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(627, 1, '2011-03-26 22:24:51', '2011-03-27 02:24:51', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA children\'s story meant to show kids an example of the right way to be polite to their elders.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20110330-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Chinese Reading Exercises: Chinese Children&#039;s Stories\" title=\"Beginner Chinese Reading Exercises: Chinese Children&#039;s Stories\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The Chinese title of this story is <strong>懂礼貌的小兔</strong>.\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炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\r\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\r\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\r\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\r\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\r\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\r\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<strong>炎热</strong>的夏天来了，小鸟在树上叫着: “热呀，热呀！”\r\n\r\n美丽的小白兔穿着漂亮的花裙子，哼着歌，<strong>蹦蹦跳跳</strong>地上了桥。它要到对面去<strong>采</strong>蘑菇。\r\n\r\n就在这时候，它看见对面的山羊伯伯也准备要过桥。小桥很<strong>窄</strong>，只能一个人过桥。\r\n\r\n小白兔看见了，停下脚步，大声说: “山羊伯伯您先过桥吧！”说完，它就从桥上退了下来。\r\n\r\n山羊伯伯戴着眼镜，<strong>拄</strong>着<strong>拐杖</strong>在桥上慢慢地走着。山羊伯伯一不小心差点摔到了，吓得小白兔大声地喊: “山羊伯伯，小心一点过桥！”\r\n\r\n山羊伯伯过了桥，摸着小白兔的头夸奖道: “你真<strong>乖</strong>！”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://story.beva.com/20/content/dong-li-mao-de-xiao-tu-zi-2\">See the original</a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nThe blisteringly hot days of summer had come, and all of the birds in the trees were crying, \"It\'s hot, it\'s hot!\" \r\n\r\nA beautiful little white rabbit wearing a pretty floral skirt and humming a song, bounced vivaciously onto a bridge. It wanted to cross to the other side [of the bridge] to gather mushrooms. \r\n\r\nJust at that moment, it saw that Uncle Goat was standing on the other side of the bridge preparing to cross. The bridge was very narrow, and only one creature could cross at a time.\r\n\r\nThe little white rabbit saw this, and stopped walking, saying loudly, \"Uncle Goat, you go across the bridge first!\" Saying this, it retreated from the bridge. \r\n\r\nUncle Goat put on his glasses, leaned on his walking stick, and began to slowly cross the bridge. Uncle Goat wasn\'t careful for a moment and he fell over. Frightened, Little White Rabbit loudly yelled: \"Uncle Goat, be careful as you cross the bridge!\" \r\n\r\nUncle Goat crossed the bridge and patted the little rabbit on the head in praise, saying: \"You\'re very well-behaved!\" \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Polite Little Rabbit', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '614-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-26 22:24:51', '2011-03-27 02:24:51', '', 614, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/26/614-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(628, 1, '2011-03-17 21:20:39', '2011-03-18 01:20:39', '[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', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '448-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-17 21:20:39', '2011-03-18 01:20:39', '', 448, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/17/448-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(629, 1, '2011-03-18 12:04:51', '2011-03-18 16:04:51', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI love mystery novels, especially the trashy ones. This synopsis\'ll get you up to speed on all that evil grave robbing vocabulary you missed in class.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20110318-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Practice Advanced Chinese Reading: Theif of Time\" title=\"Practice Advanced Chinese Reading: Theif of Time\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />There are three names in this text that are Chinese transliterations of English names, so I\'ve given it my best guess. The first, 弗里德曼, I didn\'t even try to translate, so I stuck with Fulideman (Fleiderman?). For the second, 利普霍恩, I went with Philip Horn. And the third, 吉姆•契, I went with Jim Qi. If anyone\'s got a more standard translation for these names, please leave 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古墓 - [pinyin]gu3 mu4[/pinyin] - Ancient tomb\r\n考古学家 - [pinyin]kao3 gu3 xue2 jia1[/pinyin] - Archaeologist\r\n心狠手辣 - [pinyin]xin1 hen3 shou3 la4[/pinyin] - Viscious and merciless\r\n一块 - [pinyin]yi1 kuai4[/pinyin] - Together, a block, as a group\r\n乌云 - [pinyin]wu1 yun2[/pinyin] - Black cloud\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n历史悠久的印第安<strong>古墓</strong>吸引着大批专业<strong>考古学家</strong>，同时也吸引着<strong>心狠手辣</strong>的盗墓贼——人称“时间之贼”。\r\n　　\r\n年轻的考古学家弗里德曼博士无故失踪；警局附近连续发生两起盗窃案；神出鬼没的神秘传教士；古墓附近惨死的盗墓贼……这一切有着怎样的联系？丧妻的利普霍恩和倒霉的吉姆•契如何打破僵局，解开重重谜团？\r\n\r\n盗墓，打扰了死者的灵魂，必将会遭到报应。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://book.douban.com/subject/5383581/\">See the original on Douban</a>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nA historically important American Indian tomb has attracted a large number of expert archaeologists, but has also attracted a viscious and merciless grave robber known as \"The Theif of Time\". \r\n　　\r\nYoung archaeologist Dr. Fulideman has gone missing; two incidents of theft have happened near the police station; a mysterious missionary appears and vanishes; a grave robber dies tragically near the tomb... what is the connection between these events? How will widower Phillip Horn and down-on-his-luck Jim Qi untangle the riddle?  \r\n\r\nThose who rob graves and disturb the souls of the dead inevitably will suffer retribution.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Theif of Time', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '494-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-18 12:04:51', '2011-03-18 16:04:51', '', 494, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/18/494-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(630, 1, '2011-04-11 20:17:34', '2011-04-12 00:17:34', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\nThis excerpt is from the modern militant action novel \"Coldspike\", or 《冷刺》, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). \r\n\r\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. If you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \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>《冷刺》</h4>\r\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条<strong>冬眠</strong>的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到<strong>斑驳</strong>腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中<strong>潜伏</strong>两天两夜，不吃不喝，<strong>纹丝不动</strong>。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气<strong>闷热</strong>得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\r\n\r\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长<strong>追踪</strong>的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\r\n\r\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少<strong>特战</strong>高手在伺机<strong>狙</strong>杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“<strong>杀戮</strong>”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和<strong>匪夷所思</strong>的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\r\n\r\n这次的特种兵大<strong>比武</strong>，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大<strong>军区</strong>的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者<strong>出局</strong>。\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\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \r\n\r\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\r\n\r\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were laying in wait to ambush him. He must be the most patient hunter, or else he would become someone else\'s prey. Everyone else in his group had already been \"hung\". In the \"massacre\" three days before, they\'d \"died\" in battle one after the other. But he, relying on his superior sixth sense and freakish agility, had escaped his opponent\'s ambush, and had also \"killed\" more than a few of supremely experienced special forces elite, somehow taking no wounds himself. It was a real miracle that he\'d managed this under attack from 10-plus special forces elite groups!\r\n\r\nTo this Commando Competition, an international \"special forces soldier\" face-off held once every five years, came elite commandos from the world\'s seven major military regions. Each [soldier] had [proven themselves] in numerous battles - it would not be unrealistic to say that any one you picked out of the bunch could single-handedly wipe out a whole unit of regular soldiers. This Commando Competition was a real military engagement, everything was like a real war, except for the fact that blanks are used for ammunition, all other equipment was special forces standard issue. A ten day limit, no reinforcements, no support, every man for himself, anyone eliminated is out of the running. \r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>\r\n', 'Novels: Start reading 《冷刺》Coldspike', 'Get your dose of cheesy militaristic language in this excerpt is from the modern militant action novel \"Coldspike\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). ', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'cold-thorn-part-1', '', '', '2020-04-28 19:37:43', '2020-04-28 23:37:43', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=630', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(1826, 1, '2020-04-20 06:31:21', '2020-04-20 10:31:21', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\nThis excerpt is from the modern militant action novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). \r\n\r\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. If you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \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>《冷刺》</h4>\r\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条<strong>冬眠</strong>的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到<strong>斑驳</strong>腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中<strong>潜伏</strong>两天两夜，不吃不喝，<strong>纹丝不动</strong>。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气<strong>闷热</strong>得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\r\n\r\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长<strong>追踪</strong>的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\r\n\r\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少<strong>特战</strong>高手在伺机<strong>狙</strong>杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“<strong>杀戮</strong>”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和<strong>匪夷所思</strong>的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\r\n\r\n这次的特种兵大<strong>比武</strong>，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大<strong>军区</strong>的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者<strong>出局</strong>。\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\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \r\n\r\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\r\n\r\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were laying in wait to ambush him. He must be the most patient hunter, or else he would become someone else\'s prey. Everyone else in his group had already been \"hung\". In the \"massacre\" three days before, they\'d \"died\" in battle one after the other. But he, relying on his superior sixth sense and freakish agility, had escaped his opponent\'s ambush, and had also \"killed\" more than a few of supremely experienced special forces elite, somehow taking no wounds himself. It was a real miracle that he\'d managed this under attack from 10-plus special forces elite groups!\r\n\r\nTo this Commando Competition, an international \"special forces soldier\" face-off held once every five years, came elite commandos from the world\'s seven major military regions. Each [soldier] had [proven themselves] in numerous battles - it would not be unrealistic to say that any one you picked out of the bunch could single-handedly wipe out a whole unit of regular soldiers. This Commando Competition was a real military engagement, everything was like a real war, except for the fact that blanks are used for ammunition, all other equipment was special forces standard issue. A ten day limit, no reinforcements, no support, every man for himself, anyone eliminated is out of the running. \r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>\r\n', 'Novels: Cold Thorn 《冷刺》', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:31:21', '2020-04-20 10:31:21', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/04/20/630-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(633, 1, '2011-03-27 20:24:45', '2011-03-28 00:24:45', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA children\'s story meant to show kids an example of the right way to be polite to their elders.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20110330-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Chinese Reading Exercises: Chinese Children&#039;s Stories\" title=\"Beginner Chinese Reading Exercises: Chinese Children&#039;s Stories\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The Chinese title of this story is <strong>懂礼貌的小兔</strong>.\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炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\r\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\r\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\r\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\r\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\r\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\r\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<strong>炎热</strong>的夏天来了，小鸟在树上叫着: “热呀，热呀！”\r\n\r\n美丽的小白兔穿着漂亮的花裙子，哼着歌，<strong>蹦蹦跳跳</strong>地上了桥。它要到对面去<strong>采</strong>蘑菇。\r\n\r\n就在这时候，它看见对面的山羊伯伯也准备要过桥。小桥很<strong>窄</strong>，只能一个人过桥。\r\n\r\n小白兔看见了，停下脚步，大声说: “山羊伯伯您先过桥吧！”说完，它就从桥上退了下来。\r\n\r\n山羊伯伯戴着眼镜，<strong>拄</strong>着<strong>拐杖</strong>在桥上慢慢地走着。山羊伯伯一不小心差点摔到了，吓得小白兔大声地喊: “山羊伯伯，小心一点过桥！”\r\n\r\n山羊伯伯过了桥，摸着小白兔的头夸奖道: “你真<strong>乖</strong>！”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://story.beva.com/20/content/dong-li-mao-de-xiao-tu-zi-2\">See the original</a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nThe blisteringly hot days of summer had come, and all of the birds in the trees were crying, \"It\'s hot, it\'s hot!\" \r\n\r\nA beautiful little white rabbit wearing a pretty floral skirt and humming a song, bounced vivaciously onto a bridge. It wanted to cross to the other side [of the bridge] to gather mushrooms. \r\n\r\nJust at that moment, it saw that Uncle Goat was standing on the other side of the bridge preparing to cross. The bridge was very narrow, and only one creature could cross at a time.\r\n\r\nThe little white rabbit saw this, and stopped walking, saying loudly, \"Uncle Goat, you go across the bridge first!\" Saying this, it retreated from the bridge. \r\n\r\nUncle Goat put on his glasses, leaned on his walking stick, and began to slowly cross the bridge. Uncle Goat wasn\'t careful for a moment and he fell over. Frightened, Little White Rabbit loudly yelled: \"Uncle Goat, be careful as you cross the bridge!\" \r\n\r\nUncle Goat crossed the bridge and patted the little rabbit on the head in praise, saying: \"You\'re very well-behaved!\" \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Polite Little Rabbit', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '614-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-27 20:24:45', '2011-03-28 00:24:45', '', 614, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/27/614-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(634, 1, '2011-03-27 20:27:48', '2011-03-28 00:27:48', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA children\'s story meant to show kids an example of the right way to be polite to their elders.<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20110330-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Chinese Reading Exercises: Chinese Children&#039;s Stories\" title=\"Beginner Chinese Reading Exercises: Chinese Children&#039;s Stories\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The Chinese title of this story is <strong>懂礼貌的小兔</strong>.\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炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\r\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\r\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\r\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\r\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\r\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\r\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<strong>炎热</strong>的夏天来了，小鸟在树上叫着: “热呀，热呀！”\r\n\r\n美丽的小白兔穿着漂亮的花裙子，哼着歌，<strong>蹦蹦跳跳</strong>地上了桥。它要到对面去<strong>采</strong>蘑菇。\r\n\r\n就在这时候，它看见对面的山羊伯伯也准备要过桥。小桥很<strong>窄</strong>，只能一个人过桥。\r\n\r\n小白兔看见了，停下脚步，大声说: “山羊伯伯您先过桥吧！”说完，它就从桥上退了下来。\r\n\r\n山羊伯伯戴着眼镜，<strong>拄</strong>着<strong>拐杖</strong>在桥上慢慢地走着。山羊伯伯一不小心差点摔到了，吓得小白兔大声地喊: “山羊伯伯，小心一点过桥！”\r\n\r\n山羊伯伯过了桥，摸着小白兔的头夸奖道: “你真<strong>乖</strong>！”\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://story.beva.com/20/content/dong-li-mao-de-xiao-tu-zi-2\">See the original</a>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nThe blisteringly hot days of summer had come, and all of the birds in the trees were crying, \"It\'s hot, it\'s hot!\" \r\n\r\nA beautiful little white rabbit wearing a pretty floral skirt and humming a song, bounced vivaciously onto a bridge. It wanted to cross to the other side [of the bridge] to gather mushrooms. \r\n\r\nJust at that moment, it saw that Uncle Goat was standing on the other side of the bridge preparing to cross. The bridge was very narrow, and only one creature could cross at a time.\r\n\r\nThe little white rabbit saw this, and stopped walking, saying loudly, \"Uncle Goat, you go across the bridge first!\" Saying this, it retreated from the bridge. \r\n\r\nUncle Goat put on his glasses, leaned on his walking stick, and began to slowly cross the bridge. Uncle Goat wasn\'t careful for a moment and he fell over. Frightened, Little White Rabbit loudly yelled: \"Uncle Goat, be careful as you cross the bridge!\" \r\n\r\nUncle Goat crossed the bridge and patted the little rabbit on the head in praise, saying: \"You\'re very well-behaved!\" \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Polite Little Rabbit', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '614-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-27 20:27:48', '2011-03-28 00:27:48', '', 614, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/27/614-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(635, 1, '2011-03-27 20:41:42', '2011-03-28 00:41:42', '[two_third]\n\nThis rather long Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action Novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the com\n\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \n\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n<strong>炎热</strong>的夏天来了，小鸟在树上叫着: “热呀，热呀！”\n\n美丽的小白兔穿着漂亮的花裙子，哼着歌，<strong>蹦蹦跳跳</strong>地上了桥。它要到对面去<strong>采</strong>蘑菇。\n\n就在这时候，它看见对面的山羊伯伯也准备要过桥。小桥很<strong>窄</strong>，只能一个人过桥。\n\n小白兔看见了，停下脚步，大声说: “山羊伯伯您先过桥吧！”说完，它就从桥上退了下来。\n\n山羊伯伯戴着眼镜，<strong>拄</strong>着<strong>拐杖</strong>在桥上慢慢地走着。山羊伯伯一不小心差点摔到了，吓得小白兔大声地喊: “山羊伯伯，小心一点过桥！”\n\n山羊伯伯过了桥，摸着小白兔的头夸奖道: “你真<strong>乖</strong>！”\n\n<a href=\"http://story.beva.com/20/content/dong-li-mao-de-xiao-tu-zi-2\">See the original</a>\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nThe blisteringly hot days of summer had come, and all of the birds in the trees were crying, \"It\'s hot, it\'s hot!\" \n\nA beautiful little white rabbit wearing a pretty floral skirt and humming a song, bounced vivaciously onto a bridge. It wanted to cross to the other side [of the bridge] to gather mushrooms. \n\nJust at that moment, it saw that Uncle Goat was standing on the other side of the bridge preparing to cross. The bridge was very narrow, and only one creature could cross at a time.\n\nThe little white rabbit saw this, and stopped walking, saying loudly, \"Uncle Goat, you go across the bridge first!