓意，使它和中国传统风俗有了<strong>千丝万缕</strong>的联系。自古以来，民间就有许多吃饺子的习俗，像除夕吃饺子、破五吃饺子。 \r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.chinavegan.com/2004/welcome_to_china_vegan@2004829233412.htm\">Read the original article on ChinaVegan.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJiaozi uses flour to make the wrapping [lit: skin], but the stuffing can be made from myriad things, and modified to suit individual tastes. Because of this, jiaozi is a food enjoyed by people in every region, in every season, both young and old alike. Chinese people love to eat jiaozi, and with the exception of its multitude of flavors, the main reason is that over the course of its several-thousand-year [culinary] development, jiaozi is a food that has come to represent good luck. Jiaozi is oval in shape, and thus it looks very similar to the ancient fake gold ingots that signified wealth. Especially during Chinese New Year, when welcome the new and dismiss the old, families reunite and eat jiaozi, which [if eaten] at the beginning of the year can increase wealth and can bring even better days. Even more importantly, because jiaozi is filled with stuffing, you can fill it with many different types of [food that traditionally has an] auspicious significance. For example, if someone\'s getting married, you can stuff the jiaozi with peanuts or chestnuts to mean that you hope the couple will give birth to a son soon. Such little jiaozi carries so much significance, and it\'s been linked to China\'s social traditions in countless ways. Since ancient times, people have had many customs about eating jiaozi, such as eating it on New Year\'s eve, and eating it on PoWu [Broken Five festival]. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'JiaoZi and Chinese New Year', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '327-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 12:48:14', '2011-01-17 17:48:14', '', 327, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/327-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(341, 1, '2011-02-15 07:00:35', '2011-02-15 12:00:35', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocryphal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n\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>邮票的历史</h4>\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show English translation\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years ago, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-history-of-postage-stamps', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:52:30', '2020-04-20 11:52:30', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=341', 0, 'post', '', 4),
(1849, 1, '2020-04-20 07:11:28', '2020-04-20 11:11:28', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocryphal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n\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>邮票的历史</h4>\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show English translation\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years ago, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:11:28', '2020-04-20 11:11:28', '', 341, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/04/20/341-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(342, 1, '2011-01-17 17:37:39', '2011-01-17 22:37:39', '[two_third]\n\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service and postal history comes from Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\", <!--more--> \n\n\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国维多利亚女王的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑便士”之称。\n\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分罕见的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\n\n邮差走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着：“爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说：“我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都不约而同地投向她。\n\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\n\n人们都很同情她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个绅士模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\n\n　　她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说：“谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\n\n　　“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\n\n　　“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我：在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\n\n　　“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说：“这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\n\n　　对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\n\n　　他向当时的英国政府建议：“邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\n\n　　结果，英国政府从善如流，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\n\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\n\n\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 17:37:39', '2011-01-17 22:37:39', '', 341, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(343, 1, '2011-01-17 17:38:13', '2011-01-17 22:38:13', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service and postal history comes from Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\", <!--more--> \r\n\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召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国维多利亚女王的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑便士”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分罕见的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n邮差走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着：“爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说：“我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都不约而同地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很同情她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个绅士模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n　　她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说：“谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n　　“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n　　“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我：在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n　　“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说：“这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n　　对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n　　他向当时的英国政府建议：“邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n　　结果，英国政府从善如流，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 17:38:13', '2011-01-17 22:38:13', '', 341, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(344, 1, '2011-01-17 17:51:49', '2011-01-17 22:51:49', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service and postal history comes from Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\", so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国维多利亚女王的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑便士”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分罕见的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n邮差走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说：“我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都不约而同地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很同情她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个绅士模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n　　“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我：在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n　　“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n　　对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n　　他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n　　结果，英国政府从善如流，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach, and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 17:51:49', '2011-01-17 22:51:49', '', 341, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(345, 1, '2011-01-17 18:35:53', '2011-01-17 23:35:53', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service and postal history comes from Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\", so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\nAh! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with. \" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 18:35:53', '2011-01-17 23:35:53', '', 341, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(486, 1, '2011-02-15 07:37:48', '2011-02-15 12:37:48', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-15 07:37:48', '2011-02-15 12:37:48', '', 341, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/15/341-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(346, 1, '2011-01-17 18:36:26', '2011-01-17 23:36:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service and postal history comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\nAh! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with. \" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 18:36:26', '2011-01-17 23:36:26', '', 341, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(347, 1, '2020-04-20 07:10:46', '2020-04-20 11:10:46', '[su_row]\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\n\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \n\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocryphal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \n\n[/su_column]\n[/su_row]\n\n<div class=\"readingPassage\">\n[su_row]\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n<h4>you piao</h4>\n\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\n\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\n\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\n\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\n\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\n\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\n\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\n\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\n\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\n\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\n\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\n\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\n\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\n[/one_half]\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\n\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years ago, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\n\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\n\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\n\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\n\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\n\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\n\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\n\n\"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\n\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\n\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\n\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-autosave-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:10:46', '2020-04-20 11:10:46', '', 341, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(348, 1, '2011-01-17 18:36:43', '2011-01-17 23:36:43', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\nAh! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with. \" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 18:36:43', '2011-01-17 23:36:43', '', 341, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(350, 1, '2011-01-17 18:38:06', '2011-01-17 23:38:06', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nHuh, learn something new every day. My entire understanding of the postal service comes from <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Going-Postal-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0060502932\">Terry Pratchett\'s \"Going Postal\"</a>, so it\'s interesting to take a quick look into the [vaguely] factual history of the postage stamp. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nThis widely-circulated story is believed to be apocrophal, but <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Hill_%28postal_reformer%29\">Sir Rowland Hill</a> was a very real postal reformer and inventor. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the Chinese version of the story gets some factual dates wrong. The <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Black\">first postage stamp</a> was indeed issued in 1840, but according to Wikipedia, Hill took an interest in the postal system in 1835, not, as the essay states, \"150 years before\" the stamp was issued. What I think you\'re seeing is either a mistranslation somewhere along the line, or the sort of cannonization of a historical personage that\'s so common in China.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n维多利亚女王 - [pinyin]wei2 duo1 li4 ya4 nv3 wang2[/pinyin] - Queen Victoria\r\n便士 - [pinyin]bian4 shi4[/pinyin] - Penny\r\n罕见 - [pinyin]han3 jian4[/pinyin] - Rare\r\n邮差 - [pinyin]you2 chai1[/pinyin] - Postman\r\n不约而同 - [pinyin]bu4 yue1 er2 tong2[/pinyin] - To take the same action all together without prior consultation, in unison\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n同情 - [pinyin]tong2 qing2[/pinyin] - Sympathize\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n从善如流 - [pinyin]cong2 shan4 ru2 liu2[/pinyin] - Accept good advice\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n1840年，英国发行了世界第一枚邮票。它上面印了英国<strong>维多利亚女王</strong>的头像。因为这一枚邮票是黑色的，所以有“黑<strong>便士</strong>”之称。\r\n\r\n一百五十多年前的某一天，在英国的一个村子里，来了一辆由马儿拉动的邮车。那个时候，邮车到村里来送信是十分<strong>罕见</strong>的。所以，村里的人一听见马车声，便立刻从屋子里、田地里冲出来，围在邮车的周围。\r\n\r\n<strong>邮差</strong>走下车，手里高举着一封信，大声喊着: “爱里丝·布朗小姐，有信！”一个姑娘轻声地对邮差说: “我就是爱里丝·布朗。”人们的眼光都<strong>不约而同</strong>地投向她。\r\n\r\n爱里丝接过邮差给她的信，看了一看信封，便把信交还给邮差。“对不起。”她说，“我没有足够的钱付邮费。”\r\n\r\n人们都很<strong>同情</strong>她，不知道该说些什么话。突然间，人群里走出一个<strong>绅士</strong>模样的人，从口袋里拿出一些钱币，说要替爱里丝付邮费，可是爱里丝并不认识他。\r\n\r\n她带着感激的笑容对这位绅士说: “谢谢您的好意，先生，这封信我盼望了很久，可是现在我用不着它了。”\r\n\r\n“为什么呢？”那位绅士感到十分奇怪。\r\n\r\n“这封信是我的男朋友寄给我的。我们打算明年结婚。他为了筹钱结婚，只得到外地去找工作做。由于我付不起邮费，所以他事先交代我: 在信封上画个叉，是表示他的日子过得很好；画个圆圈，意思是他已经找到工作了。”\r\n\r\n“啊！原来这信封里是没有信的。”那位绅士自言自语地说: “这种情形很不合理，必须改善。”\r\n\r\n对于这件事情，他想了很久，终于想出了一个好办法。\r\n\r\n他向当时的英国政府建议: “邮费应该由寄信的人来付，而且也不应该太昂贵，否则穷人是付不起的。为了大家的方便，我认为寄信的人，用一个便士买一枚邮票，贴在信封上，这样寄出去就可以了。”\r\n\r\n结果，英国政府<strong>从善如流</strong>，接受了他的建议。这位绅士的名字叫罗兰·希尔世界上第一枚邮票就是这样诞生的。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://gushi365.com/info/4954.html\">Read the original essay</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nIn 1840, England issued the world\'s first postage stamp. The face of Queen Victoria was printed on it. Because the stamp was black, it was called the \"Penny Black\".\r\n\r\nOne day more than one hundred and fifty years before, a mail coach rode into a village in England. At that time, mail coaches rarely brought letters to the villages. So as soon as the village folks heard the sound of the carriage, they immediately rushed out of houses and fields to stand around the coach.\r\n\r\nThe postman stepped down from the coach holding up a letter and loudly cried, \"Miss Alice Brown, you have a letter!\" A girl\'s light voice replied, \"I\'m Alice Brown.\" Everyone\'s gaze simultaneously went her way.\r\n\r\nAlice took the letter the postman handed her, looked at the envelope, and then gave the envelope back to the postman. \"Sorry,\" she said, \"I don\'t have enough money to pay the postage fee.\"\r\n\r\nEveryone sympathized with her, and didn\'t know what to say. Suddenly, a man of gentlemanly appearance walked out of the crowd, took some cash from his pocket, and said he wanted to pay the postal fee on Alice\'s behalf, though Alice didn\'t know him at all.\r\n\r\nWearing a proud smile, she told the gentleman, \"Thank you for your kindness, mister, I\'ve looked forward to this letter for a long time, but I have no use for it now.\"\r\n\r\n\"Why?\" The gentlement thought this was quite strange.\r\n\r\n\"This letter was sent to me by my boyfriend. I plan to marry him next year. To earn money for the marriage, he went away to look for work. Because I can\'t pay any postage fees, before he left he told me: if he draws an X written on the envelope, it means he\'s doing well, if there\'s a circle on the envelope, it means he\'s already found work.\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah! So actually there\'s wasn\'t any letter in the envelope to begin with.\" The gentlemen mused out loud to himself, \"This situation is unfair, [the mail system] must be improved.\"\r\n\r\nHe thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nHe suggested to the then-government: \"The postage fee should be paid by the sender of the letter, and it shouldn\'t be too expensive, otherwise poor people won\'t be able to afford it. For everyone\'s convenience, I think people sending letters should use a one-penny stamp and stick it on the front of the letter - that\'s how they can send it out.\"\r\n\r\nAs a result, the English government were willing to follow this good advice and accepted his suggestion. This gentleman\'s name was Rowland Hill, and this is how the world\'s first postage stamp was born. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The History of Postage Stamps', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '341-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-17 18:38:06', '2011-01-17 23:38:06', '', 341, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/17/341-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(351, 1, '2011-01-15 23:40:32', '2011-01-16 04:40:32', '[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][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\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[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'My First Workplace Color Book', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '98-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:40:32', '2011-01-16 04:40:32', '', 98, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/98-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(352, 1, '2011-01-18 07:22:37', '2011-01-18 12:22:37', '[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][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\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[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'My First Workplace Color Book', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '98-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 07:22:37', '2011-01-18 12:22:37', '', 98, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/98-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(356, 1, '2011-01-18 18:10:15', '2011-01-18 23:10:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n馅儿 - [pinyin]xian4 er5[/pinyin] - Stuffing, filling\r\n五花八门 - [pinyin]wu3 hua1 ba1 men2[/pinyin] - Myriad, all kinds\r\n老少皆宜 - [pinyin]lao3 shao4 jie1 yi2[/pinyin] - Suitable for all ages\r\n寓意 - [pinyin]yu4 yi4[/pinyin] - Metaphorical meaning\r\n元宝 - [pinyin]yuan2 bao3[/pinyin] - Fake gold brick burnt as an offering in ancient times\r\n承载 - [pinyin]cheng2 zai4[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n千丝万缕 - [pinyin]qian1 si1 wan4 lv3[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜陪妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>讨厌的男人</strong>\r\n\r\n汤姆又来找女友玛瑞，他正在客厅耐心等候时，玛瑞的小弟弟艾米尔生气地走出来。“讨厌的家伙，你为什么总来找我姐姐，你自已没有吗？”\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校遗失许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多自黏标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE STICKER</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive stickers, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a sticker, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:10:15', '2011-01-18 23:10:15', '', 354, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(355, 1, '2011-01-18 18:09:52', '2011-01-18 23:09:52', '[two_third]\n\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n馅儿 - [pinyin]xian4 er5[/pinyin] - Stuffing, filling\n五花八门 - [pinyin]wu3 hua1 ba1 men2[/pinyin] - Myriad, all kinds\n老少皆宜 - [pinyin]lao3 shao4 jie1 yi2[/pinyin] - Suitable for all ages\n寓意 - [pinyin]yu4 yi4[/pinyin] - Metaphorical meaning\n元宝 - [pinyin]yuan2 bao3[/pinyin] - Fake gold brick burnt as an offering in ancient times\n承载 - [pinyin]cheng2 zai4[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\n千丝万缕 - [pinyin]qian1 si1 wan4 lv3[/pinyin] - Bear, sustain\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\n\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜陪妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\n\n<strong>讨厌的男人</strong>\n\n汤姆又来找女友玛瑞，他正在客厅耐心等候时，玛瑞的小弟弟艾米尔生气地走出来。“讨厌的家伙，你为什么总来找我姐姐，你自已没有吗？”