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The punchline of the last joke, "I Won't Let You Die", hinges on the Chinese slang [verb]死了 [pinyin]si3le5[/pinyin]，which doesn't actually have anything to do with death, but rather means "very". For example, 饿死了, literally "die from hunger", means "very hungry", similar to the English phrase "I'm starving to death!" In this case, the phrase is 高兴死了, "happy to death", or "very happy". 

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冰糕 - [pinyin]bing1 gao1[/pinyin] - Popsicle
陪 - [pinyin]pei2[/pinyin] - To accompany, go with
标签 - [pinyin]biao1 qian1[/pinyin] - Label
遗失 - [pinyin]yi2 shi1[/pinyin] - To lose
自黏 - [pinyin]zi4 nian2[/pinyin] - Self-adhesive
多余 - [pinyin]duo1 yi2[/pinyin] - Unnecessarily
孝子 - [pinyin]xiao4 zi3[/pinyin] - Obedient / filial son

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<strong>冰糕</strong>

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”。

<strong>一张标签1</strong>

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。”

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。”

<strong>不会让您死</strong>

儿子: “爸爸，假如有一天我考了全班第一名，您会怎样？”

父亲: “那我一定高兴死了。”

儿子: “爸爸，您这样的担心是多余的，我是孝子，不会让您死的。”

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<strong>POPSICLE</strong>

The 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."

<strong>ONE LABEL</strong>

Meimei 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."

Meimei 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."

<strong>I WON'T LET YOU DIE</strong>

Son: "Father, if I'm ever first in my class, what would you do?"

Father: "Well, I'd be so happy I'd die!" 

Son: "Father, you don't need to worry unnecessarily, I'm a filial son, I won't let you die."

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