\" Saying this, it retreated from the bridge. \n\nUncle Goat put on his glasses, leaned on his walking stick, and began to slowly cross the bridge. Uncle Goat wasn\'t careful for a moment and he fell over. Frightened, Little White Rabbit loudly yelled: \"Uncle Goat, be careful as you cross the bridge!\" \n\nUncle Goat crossed the bridge and patted the little rabbit on the head in praise, saying: \"You\'re very well-behaved!\" \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-27 20:41:42', '2011-03-28 00:41:42', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/27/630-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(636, 1, '2011-03-27 20:43:05', '2011-03-28 00:43:05', '[two_third]\n\nThis rather long Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action Novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). \n\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \n\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条冬眠的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到斑驳腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中潜伏两天两夜，不吃不喝，纹丝不动。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气闷热得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长追踪的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nThe blisteringly hot days of summer had come, and all of the birds in the trees were crying, \"It\'s hot, it\'s hot!\" \n\nA beautiful little white rabbit wearing a pretty floral skirt and humming a song, bounced vivaciously onto a bridge. It wanted to cross to the other side [of the bridge] to gather mushrooms. \n\nJust at that moment, it saw that Uncle Goat was standing on the other side of the bridge preparing to cross. The bridge was very narrow, and only one creature could cross at a time.\n\nThe little white rabbit saw this, and stopped walking, saying loudly, \"Uncle Goat, you go across the bridge first!\" Saying this, it retreated from the bridge. \n\nUncle Goat put on his glasses, leaned on his walking stick, and began to slowly cross the bridge. Uncle Goat wasn\'t careful for a moment and he fell over. Frightened, Little White Rabbit loudly yelled: \"Uncle Goat, be careful as you cross the bridge!\" \n\nUncle Goat crossed the bridge and patted the little rabbit on the head in praise, saying: \"You\'re very well-behaved!\" \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-27 20:43:05', '2011-03-28 00:43:05', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/27/630-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(637, 1, '2011-03-27 20:57:27', '2011-03-28 00:57:27', '[two_third]\n\nThis rather long Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action Novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\n\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \n\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条冬眠的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到斑驳腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中潜伏两天两夜，不吃不喝，纹丝不动。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气闷热得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长追踪的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves.   韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条冬眠的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到斑驳腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中潜伏两天两夜，不吃不喝，纹丝不动。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气闷热得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长追踪的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-27 20:57:27', '2011-03-28 00:57:27', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/27/630-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(638, 1, '2011-03-27 21:02:21', '2011-03-28 01:02:21', '[two_third]\n\nThis rather long Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action Novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\n\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \n\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条冬眠的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到斑驳腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中潜伏两天两夜，不吃不喝，纹丝不动。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气闷热得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长追踪的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe, needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable.  在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气闷热得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长追踪的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-27 21:02:21', '2011-03-28 01:02:21', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/27/630-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(639, 1, '2011-03-27 21:08:25', '2011-03-28 01:08:25', '[two_third]\n\nThis rather long Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action Novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\n\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \n\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条冬眠的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到斑驳腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中潜伏两天两夜，不吃不喝，纹丝不动。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气闷热得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长追踪的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \n\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went before him, even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-27 21:08:25', '2011-03-28 01:08:25', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/27/630-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(640, 1, '2011-03-27 21:10:46', '2011-03-28 01:10:46', '[two_third]\n\nThis rather long Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action Novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\n\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \n\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条冬眠的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到斑驳腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中潜伏两天两夜，不吃不喝，纹丝不动。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气闷热得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长追踪的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \n\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\n\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were waiting for the chance to amb他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-27 21:10:46', '2011-03-28 01:10:46', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/27/630-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(642, 1, '2011-03-27 21:22:49', '2011-03-28 01:22:49', '[two_third]\n\nThis rather long Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action Novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\n\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \n\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条冬眠的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到斑驳腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中潜伏两天两夜，不吃不喝，纹丝不动。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气闷热得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长追踪的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \n\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\n\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were waiting in wait to ambush him. He must be the most patient hunter, or else he would become someone else\'s prey. Everyone else in his group had already been \"hung\". In the \"massacre\" three days before, they\'d \"died\" in battle one after the other. But he, relying on his superior sixth sense and freakish agility, had escaped his opponent\'s ambush, and had also \"killed\" more than a few of supremely experienced special forces elite, somehow taking no wounds himself. It was a real miracle that he\'d managed this under attack from 10-plus special forces elite groups!\n\nTo this Commando Competition, an international \"special forces soldier\" face-off held once every five years, came elite commandos from the world\'s seven major military regions. Each [soldier] had [proven themselves] in numerous battles - it would not be unrealistic to say that any one you picked out of the bunch could single-handedly wipe out a whole unit of regular soldiers. This Commando Competition   这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-27 21:22:49', '2011-03-28 01:22:49', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/27/630-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(641, 1, '2011-03-27 21:17:40', '2011-03-28 01:17:40', '[two_third]\n\nThis rather long Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action Novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\n\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \n\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条冬眠的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到斑驳腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中潜伏两天两夜，不吃不喝，纹丝不动。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气闷热得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长追踪的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \n\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\n\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were waiting in wait to ambush him. He must be the most patient hunter, or else he would become someone else\'s prey. Everyone else in his group had already been \"hung\". In the \"massacre\" three days before, they\'d \"died\" in battle one after the other. But he, relying on his superior sixth sense and freakish agility, had escaped his opponent\'s ambush, and had also \"killed\" more than a few of supremely experienced special forces elite, somehow taking no wounds himself. It was a real miracle that he\'d managed this under attack from 10-plus special forces elite groups,    他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-27 21:17:40', '2011-03-28 01:17:40', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/27/630-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(644, 1, '2011-03-27 21:28:09', '2011-03-28 01:28:09', '[two_third]\n\nThis Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\n\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \n\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条冬眠的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到斑驳腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中潜伏两天两夜，不吃不喝，纹丝不动。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气闷热得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长追踪的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \n\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\n\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were waiting in wait to ambush him. He must be the most patient hunter, or else he would become someone else\'s prey. Everyone else in his group had already been \"hung\". In the \"massacre\" three days before, they\'d \"died\" in battle one after the other. But he, relying on his superior sixth sense and freakish agility, had escaped his opponent\'s ambush, and had also \"killed\" more than a few of supremely experienced special forces elite, somehow taking no wounds himself. It was a real miracle that he\'d managed this under attack from 10-plus special forces elite groups!\n\nTo this Commando Competition, an international \"special forces soldier\" face-off held once every five years, came elite commandos from the world\'s seven major military regions. Each [soldier] had [proven themselves] in numerous battles - it would not be unrealistic to say that any one you picked out of the bunch could single-handedly wipe out a whole unit of regular soldiers. This Commando Competition was a real military engagement, everything was like a real war, except for the fact that blanks are used for ammunition, all other equipment was special forces standard issue. A ten day limit, no reinforcements, no support, every man for himself, anyone eliminated is out of the running. \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-27 21:28:09', '2011-03-28 01:28:09', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/27/630-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(643, 1, '2011-03-27 21:26:09', '2011-03-28 01:26:09', '[two_third]\n\nThis rather long Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action Novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\n\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \n\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n炎热 - [pinyin]yan2 re4[/pinyin] - Blazing hot, sizzling hot\n蹦蹦跳跳- [pinyin]beng4 beng4 tiao4 tiao4[/pinyin] - Bouncing and vivacious\n采 - [pinyin]cai3[/pinyin] - Gather, collect\n窄 - [pinyin]zhai3[/pinyin] - Narrow\n拄 - [pinyin]zhu3[/pinyin] - to lean on\n拐杖 - [pinyin]guai3 zhang4[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条冬眠的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到斑驳腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中潜伏两天两夜，不吃不喝，纹丝不动。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气闷热得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长追踪的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \n\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\n\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were waiting in wait to ambush him. He must be the most patient hunter, or else he would become someone else\'s prey. Everyone else in his group had already been \"hung\". In the \"massacre\" three days before, they\'d \"died\" in battle one after the other. But he, relying on his superior sixth sense and freakish agility, had escaped his opponent\'s ambush, and had also \"killed\" more than a few of supremely experienced special forces elite, somehow taking no wounds himself. It was a real miracle that he\'d managed this under attack from 10-plus special forces elite groups!\n\nTo this Commando Competition, an international \"special forces soldier\" face-off held once every five years, came elite commandos from the world\'s seven major military regions. Each [soldier] had [proven themselves] in numerous battles - it would not be unrealistic to say that any one you picked out of the bunch could single-handedly wipe out a whole unit of regular soldiers. This Commando Competition was a real military engagement, everything was like a real war, except for the fact that blanks are used for ammunition, all other equipment was special forces standard issue. A te   这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n参赛的特战小组中，最有名气的要数B军区的“暗剑”，N军区的“灵狐”，还有D军区的“猎人”，这几个小组不但在国内军界名闻遐迩，在国际特种兵界也是赫赫有名。他们是中国人民解放军的王牌杀手，更是秘不示人的国之利芒。近几年在国内外的表现可谓是完美绝伦，不但大扬我国威，更让那些蠢蠢欲动的暗流和居心叵测的势力闻风丧胆，他们千方百计地搜集中国特种部队的信息，加大对中国特种兵的研究。\n\n可是这八天的残酷对抗，连精英小组“暗剑”也崩了刀口，五人小组中的狙击手被人无声无息地暗算“身亡”，而己方居然没有发现对手的踪迹，“暗剑”队长方为雄简直快要疯了。\n\n方为雄是东北大汉，身高米，黝黑的脸庞棱角分明，身材状如铁塔，别看他人高马大，其实他头脑冷静，精明得如同一只狐狸，搏击术放眼全军罕逢其手，是上届中国特种兵搏击大赛冠军。强将手下无弱兵，他带领的三个战士都是百战精英，和方为雄一块儿出生入死，征战国内外，遇神杀神，遇佛杀佛。没想到在这片热带丛林竟然出师不利，连“敌人”的影子也没看到，就折损了两名队员，这火儿就窝得大了。不过，方为雄很是清醒，他知道，能在他们身边这么干的人，绝非易与之辈。所以他提醒自己，一定要保持冷静和谨慎，因为在这样的环境中和这样的对手决斗，一旦急躁，就是死亡，这点儿，他比谁都清楚，无数次血的教训让他和他身边的战士刻骨铭心。\n\n“暗剑”如此，其他几个组的情况也不容乐观，长达八天的明枪暗箭，大家都互有损失。处处陷阱，处处狙杀，危险存在于每时每刻中，前一秒你还在“杀”别人，后一秒你就会被别人所“杀”，战斗的残酷考验着每一个战士的心智、耐力和体力，魔鬼式训练造就的超强战力在这里就像弥漫在林中的水汽一样，慢慢滴落，慢慢耗尽，等待你的或许就是下一刻的“死亡”。\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-27 21:26:09', '2011-03-28 01:26:09', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/27/630-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(645, 1, '2011-03-26 09:54:27', '2011-03-26 13:54:27', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis is a slightly sad blurb about a substitue 班长, or classroom leader.  If you\'ve ever used Chinese-made textbooks to study, or if you\'re studying language in China, this could be managable for a beginner, otherwise, consider it an intermediate passage. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/20110326-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Exercise: You are Just a Substitute\" title=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Exercise: You are Just a Substitute\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />Chinese beginner textbooks are often filled with classroom-y words, and stories about inter-student and student-teacher relationships, so this should make a bit more intuitive sense if you\'ve ever been in a real Chinese classroom environment. \r\n\r\nIn my opinion, there\'s no good English translation for the word 班长. In Chinese classrooms, one student is elected the class leader - they are responsible for keeping other students in line, are given extra classroom duties, and are akin to a teacher\'s pet. But in English, the word \"teacher\'s pet\" has a negative meaning. Not so in Chinese classrooms, where being the 班长 is considered a real privilege. \r\n\r\nOne of the more difficult clauses here is ... 埋头继续玩\"三国杀\". This means \"... immersed themselves in continuing to play San Guo Sha.\" San Guo Sha is a popular Asian card game (which, I understand, has been turned into an online multiplayer network game). \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核心 - [pinyin]he2 xin1[/pinyin] - Core, \"heart\", nucleus\r\n代替- [pinyin]dai4 ti4[/pinyin] - Substitute, instead\r\n讲台 - [pinyin]jiang3 tai2[/pinyin] - Speaking platform, podium\r\n乱哄哄 - [pinyin]luan4 hong1 hong1[/pinyin] - Disorderly and noisy, in an uproar\r\n耳旁风 - [pinyin]er3 pang2 feng1[/pinyin] - In one ear and out the other\r\n狡辩 - [pinyin]jiao3 bian4[/pinyin] - Quibble, argue\r\n反驳 - [pinyin]fan3 bo1[/pinyin] - Retort, sharp reply\r\n斥责 - [pinyin]chi4 ze2[/pinyin] - Denounce\r\n嚣张 - [pinyin]xiao1 zhang1[/pinyin] - Be arrogant, be on one\'s high horse\r\n争辩 - [pinyin]zheng1 bian2[/pinyin] - Dispute\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n班长是一个班级里的核心，权力地位是不用说的，在班长不在时，能怎么办呢？只能找一位能力好、成绩好的同学<strong>代替</strong>了。\r\n\r\n我就是代替的，在当天班长不在时，老师就总是找我代替，我也很开心为老师干活。\r\n\r\n这天，刚好班长有事出去了，我只能跑上<strong>讲台</strong>，管好纪律。课室里<strong>乱哄哄</strong>的，谁也没有注意到我。我大声喊: \"全部回到自己的位置上，现在开始<strong>记名</strong>。\" 顿时，课室里静了一会儿，大部分同学都回到座位上了，只有少数同学把我的话当做\"<strong>耳旁风</strong>\"，埋头继续玩\"三国杀\"。\r\n\r\n我怒了，把他们的名字登到黑板上去，而且写的大大的。他们极力<strong>狡辩</strong>\"为什么登我名？\" 我刚想<strong>反驳</strong>，可是检查的人来了，我心平气和地对他们说道: \"检查的人来了，不许吵闹，不然可是要加作业的。\" 他们立刻闭上嘴。唉，班长不好当啊！\r\n\r\n检查团一走，他们又不管我的<strong>斥责</strong>，继续吵闹，并反驳: \"你<strong>嚣张</strong>什么啊，你只是个代替的。\" 他们说这话时可神气多了。我转过身，眼泪在我的眼眶里打转，我忍住了，没有跟他们<strong>争辩</strong>。\r\n\r\n最后，班长回来了，我停止了我的\"代替生活\"。\r\n\r\n唉，代替的比正的还要烦心啊。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.qnwz.cn/html/article/chengchangjishi/201103/18-258875.html\">See the original on QingNian WenZhai</a>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nThe class monitor is the heart of any class [lit: grade level], needless to say it\'s a powerful position. When the class monitor isn\'t there, how should you deal with it? Well, you find another skilled student with good grades to substitute. \r\n\r\nI\'m a [class monitor] substitute; when the class monitor isn\'t there, the teacher asks me instead, and I\'m happy to do some work for the teacher. \r\n\r\nThis one day, the class monitor had just left to do something, so I ran up to the podium to oversee classroom discipline. The classroom was disorderly and loud, no one wasy paying attention to me. I called out loudly: \"Everyone return to your places, we\'re going to call roll.\" The classroom immediately quieted down a bit, most students returned to their seats, but for a few, my words went in one ear and out the other, and they immersed themselves in their game of San Guo Sha. \r\n\r\nIndignant, I wrote the names [of the misbehaving students] on the blackboard in big letters. They tried vehemently to argue, saying :\"Why are you writing my name?\" I had just thought up a [stinging] retort, but the class inspector arrived, and I calmly said, \"The inspector has arrived, you must not be noisy, or else you\'ll be assigned extra homework.\" They immediately shut their mouths. Ai, it\'s no fun being the class monitor! \r\n\r\nAs soon as the classroom inspector left, they once again ignored my protests, continued being noisy, and snapped, \"What are you on your high horse about, you\'re just a substitute.\" They said this in a [mean]-spirited way. I turned away, tears welling in my eyes, but I tolerated it and did not argue with them.\r\n\r\nFinally, the class monitor returned, and I stopped [living] my \"life as a substitute\". \r\n\r\nAi, being a substitute is more trouble than being the real thing. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'You are Just a Substitute', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '586-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-26 09:54:27', '2011-03-26 13:54:27', '', 586, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/26/586-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(646, 1, '2011-02-23 09:37:08', '2011-02-23 14:37:08', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nWell, not exactly one line, but close enough. These three jokes are meant for young kids, the type of thing you might find on the back of a kid\'s cereal box. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110217-INLINE-one-liners.jpg\" alt=\"Beginner Chinese Reading Practice: Super Simple One Liners\" title=\"Beginner Chinese Reading Practice: Super Simple One Liners\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />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\". \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 and 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', '', '', '2011-02-23 09:37:08', '2011-02-23 14:37:08', '', 354, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/02/23/354-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(647, 1, '2011-04-11 20:10:58', '2011-04-12 00:10:58', '[two_third]\n\nThis Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\n\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \n\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n冬眠 - [pinyin]dong1 mian2[/pinyin] - Hibernation\n斑驳- [pinyin]ban1 bo2[/pinyin] - Mottled\n潜伏 - [pinyin]qian2 fu2[/pinyin] - Concealed, covered\n纹丝不动 - [pinyin]wen2 si1 bu4 dong4[/pinyin] - Not move a whisker\n闷热 - [pinyin]men1 re4[/pinyin] - sultry\n追踪 - [pinyin]zhui1 zong1[/pinyin] - Crutches, walking stick\n乖 - [pinyin]guai1[/pinyin] - [of a child] obedient, well-behaved\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条<strong>冬眠</strong>的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到<strong>斑驳</strong>腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中<strong>潜伏</strong>两天两夜，不吃不喝，<strong>纹丝不动</strong>。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气<strong>闷热</strong>得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长<strong>追踪</strong>的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少特战高手在伺机狙杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“杀戮”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和匪夷所思的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大比武，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大军区的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者出局。\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \n\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\n\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were waiting in wait to ambush him. He must be the most patient hunter, or else he would become someone else\'s prey. Everyone else in his group had already been \"hung\". In the \"massacre\" three days before, they\'d \"died\" in battle one after the other. But he, relying on his superior sixth sense and freakish agility, had escaped his opponent\'s ambush, and had also \"killed\" more than a few of supremely experienced special forces elite, somehow taking no wounds himself. It was a real miracle that he\'d managed this under attack from 10-plus special forces elite groups!\n\nTo this Commando Competition, an international \"special forces soldier\" face-off held once every five years, came elite commandos from the world\'s seven major military regions. Each [soldier] had [proven themselves] in numerous battles - it would not be unrealistic to say that any one you picked out of the bunch could single-handedly wipe out a whole unit of regular soldiers. This Commando Competition was a real military engagement, everything was like a real war, except for the fact that blanks are used for ammunition, all other equipment was special forces standard issue. A ten day limit, no reinforcements, no support, every man for himself, anyone eliminated is out of the running. \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-04-11 20:10:58', '2011-04-12 00:10:58', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/04/11/630-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(648, 1, '2011-04-11 20:17:22', '2011-04-12 00:17:22', '[two_third]\n\nThis Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\n\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \n\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n冬眠 - [pinyin]dong1 mian2[/pinyin] - Hibernation\n斑驳- [pinyin]ban1 bo2[/pinyin] - Mottled\n潜伏 - [pinyin]qian2 fu2[/pinyin] - Concealed, covered\n纹丝不动 - [pinyin]wen2 si1 bu4 dong4[/pinyin] - Not move a whisker\n闷热 - [pinyin]men1 re4[/pinyin] - sultry\n追踪 - [pinyin]zhui1 zong1[/pinyin] - Track, trace, follow a trail\n特战 - [pinyin]te4 zhan4[/pinyin] - Special forces\n狙 - [pinyin]ju1[/pinyin] - Lie in ambush\n杀戮 - [pinyin]sha1 lu4[/pinyin] - Massacre\n匪夷所思 - [pinyin]fei3 yi2 suo3 si1[/pinyin] - Freak, fantastic\n比武 - [pinyin]bi3 wu3[/pinyin] - Martial / military contest\n军区 - [pinyin]jun1 qu1[/pinyin] - Military region\n出局 - [pinyin]jun1 qu1[/pinyin] - Military region\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条<strong>冬眠</strong>的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到<strong>斑驳</strong>腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中<strong>潜伏</strong>两天两夜，不吃不喝，<strong>纹丝不动</strong>。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气<strong>闷热</strong>得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\n\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长<strong>追踪</strong>的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\n\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少<strong>特战</strong>高手在伺机<strong>狙</strong>杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“<strong>杀戮</strong>”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和<strong>匪夷所思</strong>的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\n\n这次的特种兵大<strong>比武</strong>，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大<strong>军区</strong>的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者<strong>出局</strong>。\n\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \n\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\n\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were waiting in wait to ambush him. He must be the most patient hunter, or else he would become someone else\'s prey. Everyone else in his group had already been \"hung\". In the \"massacre\" three days before, they\'d \"died\" in battle one after the other. But he, relying on his superior sixth sense and freakish agility, had escaped his opponent\'s ambush, and had also \"killed\" more than a few of supremely experienced special forces elite, somehow taking no wounds himself. It was a real miracle that he\'d managed this under attack from 10-plus special forces elite groups!\n\nTo this Commando Competition, an international \"special forces soldier\" face-off held once every five years, came elite commandos from the world\'s seven major military regions. Each [soldier] had [proven themselves] in numerous battles - it would not be unrealistic to say that any one you picked out of the bunch could single-handedly wipe out a whole unit of regular soldiers. This Commando Competition was a real military engagement, everything was like a real war, except for the fact that blanks are used for ammunition, all other equipment was special forces standard issue. A ten day limit, no reinforcements, no support, every man for himself, anyone eliminated is out of the running. \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-04-11 20:17:22', '2011-04-12 00:17:22', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/04/11/630-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(650, 1, '2011-04-11 20:17:34', '2011-04-12 00:17:34', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \r\n\r\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \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冬眠 - [pinyin]dong1 mian2[/pinyin] - Hibernation\r\n斑驳- [pinyin]ban1 bo2[/pinyin] - Mottled\r\n潜伏 - [pinyin]qian2 fu2[/pinyin] - Concealed, covered\r\n纹丝不动 - [pinyin]wen2 si1 bu4 dong4[/pinyin] - Not move a whisker\r\n闷热 - [pinyin]men1 re4[/pinyin] - sultry\r\n追踪 - [pinyin]zhui1 zong1[/pinyin] - Track, trace, follow a trail\r\n特战 - [pinyin]te4 zhan4[/pinyin] - Special forces\r\n狙 - [pinyin]ju1[/pinyin] - Lie in ambush\r\n杀戮 - [pinyin]sha1 lu4[/pinyin] - Massacre\r\n匪夷所思 - [pinyin]fei3 yi2 suo3 si1[/pinyin] - Freak, fantastic\r\n比武 - [pinyin]bi3 wu3[/pinyin] - Martial / military contest\r\n军区 - [pinyin]jun1 qu1[/pinyin] - Military region\r\n出局 - [pinyin]chu1 ju2[/pinyin] - Be eliminated [from a contest]\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条<strong>冬眠</strong>的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到<strong>斑驳</strong>腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中<strong>潜伏</strong>两天两夜，不吃不喝，<strong>纹丝不动</strong>。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气<strong>闷热</strong>得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\r\n\r\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长<strong>追踪</strong>的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\r\n\r\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少<strong>特战</strong>高手在伺机<strong>狙</strong>杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“<strong>杀戮</strong>”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和<strong>匪夷所思</strong>的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\r\n\r\n这次的特种兵大<strong>比武</strong>，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大<strong>军区</strong>的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者<strong>出局</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \r\n\r\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\r\n\r\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were waiting in wait to ambush him. He must be the most patient hunter, or else he would become someone else\'s prey. Everyone else in his group had already been \"hung\". In the \"massacre\" three days before, they\'d \"died\" in battle one after the other. But he, relying on his superior sixth sense and freakish agility, had escaped his opponent\'s ambush, and had also \"killed\" more than a few of supremely experienced special forces elite, somehow taking no wounds himself. It was a real miracle that he\'d managed this under attack from 10-plus special forces elite groups!\r\n\r\nTo this Commando Competition, an international \"special forces soldier\" face-off held once every five years, came elite commandos from the world\'s seven major military regions. Each [soldier] had [proven themselves] in numerous battles - it would not be unrealistic to say that any one you picked out of the bunch could single-handedly wipe out a whole unit of regular soldiers. This Commando Competition was a real military engagement, everything was like a real war, except for the fact that blanks are used for ammunition, all other equipment was special forces standard issue. A ten day limit, no reinforcements, no support, every man for himself, anyone eliminated is out of the running. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-04-11 20:17:34', '2011-04-12 00:17:34', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/04/11/630-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(651, 1, '2011-04-11 20:24:04', '2011-04-12 00:24:04', '[two_third]\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/20110411-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Advanced Chinese Reading: Cold Thorn Part 1\" title=\"Advanced Chinese Reading: Cold Thorn Part 1\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />This Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \r\n\r\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \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冬眠 - [pinyin]dong1 mian2[/pinyin] - Hibernation\r\n斑驳- [pinyin]ban1 bo2[/pinyin] - Mottled\r\n潜伏 - [pinyin]qian2 fu2[/pinyin] - Concealed, covered\r\n纹丝不动 - [pinyin]wen2 si1 bu4 dong4[/pinyin] - Not move a whisker\r\n闷热 - [pinyin]men1 re4[/pinyin] - sultry\r\n追踪 - [pinyin]zhui1 zong1[/pinyin] - Track, trace, follow a trail\r\n特战 - [pinyin]te4 zhan4[/pinyin] - Special forces\r\n狙 - [pinyin]ju1[/pinyin] - Lie in ambush\r\n杀戮 - [pinyin]sha1 lu4[/pinyin] - Massacre\r\n匪夷所思 - [pinyin]fei3 yi2 suo3 si1[/pinyin] - Freak, fantastic\r\n比武 - [pinyin]bi3 wu3[/pinyin] - Martial / military contest\r\n军区 - [pinyin]jun1 qu1[/pinyin] - Military region\r\n出局 - [pinyin]chu1 ju2[/pinyin] - Be eliminated [from a contest]\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条<strong>冬眠</strong>的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到<strong>斑驳</strong>腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中<strong>潜伏</strong>两天两夜，不吃不喝，<strong>纹丝不动</strong>。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气<strong>闷热</strong>得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\r\n\r\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长<strong>追踪</strong>的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\r\n\r\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少<strong>特战</strong>高手在伺机<strong>狙</strong>杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“<strong>杀戮</strong>”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和<strong>匪夷所思</strong>的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\r\n\r\n这次的特种兵大<strong>比武</strong>，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大<strong>军区</strong>的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者<strong>出局</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \r\n\r\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\r\n\r\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were waiting in wait to ambush him. He must be the most patient hunter, or else he would become someone else\'s prey. Everyone else in his group had already been \"hung\". In the \"massacre\" three days before, they\'d \"died\" in battle one after the other. But he, relying on his superior sixth sense and freakish agility, had escaped his opponent\'s ambush, and had also \"killed\" more than a few of supremely experienced special forces elite, somehow taking no wounds himself. It was a real miracle that he\'d managed this under attack from 10-plus special forces elite groups!\r\n\r\nTo this Commando Competition, an international \"special forces soldier\" face-off held once every five years, came elite commandos from the world\'s seven major military regions. Each [soldier] had [proven themselves] in numerous battles - it would not be unrealistic to say that any one you picked out of the bunch could single-handedly wipe out a whole unit of regular soldiers. This Commando Competition was a real military engagement, everything was like a real war, except for the fact that blanks are used for ammunition, all other equipment was special forces standard issue. A ten day limit, no reinforcements, no support, every man for himself, anyone eliminated is out of the running. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-04-11 20:24:04', '2011-04-12 00:24:04', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/04/11/630-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(653, 1, '2011-04-11 20:24:23', '2011-04-12 00:24:23', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/20110411-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Advanced Chinese Reading: Cold Thorn Part 1\" title=\"Advanced Chinese Reading: Cold Thorn Part 1\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \r\n\r\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \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冬眠 - [pinyin]dong1 mian2[/pinyin] - Hibernation\r\n斑驳- [pinyin]ban1 bo2[/pinyin] - Mottled\r\n潜伏 - [pinyin]qian2 fu2[/pinyin] - Concealed, covered\r\n纹丝不动 - [pinyin]wen2 si1 bu4 dong4[/pinyin] - Not move a whisker\r\n闷热 - [pinyin]men1 re4[/pinyin] - sultry\r\n追踪 - [pinyin]zhui1 zong1[/pinyin] - Track, trace, follow a trail\r\n特战 - [pinyin]te4 zhan4[/pinyin] - Special forces\r\n狙 - [pinyin]ju1[/pinyin] - Lie in ambush\r\n杀戮 - [pinyin]sha1 lu4[/pinyin] - Massacre\r\n匪夷所思 - [pinyin]fei3 yi2 suo3 si1[/pinyin] - Freak, fantastic\r\n比武 - [pinyin]bi3 wu3[/pinyin] - Martial / military contest\r\n军区 - [pinyin]jun1 qu1[/pinyin] - Military region\r\n出局 - [pinyin]chu1 ju2[/pinyin] - Be eliminated [from a contest]\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条<strong>冬眠</strong>的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到<strong>斑驳</strong>腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中<strong>潜伏</strong>两天两夜，不吃不喝，<strong>纹丝不动</strong>。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气<strong>闷热</strong>得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\r\n\r\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长<strong>追踪</strong>的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\r\n\r\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少<strong>特战</strong>高手在伺机<strong>狙</strong>杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“<strong>杀戮</strong>”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和<strong>匪夷所思</strong>的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\r\n\r\n这次的特种兵大<strong>比武</strong>，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大<strong>军区</strong>的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者<strong>出局</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \r\n\r\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\r\n\r\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were waiting in wait to ambush him. He must be the most patient hunter, or else he would become someone else\'s prey. Everyone else in his group had already been \"hung\". In the \"massacre\" three days before, they\'d \"died\" in battle one after the other. But he, relying on his superior sixth sense and freakish agility, had escaped his opponent\'s ambush, and had also \"killed\" more than a few of supremely experienced special forces elite, somehow taking no wounds himself. It was a real miracle that he\'d managed this under attack from 10-plus special forces elite groups!\r\n\r\nTo this Commando Competition, an international \"special forces soldier\" face-off held once every five years, came elite commandos from the world\'s seven major military regions. Each [soldier] had [proven themselves] in numerous battles - it would not be unrealistic to say that any one you picked out of the bunch could single-handedly wipe out a whole unit of regular soldiers. 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(657, 1, '2011-05-07 16:54:43', '2011-05-07 20:54:43', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI\'ve found some cool Chinese movie review sites, so the next few posts will probably focus there. This one is a very short blurb introducing the plot of the new comic book movie Thor. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110507-inline.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110507-inline\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The <a href=\"http://movie.douban.com/subject/1866471/\">original summary</a> was taken from the movie section of Chinese web portal Douban. \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剧情 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\r\n掌控- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\r\n点燃 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\r\n战火 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\r\n恶势力 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\r\n重任 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<strong>剧情简介:</strong>\r\n《雷神托尔》讲述了北欧神话中<strong>掌控</strong>着暴风和闪电的雷神因<strong>点燃</strong>了古代战争的<strong>战火</strong>，被发配到地球生活。然而地球却遭到了<strong>恶势力</strong>派来的阿斯加德（Asgard）王国黑暗力量的入侵，雷神肩负保护地球的<strong>重任</strong>，在这里他学会了如何成为一个真正的英雄。\r\n</div>\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\"Thunder God Thor\" gives an account of the god from Northern European mythology who controls storms and lightning, who ignited the flames of an ancient war, and [because of this] was banished to live on Earth. But when Earth suffers as evil forces invade the kingdom of Asgard, Thor shoulders the heavy responsibility of protecting Earth, and in doing so learns how to be a real hero. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Introduction to the Movie Thor', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'introduction-to-the-movie-thor', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:49:22', '2020-04-20 11:49:22', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=657', 0, 'post', '', 2),