\n\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\n\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校遗失许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多自黏标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\n\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\n\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\n\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\n\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\n\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\n\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\n\n<strong>ONE STICKER</strong>\n\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive stickers, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\n\nMeimei promptly wrote out a sticker, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you \n\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:09:52', '2011-01-18 23:09:52', '', 354, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(357, 1, '2011-01-18 18:22:39', '2011-01-18 23:22:39', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe punchline of the last joke, \"I Won\'t Let You Die\", hinges on the Chinese slang [verb]死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn\'t actually have anything to do with death, but rather means \"very\". For example, 饿死了, literally \"die from hunger\", means \"very hungry\", similar to the English phrase \"I\'m starving to death!\" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, \"happy to death\", or \"very happy\". \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n冰糕 - [pinyin]bing1 gao1[/pinyin] - Popsicle\r\n陪 - [pinyin]pei2[/pinyin] - To accompany, go with\r\n标签 - [pinyin]biao1 qian1[/pinyin] - Label\r\n遗失 - [pinyin]yi2 shi1[/pinyin] - To lose\r\n自黏 - [pinyin]zi4 nian2[/pinyin] - Self-adhesive\r\n多余 - [pinyin]duo1 yi2[/pinyin] - Unnecessarily\r\n孝子 - [pinyin]xiao4 zi3[/pinyin] - Obedient / filial son\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜<strong>陪</strong>妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校<strong>遗失</strong>许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多<strong>自黏</strong>标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE STICKER</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive labels, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a label, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>I WON\'T LET YOU DIE</strong>\r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, if I\'m ever first in my class, what would you do?\"\r\n\r\nFather: \"Well, I\'d be so happy I\'d die!\" \r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, you don\'t need to worry unnecessarily, I\'m a filial son, I won\'t let you die.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-autosave-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:22:39', '2011-01-18 23:22:39', '', 354, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(358, 1, '2011-01-18 18:22:28', '2011-01-18 23:22:28', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe punchline of the last joke, \"I Won\'t Let You Die\", hinges on the Chinese slang [verb]死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn\'t actually have anything to do with death, but rather means \"very\". For example, 饿死了, literally \"die from hunger\", means \"very hungry\", similar to the English phrase \"I\'m starving to death!\" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, \"happy to death\", or \"very happy\". \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n冰糕 - [pinyin]bing1 gao1[/pinyin] - Popsicle\r\n陪 - [pinyin]pei2[/pinyin] - To accompany, go with\r\n标签 - [pinyin]biao1 qian1[/pinyin] - Label\r\n遗失 - [pinyin]yi2 shi1[/pinyin] - To lose\r\n自黏 - [pinyin]zi4 nian2[/pinyin] - Self-adhesive\r\n多余 - [pinyin]duo1 yi2[/pinyin] - Unnecessarily\r\n孝子 - [pinyin]xiao4 zi3[/pinyin] - Obedient / filial son\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜<strong>陪</strong>妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校<strong>遗失</strong>许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多<strong>自黏</strong>标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE STICKER</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive labels, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a label, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>I WON\'T LET YOU DIE</strong>\r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, if I\'m ever first in my class, what would you do?\"\r\n\r\nFather: \"Well, I\'d be so happy I\'d die!\" \r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, you don\'t need to worry unnecessarily, I\'m a filial son, I won\'t let you die.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:22:28', '2011-01-18 23:22:28', '', 354, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(359, 1, '2011-01-18 18:23:33', '2011-01-18 23:23:33', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for kindergarten kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe punchline of the last joke, \"I Won\'t Let You Die\", hinges on the Chinese slang [verb]死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn\'t actually have anything to do with death, but rather means \"very\". For example, 饿死了, literally \"die from hunger\", means \"very hungry\", similar to the English phrase \"I\'m starving to death!\" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, \"happy to death\", or \"very happy\". \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n冰糕 - [pinyin]bing1 gao1[/pinyin] - Popsicle\r\n陪 - [pinyin]pei2[/pinyin] - To accompany, go with\r\n标签 - [pinyin]biao1 qian1[/pinyin] - Label\r\n遗失 - [pinyin]yi2 shi1[/pinyin] - To lose\r\n自黏 - [pinyin]zi4 nian2[/pinyin] - Self-adhesive\r\n多余 - [pinyin]duo1 yi2[/pinyin] - Unnecessarily\r\n孝子 - [pinyin]xiao4 zi3[/pinyin] - Obedient / filial son\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>冰糕</strong>\r\n\r\n今年初天气还冷，五岁的李茜<strong>陪</strong>妈妈上商场，李茜要妈妈买冰糕吃，妈妈说冷天气吃冰糕小肚肚会痛。李茜说，“那您帮我买一个回家后让奶奶蒸热了我再吃”。\r\n\r\n<strong>一张标签1</strong>\r\n\r\n刚上小学一年级的美美，常在学校<strong>遗失</strong>许多文具用品她妈妈于是买了许多<strong>自黏</strong>标签，把她的东西全贴上名字并郑重的告诉她:“贴了你的名字的东西，就是你的。以后你的东西就不会丢了，别人捡到也会还给你的。”\r\n\r\n美美连忙写了一张标签，贴在她妈妈脸颊上，并向她爸爸及哥哥宣布，“以后妈妈是我的了，你们不许来抢。”\r\n\r\n<strong>不会让您死</strong>\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”\r\n\r\n父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”\r\n\r\n儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n<strong>POPSICLE</strong>\r\n\r\nThe day started out quite cold, and 5-year-old LiQuan went to the market with his mother. LiQuan wanted his mother to buy him a popsicle to eat, but mama said that eating a popsicle in cold weather would make his little stomach hurt. LiQuan said, \"Then buy me a popsicle; we\'ll take it back to the house and have grandma heat it up before I eat it.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>ONE LABEL</strong>\r\n\r\nMeimei had just begun her first year of school, and she was always losing her school supplies [lit: writing tools, such as pens, pencils, etc.], so her mother went and bought a lot of self-adhesive labels, stuck her [Meimei\'s] name on all her things, and told her seriously, \"Whatever has your name stuck to it is yours. Now you won\'t lose your things, and other people who pick them up can give them back to you.\"\r\n\r\nMeimei promptly wrote out a label, stuck it on her mother\'s cheek, then said to her father and older brother, \"Mama is mine now, you can\'t take her.\"\r\n\r\n<strong>I WON\'T LET YOU DIE</strong>\r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, if I\'m ever first in my class, what would you do?\"\r\n\r\nFather: \"Well, I\'d be so happy I\'d die!\" \r\n\r\nSon: \"Father, you don\'t need to worry unnecessarily, I\'m a filial son, I won\'t let you die.\"\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Super Simple One Liners', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '354-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-18 18:23:33', '2011-01-18 23:23:33', '', 354, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/18/354-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(360, 1, '2011-01-15 23:27:45', '2011-01-16 04:27:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA very short children\'s story about a bear\'s search for a new home. The original text was found on a Chinese children\'s stories site.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave, hole\r\n造 - [pinyin]zao4[/pinyin] - make, build\r\n挂 - [pinyin]gua4[/pinyin] - hang\r\n砍 - [pinyin]kan3[/pinyin] - to chop\r\n舍不得 - [pinyin]she3 bu4 de[/pinyin] - can\'t bear to\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n小熊一家住在山<strong>洞</strong>里。熊爷爷对小熊说,“你去<strong>造</strong>间木头房子住吧!\"\r\n\r\n春天，小熊走进树林。树上长满了绿叶，他舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n夏天，小熊又走进了树林。树上开满了鲜花，小熊<strong>舍不得砍</strong>。\r\n\r\n秋天，小熊走进树林，树上<strong>挂</strong>满了果实。小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n冬天，小熊走进了树林。树上站着许多小鸟，小熊舍不得砍。\r\n\r\n一年又一年，小熊没有砍树造房子，还是高高兴兴地住在山洞里……\r\n\r\n树林里的小动物非常感谢小熊，他们送给小熊一束束美丽的鲜花.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\nSource: <a href=\"http://www.gushi365.com/info/5568.html\">GuShi365.com</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLittle bear lived in a mountain cave. Grandfather bear said to Little Bear: \"Go and find a wooden house to live in!\"\r\n\r\nIn spring, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of green leaves, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn summer, little bear again went into the forest. The trees were full of fresh flowers, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn autumn, little bear went into the forest. The trees were full of hanging fruit, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nIn winter, little bear went into the forest. Many little birds were living in the trees, and he couldn\'t bear to cut them down.\r\n\r\nYears passed, and little bear still hadn\'t made a home out of the trees. He was still living happily in his mountain cave.\r\n\r\nThe little forest animals thanked Little Bear very much, and they gave him a bunch of beautiful fresh flowers.\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/one_half]', 'Little Bear Lived in a Mountain Cave', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '7-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:27:45', '2011-01-16 04:27:45', '', 7, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/7-revision-43/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(362, 1, '2011-01-19 13:05:39', '2011-01-19 18:05:39', '[two_third]\n\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的<strong>顶端</strong>，<strong>可惜</strong>现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的<strong>粪便</strong>呢，里面可是富含<strong>营养</strong>哟，呵呵。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡<strong>极目远眺</strong>，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\n\n这则寓言的寓意: <strong>舔</strong>别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an ever higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \n\nThe moral of this fable is licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 13:05:39', '2011-01-19 18:05:39', '', 361, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(363, 1, '2020-04-20 07:08:13', '2020-04-20 11:08:13', '[su_row]\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. <!--more-->\n\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110219-INLINE-turkey-and-bull.jpg\" alt=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Materials: Turkey and the Bull\" title=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Materials: Turkey and the Bull\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. I started off thinking this was entirely unsuitable for the children\'s reading site I found it on, but then again, some of our most beloved fables are all about evil women baking little children in ovens, so... yeah. \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的<strong>顶端</strong>，<strong>可惜</strong>现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的<strong>粪便</strong>呢，里面可是富含<strong>营养</strong>哟，呵呵。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡<strong>极目远眺</strong>，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\n\n这则寓言的寓意: <strong>舔</strong>别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \n\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however [success gained this way] doesn\'t last long.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-autosave-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:08:13', '2020-04-20 11:08:13', '', 361, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(364, 1, '2011-01-19 13:08:43', '2011-01-19 18:08:43', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的<strong>顶端</strong>，<strong>可惜</strong>现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的<strong>粪便</strong>呢，里面可是富含<strong>营养</strong>哟，呵呵。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡<strong>极目远眺</strong>，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\r\n\r\n这则寓言的寓意: <strong>舔</strong>别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an ever higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 13:08:43', '2011-01-19 18:08:43', '', 361, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(365, 1, '2011-01-16 14:43:59', '2011-01-16 19:43:59', 'After spending six years in China studying Mandarin and working, I took a several-year haitus and returned to my native country. It was alarming how quickly my language skills began distinegrating. I searched online for Chinese reading materials, and though I found plenty of dictionaries and flash card sources, I had a very difficult time finding something that was at an appropriate reading level, was different than the typical textbook-y stuff available online, was presented in a way that was easy to read, and that I was sure I could get through. I ended up spending more time looking for something that was suitable than actually doing any reading.\r\n\r\nAs someone who organizes her thoughts into a series of domain names, it was inevitable I\'d eventually start a website about it, and here you are. I post here whenever I have a few minutes to practice a bit of reading, or enter something interesting I\'ve picked up.\r\n\r\nThis site doesn\'t exist to teach you Chinese from scratch - there are plenty of sites and programs that do that. But this collection might help you keep your skills fresh, or pick up the occasional new vocabulary word.\r\n<h4>About the Translations</h4>\r\nMany of the translations on this site are done by me, and I don\'t post anything unless I\'ve checked it several times, but that doesn\'t mean I haven\'t missed something. Do feel free to comment if you see anything that ought to have a better translation - it won\'t be taken amiss. Quite a few of the translations, however, are done by others, are taken from old Chinese textbooks or hardcopy magazines I picked up overseas, or were sent in by a third party.\r\n\r\nIt\'s often quite difficult to do a word-for-word translation, as Chinese words that fit well into a particular Chinese sentence read very awkwardly after they\'ve been translated - sometimes a direct translation just sounds \"off\". This is more and more true the higher your reading level. I stick to a word-for-word translation when it\'s appropriate, but I\'ll often change a sentence a little so that it makes sense or reads well in English.\r\n\r\nYou\'ll also notice that I often remove commas, split long Chinese sentences into two or more English sentences, or rearrange the order of clauses, which is necessary to accommodate Chinese grammar.  The translation is meant as a guidepost to help point you in the right direction and keep you grounded in the text when needed - it\'s up to you to dissect sentence structure.\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'About', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:43:59', '2011-01-16 19:43:59', '', 2, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/2-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(368, 1, '2011-01-19 13:56:58', '2011-01-19 18:56:58', '   从前有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n    小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 13:56:58', '2011-01-19 18:56:58', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/366-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(369, 1, '2011-01-15 23:39:10', '2011-01-16 04:39:10', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs vaguely sordid fables go, this one\'s fairly tame, resulting only in some humiliatory retribution and a lost tail or two.<!--more--> \r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n狼 - [pinyin]lang2[/pinyin] - Wolf\r\n欺负 - [pinyin]qi1 fu5[/pinyin] - To bully\r\n狐狸 - [pinyin]hu2 li5[/pinyin] - Fox\r\n觅食 - [pinyin]mi4 shi2[/pinyin] - Forage, scavenge\r\n阵 - [pinyin]zhen4[/pinyin] - Classifier for events of short duration\r\n洞 - [pinyin]dong4[/pinyin] - Cave\r\n暗自 - [pinyin]an4 zi4[/pinyin] - Inwardly, secretly\r\n凿 - [pinyin]zuo4[/pinyin] - Bore, dig\r\n尾巴 - [pinyin]wei3 ba5[/pinyin] - Tail\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一只小<strong>狼</strong>他总是<strong>欺负</strong>别人。一天小动物们聚在一起商量对付那只小狼的办法，聪明的小<strong>狐狸</strong>想到了一个办法。\r\n\r\n一天小狼出外<strong>觅食</strong>的狼，忽然闻到一<strong>阵</strong>阵烤鱼的香味，小狼跑进山<strong>洞</strong>一看，原来是狐狸在烤鱼。狐狸见狼来了，心里<strong>暗自</strong>高兴。\r\n\r\n狼问, “这些鱼是从哪弄来的？”\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “有一个地方可以钓到好多鱼，我可以给你带路。”\r\n\r\n于时狼就跟着狐狸走啊走，来到了河边，原来是河里的水结了一层冰。\r\n\r\n狐狸说, “只要在冰上<strong>凿</strong>一个洞，把<strong>尾巴</strong>放进河里，等鱼咬住尾巴的时候，就把尾巴提上来，这样就可以钓到好多好多的鱼！”\r\n\r\n狼想着这下钓的鱼吃也吃不光啦，狼等了好久，也没有鱼咬住他的尾巴。狼实在冷得不行了，就想把尾巴提上来，回头一看，尾巴都被冰住了。狼大力拉，哪知他的尾巴“啪”的一声断掉了，狼逃走了。\r\n\r\n小动物们看见狼的惨样子，都哈哈地笑了。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong  ago, there was a wolf who was always bullying others. One day,  the small animals gathered together to discuss a way to solve the problem. The smart fox thought of a solution.\r\n\r\nOne day Wolf went out to forage for food, when suddenly  he smelled the scent of roasting fish. When Little Wolf ran into a  mountain cave and looked, he saw that it was Little Fox that was cooking the fish. Fox saw that Wolf had come, and in his heart he was secretly happy.\r\n\r\nWolf asked \"Where did these fish come from?\"\r\n\r\nFox said, \"There is a place where you can catch many fish, I can take you there.\"\r\n\r\nSo Wolf followed Fox as he walked and walked, until they came to a riverbank. There turned out to be a layer of ice over the water.\r\n\r\nFox said, \"All you have to do is bore a hole in the ice, stick your tail into the river, wait until the fish bite your tail, then pull your tail out. This way, you\'ll catch many, many fish.\r\n\r\nWolf, thinking of how the fish would be more than a full meal, waited quite a while, but no fish bit his tail. Wolf was finally too cold to continue and tried to pull up his tail, but when he turned his head to look, he saw that his tail was stuck in the ice. He gave a  great pull, and what do you know but his tail came off with a \"pa\"  sound. Wolf hopped away.\r\n\r\nWhen the other little animals saw wolf\'s miserable face, they all laughed.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Wolf Goes Fishing', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '85-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:39:10', '2011-01-16 04:39:10', '', 85, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/85-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(370, 1, '2011-02-21 07:00:56', '2011-02-21 12:00:56', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis is a great recipe for Western Chinese style Crucian Carp, roasted with spring onions, coriander, peppers and other spices.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110221-INLINE-onion-roasted-carp.jpg\" alt=\"Advanced Chinese Reading Exercises: Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp\" title=\"Advanced Chinese Reading Exercises: Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft imgborder\" />I found this recipe on Chinese woman\'s cooking blog - <a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_500c589b01017r3w.html\">the original post</a> has step-by-step pictures, so go have a look if you\'d like to try your hand at this recipe.\r\n\r\nWhat I find interesting about this recipe is that it requires the use of an oven, and even more interesting, an oven with space for more than one rack. Until very recently, you couldn\'t find a Chinese home with an oven in it for any price, and if you wanted to bake, it usually meant a trip to a German appliance store to buy a mini counter-top oven. These days, I\'m seeing more and more real estate ads featuring homes with ovens, so this recipe, in my opinion, is a sign of the times. \r\n\r\nIn step 2 of the recipe, the author instructs us to 控干水分 after the fish has marinated for an hour. Not being much of a cook myself, I had quite a bit of trouble sorting out what 控干水分 meant exactly, being that it\'s a culinary technique having something to do with moisture control. Searching the Chinese \'net turned up the answer: this means to allow excess moisture to strain or seep out of an ingredient. For leafy vegetables, this would mean putting them in a strainer and lightly shaking the water out, or letting it drip out. For meat, this likely means lightly patting it with paper towels to soak up excess moisture, or letting it sit on paper towels to soak the moisture out. \r\n\r\nIf anyone out there\'s a chef and knows a better way, by all means, do tell.\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烹饪 - [pinyin]peng1 ren4[/pinyin] - Culinary arts\r\n约定俗成 - [pinyin]yue1 ding4 su2 cheng2[/pinyin] - To be established due to popular use\r\n腌制 - [pinyin]yan1 zhi4[/pinyin] - Marinate\r\n料酒 - [pinyin]liao3 jiu3[/pinyin] - Cooking wine\r\n孜然 - [pinyin]zi1 ran2[/pinyin] - Cumin\r\n鳞 - [pinyin]lin2[/pinyin] - Fish scales\r\n鳃 - [pinyin]sai1[/pinyin] - Fish gills\r\n锡纸 - [pinyin]xi1 zhi3[/pinyin] - Tin foil\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n记得一年多前我做过一道上海本地菜--葱烤鲫鱼，结果有网友指出不应该写葱烤鲫鱼，而应该是葱熇鲫鱼。为此我找了好多资料，包括字典、词典、百科全书，发现网友说得没错，烤和熇是完全不同的两种<strong>烹饪</strong>方式，做出的菜品和口感自然也完全不同，只是不知道为什么本地饭店的菜单上都是写葱烤鲫鱼的，我想这也可能是<strong>约定俗成</strong>，反正大家都懂的，习惯成自然了吧？\r\n\r\n今天的葱烤鲫鱼真的是烤的，是将鲫鱼<strong>腌制</strong>后入烤箱烘烤而成。此葱烤鲫鱼不是彼葱熇鲫鱼，那是两种完全不同的口味。葱熇鲫鱼是浓油赤酱的上海口味，而葱烤鲫鱼更多的是由多种香料组成的复合香味，带有一种浓郁西部风味，也是很香很好吃呢！\r\n\r\n材料: 鲫鱼2条、葱100克、姜4片、小红椒2个、香菜50克。\r\n\r\n调料: <strong>料酒</strong>1大勺、香醋1大勺、盐5克、胡椒粉1/2小勺、十三香1/2小勺、<strong>孜然</strong>粉1/2小勺、花椒粉1/2小勺、香油1大勺。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>鲫鱼去<strong>鳞</strong>、<strong>鳃</strong>、肠洗净滤干，在鱼背上用刀划几道后放入盘中，姜片分别放入鱼腹中；</li>\r\n	<li>加料酒、香醋、盐5克、胡椒粉、十三香抹匀腌1小时；</li>\r\n	<li>烤盘铺上<strong>锡纸</strong>，将香葱摆放在盘底，腌好的鱼控干水分，两面刷油后放在葱上；</li>\r\n	<li>烤箱预热至180度，烤盘放入中层，烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘将鱼翻面，再烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘再在鱼身上刷层油，撒上孜然粉、花椒粉、红椒圈和香菜梗，再入烤箱烤2分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出撒上香菜叶即可。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_500c589b01017r3w.html\">See original recipe with pictures</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI remember over a year ago I did a local Shangai dish, Onion Roasted Carp, and as a result, one of my internet friends pointed out that I shouldn\'t have called it \"Onion Roasted Carp\", it was actually \"Onion Dried Carp\". Because of this, I checked a bunch of sources, including character dictionaries, word dictionaries and encyclopedias, and found that my online friend was right, \"Roasted\" and \"Dry\" [both are pronounced [pinyin]kao3[/pinyin] in Chinese] are two entirely different culinary methods. Naturally, the cooking materials and texture are also completely different, I just don\'t know why local restaurant menus all write it \"Onion Roasted Carp\"; I think it was just established that way from popular usage, as something that everyone understands, and perhaps the habit just became the norm?  \r\n\r\nToday\'s Onion Roasted Carp really is roasted. After the carp is marinated, it\'s put into the oven and baked before it\'s done. This Onion Roasted Carp isn\'t that Onion Dried Carp, those are two entirely different flavors. Onion Dried Carp has a Shanghai flavor that\'s thick with oil and red sauce, while Onion Roasted Carp has a complex bouquet made from a wider variety of ingredients and elements, and has a dense Western [Chinese] flavor, also very fragrant and delicious!\r\n\r\nIngredients: Two Crucian carp, 100 grams of spring onion, four slices of ginger, two little red peppers, 50 grams of coriander \r\n\r\nSeasonings: A big spoon of cooking wine, 1 big spoon balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, 1/2 small spoon of ground pepper, 1/2 small spoon Thirteen Spice, 1/2 small spoon cumin powder, 1/2 small spoon of Sichuan pepper powder, 1 big spoon sesame oil.\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Take off the scales, gills and intestines and clean the carp. On the fishs\' back [side], use a knife to make a few cuts [the cook doesn\'t mean to cut all the way through the fish, just to make a few slices in the skin], place the fish in a dish, then place a few of the ginger slices in each fishs\' stomach.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the cooking wine, balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, ground pepper and thirteen spice so that the fish is evenly covered, and let marinate for one hour.</li>\r\n	<li>Spread tin foil on a cooking pan, arrange the onions in the bottom of the pan, allow excess moisture to strain out of the mariated fish, then rub oil on both sides of the fish and place them on top of the onions [in the cooking pan].   </li>\r\n	<li>Pre-heat the over to 180 degrees [Celcius], place the cooking pan on the middle rack, and let cook for 15 minutes. </li>\r\n	<li>Take the pan out of the oven, turn the fish over, and put them back in the oven for another 15 minutes. </li>\r\n	<li>Take the pan out of the oven and again spread a layer of oil on the fish, sprinkle with cumin, Sichuan pepper, red pepper slices and coriander stalks, then put it back in the oven to bake for another 2 minutes.  </li>\r\n	<li>Take it out and sprinkle the top with coriander leaves, and that\'s it.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'recipe-for-onion-roasted-carp', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:03:29', '2020-04-20 11:03:29', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=370', 0, 'post', '', 1),
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(372, 1, '2011-01-19 15:08:59', '2011-01-19 20:08:59', '', 'Intermediate Chinese Reading Materials: The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '20110219-turkey-and-bull', '', '', '2011-01-19 15:08:59', '2011-01-19 20:08:59', '', 361, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110219-turkey-and-bull.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(373, 1, '2011-01-19 13:10:21', '2011-01-19 18:10:21', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n 一只火鸡对公牛说: “我真想飞到对面那棵大树的<strong>顶端</strong>，<strong>可惜</strong>现在一点力气也没有。”公牛出主意道: “你为何不吃一点我的<strong>粪便</strong>呢，里面可是富含<strong>营养</strong>哟，呵呵。”火鸡觉得有道理，啄食了一点，立即感觉有了力气，便尽力飞到一根树枝上。第二天，火鸡又吃了几口粪便，有了力气，便飞到更高的树枝上。两周后，当火鸡吃下足够多的公牛粪便，终于飞上大树的顶部。火鸡<strong>极目远眺</strong>，正在洋洋得意，被一名农夫发现了，迅速开枪将它射落在地。\r\n\r\n这则寓言的寓意: <strong>舔</strong>别人的屁股是一条捷径，能使你迅速获取较高的位置，但却不能保持长久。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Turkey and the Bull', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '361-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-19 13:10:21', '2011-01-19 18:10:21', '', 361, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/19/361-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(375, 1, '2011-01-16 20:45:00', '2011-01-17 01:45:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAs you\'re probably aware, most Chinese idioms are 4-character constructs that make little sense unless you know the story behind them. this one,  南辕北辙, means \"to do something that acts against your own best interests\". <!--more--> The story behind this idiom talks about the follies of a man traveling the wrong direction on his way to the Kingdom of Chu, who refuses against all wisdom and advice to go the right way.\r\n<h5>Character Breakdown</h5>\r\n南 - [pinyin]nan2[/pinyin] - South\r\n辕 - [pinyin]yuan2[/pinyin] - Shafts on a cart between which a draft animal is harnessed\r\n北 - [pinyin]bei3[/pinyin] - North\r\n辙 - [pinyin]zhe2[/pinyin] - Rut, wheel tracks\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n盘缠 - [pinyin]pan2 chan5[/pinyin] - Traveling money\r\n骏马 - [pinyin]jun4 ma3[/pinyin] - Steed\r\n不问青红皂白 - [pinyin]bu4 wen4 qing1 hong2 zao4 bai2[/pinyin] - Doesn\'t distinguish between right and wrong, or between obvious differences\r\n满不在乎 - [pinyin]man3 bu4 zai4 hu5[/pinyin] - Unconcernedly\r\n阻止 - [pinyin]zu3 zhi3[/pinyin] - Prevent\r\n醒悟 - [pinyin]xing3 wu4[/pinyin] - Come to realize\r\n劝阻 -  [pinyin]quan4 zu3[/pinyin] - Dissuade\r\n无奈 - [pinyin]wu2 nai4[/pinyin] - For lack of a better option\r\n劝告 - [pinyin]quan4 gao4[/pinyin] - Urge, exhort\r\n一意孤行 - [pinyin]yi1 yi4 gu4 xing2[/pinyin] - Obstinately stick to, dogmatic\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n从前有一个人，从魏国到楚国去。他带上很多的<strong>盘缠</strong>，雇了上好的车，驾上<strong>骏马</strong>，请了驾车技术精湛的车夫，就上路了。楚国在魏国的南面，可这个人<strong>不问青红皂白</strong>让驾车人赶着马车一直向北走去。\r\n\r\n路上有人问他的车是要往哪儿去，他大声回答说: “去楚国！”路人告诉他说: “到楚国去应往南方走，你这是在往北走，方向不对。那人<strong>满不在乎</strong>地说:\"没关系，我的马快着呢!\" 路人替他着急，拉住他的马，<strong>阻止</strong>他说, “方向错了，你的马再快，也到不了楚国呀!\" 那人依然毫不<strong>醒悟</strong>地说: “不要紧，我带的路费多着呢!\" 路人极力<strong>劝阻</strong>他说:“虽说你路费多，可是你走的不是那个方向，你路费多也只能白花呀!\" 那个一心只想着要到楚国去的人有些不耐烦地说: “这有什么难的，我的车夫赶车的本领高着呢!\" 路人<strong>无奈</strong>，只好松开了拉住车把子的手，眼睁睁看着那个盲目上路的魏人走了。\r\n\r\n那个魏国人，不听别人的指点<strong>劝告</strong>，仗着自己的马快、钱多、车夫好等优越条件，朝着相反方向<strong>一意孤行</strong>。那么，他条件越好，他就只会离要去的地方越远，因为他的大方向错了。\r\n\r\n这个故事告诉我们，无论做什么事，都要首先看准方向，才能发充分挥自己的有利条件；如果方向错了，那么有利条件只会起到相反的作用。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a man traveling from the Kingdom of Wei to the Kingdom of Chu. He took a lot of traveling money with him, hired a good carriage, harnessed it to a strong steed, hired an exquisitely skilled driver, and then began his journey. The Kingdom of Chu was to the south of the Kingdom of Wei, but this man couldn\'t tell the difference when the driver rode away towards the north.\r\n\r\nOn the road, a passing traveler asked where they were going. The man loudly answered, \"We\'re going to the Kindom of Chu!\". The traveler told him, \"If you\'re going to Chu, you should go south. You\'re going north, it\'s the wrong direction.\" The man unconcernedly replied, \"No problem! My horse is very fast.\" Worried for him, the traveler pulled at the horse, and warned, \"You\'re going the wrong way. Even if your horse was even faster than it is, you still won\'t reach the Kingdom of Chu!\" Still not seeing the truth, the man said, \"Don\'t worry, I\'ve brought a lot of money with me.\" Making a concerted effort to dissuade him, the traveler said, \"Though you may have a lot of money, you\'re still going the wrong direction, and your money will be spent in vain.\" Thinking of nothing other than getting to the Kingdom of Chu, the man impatiently said, \"It\'s not a problem, my driver is extremely skilled!\" Out of options, the traveler let go of the carriage and watched helplessly as the aimless man from Wu rode away.\r\n\r\nThe man from Wu didn\'t listen to anyone\'s exhortations, relying on his fast horse, his money, his driver\'s skill and many other favorable conditions, and obstinately continued to go in the opposite direction. Doing this, he could only continue to get further and further away from his goal, because his overall direction was wrong.\r\n\r\nThis story tells us, no matter what the situation is, we\'d better first be sure we\'re going the right way, and only then can we fully employ our other advantages, otherwise those advantages will just cause us pain [lit: have the opposite effect].\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Story Behind the Idiom NanYuanBeiZhe', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '123-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 20:45:00', '2011-01-17 01:45:00', '', 123, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/123-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(512, 1, '2011-02-22 07:23:29', '2011-02-22 12:23:29', '', 'The Importance of the First Glass of Water After Waking', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '511-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-22 07:23:29', '2011-02-22 12:23:29', '', 511, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/22/511-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(514, 1, '2011-02-22 07:50:30', '2011-02-22 12:50:30', 'http://www.tom61.com/youxiuzuowen/xiaoxueliunianjizuowen/2011-01-05/1294159632180144.html\n\n  一个坐在树下的孩子他静静的祈祷着没有人知道，只有一棵大树了解他。这是一棵几十岁的老树，但它依然那样的挺拔高大。村子里的人都知道它以前是一个树皮慢慢脱落将要老死的一棵树。但是被它主人用一句简短的话语而活下来了，别人都问这个小姑娘你是如何让它好起来的，女孩甜甜的一笑说：“这是秘密。”人们都疑惑不解。几年后，女孩为了弟弟的学费。而去了一个遥远的地方。老远的地方。老树又静静的地下了头。又过了几个春秋，老树已经快死了，在他的旁边又有一棵新树。而新树总是瞧不起老树总是说：“糟老头，你看看你又老又脏切~~~~你看看我年轻呀!。”老树看了看小树叹了一口气。小树说：“糟老头看什么看。”老树不再说什么了。老树总是默默地在夜里哭泣。\n    又过了一年女孩回来了。女孩看到老树如此憔悴，心里也很难受。他又和老树说了几句话。老树居然又像以前那样的挺拔高大了。来往的村民都赞叹不已。一个星期后，女孩又要走了。女孩的妈妈哭着说：“闺女，我和你爹对不住你。”女孩也哭着说：“你们别这么说。能把弟弟叫来吗？”“当然可以”姐姐对弟弟说：“这棵老树姐姐送你了，你见到他就像见到我一样一定要好好学习，对得起我，对得起爹和娘。一定要好好保管。姐可能一去又要3~5年了。照顾好爹娘，才算对得起我。”弟弟说：“姐我知道了我一定会用功的，我也会照顾好老树的。”女孩摸了摸老树转头就走了。日子一天天过去了男孩慢慢长大他白天在大树下学习玩耍，晚上，他靠着大树坐着静静的祈祷。又过了几个月男孩跑到山头大声地说了一句他很想说的话：“姐姐，你回来吧!”几年后，突然传来噩耗，说女孩为了救一个小女孩而死了。这是几年前的事了，这几年的钱都是那个小孩的妈妈寄来的。因为这是女孩临终前的最后一个要求。\n    人人都说好人死后可以上天堂我想那个女孩一定在天堂里看着弟弟呢吧！', 'Sister Come Home!', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '513-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-22 07:50:30', '2011-02-22 12:50:30', '', 513, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/22/513-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(511, 1, '2011-06-02 07:00:00', '2011-06-02 11:00:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short bullet-pointed list was snagged from a health blog. Chinese title: 起床后的第一杯水的重要性\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/20110602-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Advanced Chinese Reading: Health Vocabulary\" title=\"Advanced Chinese Reading: Health Vocabulary\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />Very heavy on the medical language, this quick post outlines five health benefits to have a glass of water upon waking up. I\'m not 100% sure on the definition of 血溶量 - this translates to \"level of blood solubility\", or literally \"blood dissolve level\" - no dictionary or translator has been able to help me out with this one, so if you\'ve got a good answer, please post a comment!\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n补充 - [pinyin]bu3 chong1[/pinyin] - Replenish\r\n代谢 - [pinyin]dai4 xie4[/pinyin] - Replcement; metabolism\r\n便秘 - [pinyin]bian4 mi4[/pinyin] - Constipation\r\n刺激 - [pinyin]ci4 ji1[/pinyin] - Provoke, irritate, upset\r\n肠道 - [pinyin]chang2 dao4[/pinyin] - Intestines, gut\r\n冲刷 - [pinyin]chong1 shua1[/pinyin] - To cleanse\r\n最佳 - [pinyin]zui4 jia1[/pinyin] - Optimal, peak\r\n血液循环 - [pinyin]xue4 ye4 xun2 huan2[/pinyin] - Blood circulation\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n①<strong>补充</strong>水份-补充<strong>身体</strong>代谢失去的水份；\r\n②防止<strong>便秘</strong>-<strong>刺激</strong>胃肠的蠕动，湿润<strong>肠道</strong>，促进大便的排泄，防治便秘；\r\n③<strong>冲刷</strong>肠胃-洗涤清洁肠胃，冲淡胃酸，减轻胃的刺激，使胃肠保持<strong>最佳</strong>的状态；\r\n④清醒大脑-增加血溶量，稀释血液，降低血液稠度，促进<strong>血液循环</strong>；\r\n⑤美容养颜-排出毒素。\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6e5987830100ot4k.html\">Read original post</a>\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\n1. Replenishes water levels: Replenishes water lost by the body\r\n2. Prevents constipation: Stimulates intestinal movement, moistens the intestines, promotes evacuation of the bowels, prevents and cures constipation\r\n3. Cleanses the digestive system: Rinses the digestive system clean, dilutes gastric acid, alleviates stomach irritation, maintains optimal digestive health [lit: maintains optimal stomach and intestinal situation]\r\n4. Clear-headedness: Increases blood <em>solubility</em>, dilutes the blood, reduces blood thickness, promotes circulation\r\n5. Beauty: Purges toxins\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Importance of the First Glass of Water After Waking', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-importance-of-the-first-glass-of-water-after-waking', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:27:18', '2020-04-20 10:27:18', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=511', 0, 'post', '', 1),
(379, 1, '2011-01-20 20:49:03', '2011-01-21 01:49:03', '[two_third]\n\nThis is a great recipe<!--more-->\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n记得一年多前我做过一道上海本地菜--葱烤鲫鱼，结果有网友指出不应该写葱烤鲫鱼，而应该是葱熇鲫鱼。为此我找了好多资料，包括字典、词典、百科全书，发现网友说得没错，烤和熇是完全不同的两种烹饪方式，做出的菜品和口感自然也完全不同，只是不知道为什么本地饭店的菜单上都是写葱烤鲫鱼的，我想这也可能是约定俗成，反正大家都懂的，习惯成自然了吧？\n\n今天的葱烤鲫鱼真的是烤的，是将鲫鱼腌制后入烤箱烘烤而成。此葱烤鲫鱼不是彼葱熇鲫鱼，那是两种完全不同的口味。葱熇鲫鱼是浓油赤酱的上海口味，而葱烤鲫鱼更多的是由多种香料组成的复合香味，带有一种浓郁西部风味，也是很香很好吃呢！\n\n材料: 鲫鱼2条、葱100克、姜4片、小红椒2个、香菜50克。\n\n调料: 料酒1大勺、香醋1大勺、盐5克、胡椒粉1/2小勺、十三香1/2小勺、孜然粉1/2小勺、花椒粉1/2小勺、香油1大勺。\n<ol>\n	<li>鲫鱼去鳞、鳃、肠洗净滤干，在鱼背上用刀划几道后放入盘中，姜片分别放入鱼腹中；</li>\n	<li>加料酒、香醋、盐5克、胡椒粉、十三香抹匀腌1小时；</li>\n	<li>烤盘铺上锡纸，将香葱摆放在盘底，腌好的鱼控干水分，两面刷油后放在葱上；</li>\n	<li>烤箱预热至180度，烤盘放入中层，烤15分钟；</li>\n	<li>取出烤盘将鱼翻面，再烤15分钟；</li>\n	<li>取出烤盘再在鱼身上刷层油，撒上孜然粉、花椒粉、红椒圈和香菜梗，再入烤箱烤2分钟；</li>\n	<li>取出撒上香菜叶即可。</li>\n</ol>\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_500c589b01017r3w.html\">See original recipe with pictures</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nI remember over a year ago I did a local Shangai dish, Onion Roasted Carp, and as a result, one of my internet friends pointed out that I shouldn\'t have called it \"Onion Roasted Carp\", it was actually \"Onion Dried Carp\". Because of this, I checked a bunch of sources, including character dictionaries, word dictionaries and encyclopedias, and found that my online friend was right, \"Roasted\" and \"Dry\" [both are pronounced [pinyin]kao3[/pinyin] in Chinese] are two entirely different culinary methods. Naturally, the cooking materials and texture are also completely different, I just don\'t know why local restaurant menus all write it \"Onion Roasted Carp\"; I think it was just established that way from popular usage, as something that everyone undersatnds, and perhaps the habit just became the norm?  \n\nToday\'s Onion Roasted Carp really is roasted. After the carp is marinated, it\'s put into the oven and baked before it\'s done. This Onion Roasted Carp isn\'t that Onion Dried Carp, those are two entirely different flavors. Onion Dried Carp has a Shanghai flavor that\'s thick with oil and red sauce, while Onion Roasted Carp has a complex bouquet made from a wider variety of ingredients and elements, and has a dense Western [Chinese] ,带有一种浓郁西部风味，也是很香很好吃呢！\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '370-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-20 20:49:03', '2011-01-21 01:49:03', '', 370, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/20/370-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(380, 1, '2011-01-20 20:49:26', '2011-01-21 01:49:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis is a great recipe<!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n记得一年多前我做过一道上海本地菜--葱烤鲫鱼，结果有网友指出不应该写葱烤鲫鱼，而应该是葱熇鲫鱼。为此我找了好多资料，包括字典、词典、百科全书，发现网友说得没错，烤和熇是完全不同的两种烹饪方式，做出的菜品和口感自然也完全不同，只是不知道为什么本地饭店的菜单上都是写葱烤鲫鱼的，我想这也可能是约定俗成，反正大家都懂的，习惯成自然了吧？\r\n\r\n今天的葱烤鲫鱼真的是烤的，是将鲫鱼腌制后入烤箱烘烤而成。此葱烤鲫鱼不是彼葱熇鲫鱼，那是两种完全不同的口味。葱熇鲫鱼是浓油赤酱的上海口味，而葱烤鲫鱼更多的是由多种香料组成的复合香味，带有一种浓郁西部风味，也是很香很好吃呢！\r\n\r\n材料: 鲫鱼2条、葱100克、姜4片、小红椒2个、香菜50克。\r\n\r\n调料: 料酒1大勺、香醋1大勺、盐5克、胡椒粉1/2小勺、十三香1/2小勺、孜然粉1/2小勺、花椒粉1/2小勺、香油1大勺。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>鲫鱼去鳞、鳃、肠洗净滤干，在鱼背上用刀划几道后放入盘中，姜片分别放入鱼腹中；</li>\r\n	<li>加料酒、香醋、盐5克、胡椒粉、十三香抹匀腌1小时；</li>\r\n	<li>烤盘铺上锡纸，将香葱摆放在盘底，腌好的鱼控干水分，两面刷油后放在葱上；</li>\r\n	<li>烤箱预热至180度，烤盘放入中层，烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘将鱼翻面，再烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘再在鱼身上刷层油，撒上孜然粉、花椒粉、红椒圈和香菜梗，再入烤箱烤2分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出撒上香菜叶即可。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_500c589b01017r3w.html\">See original recipe with pictures</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI remember over a year ago I did a local Shangai dish, Onion Roasted Carp, and as a result, one of my internet friends pointed out that I shouldn\'t have called it \"Onion Roasted Carp\", it was actually \"Onion Dried Carp\". Because of this, I checked a bunch of sources, including character dictionaries, word dictionaries and encyclopedias, and found that my online friend was right, \"Roasted\" and \"Dry\" [both are pronounced [pinyin]kao3[/pinyin] in Chinese] are two entirely different culinary methods. Naturally, the cooking materials and texture are also completely different, I just don\'t know why local restaurant menus all write it \"Onion Roasted Carp\"; I think it was just established that way from popular usage, as something that everyone undersatnds, and perhaps the habit just became the norm?  \r\n\r\nToday\'s Onion Roasted Carp really is roasted. After the carp is marinated, it\'s put into the oven and baked before it\'s done. This Onion Roasted Carp isn\'t that Onion Dried Carp, those are two entirely different flavors. Onion Dried Carp has a Shanghai flavor that\'s thick with oil and red sauce, while Onion Roasted Carp has a complex bouquet made from a wider variety of ingredients and elements, and has a dense Western [Chinese] flavor, also very fragrant and delicious!