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(661, 1, '2011-05-07 16:50:27', '2011-05-07 20:50:27', '[two_third]\n\nI\'ve found some cool Chinese movie review sites, so the next few posts will probably focus there. This one is a very short blurb introducing the plot of the new comic book movie Thor. <!--more-->\n\nThe <a href=\"http://movie.douban.com/subject/1866471/\">original summary</a> was taken from the movie section of Chinese web portal Douban. \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n剧情 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\n掌控- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\n点燃 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\n战火 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\n恶势力 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\n重任 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n<strong>剧情简介:</strong>\n《雷神托尔》讲述了北欧神话中<strong>掌控</strong>着暴风和闪电的雷神因<strong>点燃</strong>了古代战争的<strong>战火</strong>，被发配到地球生活。然而地球却遭到了<strong>恶势力</strong>派来的阿斯加德（Asgard）王国黑暗力量的入侵，雷神肩负保护地球的<strong>重任</strong>，在这里他学会了如何成为一个真正的英雄。\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n\"Thunder God Thor\" gives an account of the god from Northern European mythology who controls storms and lightning, who ignited the flames of an ancient war, and [because of this] was banished to live a mortal existence on Earth. But Earth when suffers as evil forces invade the kingdom of Asgard, Thor shoulders the heavy responsibility of protecting Earth, and in doing so learns how to be a real hero. \n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Introduction to the Move Thor', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '657-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-07 16:50:27', '2011-05-07 20:50:27', '', 657, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/07/657-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(662, 1, '2011-05-07 16:54:43', '2011-05-07 20:54:43', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI\'ve found some cool Chinese movie review sites, so the next few posts will probably focus there. This one is a very short blurb introducing the plot of the new comic book movie Thor. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110507-inline.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110507-inline\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder\" />The <a href=\"http://movie.douban.com/subject/1866471/\">original summary</a> was taken from the movie section of Chinese web portal Douban. \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剧情 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\r\n掌控- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\r\n点燃 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\r\n战火 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\r\n恶势力 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\r\n重任 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<strong>剧情简介:</strong>\r\n《雷神托尔》讲述了北欧神话中<strong>掌控</strong>着暴风和闪电的雷神因<strong>点燃</strong>了古代战争的<strong>战火</strong>，被发配到地球生活。然而地球却遭到了<strong>恶势力</strong>派来的阿斯加德（Asgard）王国黑暗力量的入侵，雷神肩负保护地球的<strong>重任</strong>，在这里他学会了如何成为一个真正的英雄。\r\n</div>\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\"Thunder God Thor\" gives an account of the god from Northern European mythology who controls storms and lightning, who ignited the flames of an ancient war, and [because of this] was banished to live a mortal existence on Earth. But Earth when suffers as evil forces invade the kingdom of Asgard, Thor shoulders the heavy responsibility of protecting Earth, and in doing so learns how to be a real hero. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Introduction to the Move Thor', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '657-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-07 16:54:43', '2011-05-07 20:54:43', '', 657, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/07/657-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(663, 1, '2011-05-07 16:55:10', '2011-05-07 20:55:10', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI\'ve found some cool Chinese movie review sites, so the next few posts will probably focus there. This one is a very short blurb introducing the plot of the new comic book movie Thor. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110507-inline.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110507-inline\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The <a href=\"http://movie.douban.com/subject/1866471/\">original summary</a> was taken from the movie section of Chinese web portal Douban. \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剧情 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\r\n掌控- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\r\n点燃 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\r\n战火 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\r\n恶势力 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\r\n重任 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<strong>剧情简介:</strong>\r\n《雷神托尔》讲述了北欧神话中<strong>掌控</strong>着暴风和闪电的雷神因<strong>点燃</strong>了古代战争的<strong>战火</strong>，被发配到地球生活。然而地球却遭到了<strong>恶势力</strong>派来的阿斯加德（Asgard）王国黑暗力量的入侵，雷神肩负保护地球的<strong>重任</strong>，在这里他学会了如何成为一个真正的英雄。\r\n</div>\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\"Thunder God Thor\" gives an account of the god from Northern European mythology who controls storms and lightning, who ignited the flames of an ancient war, and [because of this] was banished to live a mortal existence on Earth. But Earth when suffers as evil forces invade the kingdom of Asgard, Thor shoulders the heavy responsibility of protecting Earth, and in doing so learns how to be a real hero. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Introduction to the Move Thor', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '657-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-07 16:55:10', '2011-05-07 20:55:10', '', 657, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/07/657-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(664, 1, '2011-05-07 16:55:54', '2011-05-07 20:55:54', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI\'ve found some cool Chinese movie review sites, so the next few posts will probably focus there. This one is a very short blurb introducing the plot of the new comic book movie Thor. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110507-inline.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110507-inline\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The <a href=\"http://movie.douban.com/subject/1866471/\">original summary</a> was taken from the movie section of Chinese web portal Douban. \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剧情 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\r\n掌控- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\r\n点燃 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\r\n战火 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\r\n恶势力 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\r\n重任 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<strong>剧情简介:</strong>\r\n《雷神托尔》讲述了北欧神话中<strong>掌控</strong>着暴风和闪电的雷神因<strong>点燃</strong>了古代战争的<strong>战火</strong>，被发配到地球生活。然而地球却遭到了<strong>恶势力</strong>派来的阿斯加德（Asgard）王国黑暗力量的入侵，雷神肩负保护地球的<strong>重任</strong>，在这里他学会了如何成为一个真正的英雄。\r\n</div>\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\"Thunder God Thor\" gives an account of the god from Northern European mythology who controls storms and lightning, who ignited the flames of an ancient war, and [because of this] was banished to live on Earth. But Earth when suffers as evil forces invade the kingdom of Asgard, Thor shoulders the heavy responsibility of protecting Earth, and in doing so learns how to be a real hero. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Introduction to the Move Thor', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '657-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-07 16:55:54', '2011-05-07 20:55:54', '', 657, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/07/657-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(665, 1, '2011-05-07 16:56:35', '2011-05-07 20:56:35', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI\'ve found some cool Chinese movie review sites, so the next few posts will probably focus there. This one is a very short blurb introducing the plot of the new comic book movie Thor. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110507-inline.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110507-inline\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The <a href=\"http://movie.douban.com/subject/1866471/\">original summary</a> was taken from the movie section of Chinese web portal Douban. \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剧情 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\r\n掌控- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\r\n点燃 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\r\n战火 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\r\n恶势力 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\r\n重任 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<strong>剧情简介:</strong>\r\n《雷神托尔》讲述了北欧神话中<strong>掌控</strong>着暴风和闪电的雷神因<strong>点燃</strong>了古代战争的<strong>战火</strong>，被发配到地球生活。然而地球却遭到了<strong>恶势力</strong>派来的阿斯加德（Asgard）王国黑暗力量的入侵，雷神肩负保护地球的<strong>重任</strong>，在这里他学会了如何成为一个真正的英雄。\r\n</div>\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\"Thunder God Thor\" gives an account of the god from Northern European mythology who controls storms and lightning, who ignited the flames of an ancient war, and [because of this] was banished to live on Earth. But Earth when suffers as evil forces invade the kingdom of Asgard, Thor shoulders the heavy responsibility of protecting Earth, and in doing so learns how to be a real hero. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Introduction to the Movie Thor', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '657-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-07 16:56:35', '2011-05-07 20:56:35', '', 657, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/07/657-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(666, 1, '2011-05-07 16:56:44', '2011-05-07 20:56:44', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI\'ve found some cool Chinese movie review sites, so the next few posts will probably focus there. This one is a very short blurb introducing the plot of the new comic book movie Thor. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110507-inline.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110507-inline\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The <a href=\"http://movie.douban.com/subject/1866471/\">original summary</a> was taken from the movie section of Chinese web portal Douban. \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剧情 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\r\n掌控- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\r\n点燃 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\r\n战火 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\r\n恶势力 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\r\n重任 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<strong>剧情简介:</strong>\r\n《雷神托尔》讲述了北欧神话中<strong>掌控</strong>着暴风和闪电的雷神因<strong>点燃</strong>了古代战争的<strong>战火</strong>，被发配到地球生活。然而地球却遭到了<strong>恶势力</strong>派来的阿斯加德（Asgard）王国黑暗力量的入侵，雷神肩负保护地球的<strong>重任</strong>，在这里他学会了如何成为一个真正的英雄。\r\n</div>\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\"Thunder God Thor\" gives an account of the god from Northern European mythology who controls storms and lightning, who ignited the flames of an ancient war, and [because of this] was banished to live on Earth. But Earth when suffers as evil forces invade the kingdom of Asgard, Thor shoulders the heavy responsibility of protecting Earth, and in doing so learns how to be a real hero. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Introduction to the Movie Thor', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '657-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-07 16:56:44', '2011-05-07 20:56:44', '', 657, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/07/657-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(667, 1, '2011-05-10 07:30:07', '2011-05-10 11:30:07', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA little late for a post about Tron, but hey. This synopses covers the movie Tron: Legacy, released around Christmas last year. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img class=\"imgborder alignleft\" title=\"Practice Reading Advanced Chinese: Tron Legacy Movie Overview\" src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110510-inline.jpg\" alt=\"Practice Reading Advanced Chinese: Tron Legacy Movie Overview\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /> Giant nerd that I am, I was super excited about Tron coming out, so this post is kind of a way for me to relive that in Chinese. Enjoy.\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辉煌 - [pinyin]hui1 huang2[/pinyin] - Glorious\r\n继承 - [pinyin]ji4 cheng2[/pinyin] - Inherit, carry on\r\n冒险 - [pinyin]mao4 xian3[/pinyin] - Adventurous, risk-taking\r\n荒废 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\r\n探查 - [pinyin]tan4 cha2[/pinyin] - Nose around, investigate\r\n虚拟世界 - [pinyin]xu1 ni3 shi4 jie4[/pinyin] - Virtual reality, web-based fantasy world\r\n争霸 - [pinyin]zheng1 ba4[/pinyin] - Power struggle\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\"><strong>剧情简介:</strong>\r\n20世纪80年代，电子软体天才凯文·弗林（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）创建了英康公司，将人类带入一个全新的时代。可是在<strong>辉煌</strong>的时代开创不久后，凯文神秘失踪。在此之后，凯文年幼的儿子萨姆（加内特·赫德兰 Garrett Hedlund 饰）<strong>继承</strong>了父亲的位置，实际工作则由其他工作人员主持。萨姆天资聪颖，充满<strong>冒险</strong>精神，经常给英康的高层们惹来麻烦。这一天，他得知一间<strong>荒废</strong>已久的工作室内竟传来父亲的讯息。萨姆前去<strong>探查</strong>，结果竟进入一个全数字化的虚拟世界。这个世界的掌控者克鲁（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）与父亲有着同样的容貌，却野心勃勃，邪恶无比。萨姆被迫卷入一场充满阴谋的电子<strong>争霸</strong>战中……\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nIn the 80\'s (of the 20th century), electronic software genius Kevin Flyin (played by Jeff Bridges) founded ENCOM, which would lead humanity into a brand new age. But not long after this glorious new age began, Kevin mysteriously disappeared. After that, Kevin\'s young son Sam (played by Garret Hedlund) inherited his father\'s position, but actually the company is run by other employees. Sam is talented, smart and full of adventurous spirit, often causing trouble for the higher-ups at ENCOM. One day, he hears of an abandoned work room via a message which was surprisingly sent from his father. Sam goes to nose around, and is transported into a digital virtual reality world. The world\'s master (played by Jeff Bridges) looks just like his father, but is ambitious and wicked. Sam is drawn into the middle of a war full of plotting and electronic power struggles...\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n', 'Tron Legacy Movie Synopsis', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'tron-legacy-movie-synopsis', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:49:31', '2020-04-20 11:49:31', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=667', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(669, 1, '2011-05-07 17:10:16', '2011-05-07 21:10:16', '[two_third]\n\nI\'ve found some cool Chinese movie review sites, so the next few posts will probably focus there. This one is a very short blurb introducing the plot of the new comic book movie Thor. <!--more-->\n\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110507-inline.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110507-inline\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The <a href=\"http://movie.douban.com/subject/1866471/\">original summary</a> was taken from the movie section of Chinese web portal Douban. \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n剧情 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\n掌控- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\n点燃 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\n战火 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\n恶势力 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\n重任 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n<strong>剧情简介:</strong>\n　20世纪80年代，电子软体天才凯文·弗林（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）创建了英康公司，将人类带入一个全新的时代。可是在辉煌的时代开创不久后，凯文神秘失踪。在此之后，凯文年幼的儿子萨姆（加内特·赫德兰 Garrett Hedlund 饰）继承了父亲的位置，实际工作则由其他工作人员主持。萨姆天资聪颖，充满冒险精神，经常给英康的高层们惹来麻烦。这一天，他得知一间荒废已久的工作室内竟传来父亲的讯息。萨姆前去探查，结果竟进入一个全数字化的虚拟世界。这个世界的掌控者克鲁（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）与父亲有着同样的容貌，却野心勃勃，邪恶无比。萨姆被迫卷入一场充满阴谋的电子争霸战中……\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n\"Thunder God Thor\" gives an account of the god from Northern European mythology who controls storms and lightning, who ignited the flames of an ancient war, and [because of this] was banished to live on Earth. But Earth when suffers as evil forces invade the kingdom of Asgard, Thor shoulders the heavy responsibility of protecting Earth, and in doing so learns how to be a real hero. \n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Tron Movie Synopsis', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '667-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-07 17:10:16', '2011-05-07 21:10:16', '', 667, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/07/667-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(672, 1, '2011-05-07 17:38:13', '2011-05-07 21:38:13', '[two_third]\n\nA little late for a post about Tron, but hey. This synopses covers the movie Tron: Legacy, released around Christmas last year. <!--more-->\n\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110510-inline.jpg\" alt=\"Practice Reading Advanced Chinese: Tron Legacy Movie Overview\" title=\"Practice Reading Advanced Chinese: Tron Legacy Movie Overview\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n辉煌 - [pinyin]hui1 huang2[/pinyin] - Glorious\n继承 - [pinyin]ji4 cheng2[/pinyin] - Inherit, carry on\n冒险 - [pinyin]mao4 xian3[/pinyin] - Adventurous, risk-taking\n荒废 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\n探查 - [pinyin]tan4 cha2[/pinyin] - Nose around, investigate\n虚拟世界 - [pinyin]xu1 ni3 shi4 jie4[/pinyin] - Virtual reality, web-based fantasy world\n争霸 - [pinyin]zheng1 ba4[/pinyin] - Power struggle\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n<strong>剧情简介:</strong>\n　20世纪80年代，电子软体天才凯文·弗林（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）创建了英康公司，将人类带入一个全新的时代。可是在<strong>辉煌</strong>的时代开创不久后，凯文神秘失踪。在此之后，凯文年幼的儿子萨姆（加内特·赫德兰 Garrett Hedlund 饰）<strong>继承</strong>了父亲的位置，实际工作则由其他工作人员主持。萨姆天资聪颖，充满<strong>冒险</strong>精神，经常给英康的高层们惹来麻烦。这一天，他得知一间<strong>荒废</strong>已久的工作室内竟传来父亲的讯息。萨姆前去<strong>探查</strong>，结果竟进入一个全数字化的虚拟世界。这个世界的掌控者克鲁（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）与父亲有着同样的容貌，却野心勃勃，邪恶无比。萨姆被迫卷入一场充满阴谋的电子<strong>争霸</strong>战中……\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\nIn the 80\'s (of the 20th century), electronic software genius Kevin Flyin (played by Jeff Bridges) founded ENCOM, which would lead humanity into a brand new age. But not long after this glorious new age began, Kevin mysteriously disappeared. After that, Kevin\'s young son Sam (played by Garret Hedlund) inherited his father\'s position, but actually the company is run by other employees. Sam is talented, smart and full of adventurous spirit, often causing trouble for the higher-ups at ENCOM. One day, he hears of an abandoned work room via a message which was surprisingly sent from his father. Sam goes to nose around, and is transported into a digital virtual reality world. The world\'s master (played by Jeff Bridges) looks just like his father, but is ambitious and wicked. Sam is drawn into the middle of a war full of plotting and electronic power struggles...\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Tron Legacy Movie Synopsis', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '667-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-07 17:38:13', '2011-05-07 21:38:13', '', 667, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/07/667-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(673, 1, '2011-05-07 17:41:00', '2011-05-07 21:41:00', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA little late for a post about Tron, but hey. This synopses covers the movie Tron: Legacy, released around Christmas last year. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img class=\"imgborder alignleft\" title=\"Practice Reading Advanced Chinese: Tron Legacy Movie Overview\" src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110510-inline.jpg\" alt=\"Practice Reading Advanced Chinese: Tron Legacy Movie Overview\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /> Giant nerd that I am, I was super excited about Tron coming out, so this post is kind of a way for me to relive that in Chinese. Enjoy.\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辉煌 - [pinyin]hui1 huang2[/pinyin] - Glorious\r\n继承 - [pinyin]ji4 cheng2[/pinyin] - Inherit, carry on\r\n冒险 - [pinyin]mao4 xian3[/pinyin] - Adventurous, risk-taking\r\n荒废 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\r\n探查 - [pinyin]tan4 cha2[/pinyin] - Nose around, investigate\r\n虚拟世界 - [pinyin]xu1 ni3 shi4 jie4[/pinyin] - Virtual reality, web-based fantasy world\r\n争霸 - [pinyin]zheng1 ba4[/pinyin] - Power struggle\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\"><strong>剧情简介:</strong>\r\n20世纪80年代，电子软体天才凯文·弗林（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）创建了英康公司，将人类带入一个全新的时代。可是在<strong>辉煌</strong>的时代开创不久后，凯文神秘失踪。在此之后，凯文年幼的儿子萨姆（加内特·赫德兰 Garrett Hedlund 饰）<strong>继承</strong>了父亲的位置，实际工作则由其他工作人员主持。萨姆天资聪颖，充满<strong>冒险</strong>精神，经常给英康的高层们惹来麻烦。这一天，他得知一间<strong>荒废</strong>已久的工作室内竟传来父亲的讯息。萨姆前去<strong>探查</strong>，结果竟进入一个全数字化的虚拟世界。这个世界的掌控者克鲁（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）与父亲有着同样的容貌，却野心勃勃，邪恶无比。萨姆被迫卷入一场充满阴谋的电子<strong>争霸</strong>战中……\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nIn the 80\'s (of the 20th century), electronic software genius Kevin Flyin (played by Jeff Bridges) founded ENCOM, which would lead humanity into a brand new age. But not long after this glorious new age began, Kevin mysteriously disappeared. After that, Kevin\'s young son Sam (played by Garret Hedlund) inherited his father\'s position, but actually the company is run by other employees. Sam is talented, smart and full of adventurous spirit, often causing trouble for the higher-ups at ENCOM. One day, he hears of an abandoned work room via a message which was surprisingly sent from his father. Sam goes to nose around, and is transported into a digital virtual reality world. The world\'s master (played by Jeff Bridges) looks just like his father, but is ambitious and wicked. Sam is drawn into the middle of a war full of plotting and electronic power struggles...\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n', 'Tron Legacy Movie Synopsis', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '667-autosave-v1', '', '', '2011-05-07 17:41:00', '2011-05-07 21:41:00', '', 667, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/07/667-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(674, 1, '2011-05-07 17:39:06', '2011-05-07 21:39:06', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA little late for a post about Tron, but hey. This synopses covers the movie Tron: Legacy, released around Christmas last year. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110510-inline.jpg\" alt=\"Practice Reading Advanced Chinese: Tron Legacy Movie Overview\" title=\"Practice Reading Advanced Chinese: Tron Legacy Movie Overview\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" /> Giant nerd that I am, I was super excited about Tron coming out, so this post is kind of a way for me to relive that in Chinese. Enjoy.\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辉煌 - [pinyin]hui1 huang2[/pinyin] - Glorious\r\n继承 - [pinyin]ji4 cheng2[/pinyin] - Inherit, carry on\r\n冒险 - [pinyin]mao4 xian3[/pinyin] - Adventurous, risk-taking\r\n荒废 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\r\n探查 - [pinyin]tan4 cha2[/pinyin] - Nose around, investigate\r\n虚拟世界 - [pinyin]xu1 ni3 shi4 jie4[/pinyin] - Virtual reality, web-based fantasy world\r\n争霸 - [pinyin]zheng1 ba4[/pinyin] - Power struggle\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<strong>剧情简介:</strong>\r\n　20世纪80年代，电子软体天才凯文·弗林（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）创建了英康公司，将人类带入一个全新的时代。可是在<strong>辉煌</strong>的时代开创不久后，凯文神秘失踪。在此之后，凯文年幼的儿子萨姆（加内特·赫德兰 Garrett Hedlund 饰）<strong>继承</strong>了父亲的位置，实际工作则由其他工作人员主持。萨姆天资聪颖，充满<strong>冒险</strong>精神，经常给英康的高层们惹来麻烦。这一天，他得知一间<strong>荒废</strong>已久的工作室内竟传来父亲的讯息。萨姆前去<strong>探查</strong>，结果竟进入一个全数字化的虚拟世界。这个世界的掌控者克鲁（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）与父亲有着同样的容貌，却野心勃勃，邪恶无比。萨姆被迫卷入一场充满阴谋的电子<strong>争霸</strong>战中……\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nIn the 80\'s (of the 20th century), electronic software genius Kevin Flyin (played by Jeff Bridges) founded ENCOM, which would lead humanity into a brand new age. But not long after this glorious new age began, Kevin mysteriously disappeared. After that, Kevin\'s young son Sam (played by Garret Hedlund) inherited his father\'s position, but actually the company is run by other employees. Sam is talented, smart and full of adventurous spirit, often causing trouble for the higher-ups at ENCOM. One day, he hears of an abandoned work room via a message which was surprisingly sent from his father. Sam goes to nose around, and is transported into a digital virtual reality world. The world\'s master (played by Jeff Bridges) looks just like his father, but is ambitious and wicked. Sam is drawn into the middle of a war full of plotting and electronic power struggles...\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Tron Legacy Movie Synopsis', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '667-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-07 17:39:06', '2011-05-07 21:39:06', '', 667, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/07/667-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(675, 1, '2011-05-07 17:40:04', '2011-05-07 21:40:04', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nA little late for a post about Tron, but hey. This synopses covers the movie Tron: Legacy, released around Christmas last year. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img class=\"imgborder alignleft\" title=\"Practice Reading Advanced Chinese: Tron Legacy Movie Overview\" src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110510-inline.jpg\" alt=\"Practice Reading Advanced Chinese: Tron Legacy Movie Overview\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" /> Giant nerd that I am, I was super excited about Tron coming out, so this post is kind of a way for me to relive that in Chinese. Enjoy.\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辉煌 - [pinyin]hui1 huang2[/pinyin] - Glorious\r\n继承 - [pinyin]ji4 cheng2[/pinyin] - Inherit, carry on\r\n冒险 - [pinyin]mao4 xian3[/pinyin] - Adventurous, risk-taking\r\n荒废 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\r\n探查 - [pinyin]tan4 cha2[/pinyin] - Nose around, investigate\r\n虚拟世界 - [pinyin]xu1 ni3 shi4 jie4[/pinyin] - Virtual reality, web-based fantasy world\r\n争霸 - [pinyin]zheng1 ba4[/pinyin] - Power struggle\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\"><strong>剧情简介:</strong>\r\n20世纪80年代，电子软体天才凯文·弗林（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）创建了英康公司，将人类带入一个全新的时代。可是在<strong>辉煌</strong>的时代开创不久后，凯文神秘失踪。在此之后，凯文年幼的儿子萨姆（加内特·赫德兰 Garrett Hedlund 饰）<strong>继承</strong>了父亲的位置，实际工作则由其他工作人员主持。萨姆天资聪颖，充满<strong>冒险</strong>精神，经常给英康的高层们惹来麻烦。这一天，他得知一间<strong>荒废</strong>已久的工作室内竟传来父亲的讯息。萨姆前去<strong>探查</strong>，结果竟进入一个全数字化的虚拟世界。这个世界的掌控者克鲁（杰夫·布里吉斯 Jeff Bridges 饰）与父亲有着同样的容貌，却野心勃勃，邪恶无比。萨姆被迫卷入一场充满阴谋的电子<strong>争霸</strong>战中……\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nIn the 80\'s (of the 20th century), electronic software genius Kevin Flyin (played by Jeff Bridges) founded ENCOM, which would lead humanity into a brand new age. But not long after this glorious new age began, Kevin mysteriously disappeared. After that, Kevin\'s young son Sam (played by Garret Hedlund) inherited his father\'s position, but actually the company is run by other employees. Sam is talented, smart and full of adventurous spirit, often causing trouble for the higher-ups at ENCOM. One day, he hears of an abandoned work room via a message which was surprisingly sent from his father. Sam goes to nose around, and is transported into a digital virtual reality world. The world\'s master (played by Jeff Bridges) looks just like his father, but is ambitious and wicked. Sam is drawn into the middle of a war full of plotting and electronic power struggles...\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n</div>', 'Tron Legacy Movie Synopsis', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '667-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-07 17:40:04', '2011-05-07 21:40:04', '', 667, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/07/667-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(688, 1, '2011-06-06 13:02:26', '2011-06-06 17:02:26', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\nA story about a young elephant who learns a valuable life lesson. \r\n\r\n<h4>Some language stuff</h4>\r\nThere is one particularly difficult sentence here, and that\'s  小象爬到树去学飞“哎哟”一声，摔了一个大跟头. The words themselves aren\'t too hard, but the sentence arrangement doesn\'t make a lot of sense when directly translated into English. Let\'s take it step by step:\r\n\r\n小象 - Little Elephant\r\n爬到 - Climbed to / climbed up\r\n树 - tree\r\n去 - go\r\n学飞 - learn to fly\r\n“哎哟” - \'Ai yo!\' Sound which means \"Yikes!\" or \"Ow!\" \r\n一声 - Noise, sound\r\n摔了 - to fall\r\n一个大 - a big\r\n跟头 - Fall, trip and fall.\r\n\r\nIf you look at all these words together, you can more easily process the overall meaning of the sentence, which is, \"In order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\" \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>小象也要飞</h4>\r\n\r\n小象生下来的第三天，跟妈妈来到<strong>小河</strong>边，看见一只小鸟在天空<strong>飞来飞去</strong>。小象想：“要是我也会飞，可以看到更多的东西，多好呀！”\r\n\r\n小象<strong>爬</strong>到树去学飞“哎哟”一声，摔了一个大<strong>跟头</strong>。\r\n\r\n蛇看见了说:“小象，我们有自己的<strong>本事</strong>。我不会飞，可是，我会在树上睡觉。”\r\n\r\n狮子说:“我也不会飞，可是，我能跳过<strong>宽</strong>宽的大河。”\r\n\r\n老虎说:“我不会飞，可是我会游泳！”\r\n\r\n爸爸妈妈对小象说:“我们象的力气大，这是小鸟<strong>不能比的</strong>。”小象明白了。他用长鼻子一钩，大木头就搬走了。\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\nOn the third day after he was born, Little Elephant went with his mother to the banks of a stream, and there he saw a bird in the sky flying here and there. Little Elephant said: \"If I could fly, I could see even more things, it would be great!\"\r\n\r\nIn order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\r\n\r\nSeeing this, the snake said: \"Little elephant, we all have our own abilities. I can\'t fly, but I can sleep in a tree.\"\r\n\r\nLion said: \"I also can\'t fly, but I can jump across a wide river.\"\r\n\r\nTiger said, \"I can\'t fly, but I can swim!\"\r\n\r\nLittle Elephant\'s father and mother said to him, \"We elephants have great strength, incomparably greater than that little bird\'s.\"\r\n\r\nLittle Elephant understood. He used his long nose as a hook and moved a large branch.\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>\r\n', 'Children\'s Stories: The Little Elephant that Wanted to Fly', 'A story about a young elephant who learns a valuable life lesson. ', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-little-elephant-that-wanted-to-fly', '', '', '2020-04-28 19:29:12', '2020-04-28 23:29:12', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=688', 0, 'post', '', 15),
(1828, 1, '2020-04-20 06:34:19', '2020-04-20 10:34:19', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\nA very basic story about a young elephant who learns a valuable life lesson. There is one particularly difficult sentence here, and that\'s  小象爬到树去学飞“哎哟”一声，摔了一个大跟头. The words themselves aren\'t too hard, but the sentence arrangement doesn\'t make a lot of sense when directly translated into English. Let\'s take it step by step:\r\n\r\n小象 - Little Elephant\r\n爬到 - Climbed to / climbed up\r\n树 - tree\r\n去 - go\r\n学飞 - learn to fly\r\n“哎哟” - \'Ai yo!\' Sound which means \"Yikes!\" or \"Ow!\" \r\n一声 - Noise, sound\r\n摔了 - to fall\r\n一个大 - a big\r\n跟头 - Fall, trip and fall.\r\n\r\nIf you look at all these words together, you can more easily process the overall meaning of the sentence, which is, \"In order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\" \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>小象也要飞</h4>\r\n\r\n小象生下来的第三天，跟妈妈来到<strong>小河</strong>边，看见一只小鸟在天空<strong>飞来飞去</strong>。小象想：“要是我也会飞，可以看到更多的东西，多好呀！”\r\n\r\n小象<strong>爬</strong>到树去学飞“哎哟”一声，摔了一个大<strong>跟头</strong>。\r\n\r\n蛇看见了说:“小象，我们有自己的<strong>本事</strong>。我不会飞，可是，我会在树上睡觉。”\r\n\r\n狮子说:“我也不会飞，可是，我能跳过<strong>宽</strong>宽的大河。”\r\n\r\n老虎说:“我不会飞，可是我会游泳！”\r\n\r\n爸爸妈妈对小象说:“我们象的力气大，这是小鸟<strong>不能比的</strong>。”小象明白了。他用长鼻子一钩，大木头就搬走了。\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\nOn the third day after he was born, Little Elephant went with his mother to the banks of a stream, and there he saw a bird in the sky flying here and there. Little Elephant said: \"If I could fly, I could see even more things, it would be great!\"\r\n\r\nIn order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\r\n\r\nSeeing this, the snake said: \"Little elephant, we all have our own abilities. I can\'t fly, but I can sleep in a tree.\"\r\n\r\nLion said: \"I also can\'t fly, but I can jump across a wide river.\"\r\n\r\nTiger said, \"I can\'t fly, but I can swim!\"\r\n\r\nLittle Elephant\'s father and mother said to him, \"We elephants have great strength, incomparably greater than that little bird\'s.\"\r\n\r\nLittle Elephant understood. He used his long nose as a hook and moved a large branch.\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>\r\n', 'The Little Elephant that Wanted to Fly', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '688-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:34:19', '2020-04-20 10:34:19', '', 688, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/04/20/688-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(677, 1, '2011-03-21 13:19:11', '2011-03-21 17:19:11', '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 try to post every other day, though that probably won\'t always happen.\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<h4>How I Classify Reading Levels</h4>\r\nUltimately, my classifications are pretty arbitrary, but I\'ll try to lay out some of my basic reasoning here.\r\n\r\n<strong>Beginner</strong> - None of the texts here are truly beginner texts; at least I haven\'t been able to find any real beginner stuff yet (I\'m still looking for good sources of real beginner texts that aren\'t boring dialogs - if you know of any, please write!). This is because for any story, article or essay to really take shape, it usually must involve some intermediate grammar or intermediate vocabulary. This is why most truly beginner textbooks stick to dialogs as opposed to actual articles. In order to do any real reading, you\'ve got to at least know the basics of sentence structure. I will classify something as beginner if at least a couple of the following criteria are met:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>The sentence structure is easy</li>\r\n	<li>It contains only words that you can find in the dictionary (or I can explain them)</li>\r\n	<li>There is no modern slang</li>\r\n	<li>The subject matter is basic / or for children</li>\r\n	<li>It\'s not too long</li>\r\n	<li>It contains few or no idioms</li>\r\n<li>It contains intermediate vocabulary but the story structure is very repetitive, so you can pick up the thread more easily as you go along.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<strong>Intermediate</strong> - I classify something as intermediate if:\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>It\'s a longer piece that you have to hold a narrative thread through.</li>\r\n<li>The language is intermediate or upper-intermediate.</li>\r\n<li>There are some light idioms.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<strong>Advanced</strong> - Most of what\'s out there online is advanced reading. That\'s why as of now, there are more advanced texts on here than anything else. I classify something as advanced if:\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>It contains specialized or technical words (technology, health, beauty, geography, etc.)</li>\r\n<li>It contains high-level structures, like newspaper-y or literary writing styles.</li>\r\n<li>It contains any archaic words.</li>\r\n<li>The sentence structure is very complicated.</li>\r\n<li>It contains a lot of modern slang.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\nEnjoy, and good luck with your studies.', 'About', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '2-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-03-21 13:19:11', '2011-03-21 17:19:11', '', 2, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/03/21/2-revision-21/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(678, 1, '2011-04-11 20:37:12', '2011-04-12 00:37:12', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese excerpt is from the modern militant action novel \"Cold Thorn\", or 冷刺, written by 天地飘鸥. You\'ll be reading the first part of Chapter 1: King of the Commandos (特种兵之王). <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/20110411-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Advanced Chinese Reading: Cold Thorn Part 1\" title=\"Advanced Chinese Reading: Cold Thorn Part 1\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The language here is very heavy on the cheesy military slang, so if you like action movies and thrillers, you\'ll be able to catch quite a few of the cliches. \r\n\r\nIf you\'d like to finish reading the book after you finish this first bit, the <a href=\"http://vip.book.sina.com.cn/book/index_162000.html\">full text is available online from Sina.com</a>\'s book archive.  \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冬眠 - [pinyin]dong1 mian2[/pinyin] - Hibernation\r\n斑驳- [pinyin]ban1 bo2[/pinyin] - Mottled\r\n潜伏 - [pinyin]qian2 fu2[/pinyin] - Concealed, covered\r\n纹丝不动 - [pinyin]wen2 si1 bu4 dong4[/pinyin] - Not move a whisker\r\n闷热 - [pinyin]men1 re4[/pinyin] - sultry\r\n追踪 - [pinyin]zhui1 zong1[/pinyin] - Track, trace, follow a trail\r\n特战 - [pinyin]te4 zhan4[/pinyin] - Special forces\r\n狙 - [pinyin]ju1[/pinyin] - Lie in ambush\r\n杀戮 - [pinyin]sha1 lu4[/pinyin] - Massacre\r\n匪夷所思 - [pinyin]fei3 yi2 suo3 si1[/pinyin] - Freak, fantastic\r\n比武 - [pinyin]bi3 wu3[/pinyin] - Martial / military contest\r\n军区 - [pinyin]jun1 qu1[/pinyin] - Military region\r\n出局 - [pinyin]chu1 ju2[/pinyin] - Be eliminated [from a contest]\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n韩枫静静地伏在厚厚的落叶下，一动不动，安静得如同一条<strong>冬眠</strong>的蛇，不，他比蛇还要无声无息，谁也不会想到<strong>斑驳</strong>腐烂的落叶堆里会有这样坚强的生命存在，仿佛亘古就是如此。真是无法想象一个人能在这样的环境中<strong>潜伏</strong>两天两夜，不吃不喝，<strong>纹丝不动</strong>。在苍茫的原始丛林中，空气<strong>闷热</strong>得令人窒息，浑身就像霉烂了似的，湿漉漉的感觉别提有多难受了，何况韩枫的身上还捂着这么厚的一堆落叶，真是连气也喘不过来了。\r\n\r\n韩枫就这样无声无息地潜伏着，安静得几乎连生命的体征也消失了，身边来来往往已经过去了几个特种小组，就连最擅长<strong>追踪</strong>的“灵狐”特战小组也没有发现他。\r\n\r\n他不能动，也不敢动，因为他知道林中还有不少<strong>特战</strong>高手在伺机<strong>狙</strong>杀，他要做最有耐心的猎人而不是成为别人的猎物。他们这一组除了他，其他人都“挂”了，在三天前残酷的“<strong>杀戮</strong>”中先后“阵亡”，而他，凭着超强的第六感和<strong>匪夷所思</strong>的身手不但逃过了对方的狙杀，而且还“杀”了数名富有经验的特战精英，居然毫发无伤。在十多个特战精英小组的攻击下能做到这一点，真是奇迹！\r\n\r\n这次的特种兵大<strong>比武</strong>，是五年一度的全国“特种兵”对抗大赛，来自全国七大<strong>军区</strong>的特战精英，个个都是身经百战的高手，随便挑出一个，横扫一个普通连队绝不是痴人说梦。这次的特种兵大比武是实兵对抗，一切从实战出发，除了弹药是空包弹外，其他都是特种部队必需的武器装备。十天为限，没有后援，没有给养，各自为战，淘汰者<strong>出局</strong>。\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\n\r\nHan Feng silently hid beneath a thick pile of dead leaves, motionless, as calm as a hibernating snake; no, he was even more silent than a snake. No one would think that a strong life could exist inside such a motley, rotten pile of dead leaves, it was as if [the pile] had always been this way. There was no way to imagine  that a person could hide in this environment for two days without food or drink, not moving a whisker. In this vast primeval forest, the weather was so stiflingly hot as to make men suffocate, as if they were rotting from head to toe; needless to say the clamminess was very uncomfortable, moreso since Han Feng was covered in a thick pile of dead leaves - it was difficult to even draw breath. \r\n\r\nAnd so Han Feng hid there not making a sound, his very sense of life nearly fading away, as special units came and went around him; even the most expert trackers, the \"Quick Foxes\" special forces unit, didn\'t discover his position.