\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '370-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-20 20:49:26', '2011-01-21 01:49:26', '', 370, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/20/370-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(381, 1, '2011-01-20 20:57:27', '2011-01-21 01:57:27', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis is a great recipe<!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n记得一年多前我做过一道上海本地菜--葱烤鲫鱼，结果有网友指出不应该写葱烤鲫鱼，而应该是葱熇鲫鱼。为此我找了好多资料，包括字典、词典、百科全书，发现网友说得没错，烤和熇是完全不同的两种烹饪方式，做出的菜品和口感自然也完全不同，只是不知道为什么本地饭店的菜单上都是写葱烤鲫鱼的，我想这也可能是约定俗成，反正大家都懂的，习惯成自然了吧？\r\n\r\n今天的葱烤鲫鱼真的是烤的，是将鲫鱼腌制后入烤箱烘烤而成。此葱烤鲫鱼不是彼葱熇鲫鱼，那是两种完全不同的口味。葱熇鲫鱼是浓油赤酱的上海口味，而葱烤鲫鱼更多的是由多种香料组成的复合香味，带有一种浓郁西部风味，也是很香很好吃呢！\r\n\r\n材料: 鲫鱼2条、葱100克、姜4片、小红椒2个、香菜50克。\r\n\r\n调料: 料酒1大勺、香醋1大勺、盐5克、胡椒粉1/2小勺、十三香1/2小勺、孜然粉1/2小勺、花椒粉1/2小勺、香油1大勺。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>鲫鱼去鳞、鳃、肠洗净滤干，在鱼背上用刀划几道后放入盘中，姜片分别放入鱼腹中；</li>\r\n	<li>加料酒、香醋、盐5克、胡椒粉、十三香抹匀腌1小时；</li>\r\n	<li>烤盘铺上锡纸，将香葱摆放在盘底，腌好的鱼控干水分，两面刷油后放在葱上；</li>\r\n	<li>烤箱预热至180度，烤盘放入中层，烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘将鱼翻面，再烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘再在鱼身上刷层油，撒上孜然粉、花椒粉、红椒圈和香菜梗，再入烤箱烤2分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出撒上香菜叶即可。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_500c589b01017r3w.html\">See original recipe with pictures</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI remember over a year ago I did a local Shangai dish, Onion Roasted Carp, and as a result, one of my internet friends pointed out that I shouldn\'t have called it \"Onion Roasted Carp\", it was actually \"Onion Dried Carp\". Because of this, I checked a bunch of sources, including character dictionaries, word dictionaries and encyclopedias, and found that my online friend was right, \"Roasted\" and \"Dry\" [both are pronounced [pinyin]kao3[/pinyin] in Chinese] are two entirely different culinary methods. Naturally, the cooking materials and texture are also completely different, I just don\'t know why local restaurant menus all write it \"Onion Roasted Carp\"; I think it was just established that way from popular usage, as something that everyone undersatnds, and perhaps the habit just became the norm?  \r\n\r\nToday\'s Onion Roasted Carp really is roasted. After the carp is marinated, it\'s put into the oven and baked before it\'s done. This Onion Roasted Carp isn\'t that Onion Dried Carp, those are two entirely different flavors. Onion Dried Carp has a Shanghai flavor that\'s thick with oil and red sauce, while Onion Roasted Carp has a complex bouquet made from a wider variety of ingredients and elements, and has a dense Western [Chinese] flavor, also very fragrant and delicious!\r\n\r\nIngredients: Two Crucian carp, 100 grams of spring onion, four slices of ginger, two little red peppers, 50 grams of coriander \r\n\r\nSeasonings: A big spoon of cooking wine, 1 big spoon balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, 1/2 small spoon of ground pepper, 1/2 small spoon Thirteen Spice, 1/2 small spoon cumin powder, 1/2 small spoon of Sichuan pepper powder, 1 big spoon sesame oil.\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>鲫鱼去鳞、鳃、肠洗净滤干，在鱼背上用刀划几道后放入盘中，姜片分别放入鱼腹中；</li>\r\n	<li>加料酒、香醋、盐5克、胡椒粉、十三香抹匀腌1小时；</li>\r\n	<li>烤盘铺上锡纸，将香葱摆放在盘底，腌好的鱼控干水分，两面刷油后放在葱上；</li>\r\n	<li>烤箱预热至180度，烤盘放入中层，烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘将鱼翻面，再烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘再在鱼身上刷层油，撒上孜然粉、花椒粉、红椒圈和香菜梗，再入烤箱烤2分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出撒上香菜叶即可。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '370-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-20 20:57:27', '2011-01-21 01:57:27', '', 370, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/20/370-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(382, 1, '2011-01-15 23:36:29', '2011-01-16 04:36:29', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay, taken from the Beijing Language and Culture University beginner comprehension textbook, is written from the perspective of a friend visiting Jiang Ping （江苹） before she leaves the country. <!--more--> The language is mostly school-centric as the writer discusses his classmates, Jiang Ping\'s scholarship, and her test results.\r\n\r\nThe crux of the last paragraph hinges on the fact that the Chinese word for \"Goodbye\" (再见) literally translates as \"See you again\", as the writer wonders when or if he\'ll ever really see Jiang Ping again.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n努力 - [pinyin]nu3 li4[/pinyin] - Great effort\r\n参加 - [pinyin]can1 jia1[/pinyin] - Participate\r\n得 - [pinyin]de[/pinyin] - To get, earn\r\n满分 - [pinyin]man3 fen1[/pinyin] - Full marks, 100%\r\n奖学金 - [pinyin]jiang3 xue2 jin1[/pinyin] - Scholarship\r\n留学 - [pinyin]liu2 xue2[/pinyin] - Study abroad\r\n预祝 - [pinyin]yu4 zhu4[/pinyin] - Wish\r\n成功 - [pinyin]cheng2 gong1[/pinyin] - Success\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">今天我去江苹加了。 我和江苹是中学<strong>同学</strong>， 她是我的好朋友， 也是我们全班同学的朋友。 她学习非常<strong>努力</strong>， 是我们班学习最好的学生。 她会学习， 她会玩儿， 还常常帮助别人， 老师和同学都很喜欢她。 她这次<strong>参加</strong>了美国一个大学<strong>考试</strong>。 这个考试非常难，但是她考得很好，<strong>得</strong>了<strong>满分</strong>。 听说全世界只有三个学生得满分。 这个大学给江苹最高的<strong>奖学金</strong>。 我们都为她感到高兴。\r\n\r\n她下星期要去美国<strong>留学</strong>， 我们班的同学都去看他， 给他送行。\r\n\r\n江苹的家在城东边， 离我家比较远。 我下午四点多就从家里出发了， 五点半才到。 我到的时候， 同学们都已经到了。\r\n\r\n江苹很热情地欢迎我们。 同学们好久不见了， 见面以后高兴得又说又笑， 谈得很愉快。 我们<strong>预祝</strong>江苹<strong>成功</strong>。 祝她一路平安。 我说， 一定要常来新啊。 江苹说，一定。 跟他说 “再见”  的时候， 她哭了， 我也哭了。\r\n\r\n回家的路上， 我想， 我们常常说 “再见”， 但是， 有时候 “再见” 是很难的。 我和江苹什么时候能 “再见” 呢？\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nToday I\'m going to Jiang Ping\'s house. Jiang Ping and I are highschool classmates. She\'s my good friend, and she\'s also good friends with everyone in our class. She studies very hard, she\'s the best student in our class. She studies, she plays, and she also often helps others. The teacher and the other students like her. She recently participated in an examination for an American college. That test is very hard, but she did very well - she earned full marks. I heard that only three people in the whole world got full marks. This college gave Jiang Ping their highest scholarship. We\'re all very happy for her.\r\n\r\nNext week she\'s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping\'s house is on the east side of the city very far away from mine. I left my house a little after four o\'clock in the afternoon, and didn\'t get there until 5:30. When I arrived, the rest of our classmates were already there.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping warmly welcomed us. She hadn\'t seen her classmates in a while, and after she greeted us, we talked and smiled, chatting happily. We wished Jiang Ping success. Wished her a pleasant trip. I said, Be sure to write often. Jiang Ping said, Of course. When she said \"Goodbye\", she cried, and I also cried.\r\n\r\nOn my way home, I thought, We often say \"Goodbye\" [lit: see you again], but sometimes \"Goodbye\" is sad. When will Jiang Ping and I be able to see each other again?\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Jiang Ping Going to Study Abroad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '67-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:36:29', '2011-01-16 04:36:29', '', 67, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/67-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(441, 1, '2011-02-27 07:30:26', '2011-02-27 12:30:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay details a child\'s brush with classroom thievery. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nIn my opinion, one of the most interesting sentences here is \"同学们看了都称不绝口\", meaning \"The students all looked [at it], talking continuously.\" This is easy to translate directly, but a direct translation doesn\'t capture the spirit of the sentence. In context, this sentence is tinged with a little envy - the author sees the other students all looking at YunXi\'s stamp album, going on and on, presumably about how great the album is, and so the author is jealous. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n集邮簿 - [pinyin]ji2 you2 bu4[/pinyin] - Stamp collector\'s album\r\n马来西亚 - [pinyin]ma3 lai2 xi1 ya4[/pinyin] - Malaysia\r\n称不绝口 - [pinyin]cheng1 bu4 jue2 kou3[/pinyin] - Talk continuously, go on and on about sth.\r\n趁 - [pinyin]chen4[/pinyin] - Take advantage of\r\n若无其事 - [pinyin]ruo4 wu2 qi2 shi4[/pinyin] - Nonchalantly, as if nothing had happened\r\n放声大哭 - [pinyin]fang4 sheng1 da4 ku1[/pinyin] - Burst into sobs, cry loudly\r\n三思而后行 - [pinyin]san1 si4 er2 hou4 xing2[/pinyin] - Think many times before acting\r\n以免 - [pinyin]yi3 mian3[/pinyin] - So as not to\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n前天，我做错了一件事。芸熙带了心爱的<strong>集邮簿</strong>让同学们欣赏。她的集邮簿收集了来自世界各地的邮票，如：欧洲、中国、<strong>马来西亚</strong>等等。同学们看了都<strong>称不绝口</strong>。 我很了羡慕芸熙，因为她有来自世界各地的邮票，而我呢！我的集邮簿里只有来自爸爸收到的信上面的本地邮票。 下课时，我<strong>趁</strong>全部的同学都下课了，我就从芸熙的书包里人拿了她的集邮簿。过后，我就装着<strong>若无其事</strong>地回到礼堂排队。回到课室时，芸熙打开书包发现她的集邮簿不见了，就<em>放声大哭</em>。林老师问她发生什么事。芸熙就把原因告诉林老师。\r\n\r\n林老师质问同学们究竟谁拿了芦芸熙的集邮簿。老师质问了很久，始终没有人肯承认。我觉得很惭愧，就拿着集邮簿向芸熙认错。老师看见我勇于承认错误，就没有处罚我，只是教训了我几句，而芸熙接受我的道歉。 我很后悔。我告诉我自己以后做事一定要<strong>三思而后行</strong>，以免犯下大错！\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\nThe day before yesterday, I did a bad thing. YunXi brought her beloved stamp album in to let her classmates see it. Her stamp album contains her collected stamps from places all around the world, such as Europe, China, Malaysia, etc. The other students looked through it, going on and on about it. I envied YunXi, because she had stamps from all over the world, and me? My stamp album only has a few stamps from local letters my dad got. When class let out, I took advantage of the situation and took the stamp album from YunXi\'s book bag. After a while, I walked back and lined up in the assembly hall, pretending nothing had happened. When we\'d gotten back to the classroom, YunXi opened her book bag and didn\'t see her stamp album, and she burst into tears. Teacher Lin asked her what happened, YunXi told the teacher the reason. \r\n\r\nTeacher Lin questioned all the students, asking who had taken Lu YunXi\'s stamp album. The teacher inquired for a long time, but no one was willing to admit to it. I felt ashamed, got the stamp album, and admitted my error to YunXi. The teacher saw that I was brave enough to admit my mistake and so didn\'t punish me, just lectured me for a bit, and YunXi accepted my apology. I regretted what I\'d done. I told myself that next time I would carefully consider the results of my actions so as to avoid a big mistake! \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'I Did Something Wrong', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'i-did-something-wrong', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:05:49', '2020-04-20 11:05:49', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=441', 0, 'post', '', 5),
(384, 1, '2011-01-15 23:45:07', '2011-01-16 04:45:07', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA passage from a BLCU textbook in which a university student laments about catching a cold. <!--more--> This essay focuses on mostly illness-centric beginner language, such as 感冒 [pinyin]gan3 mao4[/pinyin], meaning \"to have a cold\"， and 打针 [pinyin]da3 zhen1[/pinyin], meaning \"to get an IV drip or shot\".\r\n\r\nLest it seems a little dramatic to you that the writer would go to the hospital over a 24-hour cold, the Chinese typically don\'t use private clinics (except in the case of accupuncture and massage), and commonly go to the hospital for almost every health-related issue, including colds and small fevers.\r\n\r\nOf special interest is the phrase \"还开了一些药\", or \"and also prescribed me some medicine\". Literally, it says, \"Also opened a bit of medicine\". But the word 开 [pinyin]kai1[/pinyin], which usually means \"open\", is also the verb used to describe a doctor writing a perscription. This tells us that the doctor didn\'t give (给[pinyin]gei3[/pinyin]) the student any medicine himself, but perscribed it instead.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n发烧 - [pinyin]fa1 shao1[/pinyin] - Have a fever\r\n咳嗽 - [pinyin]ke2 sou5[/pinyin] - Cough\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n寂寞 - [pinyin]ji4 mo4[/pinyin] - Lonely\r\n不舒服 - [pinyin]bu4 shu1 fu5[/pinyin] - Feel unwell, uncomfortable\r\n检查 - [pinyin]jian3 cha2[/pinyin] - Check, examine\r\n果然 - [pinyin]guo3 ran2[/pinyin] - Sure enough\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n我病了。　头疼，<strong>发烧</strong>，嗓子也疼，不想吃东西，晚上<strong>咳嗽</strong>的很厉害。　上午同学们都去上课了，我一个人在宿舍里，感到很寂寞。　寂寞了就容易想家。　我家里人很多，有哥哥，姐姐，还有一个弟弟。　在家的时候，我们常一起玩儿。　现在，我在北京学习汉语，寂寞的时候就常常想他们。\r\n\r\n因为不<strong>舒服</strong>，所以我今天起得很晚。　起了床就去医院了。　大夫给我<strong>检查</strong>了一下儿，说我感冒了。　给我打了一针，<strong>还开了一些药</strong>。　他说，吃了药病就好了。\r\n\r\n老师和同学们知道我病了，都来看我。　林老师听说我不想吃东西，还做了一碗面条给我吃。　吃了面条，身上出了很多汗，老师说，出了汗可能不发烧了。\r\n\r\n下午，<strong>果然</strong>不发烧了，喜庆也好了。　我用　Ｅｍａｉｌ　个哦姐姐发了一封信。　我说，我在这儿生活得很好，我有很好的老师，还有很多好同学，好朋友，和他们在一起，我感到很愉快。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI\'m sick. My head hurts, I have a fever, my throat also hurts, I don\'t want to eat anything, and at night I have a serious cough. In the morning my classmates all went to class, and I was the only one left in the dormitory. I feel very lonely. When you\'re lonely, it\'s easy to miss home. I have a lot of family members - an older brother, older sister, and also a younger brother. When I\'m at home, we often play together. Right now, I\'m in Beijing studying Chinese, and when I\'m lonely I miss them.\r\n\r\nBecause I don\'t feel well, I got up late today. When I got up, I went to the hospital. The doctor gave me a quick checkup and said I have a cold. He gave me one shot [also: IV drip], and also prescribed some medicine. He said, take the medicine and you\'ll get better.\r\n\r\nMy teacher and classmates know I\'m sick, so they all came to see me. Teacher Lin heard that I didn\'t want to eat anything, so she made me a bowl of noodles. After I ate the noodles, I began to pour sweat. Teacher said, if you sweat, maybe your fever will go away.\r\n\r\nIn the afternoon, sure enough my fever was gone, and I was in a good mood. I emailed my older sister. I said, I have a very good life here, I have a good teacher and good classmates and good friends, and all together they make me very happy.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'I\'m Feeling Sick', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '139-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:45:07', '2011-01-16 04:45:07', '', 139, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/139-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(385, 1, '2011-01-22 10:37:15', '2011-01-22 15:37:15', '[two_third]\n\nThis is a great recipe for Western Chinese style Crucian Carp, roasted with spring onions, coriander, peppers and other spices.<!--more-->\n\nWhat I find interesting about this recipe is that it requires the use of an oven, and even more interesting, an oven with space for more than one rack. Until very recently, you couldn\'t find a Chinese home with an oven in it for any price, and if you wanted to bake, it usually meant a trip to a German appliance store to buy a mini counter-top oven. These days, I\'m seeing more and more real estate ads featuring homes with ovens, so this recipe, in my opinion, is a sign of the times. \n\nIn step 2 of the recipe, the author instructs us to 控干水分 after the fish has marinated for an hour. Not being much of a cook myself, I had quite a bit of trouble sorting out what 控干水分 meant exactly, being that it\'s a culinary technique having something to do with moisture control. Searching the Chinese \'net turned up the answer: this means to allow excess moisture to strain or seep out of an ingredient. For leafy vegetables, this would mean putting them in a strainer and lightly shaking the water out, or letting it drip out. For meat, this likely means lightly patting it with paper towels to soak up excess moisture, or letting it sit on paper towels to soak the moisture out. \n\nIf anyone out there\'s a chef and knows a better way, by all means, do tell.\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n记得一年多前我做过一道上海本地菜--葱烤鲫鱼，结果有网友指出不应该写葱烤鲫鱼，而应该是葱熇鲫鱼。为此我找了好多资料，包括字典、词典、百科全书，发现网友说得没错，烤和熇是完全不同的两种烹饪方式，做出的菜品和口感自然也完全不同，只是不知道为什么本地饭店的菜单上都是写葱烤鲫鱼的，我想这也可能是约定俗成，反正大家都懂的，习惯成自然了吧？\n\n今天的葱烤鲫鱼真的是烤的，是将鲫鱼腌制后入烤箱烘烤而成。此葱烤鲫鱼不是彼葱熇鲫鱼，那是两种完全不同的口味。葱熇鲫鱼是浓油赤酱的上海口味，而葱烤鲫鱼更多的是由多种香料组成的复合香味，带有一种浓郁西部风味，也是很香很好吃呢！\n\n材料: 鲫鱼2条、葱100克、姜4片、小红椒2个、香菜50克。\n\n调料: 料酒1大勺、香醋1大勺、盐5克、胡椒粉1/2小勺、十三香1/2小勺、孜然粉1/2小勺、花椒粉1/2小勺、香油1大勺。\n<ol>\n	<li>鲫鱼去鳞、鳃、肠洗净滤干，在鱼背上用刀划几道后放入盘中，姜片分别放入鱼腹中；</li>\n	<li>加料酒、香醋、盐5克、胡椒粉、十三香抹匀腌1小时；</li>\n	<li>烤盘铺上锡纸，将香葱摆放在盘底，腌好的鱼控干水分，两面刷油后放在葱上；</li>\n	<li>烤箱预热至180度，烤盘放入中层，烤15分钟；</li>\n	<li>取出烤盘将鱼翻面，再烤15分钟；</li>\n	<li>取出烤盘再在鱼身上刷层油，撒上孜然粉、花椒粉、红椒圈和香菜梗，再入烤箱烤2分钟；</li>\n	<li>取出撒上香菜叶即可。</li>\n</ol>\n</div>\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_500c589b01017r3w.html\">See original recipe with pictures</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nI remember over a year ago I did a local Shangai dish, Onion Roasted Carp, and as a result, one of my internet friends pointed out that I shouldn\'t have called it \"Onion Roasted Carp\", it was actually \"Onion Dried Carp\". Because of this, I checked a bunch of sources, including character dictionaries, word dictionaries and encyclopedias, and found that my online friend was right, \"Roasted\" and \"Dry\" [both are pronounced [pinyin]kao3[/pinyin] in Chinese] are two entirely different culinary methods. Naturally, the cooking materials and texture are also completely different, I just don\'t know why local restaurant menus all write it \"Onion Roasted Carp\"; I think it was just established that way from popular usage, as something that everyone understands, and perhaps the habit just became the norm?  \n\nToday\'s Onion Roasted Carp really is roasted. After the carp is marinated, it\'s put into the oven and baked before it\'s done. This Onion Roasted Carp isn\'t that Onion Dried Carp, those are two entirely different flavors. Onion Dried Carp has a Shanghai flavor that\'s thick with oil and red sauce, while Onion Roasted Carp has a complex bouquet made from a wider variety of ingredients and elements, and has a dense Western [Chinese] flavor, also very fragrant and delicious!\n\nIngredients: Two Crucian carp, 100 grams of spring onion, four slices of ginger, two little red peppers, 50 grams of coriander \n\nSeasonings: A big spoon of cooking wine, 1 big spoon balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, 1/2 small spoon of ground pepper, 1/2 small spoon Thirteen Spice, 1/2 small spoon cumin powder, 1/2 small spoon of Sichuan pepper powder, 1 big spoon sesame oil.\n\n<ol>\n	<li>Take off the scales, gills and intestines and clean the carp. On the fishs\' back [side], use a knife to make a few cuts [the cook doesn\'t mean to cut all the way through the fish, just to make a few slices in the skin], place the fish in a dish, then place a few of the ginger slices in each fishs\' stomach.</li>\n	<li>Add the cooking wine, balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, ground pepper and thirteen spice so that the fish is evenly covered, and let marinate for one hour.</li>\n	<li>Spread tin foil on a cooking pan, arrange the onions in the bottom of the pan, allow excess moisture to strain out of the mariated fish, then rub oil on both sides of the fish and place them on top of the onions [in the cooking pan].   </li>\n	<li>Pre-heat the over to 180 degrees [Celcius], place the cooking pan on the middle rack, and let cook for 15 minutes. </li>\n	<li>Take the pan out of the oven, turn the fish over, and put them back in the oven for another 15 minutes. </li>\n	<li>Take the pan out of the oven and again spread a layer of oil on the fish, sprinkle with cumin, Sichuan pepper, red pepper slices and coriander stalks, then put it back in the oven to bake for another 2 minutes.  </li>\n	<li>Take it out and sprinkle the top with coriander leaves, and that\'s it.</li>\n</ol>\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '370-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-22 10:37:15', '2011-01-22 15:37:15', '', 370, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/22/370-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(386, 1, '2011-01-22 10:56:35', '2011-01-22 15:56:35', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis is a great recipe for Western Chinese style Crucian Carp, roasted with spring onions, coriander, peppers and other spices.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110221-INLINE-onion-roasted-carp.jpg\" alt=\"Advanced Chinese Reading Exercises: Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp\" title=\"Advanced Chinese Reading Exercises: Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft imgborder\" />What I find interesting about this recipe is that it requires the use of an oven, and even more interesting, an oven with space for more than one rack. Until very recently, you couldn\'t find a Chinese home with an oven in it for any price, and if you wanted to bake, it usually meant a trip to a German appliance store to buy a mini counter-top oven. These days, I\'m seeing more and more real estate ads featuring homes with ovens, so this recipe, in my opinion, is a sign of the times. \r\n\r\nIn step 2 of the recipe, the author instructs us to 控干水分 after the fish has marinated for an hour. Not being much of a cook myself, I had quite a bit of trouble sorting out what 控干水分 meant exactly, being that it\'s a culinary technique having something to do with moisture control. Searching the Chinese \'net turned up the answer: this means to allow excess moisture to strain or seep out of an ingredient. For leafy vegetables, this would mean putting them in a strainer and lightly shaking the water out, or letting it drip out. For meat, this likely means lightly patting it with paper towels to soak up excess moisture, or letting it sit on paper towels to soak the moisture out. \r\n\r\nIf anyone out there\'s a chef and knows a better way, by all means, do tell.\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烹饪 - [pinyin]peng1 ren4[/pinyin] - Culinary arts\r\n约定俗成 - [pinyin]yue1 ding4 su2 cheng2[/pinyin] - To be established due to popular use\r\n腌制 - [pinyin]yan1 zhi4[/pinyin] - Marinate\r\n料酒 - [pinyin]liao3 jiu3[/pinyin] - Cooking wine\r\n孜然 - [pinyin]zi1 ran2[/pinyin] - Cumin\r\n鳞 - [pinyin]lin2[/pinyin] - Fish scales\r\n鳃 - [pinyin]sai1[/pinyin] - Fish gills\r\n锡纸 - [pinyin]xi1 zhi3[/pinyin] - Tin foil\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n记得一年多前我做过一道上海本地菜--葱烤鲫鱼，结果有网友指出不应该写葱烤鲫鱼，而应该是葱熇鲫鱼。为此我找了好多资料，包括字典、词典、百科全书，发现网友说得没错，烤和熇是完全不同的两种<strong>烹饪</strong>方式，做出的菜品和口感自然也完全不同，只是不知道为什么本地饭店的菜单上都是写葱烤鲫鱼的，我想这也可能是<strong>约定俗成</strong>，反正大家都懂的，习惯成自然了吧？\r\n\r\n今天的葱烤鲫鱼真的是烤的，是将鲫鱼<strong>腌制</strong>后入烤箱烘烤而成。此葱烤鲫鱼不是彼葱熇鲫鱼，那是两种完全不同的口味。葱熇鲫鱼是浓油赤酱的上海口味，而葱烤鲫鱼更多的是由多种香料组成的复合香味，带有一种浓郁西部风味，也是很香很好吃呢！\r\n\r\n材料: 鲫鱼2条、葱100克、姜4片、小红椒2个、香菜50克。\r\n\r\n调料: <strong>料酒</strong>1大勺、香醋1大勺、盐5克、胡椒粉1/2小勺、十三香1/2小勺、<strong>孜然</strong>粉1/2小勺、花椒粉1/2小勺、香油1大勺。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>鲫鱼去<strong>鳞</strong>、<strong>鳃</strong>、肠洗净滤干，在鱼背上用刀划几道后放入盘中，姜片分别放入鱼腹中；</li>\r\n	<li>加料酒、香醋、盐5克、胡椒粉、十三香抹匀腌1小时；</li>\r\n	<li>烤盘铺上<strong>锡纸</strong>，将香葱摆放在盘底，腌好的鱼控干水分，两面刷油后放在葱上；</li>\r\n	<li>烤箱预热至180度，烤盘放入中层，烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘将鱼翻面，再烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘再在鱼身上刷层油，撒上孜然粉、花椒粉、红椒圈和香菜梗，再入烤箱烤2分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出撒上香菜叶即可。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_500c589b01017r3w.html\">See original recipe with pictures</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI remember over a year ago I did a local Shangai dish, Onion Roasted Carp, and as a result, one of my internet friends pointed out that I shouldn\'t have called it \"Onion Roasted Carp\", it was actually \"Onion Dried Carp\". Because of this, I checked a bunch of sources, including character dictionaries, word dictionaries and encyclopedias, and found that my online friend was right, \"Roasted\" and \"Dry\" [both are pronounced [pinyin]kao3[/pinyin] in Chinese] are two entirely different culinary methods. Naturally, the cooking materials and texture are also completely different, I just don\'t know why local restaurant menus all write it \"Onion Roasted Carp\"; I think it was just established that way from popular usage, as something that everyone understands, and perhaps the habit just became the norm?  \r\n\r\nToday\'s Onion Roasted Carp really is roasted. After the carp is marinated, it\'s put into the oven and baked before it\'s done. This Onion Roasted Carp isn\'t that Onion Dried Carp, those are two entirely different flavors. Onion Dried Carp has a Shanghai flavor that\'s thick with oil and red sauce, while Onion Roasted Carp has a complex bouquet made from a wider variety of ingredients and elements, and has a dense Western [Chinese] flavor, also very fragrant and delicious!\r\n\r\nIngredients: Two Crucian carp, 100 grams of spring onion, four slices of ginger, two little red peppers, 50 grams of coriander \r\n\r\nSeasonings: A big spoon of cooking wine, 1 big spoon balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, 1/2 small spoon of ground pepper, 1/2 small spoon Thirteen Spice, 1/2 small spoon cumin powder, 1/2 small spoon of Sichuan pepper powder, 1 big spoon sesame oil.\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Take off the scales, gills and intestines and clean the carp. On the fishs\' back [side], use a knife to make a few cuts [the cook doesn\'t mean to cut all the way through the fish, just to make a few slices in the skin], place the fish in a dish, then place a few of the ginger slices in each fishs\' stomach.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the cooking wine, balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, ground pepper and thirteen spice so that the fish is evenly covered, and let marinate for one hour.</li>\r\n	<li>Spread tin foil on a cooking pan, arrange the onions in the bottom of the pan, allow excess moisture to strain out of the mariated fish, then rub oil on both sides of the fish and place them on top of the onions [in the cooking pan].   </li>\r\n	<li>Pre-heat the over to 180 degrees [Celcius], place the cooking pan on the middle rack, and let cook for 15 minutes. </li>\r\n	<li>Take the pan out of the oven, turn the fish over, and put them back in the oven for another 15 minutes. </li>\r\n	<li>Take the pan out of the oven and again spread a layer of oil on the fish, sprinkle with cumin, Sichuan pepper, red pepper slices and coriander stalks, then put it back in the oven to bake for another 2 minutes.  </li>\r\n	<li>Take it out and sprinkle the top with coriander leaves, and that\'s it.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '370-autosave-v1', '', '', '2011-01-22 10:56:35', '2011-01-22 15:56:35', '', 370, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/22/370-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(387, 1, '2011-01-22 10:38:03', '2011-01-22 15:38:03', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis is a great recipe for Western Chinese style Crucian Carp, roasted with spring onions, coriander, peppers and other spices.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nWhat I find interesting about this recipe is that it requires the use of an oven, and even more interesting, an oven with space for more than one rack. Until very recently, you couldn\'t find a Chinese home with an oven in it for any price, and if you wanted to bake, it usually meant a trip to a German appliance store to buy a mini counter-top oven. These days, I\'m seeing more and more real estate ads featuring homes with ovens, so this recipe, in my opinion, is a sign of the times. \r\n\r\nIn step 2 of the recipe, the author instructs us to 控干水分 after the fish has marinated for an hour. Not being much of a cook myself, I had quite a bit of trouble sorting out what 控干水分 meant exactly, being that it\'s a culinary technique having something to do with moisture control. Searching the Chinese \'net turned up the answer: this means to allow excess moisture to strain or seep out of an ingredient. For leafy vegetables, this would mean putting them in a strainer and lightly shaking the water out, or letting it drip out. For meat, this likely means lightly patting it with paper towels to soak up excess moisture, or letting it sit on paper towels to soak the moisture out. \r\n\r\nIf anyone out there\'s a chef and knows a better way, by all means, do tell.\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n记得一年多前我做过一道上海本地菜--葱烤鲫鱼，结果有网友指出不应该写葱烤鲫鱼，而应该是葱熇鲫鱼。为此我找了好多资料，包括字典、词典、百科全书，发现网友说得没错，烤和熇是完全不同的两种烹饪方式，做出的菜品和口感自然也完全不同，只是不知道为什么本地饭店的菜单上都是写葱烤鲫鱼的，我想这也可能是约定俗成，反正大家都懂的，习惯成自然了吧？\r\n\r\n今天的葱烤鲫鱼真的是烤的，是将鲫鱼腌制后入烤箱烘烤而成。此葱烤鲫鱼不是彼葱熇鲫鱼，那是两种完全不同的口味。葱熇鲫鱼是浓油赤酱的上海口味，而葱烤鲫鱼更多的是由多种香料组成的复合香味，带有一种浓郁西部风味，也是很香很好吃呢！\r\n\r\n材料: 鲫鱼2条、葱100克、姜4片、小红椒2个、香菜50克。\r\n\r\n调料: 料酒1大勺、香醋1大勺、盐5克、胡椒粉1/2小勺、十三香1/2小勺、孜然粉1/2小勺、花椒粉1/2小勺、香油1大勺。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>鲫鱼去鳞、鳃、肠洗净滤干，在鱼背上用刀划几道后放入盘中，姜片分别放入鱼腹中；</li>\r\n	<li>加料酒、香醋、盐5克、胡椒粉、十三香抹匀腌1小时；</li>\r\n	<li>烤盘铺上锡纸，将香葱摆放在盘底，腌好的鱼控干水分，两面刷油后放在葱上；</li>\r\n	<li>烤箱预热至180度，烤盘放入中层，烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘将鱼翻面，再烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘再在鱼身上刷层油，撒上孜然粉、花椒粉、红椒圈和香菜梗，再入烤箱烤2分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出撒上香菜叶即可。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_500c589b01017r3w.html\">See original recipe with pictures</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI remember over a year ago I did a local Shangai dish, Onion Roasted Carp, and as a result, one of my internet friends pointed out that I shouldn\'t have called it \"Onion Roasted Carp\", it was actually \"Onion Dried Carp\". Because of this, I checked a bunch of sources, including character dictionaries, word dictionaries and encyclopedias, and found that my online friend was right, \"Roasted\" and \"Dry\" [both are pronounced [pinyin]kao3[/pinyin] in Chinese] are two entirely different culinary methods. Naturally, the cooking materials and texture are also completely different, I just don\'t know why local restaurant menus all write it \"Onion Roasted Carp\"; I think it was just established that way from popular usage, as something that everyone understands, and perhaps the habit just became the norm?  \r\n\r\nToday\'s Onion Roasted Carp really is roasted. After the carp is marinated, it\'s put into the oven and baked before it\'s done. This Onion Roasted Carp isn\'t that Onion Dried Carp, those are two entirely different flavors. Onion Dried Carp has a Shanghai flavor that\'s thick with oil and red sauce, while Onion Roasted Carp has a complex bouquet made from a wider variety of ingredients and elements, and has a dense Western [Chinese] flavor, also very fragrant and delicious!\r\n\r\nIngredients: Two Crucian carp, 100 grams of spring onion, four slices of ginger, two little red peppers, 50 grams of coriander \r\n\r\nSeasonings: A big spoon of cooking wine, 1 big spoon balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, 1/2 small spoon of ground pepper, 1/2 small spoon Thirteen Spice, 1/2 small spoon cumin powder, 1/2 small spoon of Sichuan pepper powder, 1 big spoon sesame oil.\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Take off the scales, gills and intestines and clean the carp. On the fishs\' back [side], use a knife to make a few cuts [the cook doesn\'t mean to cut all the way through the fish, just to make a few slices in the skin], place the fish in a dish, then place a few of the ginger slices in each fishs\' stomach.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the cooking wine, balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, ground pepper and thirteen spice so that the fish is evenly covered, and let marinate for one hour.</li>\r\n	<li>Spread tin foil on a cooking pan, arrange the onions in the bottom of the pan, allow excess moisture to strain out of the mariated fish, then rub oil on both sides of the fish and place them on top of the onions [in the cooking pan].   </li>\r\n	<li>Pre-heat the over to 180 degrees [Celcius], place the cooking pan on the middle rack, and let cook for 15 minutes. </li>\r\n	<li>Take the pan out of the oven, turn the fish over, and put them back in the oven for another 15 minutes. </li>\r\n	<li>Take the pan out of the oven and again spread a layer of oil on the fish, sprinkle with cumin, Sichuan pepper, red pepper slices and coriander stalks, then put it back in the oven to bake for another 2 minutes.  </li>\r\n	<li>Take it out and sprinkle the top with coriander leaves, and that\'s it.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '370-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-22 10:38:03', '2011-01-22 15:38:03', '', 370, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/22/370-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(388, 1, '2011-01-16 15:29:00', '2011-01-16 20:29:00', '[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-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 15:29:00', '2011-01-16 20:29:00', '', 249, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/249-revision-21/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(391, 1, '2011-01-22 10:48:03', '2011-01-22 15:48:03', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis is a great recipe for Western Chinese style Crucian Carp, roasted with spring onions, coriander, peppers and other spices.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nWhat I find interesting about this recipe is that it requires the use of an oven, and even more interesting, an oven with space for more than one rack. Until very recently, you couldn\'t find a Chinese home with an oven in it for any price, and if you wanted to bake, it usually meant a trip to a German appliance store to buy a mini counter-top oven. These days, I\'m seeing more and more real estate ads featuring homes with ovens, so this recipe, in my opinion, is a sign of the times. \r\n\r\nIn step 2 of the recipe, the author instructs us to 控干水分 after the fish has marinated for an hour. Not being much of a cook myself, I had quite a bit of trouble sorting out what 控干水分 meant exactly, being that it\'s a culinary technique having something to do with moisture control. Searching the Chinese \'net turned up the answer: this means to allow excess moisture to strain or seep out of an ingredient. For leafy vegetables, this would mean putting them in a strainer and lightly shaking the water out, or letting it drip out. For meat, this likely means lightly patting it with paper towels to soak up excess moisture, or letting it sit on paper towels to soak the moisture out. \r\n\r\nIf anyone out there\'s a chef and knows a better way, by all means, do tell.\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烹饪 - [pinyin]peng1 ren4[/pinyin] - Culinary arts\r\n约定俗成 - [pinyin]yue1 ding4 su2 cheng2[/pinyin] - To be established due to popular use\r\n腌制 - [pinyin]yan1 zhi4[/pinyin] - Marinate\r\n料酒 - [pinyin]liao3 jiu3[/pinyin] - Cooking wine\r\n孜然 - [pinyin]zi1 ran2[/pinyin] - Cumin\r\n鳞 - [pinyin]lin2[/pinyin] - Fish scales\r\n鳃 - [pinyin]sai1[/pinyin] - Fish gills\r\n锡纸 - [pinyin]xi1 zhi3[/pinyin] - Tin foil\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n记得一年多前我做过一道上海本地菜--葱烤鲫鱼，结果有网友指出不应该写葱烤鲫鱼，而应该是葱熇鲫鱼。为此我找了好多资料，包括字典、词典、百科全书，发现网友说得没错，烤和熇是完全不同的两种<strong>烹饪</strong>方式，做出的菜品和口感自然也完全不同，只是不知道为什么本地饭店的菜单上都是写葱烤鲫鱼的，我想这也可能是<strong>约定俗成</strong>，反正大家都懂的，习惯成自然了吧？\r\n\r\n今天的葱烤鲫鱼真的是烤的，是将鲫鱼<strong>腌制</strong>后入烤箱烘烤而成。此葱烤鲫鱼不是彼葱熇鲫鱼，那是两种完全不同的口味。葱熇鲫鱼是浓油赤酱的上海口味，而葱烤鲫鱼更多的是由多种香料组成的复合香味，带有一种浓郁西部风味，也是很香很好吃呢！\r\n\r\n材料: 鲫鱼2条、葱100克、姜4片、小红椒2个、香菜50克。\r\n\r\n调料: <strong>料酒</strong>1大勺、香醋1大勺、盐5克、胡椒粉1/2小勺、十三香1/2小勺、<strong>孜然</strong>粉1/2小勺、花椒粉1/2小勺、香油1大勺。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>鲫鱼去<strong>鳞</strong>、<strong>鳃</strong>、肠洗净滤干，在鱼背上用刀划几道后放入盘中，姜片分别放入鱼腹中；</li>\r\n	<li>加料酒、香醋、盐5克、胡椒粉、十三香抹匀腌1小时；</li>\r\n	<li>烤盘铺上<strong>锡纸</strong>，将香葱摆放在盘底，腌好的鱼控干水分，两面刷油后放在葱上；</li>\r\n	<li>烤箱预热至180度，烤盘放入中层，烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘将鱼翻面，再烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘再在鱼身上刷层油，撒上孜然粉、花椒粉、红椒圈和香菜梗，再入烤箱烤2分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出撒上香菜叶即可。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_500c589b01017r3w.html\">See original recipe with pictures</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI remember over a year ago I did a local Shangai dish, Onion Roasted Carp, and as a result, one of my internet friends pointed out that I shouldn\'t have called it \"Onion Roasted Carp\", it was actually \"Onion Dried Carp\". Because of this, I checked a bunch of sources, including character dictionaries, word dictionaries and encyclopedias, and found that my online friend was right, \"Roasted\" and \"Dry\" [both are pronounced [pinyin]kao3[/pinyin] in Chinese] are two entirely different culinary methods. Naturally, the cooking materials and texture are also completely different, I just don\'t know why local restaurant menus all write it \"Onion Roasted Carp\"; I think it was just established that way from popular usage, as something that everyone understands, and perhaps the habit just became the norm?  \r\n\r\nToday\'s Onion Roasted Carp really is roasted. After the carp is marinated, it\'s put into the oven and baked before it\'s done. This Onion Roasted Carp isn\'t that Onion Dried Carp, those are two entirely different flavors. Onion Dried Carp has a Shanghai flavor that\'s thick with oil and red sauce, while Onion Roasted Carp has a complex bouquet made from a wider variety of ingredients and elements, and has a dense Western [Chinese] flavor, also very fragrant and delicious!\r\n\r\nIngredients: Two Crucian carp, 100 grams of spring onion, four slices of ginger, two little red peppers, 50 grams of coriander \r\n\r\nSeasonings: A big spoon of cooking wine, 1 big spoon balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, 1/2 small spoon of ground pepper, 1/2 small spoon Thirteen Spice, 1/2 small spoon cumin powder, 1/2 small spoon of Sichuan pepper powder, 1 big spoon sesame oil.\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Take off the scales, gills and intestines and clean the carp. On the fishs\' back [side], use a knife to make a few cuts [the cook doesn\'t mean to cut all the way through the fish, just to make a few slices in the skin], place the fish in a dish, then place a few of the ginger slices in each fishs\' stomach.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the cooking wine, balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, ground pepper and thirteen spice so that the fish is evenly covered, and let marinate for one hour.</li>\r\n	<li>Spread tin foil on a cooking pan, arrange the onions in the bottom of the pan, allow excess moisture to strain out of the mariated fish, then rub oil on both sides of the fish and place them on top of the onions [in the cooking pan].   </li>\r\n	<li>Pre-heat the over to 180 degrees [Celcius], place the cooking pan on the middle rack, and let cook for 15 minutes. </li>\r\n	<li>Take the pan out of the oven, turn the fish over, and put them back in the oven for another 15 minutes. </li>\r\n	<li>Take the pan out of the oven and again spread a layer of oil on the fish, sprinkle with cumin, Sichuan pepper, red pepper slices and coriander stalks, then put it back in the oven to bake for another 2 minutes.  </li>\r\n	<li>Take it out and sprinkle the top with coriander leaves, and that\'s it.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '370-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-22 10:48:03', '2011-01-22 15:48:03', '', 370, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/22/370-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(392, 1, '2011-01-22 10:56:31', '2011-01-22 15:56:31', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis is a great recipe for Western Chinese style Crucian Carp, roasted with spring onions, coriander, peppers and other spices.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110221-INLINE-onion-roasted-carp.jpg\" alt=\"Advanced Chinese Reading Exercises: Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp\" title=\"Advanced Chinese Reading Exercises: Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft imgborder\" />What I find interesting about this recipe is that it requires the use of an oven, and even more interesting, an oven with space for more than one rack. Until very recently, you couldn\'t find a Chinese home with an oven in it for any price, and if you wanted to bake, it usually meant a trip to a German appliance store to buy a mini counter-top oven. These days, I\'m seeing more and more real estate ads featuring homes with ovens, so this recipe, in my opinion, is a sign of the times. \r\n\r\nIn step 2 of the recipe, the author instructs us to 控干水分 after the fish has marinated for an hour. Not being much of a cook myself, I had quite a bit of trouble sorting out what 控干水分 meant exactly, being that it\'s a culinary technique having something to do with moisture control. Searching the Chinese \'net turned up the answer: this means to allow excess moisture to strain or seep out of an ingredient. For leafy vegetables, this would mean putting them in a strainer and lightly shaking the water out, or letting it drip out. For meat, this likely means lightly patting it with paper towels to soak up excess moisture, or letting it sit on paper towels to soak the moisture out. \r\n\r\nIf anyone out there\'s a chef and knows a better way, by all means, do tell.