\r\n\r\nHe didn\'t move, he didn\'t dare, because he knew that in the forest special forces experts were waiting in wait to ambush him. He must be the most patient hunter, or else he would become someone else\'s prey. Everyone else in his group had already been \"hung\". In the \"massacre\" three days before, they\'d \"died\" in battle one after the other. But he, relying on his superior sixth sense and freakish agility, had escaped his opponent\'s ambush, and had also \"killed\" more than a few of supremely experienced special forces elite, somehow taking no wounds himself. It was a real miracle that he\'d managed this under attack from 10-plus special forces elite groups!\r\n\r\nTo this Commando Competition, an international \"special forces soldier\" face-off held once every five years, came elite commandos from the world\'s seven major military regions. Each [soldier] had [proven themselves] in numerous battles - it would not be unrealistic to say that any one you picked out of the bunch could single-handedly wipe out a whole unit of regular soldiers. This Commando Competition was a real military engagement, everything was like a real war, except for the fact that blanks are used for ammunition, all other equipment was special forces standard issue. A ten day limit, no reinforcements, no support, every man for himself, anyone eliminated is out of the running. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Cold Thorn Part 1', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '630-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-04-11 20:37:12', '2011-04-12 00:37:12', '', 630, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/04/11/630-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(679, 1, '2011-05-14 19:49:31', '2011-05-14 23:49:31', 'Everyone needs friends. A friend can give us help and share our difficulties and happiness. But how can we make friends? \n\nFirst, to make friends, you must be friendly to others. Smile at others and you are sure to get a smile in return. You should try to make a stranger feel at home wherever he happens to be. Think more of others than of yourself and never judge a person by their appearance and clothes. \n\nSecond, friends should negotiate instead of quarrel. When you don\'t agree with someone, discuss the issue with them. \n\nFinally, never trust in those who leave you when you are in trouble. And never leave your friends when they are in trouble. Remember, a friend in need is a friend indeed. \n\nFriends should be faithful to each other. So long as you can put your friend\'s interests in front of yours, you will have a lot of good friends.\n\n如何交朋友 \n人人都需要、朋友。朋友可以给我们以帮助，与我们共事困难和快乐。但是，怎样交朋友呢? \n交朋友首先要对别人友善。你对别人微笑；肯定别人也会报以微笑。要使陌生人感到亲切，关心别人要比：关心自己为重，决不以貌取人。 \n其次，朋友之间应该商量而不是争吵。当与别人有分歧时，要和他一起讨论。 \n最后，不要相信那些在危急关头背离你的人，也不要在朋友危难时离开他。记住：患难之中见真情。 \n朋友应该以诚相待。只要你把朋友的利益置于你的利益之上，你就会拥有好多好朋友 ', 'How to Make Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '654-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-14 19:49:31', '2011-05-14 23:49:31', '', 654, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/14/654-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(680, 1, '2011-05-20 08:56:22', '2011-05-20 12:56:22', '[two_third]\nA short intermediate essay on \"Ho\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n辉煌 - [pinyin]hui1 huang2[/pinyin] - Glorious\n继承 - [pinyin]ji4 cheng2[/pinyin] - Inherit, carry on\n冒险 - [pinyin]mao4 xian3[/pinyin] - Adventurous, risk-taking\n荒废 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\n探查 - [pinyin]tan4 cha2[/pinyin] - Nose around, investigate\n虚拟世界 - [pinyin]xu1 ni3 shi4 jie4[/pinyin] - Virtual reality, web-based fantasy world\n争霸 - [pinyin]zheng1 ba4[/pinyin] - Power struggle\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n如何交朋友 \n人人都需要、朋友。朋友可以给我们以帮助，与我们共事困难和快乐。但是，怎样交朋友呢? \n\n交朋友首先要对别人友善。你对别人微笑；肯定别人也会报以微笑。要使陌生人感到亲切，关心别人要比：关心自己为重，决不以貌取人。 \n\n其次，朋友之间应该商量而不是争吵。当与别人有分歧时，要和他一起讨论。 \n\n最后，不要相信那些在危急关头背离你的人，也不要在朋友危难时离开他。记住：患难之中见真情。 \n\n朋友应该以诚相待。只要你把朋友的利益置于你的利益之上，你就会拥有好多好朋友 \n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nEveryone needs friends. A friend can give us help and share our difficulties and happiness. But how can we make friends? \n\nFirst, to make friends, you must be friendly to others. Smile at others and you are sure to get a smile in return. You should try to make a stranger feel at home wherever he happens to be. Think more of others than of yourself and never judge a person by their appearance and clothes. \n\nSecond, friends should negotiate instead of quarrel. When you don\'t agree with someone, discuss the issue with them. \n\nFinally, never trust in those who leave you when you are in trouble. And never leave your friends when they are in trouble. Remember, a friend in need is a friend indeed. \n\nFriends should be faithful to each other. So long as you can put your friend\'s interests in front of yours, you will have a lot of good friends.\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'How to Make Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '654-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-20 08:56:22', '2011-05-20 12:56:22', '', 654, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/20/654-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(681, 1, '2011-06-02 19:21:39', '2011-06-02 23:21:39', '[two_third]\n\nThis short bullet-pointed list was snagged from a health blog. \n\nVery heavy on the medical language, this quick\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n辉煌 - [pinyin]hui1 huang2[/pinyin] - Glorious\n继承 - [pinyin]ji4 cheng2[/pinyin] - Inherit, carry on\n冒险 - [pinyin]mao4 xian3[/pinyin] - Adventurous, risk-taking\n荒废 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\n探查 - [pinyin]tan4 cha2[/pinyin] - Nose around, investigate\n虚拟世界 - [pinyin]xu1 ni3 shi4 jie4[/pinyin] - Virtual reality, web-based fantasy world\n争霸 - [pinyin]zheng1 ba4[/pinyin] - Power struggle\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n起床后的第一杯水的重要性\n①补充水份-补充身体代谢失去的水份；\n②防止便秘-刺激胃肠的蠕动，湿润肠道，促进大便的排泄，防治便秘；\n③冲刷肠胃-洗涤清洁肠胃，冲淡胃酸，减轻胃的刺激，使胃肠保持最佳的状态；\n④清醒大脑-增加血溶量，稀释血液，降低血液稠度，促进血液循环；\n⑤美容养颜-排出毒素。\n\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6e5987830100ot4k.html\">Read original post</a>\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'The Importance of the First Glass of Water After Waking', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '511-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-06-02 19:21:39', '2011-06-02 23:21:39', '', 511, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/06/02/511-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(682, 1, '2011-06-02 20:23:21', '2011-06-03 00:23:21', '[two_third]\n\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\n<!--more-->\n\nVery heavy on the medical language, this quick post outlines five health benefits to have a glass of water upon waking up. \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n补充 - [pinyin]bu3 chong1[/pinyin] - Replenish\n继承 - [pinyin]ji4 cheng2[/pinyin] - Inherit, carry on\n冒险 - [pinyin]mao4 xian3[/pinyin] - Adventurous, risk-taking\n荒废 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\n探查 - [pinyin]tan4 cha2[/pinyin] - Nose around, investigate\n虚拟世界 - [pinyin]xu1 ni3 shi4 jie4[/pinyin] - Virtual reality, web-based fantasy world\n争霸 - [pinyin]zheng1 ba4[/pinyin] - Power struggle\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n①补充水份-补充身体代谢失去的水份；\n②防止便秘-刺激胃肠的蠕动，湿润肠道，促进大便的排泄，防治便秘；\n③冲刷肠胃-洗涤清洁肠胃，冲淡胃酸，减轻胃的刺激，使胃肠保持最佳的状态；\n④清醒大脑-增加血溶量，稀释血液，降低血液稠度，促进血液循环；\n⑤美容养颜-排出毒素。\n\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6e5987830100ot4k.html\">Read original post</a>\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n1. Replenishes water levels: Replenishes water lost by the body\n2. Prevents constipation: Stimulates intestinal movement, moistens the intestines, promotes evacuation of the bowels, prevents and cures constipation\n3. Cleanses the digestive system: Rinses the digestive system clean, dilutes gastric acid, alleviates stomach irritation, maintains optimal digestive health [lit: \n\n③冲刷肠胃-洗涤清洁肠胃，冲淡胃酸，减轻胃的刺激，使胃肠保持最佳的状态；\n④清醒大脑-增加血溶量，稀释血液，降低血液稠度，促进血液循环；\n⑤美容养颜-排出毒素。\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'The Importance of the First Glass of Water After Waking', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '511-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-06-02 20:23:21', '2011-06-03 00:23:21', '', 511, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/06/02/511-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(683, 1, '2011-06-02 20:32:14', '2011-06-03 00:32:14', '[two_third]\n\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\n<!--more-->\n\nVery 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!\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n补充 - [pinyin]bu3 chong1[/pinyin] - Replenish\n继承 - [pinyin]ji4 cheng2[/pinyin] - Inherit, carry on\n冒险 - [pinyin]mao4 xian3[/pinyin] - Adventurous, risk-taking\n荒废 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\n探查 - [pinyin]tan4 cha2[/pinyin] - Nose around, investigate\n虚拟世界 - [pinyin]xu1 ni3 shi4 jie4[/pinyin] - Virtual reality, web-based fantasy world\n争霸 - [pinyin]zheng1 ba4[/pinyin] - Power struggle\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n①补充水份-补充身体代谢失去的水份；\n②防止便秘-刺激胃肠的蠕动，湿润肠道，促进大便的排泄，防治便秘；\n③冲刷肠胃-洗涤清洁肠胃，冲淡胃酸，减轻胃的刺激，使胃肠保持最佳的状态；\n④清醒大脑-增加血溶量，稀释血液，降低血液稠度，促进血液循环；\n⑤美容养颜-排出毒素。\n\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6e5987830100ot4k.html\">Read original post</a>\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n1. Replenishes water levels: Replenishes water lost by the body\n2. Prevents constipation: Stimulates intestinal movement, moistens the intestines, promotes evacuation of the bowels, prevents and cures constipation\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]\n4. Clear-headedness: Increases blood <em>solubility</em>, dilutes the blood, reduces blood thickness, promotes circulation\n5. Beauty and Color: Purges toxins\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'The Importance of the First Glass of Water After Waking', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '511-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-06-02 20:32:14', '2011-06-03 00:32:14', '', 511, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/06/02/511-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(684, 1, '2011-06-02 20:38:58', '2011-06-03 00:38:58', '[two_third]\n\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\n<!--more-->\n\nVery 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!\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n补充 - [pinyin]bu3 chong1[/pinyin] - Replenish\n代谢 - [pinyin]dai4 xie4[/pinyin] - Replcement; metabolism\n便秘 - [pinyin]bian4 mi4[/pinyin] - Constipation\n刺激 - [pinyin]ci4 ji1[/pinyin] - Provoke, irritate, upset\n肠道 - [pinyin]chang2 dao4[/pinyin] - Intestines, gut\n冲刷 - [pinyin]chong1 shua1[/pinyin] - To cleanse\n最佳 - [pinyin]zui4 jia1[/pinyin] - Optimal, peak\n血液循环 - [pinyin]zheng1 ba4[/pinyin] - Blood circulation\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n①<strong>补充</strong>水份-补充<strong>身体</strong>代谢失去的水份；\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；\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；\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>；\n⑤美容养颜-排出毒素。\n\n<a href=\"http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6e5987830100ot4k.html\">Read original post</a>\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n1. Replenishes water levels: Replenishes water lost by the body\n2. Prevents constipation: Stimulates intestinal movement, moistens the intestines, promotes evacuation of the bowels, prevents and cures constipation\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]\n4. Clear-headedness: Increases blood <em>solubility</em>, dilutes the blood, reduces blood thickness, promotes circulation\n5. Beauty: Purges toxins\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'The Importance of the First Glass of Water After Waking', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '511-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-06-02 20:38:58', '2011-06-03 00:38:58', '', 511, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/06/02/511-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(687, 1, '2011-06-02 20:39:12', '2011-06-03 00:39:12', '[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\nVery 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', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '511-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-06-02 20:39:12', '2011-06-03 00:39:12', '', 511, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/06/02/511-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(689, 1, '2011-06-06 13:01:37', '2011-06-06 17:01:37', '[two_third]\nA very basic story about a young elephant who learns a valuable life lesson.\n<!--more-->\n\nThere is one particularly difficult sentence here, and that\'s  小象爬到树去学飞“哎哟”一声，摔了一个大跟头. The words themselves aren\'t too hard, but the sentence arrangement doesn\'t make a lot of sense when directly translated into English. Let\'s take it step by step:\n\n小象 - Little Elephant\n爬到 - Climbed to / climbed up\n树 - tree\n去 - go\n学飞 - learn to fly\n“哎哟” - \'Ai yo!\' Sound which means \"Yikes!\" or \"Ow!\" \n一声 - Noise, sound\n摔了 - to fall\n一个大 - a big\n跟头 - Fall, trip and fall.\n\nIf you look at all these words together, you can more easily process the overall meaning of the sentence, which is, \"\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n小河 - [pinyin]xiao3 he2[/pinyin] - Brook, stream\n飞来飞去 - [pinyin]fei1 lai2 fei1 qu4[/pinyin] - Fly back and forth, fly here and there\n爬 - [pinyin]pa2[/pinyin] - Climb\n跟头 - [pinyin]gen1 tou5[/pinyin] - Trip and fall, take a fall\n本事 - [pinyin]ben3 shi4[/pinyin] - Ability, skill\n宽 - [pinyin]kuan1[/pinyin] - Wide\n不能比的 - [pinyin]bu4 neng2 bi3 de5[/pinyin] - Cannot compare\n钩 - [pinyin]gou1[/pinyin] - Hook\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n小象生下来的第三天，跟妈妈来到<strong>小河</strong>边，看见一只小鸟在天空<strong>飞来飞去</strong>。小象想：“要是我也会飞，可以看到更多的东西，多好呀！”\n\n小象<strong>爬</strong>到树去学飞“哎哟”一声，摔了一个大<strong>跟头</strong>。\n\n蛇看见了说：“小象，我们有自己的<strong>本事</strong>。我不会飞，可是，我会在树上睡觉。”\n\n狮子说：“我也不会飞，可是，我能跳过<strong>宽</strong>宽的大河。”\n\n老虎说：“我不会飞，可是我会游泳！”\n\n爸爸妈妈对小象说：“我们象的力气大，这是小鸟<strong>不能比的</strong>。”小象明白了。他用长鼻子一钩，大木头就搬走了。\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\nOn the third day after he was born, Little Elephant went with his mother to the banks of a stream, and there he saw a bird in the sky flying here and there. Little Elephant said: \"If I could fly, I could see even more things, it would be great!\"\n\nIn order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\n\nSeeing this, the snake said: \"Little elephant, we all have our own abilities. I can\'t fly, but I can sleep in a tree.\"\n\nLion said: \"I also can\'t fly, but I can jump across a wide river.\"\n\nTiger said, \"I can\'t fly, but I can swim!\"\n\nLittle Elephant\'s father and mother said to him, \"We elephants have great strength, incomparably greater than that little bird\'s.\"\n\nLittle Elephant understood. He used his long nose as a hook and moved a large branch.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n', 'The Little Elephant that Wanted to Fly', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '688-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-06-06 13:01:37', '2011-06-06 17:01:37', '', 688, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/06/06/688-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(692, 1, '2011-06-06 13:02:26', '2011-06-06 17:02:26', '[two_third]\r\nA very basic story about a young elephant who learns a valuable life lesson.\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nThere is one particularly difficult sentence here, and that\'s  小象爬到树去学飞“哎哟”一声，摔了一个大跟头. The words themselves aren\'t too hard, but the sentence arrangement doesn\'t make a lot of sense when directly translated into English. Let\'s take it step by step:\r\n\r\n小象 - Little Elephant\r\n爬到 - Climbed to / climbed up\r\n树 - tree\r\n去 - go\r\n学飞 - learn to fly\r\n“哎哟” - \'Ai yo!\' Sound which means \"Yikes!\" or \"Ow!\" \r\n一声 - Noise, sound\r\n摔了 - to fall\r\n一个大 - a big\r\n跟头 - Fall, trip and fall.\r\n\r\nIf you look at all these words together, you can more easily process the overall meaning of the sentence, which is, \"In order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\" \r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n小河 - [pinyin]xiao3 he2[/pinyin] - Brook, stream\r\n飞来飞去 - [pinyin]fei1 lai2 fei1 qu4[/pinyin] - Fly back and forth, fly here and there\r\n爬 - [pinyin]pa2[/pinyin] - Climb\r\n跟头 - [pinyin]gen1 tou5[/pinyin] - Trip and fall, take a fall\r\n本事 - [pinyin]ben3 shi4[/pinyin] - Ability, skill\r\n宽 - [pinyin]kuan1[/pinyin] - Wide\r\n不能比的 - [pinyin]bu4 neng2 bi3 de5[/pinyin] - Cannot compare\r\n钩 - [pinyin]gou1[/pinyin] - Hook\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\n小象生下来的第三天，跟妈妈来到<strong>小河</strong>边，看见一只小鸟在天空<strong>飞来飞去</strong>。小象想：“要是我也会飞，可以看到更多的东西，多好呀！”\r\n\r\n小象<strong>爬</strong>到树去学飞“哎哟”一声，摔了一个大<strong>跟头</strong>。\r\n\r\n蛇看见了说：“小象，我们有自己的<strong>本事</strong>。我不会飞，可是，我会在树上睡觉。”\r\n\r\n狮子说：“我也不会飞，可是，我能跳过<strong>宽</strong>宽的大河。”\r\n\r\n老虎说：“我不会飞，可是我会游泳！”\r\n\r\n爸爸妈妈对小象说：“我们象的力气大，这是小鸟<strong>不能比的</strong>。”小象明白了。他用长鼻子一钩，大木头就搬走了。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nOn the third day after he was born, Little Elephant went with his mother to the banks of a stream, and there he saw a bird in the sky flying here and there. Little Elephant said: \"If I could fly, I could see even more things, it would be great!\"\r\n\r\nIn order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\r\n\r\nSeeing this, the snake said: \"Little elephant, we all have our own abilities. I can\'t fly, but I can sleep in a tree.\"\r\n\r\nLion said: \"I also can\'t fly, but I can jump across a wide river.\"\r\n\r\nTiger said, \"I can\'t fly, but I can swim!\"\r\n\r\nLittle Elephant\'s father and mother said to him, \"We elephants have great strength, incomparably greater than that little bird\'s.\"\r\n\r\nLittle Elephant understood. He used his long nose as a hook and moved a large branch.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n', 'The Little Elephant that Wanted to Fly', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '688-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-06-06 13:02:26', '2011-06-06 17:02:26', '', 688, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/06/06/688-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(695, 1, '2011-08-06 21:51:39', '2011-08-07 01:51:39', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe crux of the joke is that the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced identically to the way two Chinese swear words, both meaning \"fuck\", are pronounced. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\r\n\r\nThis usage of the term “我操” (the profane way to spell 我草) is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\r\n\r\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words. \r\n\r\nLest you think I\'m being crass [only] for crass\'s (crasses? Crassnesses?) sake, these swear words are very often used in China, and because they have alternate meanings, it\'s hard to figure out what\'s going on when you read them. \r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\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=\"1/3\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h4>太阳给草打电话</h4>\r\n太阳给草打电话\r\n\r\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\r\n\r\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\r\n\r\n草:我草.\r\n\r\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/3\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show basic meaning\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m grass, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun.\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! And you\'re the grass!\r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! The sun, I say!\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the sun\'s mother, you\'re the grass, grass is your mother. \r\n\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/3\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show profane meaning\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, fuck me. \r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me.\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me!! And fuck you! \r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? Fuck me! \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me! Fuck me!\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: Fuck me goddamnit it, you\'re fucked, fuck your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The F Word. A Lot.', '', 'draft', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-sun-gives-the-grass-a-call-the-f-word-a-lot', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:38:36', '2020-04-20 10:38:36', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=695', 0, 'post', '', 13),