\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烹饪 - [pinyin]peng1 ren4[/pinyin] - Culinary arts\r\n约定俗成 - [pinyin]yue1 ding4 su2 cheng2[/pinyin] - To be established due to popular use\r\n腌制 - [pinyin]yan1 zhi4[/pinyin] - Marinate\r\n料酒 - [pinyin]liao3 jiu3[/pinyin] - Cooking wine\r\n孜然 - [pinyin]zi1 ran2[/pinyin] - Cumin\r\n鳞 - [pinyin]lin2[/pinyin] - Fish scales\r\n鳃 - [pinyin]sai1[/pinyin] - Fish gills\r\n锡纸 - [pinyin]xi1 zhi3[/pinyin] - Tin foil\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n记得一年多前我做过一道上海本地菜--葱烤鲫鱼，结果有网友指出不应该写葱烤鲫鱼，而应该是葱熇鲫鱼。为此我找了好多资料，包括字典、词典、百科全书，发现网友说得没错，烤和熇是完全不同的两种<strong>烹饪</strong>方式，做出的菜品和口感自然也完全不同，只是不知道为什么本地饭店的菜单上都是写葱烤鲫鱼的，我想这也可能是<strong>约定俗成</strong>，反正大家都懂的，习惯成自然了吧？\r\n\r\n今天的葱烤鲫鱼真的是烤的，是将鲫鱼<strong>腌制</strong>后入烤箱烘烤而成。此葱烤鲫鱼不是彼葱熇鲫鱼，那是两种完全不同的口味。葱熇鲫鱼是浓油赤酱的上海口味，而葱烤鲫鱼更多的是由多种香料组成的复合香味，带有一种浓郁西部风味，也是很香很好吃呢！\r\n\r\n材料: 鲫鱼2条、葱100克、姜4片、小红椒2个、香菜50克。\r\n\r\n调料: <strong>料酒</strong>1大勺、香醋1大勺、盐5克、胡椒粉1/2小勺、十三香1/2小勺、<strong>孜然</strong>粉1/2小勺、花椒粉1/2小勺、香油1大勺。\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>鲫鱼去<strong>鳞</strong>、<strong>鳃</strong>、肠洗净滤干，在鱼背上用刀划几道后放入盘中，姜片分别放入鱼腹中；</li>\r\n	<li>加料酒、香醋、盐5克、胡椒粉、十三香抹匀腌1小时；</li>\r\n	<li>烤盘铺上<strong>锡纸</strong>，将香葱摆放在盘底，腌好的鱼控干水分，两面刷油后放在葱上；</li>\r\n	<li>烤箱预热至180度，烤盘放入中层，烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘将鱼翻面，再烤15分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出烤盘再在鱼身上刷层油，撒上孜然粉、花椒粉、红椒圈和香菜梗，再入烤箱烤2分钟；</li>\r\n	<li>取出撒上香菜叶即可。</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_500c589b01017r3w.html\">See original recipe with pictures</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI remember over a year ago I did a local Shangai dish, Onion Roasted Carp, and as a result, one of my internet friends pointed out that I shouldn\'t have called it \"Onion Roasted Carp\", it was actually \"Onion Dried Carp\". Because of this, I checked a bunch of sources, including character dictionaries, word dictionaries and encyclopedias, and found that my online friend was right, \"Roasted\" and \"Dry\" [both are pronounced [pinyin]kao3[/pinyin] in Chinese] are two entirely different culinary methods. Naturally, the cooking materials and texture are also completely different, I just don\'t know why local restaurant menus all write it \"Onion Roasted Carp\"; I think it was just established that way from popular usage, as something that everyone understands, and perhaps the habit just became the norm?  \r\n\r\nToday\'s Onion Roasted Carp really is roasted. After the carp is marinated, it\'s put into the oven and baked before it\'s done. This Onion Roasted Carp isn\'t that Onion Dried Carp, those are two entirely different flavors. Onion Dried Carp has a Shanghai flavor that\'s thick with oil and red sauce, while Onion Roasted Carp has a complex bouquet made from a wider variety of ingredients and elements, and has a dense Western [Chinese] flavor, also very fragrant and delicious!\r\n\r\nIngredients: Two Crucian carp, 100 grams of spring onion, four slices of ginger, two little red peppers, 50 grams of coriander \r\n\r\nSeasonings: A big spoon of cooking wine, 1 big spoon balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, 1/2 small spoon of ground pepper, 1/2 small spoon Thirteen Spice, 1/2 small spoon cumin powder, 1/2 small spoon of Sichuan pepper powder, 1 big spoon sesame oil.\r\n\r\n<ol>\r\n	<li>Take off the scales, gills and intestines and clean the carp. On the fishs\' back [side], use a knife to make a few cuts [the cook doesn\'t mean to cut all the way through the fish, just to make a few slices in the skin], place the fish in a dish, then place a few of the ginger slices in each fishs\' stomach.</li>\r\n	<li>Add the cooking wine, balsamic vinegar, 5 grams of salt, ground pepper and thirteen spice so that the fish is evenly covered, and let marinate for one hour.</li>\r\n	<li>Spread tin foil on a cooking pan, arrange the onions in the bottom of the pan, allow excess moisture to strain out of the mariated fish, then rub oil on both sides of the fish and place them on top of the onions [in the cooking pan].   </li>\r\n	<li>Pre-heat the over to 180 degrees [Celcius], place the cooking pan on the middle rack, and let cook for 15 minutes. </li>\r\n	<li>Take the pan out of the oven, turn the fish over, and put them back in the oven for another 15 minutes. </li>\r\n	<li>Take the pan out of the oven and again spread a layer of oil on the fish, sprinkle with cumin, Sichuan pepper, red pepper slices and coriander stalks, then put it back in the oven to bake for another 2 minutes.  </li>\r\n	<li>Take it out and sprinkle the top with coriander leaves, and that\'s it.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Recipe for Onion Roasted Carp', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '370-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-22 10:56:31', '2011-01-22 15:56:31', '', 370, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/22/370-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(393, 1, '2011-01-22 09:28:00', '2011-01-22 14:28:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA passage from a BLCU textbook in which a university student laments about catching a cold. <!--more--> This essay focuses on mostly illness-centric beginner language, such as 感冒 [pinyin]gan3 mao4[/pinyin], meaning \"to have a cold\"， and 打针 [pinyin]da3 zhen1[/pinyin], meaning \"to get an IV drip or shot\".\r\n\r\nLest it seems a little dramatic to you that the writer would go to the hospital over a 24-hour cold, the Chinese typically don\'t use private clinics (except in the case of accupuncture and massage), and commonly go to the hospital for almost every health-related issue, including colds and small fevers.\r\n\r\nOf special interest is the phrase \"还开了一些药\", or \"and also prescribed me some medicine\". Literally, it says, \"Also opened a bit of medicine\". But the word 开 [pinyin]kai1[/pinyin], which usually means \"open\", is also the verb used to describe a doctor writing a perscription. This tells us that the doctor didn\'t give (给[pinyin]gei3[/pinyin]) the student any medicine himself, but perscribed it instead.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n发烧 - [pinyin]fa1 shao1[/pinyin] - Have a fever\r\n咳嗽 - [pinyin]ke2 sou5[/pinyin] - Cough\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n寂寞 - [pinyin]ji4 mo4[/pinyin] - Lonely\r\n不舒服 - [pinyin]bu4 shu1 fu5[/pinyin] - Feel unwell, uncomfortable\r\n检查 - [pinyin]jian3 cha2[/pinyin] - Check, examine\r\n果然 - [pinyin]guo3 ran2[/pinyin] - Sure enough\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n我病了。　头疼，<strong>发烧</strong>，嗓子也疼，不想吃东西，晚上<strong>咳嗽</strong>的很厉害。　上午同学们都去上课了，我一个人在宿舍里，感到很寂寞。　寂寞了就容易想家。　我家里人很多，有哥哥，姐姐，还有一个弟弟。　在家的时候，我们常一起玩儿。　现在，我在北京学习汉语，寂寞的时候就常常想他们。\r\n\r\n因为不<strong>舒服</strong>，所以我今天起得很晚。　起了床就去医院了。　大夫给我<strong>检查</strong>了一下儿，说我感冒了。　给我打了一针，<strong>还开了一些药</strong>。　他说，吃了药病就好了。\r\n\r\n老师和同学们知道我病了，都来看我。　林老师听说我不想吃东西，还做了一碗面条给我吃。　吃了面条，身上出了很多汗，老师说，出了汗可能不发烧了。\r\n\r\n下午，<strong>果然</strong>不发烧了，喜庆也好了。　我用　Ｅｍａｉｌ　个哦姐姐发了一封信。　我说，我在这儿生活得很好，我有很好的老师，还有很多好同学，好朋友，和他们在一起，我感到很愉快。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nI\'m sick. My head hurts, I have a fever, my throat also hurts, I don\'t want to eat anything, and at night I have a serious cough. In the morning my classmates all went to class, and I was the only one left in the dormitory. I feel very lonely. When you\'re lonely, it\'s easy to miss home. I have a lot of family members - an older brother, older sister, and also a younger brother. When I\'m at home, we often play together. Right now, I\'m in Beijing studying Chinese, and when I\'m lonely I miss them.\r\n\r\nBecause I don\'t feel well, I got up late today. When I got up, I went to the hospital. The doctor gave me a quick checkup and said I have a cold. He gave me one shot [also: IV drip], and also prescribed some medicine. He said, take the medicine and you\'ll get better.\r\n\r\nMy teacher and classmates know I\'m sick, so they all came to see me. Teacher Lin heard that I didn\'t want to eat anything, so she made me a bowl of noodles. After I ate the noodles, I began to pour sweat. Teacher said, if you sweat, maybe your fever will go away.\r\n\r\nIn the afternoon, sure enough my fever was gone, and I was in a good mood. I emailed my older sister. I said, I have a very good life here, I have a good teacher and good classmates and good friends, and all together they make me very happy.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'I\'m Feeling Sick', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '139-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-22 09:28:00', '2011-01-22 14:28:00', '', 139, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/22/139-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(394, 1, '2011-01-15 23:46:55', '2011-01-16 04:46:55', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:46:55', '2011-01-16 04:46:55', '', 154, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/154-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(395, 1, '2011-01-24 07:26:50', '2011-01-24 12:26:50', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:26:50', '2011-01-24 12:26:50', '', 154, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(396, 1, '2011-01-24 07:27:05', '2011-01-24 12:27:05', '[two_third]\r\n<h4>Twitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿</h4>\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:27:05', '2011-01-24 12:27:05', '', 154, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(397, 1, '2011-01-24 07:27:50', '2011-01-24 12:27:50', '[two_third]\r\nTwitter董事长称全球用户数已突破2亿\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang4[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:27:50', '2011-01-24 12:27:50', '', 154, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(402, 1, '2011-01-24 07:28:46', '2011-01-24 12:28:46', '[two_third]\r\nThis very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI find that when wading through Chinese newsspeak, knowing the word 称 [pinyin]cheng1[/pinyin] makes all the difference. This is the formal / newspaper version of the word 说　[pinyin]shuo1[/pinyin], both words meaning \"to say\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that the phrase \"脱口秀\" - Talk show - is actually transliterated into Chinese from English. In other words, instead of translating its meaning into something like, \"Talking Presenter Program\" or similar, they used Chinese characters that sound similar to the English phrase \"talk show\" - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4[/pinyin]. This literally translates into \"Blurt it out performance\", which I\'d like to think is a way more accurate description of what usually happens on talk shows. Transliteration FTW.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n董事长 - [pinyin]dong3 shi4 zhang3[/pinyin] - Chairman of the Board\r\n用户 - [pinyin]yong4 hu4[/pinyin] - User\r\n脱口秀主持人 - [pinyin]tuo1 kou1 xiu4 zhu3 chi2 ren2[/pinyin] - Talk show host\r\n稳定 - [pinyin]wen3 ding4[/pinyin] - Stable\r\n收入 - [pinyin]shou1 ru4[/pinyin] - Income, revenue\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">北京时间1月12日下午消息，Twitter董事长杰克·多尔西(Jack Dorsey)周二表示，Twitter全球用户数量已突破2亿，并且将来有望超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n多尔西周二在接受美国脱口秀主持人查理·罗斯（Charlie Rose）采访时称，目前有2亿人在使用Twitter，尽管与Facebook的约5亿用户还有一定差距，但相信Twitter用户数量将来完全可以超越Facebook。\r\n\r\n此外，多尔西还表示，Twitter目前已经有稳定收入。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://tech.sina.com.cn/i/2011-01-12/17495087422.shtml\">See the original article</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nBEIJING TIME - JANUARY 12 - AFTERNOON NEWS: On Tuesday, Twitter\'s Chairman of the Board Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter\'s global user base now exceeds 200,000,000, and is projected to exceed Facebook in the future.\r\n\r\nTuesday, during an interview with American talk show host Charlie Rose, Dorsey said that right now 200,000,000 people use Twitter, and although there\'s a big gap between that number and Facebook\'s 500,000,000 users, he believes Twitter\'s user base will eventually exceed that of Facebook.\r\n\r\nDorsey also stated that Twitter\'s revenue is currently stable.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'News: Twitter Chairman Says Users Now Exceed 200 Million', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '154-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-24 07:28:46', '2011-01-24 12:28:46', '', 154, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/24/154-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(407, 1, '2011-01-21 06:12:10', '2011-01-21 11:12:10', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis short essay, taken from the Beijing Language and Culture University beginner comprehension textbook, is written from the perspective of a friend visiting Jiang Ping （江苹） before she leaves the country. <!--more--> The language is mostly school-centric as the writer discusses his classmates, Jiang Ping\'s scholarship, and her test results.\r\n\r\nThe crux of the last paragraph hinges on the fact that the Chinese word for \"Goodbye\" (再见) literally translates as \"See you again\", as the writer wonders when or if he\'ll ever really see Jiang Ping again.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n同学 - [pinyin]tong2 xue2[/pinyin] - Classmates\r\n努力 - [pinyin]nu3 li4[/pinyin] - Great effort\r\n参加 - [pinyin]can1 jia1[/pinyin] - Participate\r\n得 - [pinyin]de[/pinyin] - To get, earn\r\n满分 - [pinyin]man3 fen1[/pinyin] - Full marks, 100%\r\n奖学金 - [pinyin]jiang3 xue2 jin1[/pinyin] - Scholarship\r\n留学 - [pinyin]liu2 xue2[/pinyin] - Study abroad\r\n预祝 - [pinyin]yu4 zhu4[/pinyin] - Wish\r\n成功 - [pinyin]cheng2 gong1[/pinyin] - Success\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">今天我去江苹家了。 我和江苹是中学<strong>同学</strong>， 她是我的好朋友， 也是我们全班同学的朋友。 她学习非常<strong>努力</strong>， 是我们班学习最好的学生。 她会学习， 她会玩儿， 还常常帮助别人， 老师和同学都很喜欢她。 她这次<strong>参加</strong>了美国一个大学<strong>考试</strong>。 这个考试非常难，但是她考得很好，<strong>得</strong>了<strong>满分</strong>。 听说全世界只有三个学生得满分。 这个大学给江苹最高的<strong>奖学金</strong>。 我们都为她感到高兴。\r\n\r\n她下星期要去美国<strong>留学</strong>， 我们班的同学都去看他， 给他送行。\r\n\r\n江苹的家在城东边， 离我家比较远。 我下午四点多就从家里出发了， 五点半才到。 我到的时候， 同学们都已经到了。\r\n\r\n江苹很热情地欢迎我们。 同学们好久不见了， 见面以后高兴得又说又笑， 谈得很愉快。 我们<strong>预祝</strong>江苹<strong>成功</strong>。 祝她一路平安。 我说， 一定要常来新啊。 江苹说，一定。 跟他说 “再见”  的时候， 她哭了， 我也哭了。\r\n\r\n回家的路上， 我想， 我们常常说 “再见”， 但是， 有时候 “再见” 是很难的。 我和江苹什么时候能 “再见” 呢？\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nToday I\'m going to Jiang Ping\'s house. Jiang Ping and I are highschool classmates. She\'s my good friend, and she\'s also good friends with everyone in our class. She studies very hard, she\'s the best student in our class. She studies, she plays, and she also often helps others. The teacher and the other students like her. She recently participated in an examination for an American college. That test is very hard, but she did very well - she earned full marks. I heard that only three people in the whole world got full marks. This college gave Jiang Ping their highest scholarship. We\'re all very happy for her.\r\n\r\nNext week she\'s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping\'s house is on the east side of the city very far away from mine. I left my house a little after four o\'clock in the afternoon, and didn\'t get there until 5:30. When I arrived, the rest of our classmates were already there.\r\n\r\nJiang Ping warmly welcomed us. She hadn\'t seen her classmates in a while, and after she greeted us, we talked and smiled, chatting happily. We wished Jiang Ping success. Wished her a pleasant trip. I said, Be sure to write often. Jiang Ping said, Of course. When she said \"Goodbye\", she cried, and I also cried.\r\n\r\nOn my way home, I thought, We often say \"Goodbye\" [lit: see you again], but sometimes \"Goodbye\" is sad. When will Jiang Ping and I be able to see each other again?\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Jiang Ping Going to Study Abroad', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '67-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-21 06:12:10', '2011-01-21 11:12:10', '', 67, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/21/67-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(406, 1, '2011-01-28 07:35:52', '2011-01-28 12:35:52', 'http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\r\n\r\n[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in need of a fable that demonstrates the dangers of kissing ass, you\'re in luck. The Turkey and the Bull makes it pretty clear that (and here I quote) \"butt licking\" is not the path to success. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.gushi51.com/yuyan/sj/sj_47995.html\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-28 07:35:52', '2011-01-28 12:35:52', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/28/403-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(408, 1, '2011-01-28 07:46:46', '2011-01-28 12:46:46', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA turkey said to a bull: \"I really want to fly to the top of that tree, it\'s a pity I don\'t have any strength.\" The bull proposed an idea: \"Why don\'t you eat a little of my feces, it\'s rich in nutrients, hehe.\" The turkey thought that this made sense, so he ate [lit: pecked at] a little, and immediately felt strong,  and trying as hard as he could, he flew onto a tree branch. The second day, the turkey ate several mouthfuls of feces, got strength, and flew to an even higher tree branch. After two weeks, when the turkey had eaten enough bull feces, he finally flew to the top of the tree. He gazed into the distance, and just when he was feeling very pleased with himself, a farmer saw him, and quickly opened fire and shot him down. \r\n\r\nThe moral of this fable is: licking other people\'s butts is a shortcut, and it can get you to a pretty high position very quickly, however it doesn\'t last long.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-28 07:46:46', '2011-01-28 12:46:46', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/28/403-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(409, 1, '2011-01-31 07:35:47', '2011-01-31 12:35:47', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people \r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-31 07:35:47', '2011-01-31 12:35:47', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/31/403-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(411, 1, '2011-02-01 07:22:41', '2011-02-01 12:22:41', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:22:41', '2011-02-01 12:22:41', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(410, 1, '2011-02-01 07:19:00', '2011-02-01 12:19:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27, 362 people,  \r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:19:00', '2011-02-01 12:19:00', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(412, 1, '2011-02-01 07:42:59', '2011-02-01 12:42:59', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAccording to reports, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have SOMETHING, living without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, which causes excessive psychological fatigue, so they relaxed control over themselves. \r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:42:59', '2011-02-01 12:42:59', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(413, 1, '2011-02-01 07:44:33', '2011-02-01 12:44:33', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. <!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n顶端 - [pinyin]ding3 duan1[/pinyin] - Summit, peak\r\n可惜 - [pinyin]ke3 xi1[/pinyin] - [to be] a pity\r\n粪便 - [pinyin]fen4 bian4[/pinyin] - Feces\r\n营养 - [pinyin]ying2 yang3[/pinyin] - Nutrition\r\n极目远眺 - [pinyin]ji2 mu4 yuan3 tiao4[/pinyin] - Look into the distance\r\n舔 - [pinyin]tian3[/pinyin] - To lick\r\n屁股 - [pinyin]pi4 gu5[/pinyin] - Ass, butt\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本警察厅发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的行列。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭检举小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n据称，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“节俭”的动机行窃。同时，调查也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对自制心。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAccording to reports, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:44:33', '2011-02-01 12:44:33', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(414, 1, '2011-02-01 07:53:23', '2011-02-01 12:53:23', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:53:23', '2011-02-01 12:53:23', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(415, 1, '2011-02-01 07:53:26', '2011-02-01 12:53:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:53:26', '2011-02-01 12:53:26', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(416, 1, '2020-04-20 07:06:38', '2020-04-20 11:06:38', '[two_third]\n\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\n\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\n\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\n\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\n\n</div>\n\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\n\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \n\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\n[/hide-this-part]\n[/su_column]\n[/su_row]</div>', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-autosave-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:06:38', '2020-04-20 11:06:38', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(417, 1, '2011-02-01 07:54:23', '2011-02-01 12:54:23', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:54:23', '2011-02-01 12:54:23', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(420, 1, '2011-01-16 13:37:06', '2011-01-16 18:37:06', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 13:37:06', '2011-01-16 18:37:06', '', 287, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/287-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(421, 1, '2011-02-01 08:15:48', '2011-02-01 13:15:48', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:15:48', '2011-02-01 13:15:48', '', 287, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(422, 1, '2011-02-01 08:21:53', '2011-02-01 13:21:53', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"William Qi\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname that I\'m not familiar with, like Williams or Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:21:53', '2011-02-01 13:21:53', '', 287, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(423, 1, '2011-02-01 08:22:28', '2011-02-01 13:22:28', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"William Qi\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname, like Williams or Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was travelling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:22:28', '2011-02-01 13:22:28', '', 287, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(424, 1, '2011-02-01 08:22:41', '2011-02-01 13:22:41', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly silly joke courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nI\'m not actually 100% sure about 威廉期 meaning \"William Qi\". This is most certainly a name, 威廉 is most certainly \"William\", and 期 is most certainly \"Qi\", however, these characters put together might be some kind of transliteration for a slightly different English surname, like Williams or Williamson or something. As usual, grappling with English / Chinese name transliteration is a pain. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n威廉期 - [pinyin]wei1 lian2 qi1[/pinyin] - William Qi\r\n墨西哥 - [pinyin]mo4 xi1 ge1[/pinyin] - Mexico\r\n奇怪 - [pinyin]qi2 guai4[/pinyin] - Strange\r\n胡子 - [pinyin]hu2 zi[/pinyin] - Beard\r\n黑黢黢 - [pinyin]hei1 qu1 qu1[/pinyin] - Black, dark black\r\n好奇 - [pinyin]hao4 qi2[/pinyin] - Curious\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n<strong>威廉期</strong>先生到<strong>墨西哥</strong>旅行，一天，他在大街上看到了一个<strong>奇怪</strong>的人。 该人的头发长的雪白，而<strong>胡子</strong>却<strong>黑黢黢</strong>的。 他<strong>好奇</strong>的上前问道， “为什么您的头发这么白，而胡子却这样黑呢？”\r\n\r\n那人回答，“这有什么奇怪，头发比胡子年长20岁，能一样吗？”\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANLSATION\"]\r\n\r\nMr. William Qi was traveling in Mexico. One day, he saw a very strange man on the street. This person\'s hair was snow white, however his beard was black. He curiously went up and asked, \"Why is your hair white, but your beard is black?\"\r\n\r\nThe man answered, \"What\'s weird about that? My hair is 20 years older than my beard, how could they be the same?\"\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'White Hair, Black Beard', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '287-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:22:41', '2011-02-01 13:22:41', '', 287, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/287-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(425, 1, '2011-02-01 07:57:50', '2011-02-01 12:57:50', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 07:57:50', '2011-02-01 12:57:50', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(426, 1, '2011-02-01 08:24:14', '2011-02-01 13:24:14', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While the sentence structure here is more advanced, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:24:14', '2011-02-01 13:24:14', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(428, 1, '2011-02-01 08:34:45', '2011-02-01 13:34:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n从前有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:34:45', '2011-02-01 13:34:45', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(427, 1, '2011-02-01 08:34:25', '2011-02-01 13:34:25', '[two_third]\n\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\n\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n\n从前有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\n\n小姑娘不肯。\n\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\n\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\n\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\n\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\n\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \n\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:34:25', '2011-02-01 13:34:25', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(429, 1, '2011-01-16 14:37:33', '2011-01-16 19:37:33', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nIf you\'ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends. <!--more--> It\'s nice if you\'re a foreigner living in a major metropolitan area, as whole cities empty out, traffic disappears, and you get a temporary respite from the sounds of construction.\r\n\r\nTrain tickets are particularly impossible to come by, as trains are the cheapest and most popular way return home. This article addresses a couple of ways that the transport authorities plan to address the problem this year. \r\n\r\nIt\'s also interesting to note that bank cards (debit / credit cards) have been almost useless in China until the last decade or so, as restaurants, bars, smaller hotels, ticket offices and grocery stores rarely accept them. This, as we can see from this article, is gradually changing. \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n召开 - [pinyin]zhao4 kai1[/pinyin] - Convene\r\n春运 - [pinyin]chun1 yun4[/pinyin] - Spring Festival travel season\r\n广铁集团 - [pinyin]guang3 tie3 ji2 tuan2[/pinyin] - Guangzhou Railway Group\r\n刷卡 - [pinyin]shua1 ka3[/pinyin] - To use / swipe a bank card\r\n实行 - [pinyin]shi2 xing2[/pinyin] - Implement\r\n高峰 - [pinyin]gao1 feng1[/pinyin] - Peak\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n昨日，铁道部<strong>召开春运</strong>新闻发布会。今年春运，铁道部首次开展银行卡购票业务，在北京、上海、武汉、南昌、成都、郑州、西安铁路局和<strong>广铁集团</strong>的256个较大车站之间开展银行卡<strong>刷卡</strong>支付业务。为满足春运期间旅客购票需要，北京站﹑北京西站﹑北京南站等车站春运期间<strong>实行</strong>24小时不间断售票。北京西站北广场和南广场售票处实行24小时不间断售票。北京站和北京南站实行24小时不间断购票，购票高峰时，两站419个售票窗口全部开启，保证24小时不间断售票。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<a href=\"http://bjyouth.ynet.com/article.jsp?oid=76203888\">Read the original news item</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\n[January 16, 2011] Yesterday, the railroad ministry convened a press conference to discuss the Spring Festival travel season. This season, for the first time ever, the ministry will begin accepting bank cards for ticket sales. In Beijing, Shanghai, WuHan, NanChang, ChengDu, ZhengZhou and XiAn, the railroad office and Guangzhou Railway Group together launched bank card ticket sales at their 256 relatively large railway stations. To meet the needs of Spring Festival travelers, Beijing Station, Beijing West Station, Beijing South Station and other stations will implement 24-hour ticket sales. At Beijing West Station, 24-hour sales will be available in the North Square and South Square ticket offices. During peak sales times, Beijing Station and Beijing South Station will have 419 ticket windows open for business to ensure that sales can continue around the clock.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Beijing Railway to Sell Tickets 24 Hours During Busy Spring Festival Season', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '317-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-16 14:37:33', '2011-01-16 19:37:33', '', 317, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/16/317-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(430, 1, '2011-02-01 08:25:15', '2011-02-01 13:25:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<strong>Chinese title:</strong> \"日本老年人犯罪创纪录 2万名老人曾偷超市物品\".\r\n\r\nTheft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy - slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n行列 - [pinyin]hang2 lie4[/pinyin] - Procession\r\n检举 - [pinyin]jian3 ju3[/pinyin] - To report a crime / incident\r\n据称 - [pinyin]ju4 cheng1[/pinyin] - Allegedly, according to reports\r\n节俭 - [pinyin]jie2 jian3[/pinyin] - Thriftiness, penny-pinching\r\n调查 - [pinyin]diao4 cha2[/pinyin] - Investigation, inquiry\r\n自制心 - [pinyin]zi4 zhi4 xin1[/pinyin] - Self-control\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n中新网1月28日电据日本新闻网27日报道，日本<strong>警察厅</strong>发表消息说，越来越多的老人加入了小偷小摸的<strong>行列</strong>。在过去一年里，65岁以上老年人在超市和便利店等地方偷窃东西的人数比2009年增加了343人(增1.3%)，总数达到2万7362人，占到全体遭<strong>检举</strong>小偷总人数的26%，几乎与“小偷少年”(14-19岁)的总人数 (27%)相同。\r\n\r\n<strong>据称</strong>，在这些被抓的“小偷老人”行窃的原因里，有71.8%的人是因为想要这些东西却不愿意花钱买。还有13.2%的人是因为口袋里实在没钱买东西。还有0.9%的老人只是觉得好玩，有一种游戏的感觉。按照男女比例来分，女性小偷是48.2%，男性小偷是51.8%，比例几乎相近。\r\n\r\n报道说，这些老人偷窃的东西主要是食品。警察厅分析说，可能是这些老人对于自己今后的生活感到不安，怀着“<strong>节俭</strong>”的动机行窃。同时，<strong>调查</strong>也显示这些老人久居在家，没有社会的归属感，长期的孤独无助导致他们精神疲劳过度，而放松了对<strong>自制心</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://news.cyol.com/content/2011-01/28/content_4133594.htm\">Read the original story</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nJapanese news agencies reported on the 27th that Japanese National Police Agency released information stating that more and more old people are joining the ranks [lit: procession] of thieves. In the past year, the number of people over the age of 65 who have stolen things from supermarkets and convenience stores has increased by 343 people (a 1.3% increase), with the total reaching 27,362 people, comprising 26% of all reported instances of theft, almost identical to the number (27%) of \"Young Thieves\" (14-19 year-olds).\r\n\r\nAllegedly, among the reasons given by \"Old thieves\" who were caught, 71.8% said it was because they wanted the thing [they stole] but weren\'t willing to pay money to buy it. Another 13.2% said it was because they didn\'t have the money to buy it. An additional 0.9% of old people just thought it was fun, and [said] that it felt like a game. In terms of the proportion of men to women, 48.2% of the thieves were women, 51.8% were men, almost the same numbers. \r\n\r\nReports say that goods stolen by old people mostly consist of foodstuffs. National Police Agency analysis suggests that perhaps these old people are concerned about their future livelihoods, and their motivation to steal is based in \"thriftiness\". At the same time, the investigation illustrates that these old people have lived for a long time without society\'s support, lonely, isolated and without help, causing the excessive psychological fatigue which lead them to relax their self-control.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Old People are Stealing More Stuff in Japan', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '403-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 08:25:15', '2011-02-01 13:25:15', '', 403, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/403-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(431, 1, '2011-02-01 09:12:45', '2011-02-01 14:12:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, 从前有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:12:45', '2011-02-01 14:12:45', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(433, 1, '2011-02-01 09:27:01', '2011-02-01 14:27:01', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom, and a fox was the \r\n\r\n接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:27:01', '2011-02-01 14:27:01', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(432, 1, '2011-02-01 09:23:44', '2011-02-01 14:23:44', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\"\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:23:44', '2011-02-01 14:23:44', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(436, 1, '2011-02-01 10:14:40', '2011-02-01 15:14:40', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. CONSEQUENTLY, the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in his hand so that he appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then arranged him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\n小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 10:14:40', '2011-02-01 15:14:40', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(435, 1, '2011-02-01 10:11:29', '2011-02-01 15:11:29', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with an altar beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. CONSEQUENTLY, the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in his hand and positioned him so that he appeared to be stirring the pot, \r\n\r\n于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 10:11:29', '2011-02-01 15:11:29', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(434, 1, '2011-02-01 09:33:37', '2011-02-01 14:33:37', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with an altar beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, quickly serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. \r\n\r\n小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 09:33:37', '2011-02-01 14:33:37', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(437, 1, '2011-02-01 10:17:02', '2011-02-01 15:17:02', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was not willing to do that.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. CONSEQUENTLY, the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in his hand so that he appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then arranged him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 10:17:02', '2011-02-01 15:17:02', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(438, 1, '2011-02-01 11:30:25', '2011-02-01 16:30:25', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding ceremony for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 11:30:25', '2011-02-01 16:30:25', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(439, 1, '2011-02-01 11:30:42', '2011-02-01 16:30:42', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The girl who had WAS BEING TREATED AS / CONSIDERED AS a bride began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 11:30:42', '2011-02-01 16:30:42', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(476, 1, '2011-03-05 07:00:12', '2011-03-05 12:00:12', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n[/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>掩耳盗铃</h4>\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国<strong>贵族</strong><strong>智伯</strong>灭掉了<strong>范氏</strong>。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜<strong>铸成</strong>的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大<strong>大锤</strong>，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想<strong>捂住</strong>钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n</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\nDuring the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the defeated [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\nThe thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell with all his might. A loud \"gong\" sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this [enterprise] was spoiled, thinking \"that kind of noise is tantamount to telling people that I\'m here stealing the bell, isn\'t it?\" He was worried, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.  \r\n\r\nThe longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all his strength. \"Yi, the sound has lessened, I can\'t hear it anymore!\" The thief became happy again, \"How wonderful! If I cover my ears well, the sound can\'t be heard!\" covered his ears well, he couldn\'t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears, thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell\'s sound either. So he began smashing the bell, hitting it again and again, the ringing of the bell being heard even in far away places. People heard the bells sounds and came in great numbers, catching the thief.  \r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom: 掩耳盗铃 - To bury one\'s head in the sand', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'story-behind-the-idiom-yanerdaoling', '', '', '2020-05-07 17:41:31', '2020-05-07 21:41:31', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=476', 0, 'post', '', 4),
(1831, 1, '2020-04-20 06:41:51', '2020-04-20 10:41:51', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nThis fable describes backstory / origination of the idiom 掩耳盗铃 [pinyin]yan3 er3 dao4 ling2[/pinyin], which literally translates as \"to plug one\'s ears while stealing a bell\", and meaning \"to bury one\'s head in the sand\", or \"to deceive oneself\".<!--more-->\r\n\r\nI understand that this story was taken from the collection 吕氏春秋 (\"Mr. Lu\'s Annals [of the Spring / Autumn Period]\"), which is described as \"a historical miscellany from the point of view of Qin period merchant and politician 吕不韦 Lu BuWei [pinyin]lv3 bu4 wei2[/pinyin]\"\r\n[/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>掩耳盗铃</h4>\r\n\r\n春秋时侯，晋国<strong>贵族</strong><strong>智伯</strong>灭掉了<strong>范氏</strong>。有人趁机跑到范氏家里想偷点东西，看见院子里吊着一口大钟。钟是用上等青铜<strong>铸成</strong>的，造型和图案都很精美。小偷心里高兴极了，想把这口精美的大钟背回自已家去。可是钟又大又重，怎么也挪不动。他想来想去，只有一个办法，那就是把钟敲碎，然后再分别搬回家。\r\n　　\r\n小偷找来一把大<strong>大锤</strong>，拼命朝钟砸去，咣的一声巨响，把他吓了一大跳。小偷着慌，心想这下糟了，这种声不就等于是告诉人们我正在这里偷钟吗？他心里一急，身子一下子扑到了钟上，张开双臂想<strong>捂住</strong>钟声，可钟声又怎么捂得住呢！钟声依然悠悠地传向远方。\r\n\r\n他越听越害怕，不同自由地抽回双手，使劲捂住自已的耳朵。“咦，钟声变小了，听不见了！”小偷高兴起来，“妙极了！把耳朵捂住不住就听不进钟声了吗！”他立刻找来两个布团，把耳朵塞住，心想，这下谁也听不见钟声了。于是就放手砸起钟来，一下一下，钟声响亮地传到很远的地方。人们听到钟声蜂拥而至把小偷捉住了。\r\n</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\nDuring the Spring and Autumn period, Nobleman ZhiBo of the Jin state eliminated the Fan clan [in battle]. There was a person who sought to take advantage of the defeated [and thus absent] Fan clan to steal some things from their house, and he saw that in their yard dangled a large bell. The bell was molded from the finest bronze, its shape and design were very fine indeed. The thief was extremely happy, thinking to take this refined bell and carry it back to his own house. But the bell was both big and heavy, and howsoever he tried, he couldn\'t move it. He thought and thought, and came up with just one solution, which was to break the bell to bits, then take the pieces separately back to his house. \r\n　　\r\nThe thief found a sledgehammer, and swung at the bell with all his might. A loud \"gong\" sound rang out, startling the thief. The thief panicked, thinking this [enterprise] was spoiled, thinking \"that kind of noise is tantamount to telling people that I\'m here stealing the bell, isn\'t it?\" He was worried, and he flung is body at the bell, stretching his arms around it to try to still the sound, but really how could he stop it? The sound went on and on, ringing far and wide.  \r\n\r\nThe longer he heard it, the more afraid he became, and withdrew his hands to press them against his ears with all his strength. \"Yi, the sound has lessened, I can\'t hear it anymore!\" The thief became happy again, \"How wonderful! If I cover my ears well, the sound can\'t be heard!\" covered his ears well, he couldn\'t hear the sound at all! He immediately found two pieces of cloth and stopped up his ears, thinking that this way, no one else could hear the bell\'s sound either. So he began smashing the bell, hitting it again and again, the ringing of the bell being heard even in far away places. People heard the bells sounds and came in great numbers, catching the thief.  \r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>\r\n', 'Story Behind the Idiom: 掩耳盗铃', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '476-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:41:51', '2020-04-20 10:41:51', '', 476, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/04/20/476-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(444, 1, '2011-03-01 07:00:00', '2011-03-01 12:00:00', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nThis book review is particularly beautiful in its whimsy. I get the distinct impression this book is a bit like the classic children\'s story The Little Prince, which is readable on one level by children, and meaningful on a different level to adults.<!--more-->\r\n\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>小马过河</h4>\r\n\r\n很久很久以前，一对贫穷的农家夫妇，在七十岁的时候生下了他们的第七个孩子，取名七喜。七喜当然是个<strong>善良</strong>聪明快乐的孩子，可是，他长得很奇怪。圆圆的身体，大大的脑袋，却没有手，没有脚……他只能靠<strong>滚动</strong>来“走路”。 七喜最好的朋友是一只<strong>萤火虫</strong>，它说，在地球的那一边，海的尽头，有一个地方叫黄金海岸，在一万棵<strong>榕树</strong>的某一个树干中，住着一位医生，或许能改变他的生活……  然而，要去那里，当然要经过很多地方，尤其是在海上，那里有很多<strong>杀手</strong>……\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.cocobook.net/book/9787807595205.htm\">See original book review</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong, long ago, a poor farmer and his wife had their 7th child at the age of 70, so they named him \"QiXi\" [Seventh Happiness]. Of course, QiXi was a kind, smart and happy child, but he turned out rather strangely, with a round body, huge head, but no hands or feet... the only way he could \"walk\" was to roll along. QiXi\'s good friend was a firefly who said that at the end of the earth, at the very edge of the sea, there was a place called the Golden Coast, and among ten thousand banyan trees, in one particular tree trunk there lived a doctor who might be able to change his [QiXi\'s] life.... however, in order to get there, of course they must pass through many places and above all, cross the sea, where there are many killers....      \r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Dao of Choice', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-dao-of-choice', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:40:25', '2020-04-20 10:40:25', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=444', 0, 'post', '', 6),
(1830, 1, '2020-04-20 06:40:25', '2020-04-20 10:40:25', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nThis book review is particularly beautiful in its whimsy. I get the distinct impression this book is a bit like the classic children\'s story The Little Prince, which is readable on one level by children, and meaningful on a different level to adults.<!--more-->\r\n\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>小马过河</h4>\r\n\r\n很久很久以前，一对贫穷的农家夫妇，在七十岁的时候生下了他们的第七个孩子，取名七喜。七喜当然是个<strong>善良</strong>聪明快乐的孩子，可是，他长得很奇怪。圆圆的身体，大大的脑袋，却没有手，没有脚……他只能靠<strong>滚动</strong>来“走路”。 七喜最好的朋友是一只<strong>萤火虫</strong>，它说，在地球的那一边，海的尽头，有一个地方叫黄金海岸，在一万棵<strong>榕树</strong>的某一个树干中，住着一位医生，或许能改变他的生活……  然而，要去那里，当然要经过很多地方，尤其是在海上，那里有很多<strong>杀手</strong>……\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.cocobook.net/book/9787807595205.htm\">See original book review</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong, long ago, a poor farmer and his wife had their 7th child at the age of 70, so they named him \"QiXi\" [Seventh Happiness]. Of course, QiXi was a kind, smart and happy child, but he turned out rather strangely, with a round body, huge head, but no hands or feet... the only way he could \"walk\" was to roll along. QiXi\'s good friend was a firefly who said that at the end of the earth, at the very edge of the sea, there was a place called the Golden Coast, and among ten thousand banyan trees, in one particular tree trunk there lived a doctor who might be able to change his [QiXi\'s] life.... however, in order to get there, of course they must pass through many places and above all, cross the sea, where there are many killers....      \r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Dao of Choice', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '444-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:40:25', '2020-04-20 10:40:25', '', 444, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/04/20/444-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(445, 1, '2011-02-04 12:33:02', '2011-02-04 17:33:02', 'http://www.cocobook.net/book/9787807595205.htm\n\n很久很久以前，一对贫穷的农家夫妇，在七十岁的时候生下了他们的第七个孩子，取名七喜。七喜当然是个善良聪明快乐的孩子，可是，他长得很奇怪。圆圆的身体，大大的脑袋，却没有手，没有脚……他只能靠滚动来“走路”。 七喜最好的朋友是一只萤火虫，它说，在地球的那一边，海的尽头，有一个地方叫黄金海岸，在一万棵榕树的某一个树干中，住着一位医生，或许能改变他的生活……  然而，要去那里，当然要经过很多地方，尤其是在海上，那里有很多杀手……', 'The Dao of Choice', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '444-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-04 12:33:02', '2011-02-04 17:33:02', '', 444, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/04/444-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(446, 1, '2011-02-04 12:33:08', '2011-02-04 17:33:08', 'http://www.cocobook.net/book/9787807595205.htm\r\n\r\n很久很久以前，一对贫穷的农家夫妇，在七十岁的时候生下了他们的第七个孩子，取名七喜。七喜当然是个善良聪明快乐的孩子，可是，他长得很奇怪。圆圆的身体，大大的脑袋，却没有手，没有脚……他只能靠滚动来“走路”。 七喜最好的朋友是一只萤火虫，它说，在地球的那一边，海的尽头，有一个地方叫黄金海岸，在一万棵榕树的某一个树干中，住着一位医生，或许能改变他的生活……  然而，要去那里，当然要经过很多地方，尤其是在海上，那里有很多杀手……', 'The Dao of Choice', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '444-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-04 12:33:08', '2011-02-04 17:33:08', '', 444, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/04/444-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(447, 1, '2011-02-04 12:33:33', '2011-02-04 17:33:33', 'http://www.cocobook.net/book/9787807595205.htm\r\n\r\n很久很久以前，一对贫穷的农家夫妇，在七十岁的时候生下了他们的第七个孩子，取名七喜。七喜当然是个善良聪明快乐的孩子，可是，他长得很奇怪。圆圆的身体，大大的脑袋，却没有手，没有脚……他只能靠滚动来“走路”。 七喜最好的朋友是一只萤火虫，它说，在地球的那一边，海的尽头，有一个地方叫黄金海岸，在一万棵榕树的某一个树干中，住着一位医生，或许能改变他的生活……  然而，要去那里，当然要经过很多地方，尤其是在海上，那里有很多杀手……', 'The Dao of Choice', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '444-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-04 12:33:33', '2011-02-04 17:33:33', '', 444, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/04/444-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(448, 1, '2011-03-03 07:00:26', '2011-03-03 12:00:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAh, bless romance novels - they\'re the same in every language. This short synopses introduces <strong>致命的温柔</strong>, \"The Gentleness of Self-Sacrifice\", a book by Chinese author 艾米. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20110303-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Advanced Chinese Book Review: Reading Exercises\" title=\"Advanced Chinese Book Review: Reading Exercises\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The very first clause here, 一次偶然的接机, presents a little conundrum, particularly the term 接机, which generally translates into \"picking someone up\", and \"airplane\". Whether this means that Carol and Jason met while both picking up someone else, or one was getting off the plane while the other was picking someone up seems unspecified.\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飞蛾扑火 - [pinyin]fei1 e2 pu1 huo3[/pinyin] - Like moths to a flame\r\n迷恋 - [pinyin]mi2 lian4[/pinyin] - Be infatuated with\r\n背弃 - [pinyin]bei4 qi4[/pinyin] - Abandon, desert\r\n体贴 - [pinyin]ti3 tie1[/pinyin] - Considerate\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n一次偶然的接机，Carol和Jason一见钟情，<strong>飞蛾扑火</strong>般地爱上了对方，他们在<strong>迷恋</strong>中伤害对方，又在伤害中更加怜惜彼此。坚强执着的Carol，却因为父亲当年的<strong>背弃</strong>而不敢相信真爱；温柔<strong>体贴</strong>的Jason，因为一个女孩曾为他自杀，而患上了“重症爱无力”。两人互相吸引却又互相逃避，明知道自己无法回报这份爱，却又没办法说服对方或者自己放弃。当Carol终于下定决心面对自己的爱情时，悲剧却降临到了Jason的身上……\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.cocobook.net/book/9787800809538.htm\">Read the original</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nAfter an accidental airport meeting, Carol and Jason fell in love at first sight, loving each other like two months to a flame, hurting each other in their infatuation, and yet feeling increasing tenderness for each other in their pain. Strong and determined Carol doesn\'t dare believe in true love due to having been abandoned by her father; gentle and considerate Jason, because a woman previously killed herself over him, suffers from a \"serious inability to love\". The two of them are mutually attracted, yet avoid each other, each knowing that they can\'t reciprocate the love, but also both unable to convince themselves to walk away from it. When Carol finally becomes determined to face her love, tragedy descends upon Jason...\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Gentleness of Self Sacrifice', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-gentleness-of-self-sacrifice', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:40:32', '2020-04-20 10:40:32', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=448', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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(450, 1, '2011-02-04 12:52:53', '2011-02-04 17:52:53', '一次偶然的接机，Carol和Jason一见钟情，飞蛾扑火般地爱上了对方，他们在迷恋中伤害对方，又在伤害中更加怜惜彼此。坚强执着的Carol，却因为父亲当年的背弃而不敢相信真爱；温柔体贴的Jason，因为一个女孩曾为他自杀，而患上了“重症爱无力”。两人互相吸引却又互相逃避，明知道自己无法回报这份爱，却又没办法说服对方或者自己放弃。当Carol终于下定决心面对自己的爱情时，悲剧却降临到了Jason的身上……\r\n\r\n', 'The Gentleness of Self Sacrifice', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '448-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-04 12:52:53', '2011-02-04 17:52:53', '', 448, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/04/448-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(451, 1, '2011-02-04 12:56:33', '2011-02-04 17:56:33', '一次偶然的接机，Carol和Jason一见钟情，飞蛾扑火般地爱上了对方，他们在迷恋中伤害对方，又在伤害中更加怜惜彼此。坚强执着的Carol，却因为父亲当年的背弃而不敢相信真爱；温柔体贴的Jason，因为一个女孩曾为他自杀，而患上了“重症爱无力”。两人互相吸引却又互相逃避，明知道自己无法回报这份爱，却又没办法说服对方或者自己放弃。当Carol终于下定决心面对自己的爱情时，悲剧却降临到了Jason的身上……\r\n\r\nhttp://www.cocobook.net/book/9787800809538.htm\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Gentleness of Self Sacrifice', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '448-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-04 12:56:33', '2011-02-04 17:56:33', '', 448, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/04/448-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(452, 1, '2011-02-04 13:05:50', '2011-02-04 18:05:50', 'Ah, bless romance novels - they\'re the same in every language. This short synopses introduces <strong>致命的温柔</strong>, \"The Gentleness of Self-Sacrifice\", a book by Chinese author 艾米. \r\n\r\n一次偶然的接机，Carol和Jason一见钟情，飞蛾扑火般地爱上了对方，他们在迷恋中伤害对方，又在伤害中更加怜惜彼此。坚强执着的Carol，却因为父亲当年的背弃而不敢相信真爱；温柔体贴的Jason，因为一个女孩曾为他自杀，而患上了“重症爱无力”。两人互相吸引却又互相逃避，明知道自己无法回报这份爱，却又没办法说服对方或者自己放弃。当Carol终于下定决心面对自己的爱情时，悲剧却降临到了Jason的身上……\r\n\r\nAfter an accidental meeting, Carol and Jason fell in love at first sight, loving each other like two months to a flame, hurting each other in their infatuation, and yet feeling increasing tenderness for each other in their pain. Carol, though strongly attached, doesn\'t dare believe in true love due to having been abandoned by her father; gentle and considerate Jason, because a woman previously killed herself over him, suffers from a \"serious inability to love\". The two of them are mutually attracted, yet avoid each other, each knowing that they can\'t reciprocate the love, but also both unable to convince themselves to walk away from it. When Carol finally becomes determined to face her love, tragedy descends upon Jason...\r\n\r\nhttp://www.cocobook.net/book/9787800809538.htm\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Gentleness of Self Sacrifice', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '448-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-04 13:05:50', '2011-02-04 18:05:50', '', 448, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/04/448-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(453, 1, '2011-02-04 13:07:47', '2011-02-04 18:07:47', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nAh, bless romance novels - they\'re the same in every language. This short synopses introduces <strong>致命的温柔</strong>, \"The Gentleness of Self-Sacrifice\", a book by Chinese author 艾米. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n警察厅 - [pinyin]jing3 cha2 ting1[/pinyin] - Japan\'s National Police Agency\r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n一次偶然的接机，Carol和Jason一见钟情，飞蛾扑火般地爱上了对方，他们在迷恋中伤害对方，又在伤害中更加怜惜彼此。坚强执着的Carol，却因为父亲当年的背弃而不敢相信真爱；温柔体贴的Jason，因为一个女孩曾为他自杀，而患上了“重症爱无力”。两人互相吸引却又互相逃避，明知道自己无法回报这份爱，却又没办法说服对方或者自己放弃。当Carol终于下定决心面对自己的爱情时，悲剧却降临到了Jason的身上……\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.cocobook.net/book/9787800809538.htm\">Read the original</a>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nAfter an accidental meeting, Carol and Jason fell in love at first sight, loving each other like two months to a flame, hurting each other in their infatuation, and yet feeling increasing tenderness for each other in their pain. Carol, though strongly attached, doesn\'t dare believe in true love due to having been abandoned by her father; gentle and considerate Jason, because a woman previously killed herself over him, suffers from a \"serious inability to love\". The two of them are mutually attracted, yet avoid each other, each knowing that they can\'t reciprocate the love, but also both unable to convince themselves to walk away from it. When Carol finally becomes determined to face her love, tragedy descends upon Jason...\r\n\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Gentleness of Self Sacrifice', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '448-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-04 13:07:47', '2011-02-04 18:07:47', '', 448, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/04/448-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(454, 1, '2011-01-15 23:59:56', '2011-01-16 04:59:56', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis very short husband and wife joke is courtesy of the March 2006 print issue of Youth Digest.  <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe vocabulary here is intermediate, but the story contains quite a few beginner words and short sentences that you may enjoy puzzling out.\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Interesting Vocabulary</h4>\r\n性感 - [pinyin]xing4 gan3[/pinyin] - Sexy\r\n期盼 -  [pinyin]qi1 pan4[/pinyin] - Look forward to, hope to expect\r\n袍 -  [pinyin]pao4[/pinyin] - Gown\r\n镂空 - [pinyin]lou4 kong4[/pinyin] - Lacy or mostly see-through. Lit: Pierced with holes\r\n睡褂 - [pinyin]shui4 gua4[/pinyin] - Sleep robe\r\n吓了一条 - [pinyin]xia4 le5 yi1 tiao2[/pinyin] - Be startled\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n丈夫问我，40岁生日礼物想要什么东西，我告诉他想要一种能使我看上去更加<strong>性感</strong>和美丽的东西，也就是所，我心中<strong>期盼</strong>的是装有黑色丝<strong>袍</strong>和<strong>镂空睡褂</strong>的女内衣盒。 但是礼物送到时，我着实<strong>吓了一条</strong>。 丈夫拖回家一直巨大笨重的包装箱，里面是一辆健身自行车。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nMy husband asked me what I wanted for my 40th birthday. I told him that I wanted something that would make me look more sexy and beautiful. In other words, I was looking forward to getting some clothes, like a black silk gown and a lacy sleeping robe in a women\'s lingerie box. But when the gift arrived, I was startled. My husband dragged home a huge, heavy package, and inside was an exercise bike. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'Birthday Present', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '270-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-01-15 23:59:56', '2011-01-16 04:59:56', '', 270, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/01/15/270-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(456, 1, '2011-02-01 11:31:32', '2011-02-01 16:31:32', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA slightly nonsensical fairy tale about a young woman and a cabbage-stealing rabbit that wants to marry her.<!--more--> \r\n\r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Once there was... / Long ago there was... \r\n\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>从前</strong>有个妇人，她带着女儿住在一座漂亮的花园里，院子里种了许多卷心菜。冬天，有只兔子来到院子里偷吃卷心菜，妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说: “喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。” 兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”\r\n\r\n小姑娘不肯。\r\n\r\n 第二天，兔子又来吃卷心菜了。妈妈又对女儿说：“到院子里去把那只兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说： “小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘还是拒绝了。\r\n\r\n第三天，兔子又来了，坐在卷心菜上面。妈妈对女儿说：“去把那兔子赶走。”小姑娘就出来对兔子说：“喂！兔子，你快把我们家的卷心菜吃光了。”兔子对小姑娘说：“小姑娘，来坐到我尾巴上来吧，我带你上我家去。”小姑娘坐到兔子尾巴上，被带到了很远的兔子家。它对姑娘说：“现在动手烧饭吧，用青菜和小米，我去请来参加婚礼的客人。”接着，所有的客人都到了（谁是客人？我把别人告诉我的说给你听吧：全是兔子！奶牛是牧师，为新郎新娘主持婚礼；狐狸是司仪，祭坛在彩虹下面。）\r\n\r\n姑娘十分难过，因为只有她是人。小兔子走来说：“开门开门快开门，客人们都很有兴趣。”被当成新娘的姑娘一言不发地抽泣起来，兔子走了出去。它再回来时又说：“开饭开饭快开饭，客人们肚子都很饿了。”新娘还是一声不吭，顾自流泪，兔子又走了。它第三次回来时对小姑娘说：“揭开锅盖快揭开，客人已经不耐烦。”新娘沉默着，兔子又出去了。于是姑娘将自己的衣服套在一个稻草人身上，给它一把勺子装成搅拌锅里煮的东西的样子，然后把它摆在锅边，自己回家找妈妈去了。小兔子又回来喊：“快开饭，快开饭！”然后站起来，对着新娘就是一拳，结果把稻草人的帽子给打掉了。\r\n\r\n小兔子发现这不是它要的新娘，十分难过地离开了那里。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nLong ago, there was a married woman who brought her daughter to live in a beautiful garden planted with many cabbages. In winter, a rabbit came to the garden and stole the cabbages to eat. Mama said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" \r\n\r\nBut the girl was unwilling.\r\n\r\nOn the second day, the rabbit came to eat the cabbages again. Mama again said to her daughter, \"Go into the garden and drive that rabbit away.\" The girl went outside and said to the rabbit, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, come sit on my tail, I\'ll take you to my house.\" But the girl still refused. \r\n\r\nOn the third day, the rabbit came again, and sat on top of the cabbage. The mother said to her daughter, \"Go chase that rabbit away.\" So the girl went outside and said, \"Wei! Rabbit, you\'ll soon eat up all of our cabbage!\" The rabbit said to the girl, \"Young lady, sit on my tail and I\'ll take you to my house.\" The girl sat on the rabbit\'s tail and was taken to the rabbit\'s house far away. He said to the girl, \"Now get started with the cooking, use green vegetables and millet, I\'ll go invite guests to the wedding.\" Presently, all the guests arrived (and who were the guests? I\'ll tell you what I heard from someone else: They were all rabbits! A dairy cow was the pastor, who took charge of the wedding for the bride and groom; and a fox was the master of ceremonies, with his altar set beneath a rainbow).\r\n\r\nThe girl was very sad, because only she was human. The rabbit approached her and said, \"Open the door, open the door, hurry and open the door, the guests are very interested [in seeing you].\" The unwitting bride [lit: girl who was being treated as a bride] began sobbing without saying anything, and the rabbit went away. When he came back again, he said, \"Serve the food, serve the food, hurry and serve the food, the guests are all very hungry.\" The girl, crying to herself, still didn\'t make a peep, and the rabbit again went away. The third time he came back, he said to the girl, \"Uncover the saucepan, quick uncover the pot, the guests are getting impatient.\" The bride remain uncommunicative, and the rabbit went away again. So the girl took her own clothes and put them on a scarecrow, put a spoon in its hand so that it appeared to be stirring the boiling pot, then positioned him next to the pot, and then she went back home to her mother.  \r\n\r\nThe rabbit came back again and yelled, \"Hurry and serve the food, hurry and serve the food!\" Then he stood up and raised a fist to the girl, and consequently knocked the scarecrow\'s hat off.  \r\n\r\nWhen the rabbit found out that this wasn\'t his bride, he sadly went away from there. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half] ', 'The Rabbit\'s Bride', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '366-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-02-01 11:31:32', '2011-02-01 16:31:32', '', 366, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/01/366-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