(1819, 1, '2020-04-20 06:24:14', '2020-04-20 10:24:14', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe crux of the joke is that the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced identically to the way two Chinese swear words, both meaning \"fuck\", are pronounced. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\r\n\r\nThis usage of the term “我操” (the profane way to spell 我草) is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\r\n\r\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words. \r\n\r\nLest you think I\'m being crass [only] for crass\'s (crasses? Crassnesses?) sake, these swear words are very often used in China, and because they have alternate meanings, it\'s hard to figure out what\'s going on when you read them. \r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\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=\"1/3\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<h4>太阳给草打电话</h4>\r\n太阳给草打电话\r\n\r\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\r\n\r\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\r\n\r\n草:我草.\r\n\r\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/3\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show basic meaning\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m grass, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun.\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! And you\'re the grass!\r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! The sun, I say!\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the sun\'s mother, you\'re the grass, grass is your mother. \r\n\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/3\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show profane meaning\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, fuck me. \r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me.\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me!! And fuck you! \r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? Fuck me! \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me! Fuck me!\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: Fuck me goddamnit it, you\'re fucked, fuck your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The F Word. A Lot.', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:24:14', '2020-04-20 10:24:14', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/04/20/695-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(694, 1, '2011-05-07 16:58:56', '2011-05-07 20:58:56', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nI\'ve found some cool Chinese movie review sites, so the next few posts will probably focus there. This one is a very short blurb introducing the plot of the new comic book movie Thor. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/20110507-inline.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"20110507-inline\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The <a href=\"http://movie.douban.com/subject/1866471/\">original summary</a> was taken from the movie section of Chinese web portal Douban. \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剧情 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\r\n掌控- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\r\n点燃 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\r\n战火 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\r\n恶势力 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\r\n重任 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n<strong>剧情简介:</strong>\r\n《雷神托尔》讲述了北欧神话中<strong>掌控</strong>着暴风和闪电的雷神因<strong>点燃</strong>了古代战争的<strong>战火</strong>，被发配到地球生活。然而地球却遭到了<strong>恶势力</strong>派来的阿斯加德（Asgard）王国黑暗力量的入侵，雷神肩负保护地球的<strong>重任</strong>，在这里他学会了如何成为一个真正的英雄。\r\n</div>\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\"Thunder God Thor\" gives an account of the god from Northern European mythology who controls storms and lightning, who ignited the flames of an ancient war, and [because of this] was banished to live on Earth. But Earth when suffers as evil forces invade the kingdom of Asgard, Thor shoulders the heavy responsibility of protecting Earth, and in doing so learns how to be a real hero. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Introduction to the Movie Thor', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '657-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-05-07 16:58:56', '2011-05-07 20:58:56', '', 657, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/05/07/657-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(697, 1, '2011-08-06 21:31:07', '2011-08-07 01:31:07', '[two_third]\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke, similar to \"Who\'s on first\", only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\n\nThe crux of the joke is that the way the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced can have alternate profane meanings. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\" \n\nThis usage of the term “我操” is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\" \n\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n小河 - [pinyin]xiao3 he2[/pinyin] - Brook, stream\n飞来飞去 - [pinyin]fei1 lai2 fei1 qu4[/pinyin] - Fly back and forth, fly here and there\n爬 - [pinyin]pa2[/pinyin] - Climb\n跟头 - [pinyin]gen1 tou5[/pinyin] - Trip and fall, take a fall\n本事 - [pinyin]ben3 shi4[/pinyin] - Ability, skill\n宽 - [pinyin]kuan1[/pinyin] - Wide\n不能比的 - [pinyin]bu4 neng2 bi3 de5[/pinyin] - Cannot compare\n钩 - [pinyin]gou1[/pinyin] - Hook\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n太阳给草打电话\n\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\n\n草：我草，你谁啊？\n\n太阳：我日啊\n\n草：我草，你到底谁啊\n\n太阳：我日啊，你草吧\n\n草：TMD，你到底是谁啊，我草\n\n太阳：我日，我日啊\n\n草:我草.\n\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话：我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢 \n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\nOn the third day after he was born, Little Elephant went with his mother to the banks of a stream, and there he saw a bird in the sky flying here and there. Little Elephant said: \"If I could fly, I could see even more things, it would be great!\"\n\nIn order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\n\nSeeing this, the snake said: \"Little elephant, we all have our own abilities. I can\'t fly, but I can sleep in a tree.\"\n\nLion said: \"I also can\'t fly, but I can jump across a wide river.\"\n\nTiger said, \"I can\'t fly, but I can swim!\"\n\nLittle Elephant\'s father and mother said to him, \"We elephants have great strength, incomparably greater than that little bird\'s.\"\n\nLittle Elephant understood. He used his long nose as a hook and moved a large branch.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The, ahem, worst of Chinese Slang', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-06 21:31:07', '2011-08-07 01:31:07', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/06/695-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(698, 1, '2011-08-06 21:35:20', '2011-08-07 01:35:20', '[two_third]\n\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke, similar to \"Who\'s on first\", only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\n\nThe crux of the joke is that the way the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced can have alternate profane meanings. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\n\nThis usage of the term “我操” is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\n\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words.\n\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\n\n[/two_third]\n\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n小河 - [pinyin]xiao3 he2[/pinyin] - Brook, stream\n\n飞来飞去 - [pinyin]fei1 lai2 fei1 qu4[/pinyin] - Fly back and forth, fly here and there\n\n爬 - [pinyin]pa2[/pinyin] - Climb\n\n跟头 - [pinyin]gen1 tou5[/pinyin] - Trip and fall, take a fall\n\n本事 - [pinyin]ben3 shi4[/pinyin] - Ability, skill\n\n宽 - [pinyin]kuan1[/pinyin] - Wide\n\n不能比的 - [pinyin]bu4 neng2 bi3 de5[/pinyin] - Cannot compare\n\n钩 - [pinyin]gou1[/pinyin] - Hook\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">太阳给草打电话&nbsp;\n\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\n\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\n\n太阳: 我日啊\n\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\n\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\n\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\n\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\n\n草:我草.\n\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\n\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nOn the third day after he was born, Little Elephant went with his mother to the banks of a stream, and there he saw a bird in the sky flying here and there. Little Elephant said: \"If I could fly, I could see even more things, it would be great!\"\n\nIn order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\n\nSeeing this, the snake said: \"Little elephant, we all have our own abilities. I can\'t fly, but I can sleep in a tree.\"\n\nLion said: \"I also can\'t fly, but I can jump across a wide river.\"\n\nTiger said, \"I can\'t fly, but I can swim!\"\n\nLittle Elephant\'s father and mother said to him, \"We elephants have great strength, incomparably greater than that little bird\'s.\"\n\nLittle Elephant understood. He used his long nose as a hook and moved a large branch.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The, ahem, worst of Chinese Slang', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-06 21:35:20', '2011-08-07 01:35:20', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/06/695-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(699, 1, '2011-08-06 21:38:29', '2011-08-07 01:38:29', '[two_third]\n\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke, similar to \"Who\'s on first\", only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\n\nThe crux of the joke is that the way the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced can have alternate profane meanings. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\n\nThis usage of the term “我操” is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\n\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words.\n\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\n\n[/two_third]\n\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n小河 - [pinyin]xiao3 he2[/pinyin] - Brook, stream\n\n飞来飞去 - [pinyin]fei1 lai2 fei1 qu4[/pinyin] - Fly back and forth, fly here and there\n\n爬 - [pinyin]pa2[/pinyin] - Climb\n\n跟头 - [pinyin]gen1 tou5[/pinyin] - Trip and fall, take a fall\n\n本事 - [pinyin]ben3 shi4[/pinyin] - Ability, skill\n\n宽 - [pinyin]kuan1[/pinyin] - Wide\n\n不能比的 - [pinyin]bu4 neng2 bi3 de5[/pinyin] - Cannot compare\n\n钩 - [pinyin]gou1[/pinyin] - Hook\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_third]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n太阳给草打电话\n\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\n\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\n\n太阳: 我日啊\n\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\n\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\n\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\n\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\n\n草:我草.\n\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n[one_third last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nOn the third day after he was born, Little Elephant went with his mother to the banks of a stream, and there he saw a bird in the sky flying here and there. Little Elephant said: \"If I could fly, I could see even more things, it would be great!\"\n\nIn order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\n\nSeeing this, the snake said: \"Little elephant, we all have our own abilities. I can\'t fly, but I can sleep in a tree.\"\n\nLion said: \"I also can\'t fly, but I can jump across a wide river.\"\n\nTiger said, \"I can\'t fly, but I can swim!\"\n\nLittle Elephant\'s father and mother said to him, \"We elephants have great strength, incomparably greater than that little bird\'s.\"\n\nLittle Elephant understood. He used his long nose as a hook and moved a large branch.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_third]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The, ahem, worst of Chinese Slang', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-06 21:38:29', '2011-08-07 01:38:29', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/06/695-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(701, 1, '2011-08-06 21:51:32', '2011-08-07 01:51:32', '[two_third]\n\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke, similar to \"Who\'s on first\", only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\n\nThe crux of the joke is that the way the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced can have alternate profane meanings. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\n\nThis usage of the term “我操” is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\n\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words. \n\nLest you think I\'m being crass [only] for crass\'s (crasses? Crassnesses?) sake, these swear words are very often used in China, and because they have alternate meanings, it\'s hard to figure out what\'s going on when you read them. \n\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_third]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n太阳给草打电话\n\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\n\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\n\n太阳: 我日啊\n\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\n\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\n\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\n\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\n\n草:我草.\n\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n[one_third]\n\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW BASIC MEANING\"]\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \n\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \n\nGrass: I\'m grass, who are you? \n\nSun: I\'m the sun.\n\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \n\nSun: I\'m the sun! And you\'re the grass!\n\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass!\n\nSun: I\'m the sun! The sun, I say!\n\nGrass: I\'m the grass!\n\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the son\'s mother, you\'re the grass, grass is your mother. \n\n[/hide-this-part]\n\n[/one_third]\n[one_third last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW PROFANE MEANING\"]\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \n\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, fuck me. \n\nGrass: Fuck me, who are you? \n\nSun: Fuck me.\n\nGrass: Fuck me. Seriously, who are you? \n\nSun: Fuck me!! And fuck you! \n\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? Fuck me! \n\nSun: Fuck me! Fuck me!\n\nGrass: Fuck me!\n\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: Fuck me goddamnit it, you\'re fucked, fuck your mother. \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_third]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The F Word. A Lot.', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-06 21:51:32', '2011-08-07 01:51:32', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/06/695-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(700, 1, '2011-08-06 21:43:11', '2011-08-07 01:43:11', '[two_third]\n\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke, similar to \"Who\'s on first\", only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\n\nThe crux of the joke is that the way the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced can have alternate profane meanings. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\n\nThis usage of the term “我操” is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\n\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words.\n\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\n\n[/two_third]\n\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n小河 - [pinyin]xiao3 he2[/pinyin] - Brook, stream\n\n飞来飞去 - [pinyin]fei1 lai2 fei1 qu4[/pinyin] - Fly back and forth, fly here and there\n\n爬 - [pinyin]pa2[/pinyin] - Climb\n\n跟头 - [pinyin]gen1 tou5[/pinyin] - Trip and fall, take a fall\n\n本事 - [pinyin]ben3 shi4[/pinyin] - Ability, skill\n\n宽 - [pinyin]kuan1[/pinyin] - Wide\n\n不能比的 - [pinyin]bu4 neng2 bi3 de5[/pinyin] - Cannot compare\n\n钩 - [pinyin]gou1[/pinyin] - Hook\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_third]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n\n太阳给草打电话\n\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\n\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\n\n太阳: 我日啊\n\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\n\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\n\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\n\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\n\n草:我草.\n\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n[one_third]\n\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW BASIC MEANING\"]\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \n\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \n\nGrass: I\'m the grass, who are you? \n\nSun: I\'m the sun. \n\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \n\nSun: I\'m the sun!! And you\'re the grass! \n\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass! \n\nSun: I\'m the sun, I\'m the sun!  \n\nGrass: I\'m the grass. \n\nAt this time, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the sun\'s mother, you\'re grass, and grass is your mother. \n\n[/hide-this-part]\n\n[/one_third]\n[one_third last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW PROFANE MEANING\"]\n\nOn the third day after he was born, Little Elephant went with his mother to the banks of a stream, and there he saw a bird in the sky flying here and there. Little Elephant said: \"If I could fly, I could see even more things, it would be great!\"\n\nIn order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\n\nSeeing this, the snake said: \"Little elephant, we all have our own abilities. I can\'t fly, but I can sleep in a tree.\"\n\nLion said: \"I also can\'t fly, but I can jump across a wide river.\"\n\nTiger said, \"I can\'t fly, but I can swim!\"\n\nLittle Elephant\'s father and mother said to him, \"We elephants have great strength, incomparably greater than that little bird\'s.\"\n\nLittle Elephant understood. He used his long nose as a hook and moved a large branch.\n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_third]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The, ahem, worst of Chinese Slang', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-06 21:43:11', '2011-08-07 01:43:11', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/06/695-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(702, 1, '2020-04-20 06:22:34', '2020-04-20 10:22:34', '[su_row]\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\n\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\n\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110806-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Dirty Chinese Jokes: Beginner, Intermediate Advanced\" title=\"Dirty Chinese Jokes: Beginner, Intermediate Advanced\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The crux of the joke is that the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced identically to the way two Chinese swear words, both meaning \"fuck\", are pronounced. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\n\nThis usage of the term “我操” (the profane way to spell 我草) is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\n\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words. \n\nLest you think I\'m being crass [only] for crass\'s (crasses? Crassnesses?) sake, these swear words are very often used in China, and because they have alternate meanings, it\'s hard to figure out what\'s going on when you read them. \n\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\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>太阳给草打电话</h4>\n\n\n太阳给草打电话\n\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\n\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\n\n太阳: 我日啊\n\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\n\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\n\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\n\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\n\n草:我草.\n\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n[one_third]\n\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW BASIC MEANING\"]\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \n\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \n\nGrass: I\'m grass, who are you? \n\nSun: I\'m the sun.\n\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \n\nSun: I\'m the sun! And you\'re the grass!\n\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass!\n\nSun: I\'m the sun! The sun, I say!\n\nGrass: I\'m the grass!\n\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the sun\'s mother, you\'re the grass, grass is your mother. \n\n[/hide-this-part]\n\n[/one_third]\n[one_third last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW PROFANE MEANING\"]\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \n\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, fuck me. \n\nGrass: Fuck me, who are you? \n\nSun: Fuck me.\n\nGrass: Fuck me. Seriously, who are you? \n\nSun: Fuck me!! And fuck you! \n\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? Fuck me! \n\nSun: Fuck me! Fuck me!\n\nGrass: Fuck me!\n\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: Fuck me goddamnit it, you\'re fucked, fuck your mother. \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_third]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The F Word. A Lot.', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-autosave-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:22:34', '2020-04-20 10:22:34', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/06/695-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(703, 1, '2011-08-06 21:51:39', '2011-08-07 01:51:39', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke, similar to \"Who\'s on first\", only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe crux of the joke is that the way the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced can have alternate profane meanings. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\r\n\r\nThis usage of the term “我操” is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\r\n\r\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words. \r\n\r\nLest you think I\'m being crass [only] for crass\'s (crasses? Crassnesses?) sake, these swear words are very often used in China, and because they have alternate meanings, it\'s hard to figure out what\'s going on when you read them. \r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_third]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n太阳给草打电话\r\n\r\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\r\n\r\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\r\n\r\n草:我草.\r\n\r\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third]\r\n\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW BASIC MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m grass, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun.\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! And you\'re the grass!\r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! The sun, I say!\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the son\'s mother, you\'re the grass, grass is your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW PROFANE MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, fuck me. \r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me.\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me!! And fuck you! \r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? Fuck me! \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me! Fuck me!\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: Fuck me goddamnit it, you\'re fucked, fuck your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_third]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The F Word. A Lot.', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-06 21:51:39', '2011-08-07 01:51:39', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/06/695-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(704, 1, '2011-08-06 21:56:30', '2011-08-07 01:56:30', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke, similar to \"Who\'s on first\", only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe crux of the joke is that the way the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced are identical to the way two Chinese swear words, both mean \"fuck\", are pronounced. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\r\n\r\nThis usage of the term “我操” (the profane way to spell 我草) is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\r\n\r\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words. \r\n\r\nLest you think I\'m being crass [only] for crass\'s (crasses? Crassnesses?) sake, these swear words are very often used in China, and because they have alternate meanings, it\'s hard to figure out what\'s going on when you read them. \r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_third]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n太阳给草打电话\r\n\r\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\r\n\r\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\r\n\r\n草:我草.\r\n\r\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third]\r\n\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW BASIC MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m grass, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun.\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! And you\'re the grass!\r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! The sun, I say!\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the son\'s mother, you\'re the grass, grass is your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW PROFANE MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, fuck me. \r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me.\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me!! And fuck you! \r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? Fuck me! \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me! Fuck me!\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: Fuck me goddamnit it, you\'re fucked, fuck your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_third]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The F Word. A Lot.', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-06 21:56:30', '2011-08-07 01:56:30', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/06/695-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(707, 1, '2011-08-06 21:57:47', '2011-08-07 01:57:47', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke, similar to \"Who\'s on first\", only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\r\n\r\nThe crux of the joke is that the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced identically to the way two Chinese swear words, both meaning \"fuck\", are pronounced. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\r\n\r\nThis usage of the term “我操” (the profane way to spell 我草) is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\r\n\r\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words. \r\n\r\nLest you think I\'m being crass [only] for crass\'s (crasses? Crassnesses?) sake, these swear words are very often used in China, and because they have alternate meanings, it\'s hard to figure out what\'s going on when you read them. \r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_third]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n太阳给草打电话\r\n\r\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\r\n\r\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\r\n\r\n草:我草.\r\n\r\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third]\r\n\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW BASIC MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m grass, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun.\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! And you\'re the grass!\r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! The sun, I say!\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the son\'s mother, you\'re the grass, grass is your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW PROFANE MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, fuck me. \r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me.\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me!! And fuck you! \r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? Fuck me! \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me! Fuck me!\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: Fuck me goddamnit it, you\'re fucked, fuck your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_third]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The F Word. A Lot.', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-06 21:57:47', '2011-08-07 01:57:47', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/06/695-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(709, 1, '2011-08-06 22:08:26', '2011-08-07 02:08:26', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke, similar to \"Who\'s on first\", only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110806-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Dirty Chinese Jokes: Beginner, Intermediate Advanced\" title=\"Dirty Chinese Jokes: Beginner, Intermediate Advanced\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder\" />The crux of the joke is that the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced identically to the way two Chinese swear words, both meaning \"fuck\", are pronounced. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\r\n\r\nThis usage of the term “我操” (the profane way to spell 我草) is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\r\n\r\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words. \r\n\r\nLest you think I\'m being crass [only] for crass\'s (crasses? Crassnesses?) sake, these swear words are very often used in China, and because they have alternate meanings, it\'s hard to figure out what\'s going on when you read them. \r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_third]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n太阳给草打电话\r\n\r\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\r\n\r\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\r\n\r\n草:我草.\r\n\r\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third]\r\n\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW BASIC MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m grass, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun.\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! And you\'re the grass!\r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! The sun, I say!\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the son\'s mother, you\'re the grass, grass is your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW PROFANE MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, fuck me. \r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me.\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me!! And fuck you! \r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? Fuck me! \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me! Fuck me!\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: Fuck me goddamnit it, you\'re fucked, fuck your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_third]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The F Word. A Lot.', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-06 22:08:26', '2011-08-07 02:08:26', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/06/695-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(710, 1, '2011-08-08 16:47:43', '2011-08-08 20:47:43', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke, similar to \"Who\'s on first\", only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110806-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Dirty Chinese Jokes: Beginner, Intermediate Advanced\" title=\"Dirty Chinese Jokes: Beginner, Intermediate Advanced\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The crux of the joke is that the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced identically to the way two Chinese swear words, both meaning \"fuck\", are pronounced. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\r\n\r\nThis usage of the term “我操” (the profane way to spell 我草) is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\r\n\r\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words. \r\n\r\nLest you think I\'m being crass [only] for crass\'s (crasses? Crassnesses?) sake, these swear words are very often used in China, and because they have alternate meanings, it\'s hard to figure out what\'s going on when you read them. \r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_third]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n太阳给草打电话\r\n\r\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\r\n\r\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\r\n\r\n草:我草.\r\n\r\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third]\r\n\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW BASIC MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m grass, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun.\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! And you\'re the grass!\r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! The sun, I say!\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the son\'s mother, you\'re the grass, grass is your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW PROFANE MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, fuck me. \r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me.\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me!! And fuck you! \r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? Fuck me! \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me! Fuck me!\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: Fuck me goddamnit it, you\'re fucked, fuck your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_third]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The F Word. A Lot.', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-08 16:47:43', '2011-08-08 20:47:43', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/08/695-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(712, 1, '2011-08-08 16:47:53', '2011-08-08 20:47:53', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110806-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Dirty Chinese Jokes: Beginner, Intermediate Advanced\" title=\"Dirty Chinese Jokes: Beginner, Intermediate Advanced\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The crux of the joke is that the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced identically to the way two Chinese swear words, both meaning \"fuck\", are pronounced. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\r\n\r\nThis usage of the term “我操” (the profane way to spell 我草) is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\r\n\r\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words. \r\n\r\nLest you think I\'m being crass [only] for crass\'s (crasses? Crassnesses?) sake, these swear words are very often used in China, and because they have alternate meanings, it\'s hard to figure out what\'s going on when you read them. \r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_third]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n太阳给草打电话\r\n\r\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\r\n\r\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\r\n\r\n草:我草.\r\n\r\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third]\r\n\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW BASIC MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m grass, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun.\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! And you\'re the grass!\r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! The sun, I say!\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the son\'s mother, you\'re the grass, grass is your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW PROFANE MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, fuck me. \r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me.\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me!! And fuck you! \r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? Fuck me! \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me! Fuck me!\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: Fuck me goddamnit it, you\'re fucked, fuck your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_third]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The F Word. A Lot.', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-08 16:47:53', '2011-08-08 20:47:53', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/08/695-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(713, 1, '2011-08-08 17:18:43', '2011-08-08 21:18:43', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\nThis is a very short beginner children\'s joke. <a href=\"http://www.tom61.com/ertongwenxue/ertongxiaoxiaohua/2011-04-26/22880.html\">Read the original on Tom61</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>沙漠</h4>\r\n老师: “<strong>沙漠</strong>是一块又长又<strong>宽</strong>的地方，上面光光的，什么东西都不长。”\r\n小学生: “老师，我明白了。我爸爸的<strong>秃</strong>头就是一片沙漠。”\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\nTeacher: \"A desert is a long, wide place, its surface is very bright, and not a single thing grows there.\" \r\nPrimary School Student: \"Teacher, I understand. My father\'s bald head is a strip of desert.\" \r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'Joke: The Desert', 'This is a very short beginner children\'s joke. ', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'the-desert', '', '', '2020-04-28 19:27:50', '2020-04-28 23:27:50', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=713', 0, 'post', '', 5),
(1824, 1, '2020-04-20 06:28:50', '2020-04-20 10:28:50', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\nThis is a very short beginner children\'s joke. <a href=\"http://www.tom61.com/ertongwenxue/ertongxiaoxiaohua/2011-04-26/22880.html\">Read the original on Tom61</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>沙漠</h4>\r\n老师: “<strong>沙漠</strong>是一块又长又<strong>宽</strong>的地方，上面光光的，什么东西都不长。”\r\n小学生: “老师，我明白了。我爸爸的<strong>秃</strong>头就是一片沙漠。”\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\nTeacher: \"A desert is a long, wide place, its surface is very bright, and not a single thing grows there.\" \r\nPrimary School Student: \"Teacher, I understand. My father\'s bald head is a strip of desert.\" \r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'The Desert', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '713-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:28:50', '2020-04-20 10:28:50', '', 713, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/04/20/713-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(716, 1, '2011-08-08 17:09:14', '2011-08-08 21:09:14', '[two_third]\nThis is a very short beginner children\'s joke.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nThe Chinese title of this joke is \"沙漠\", desert.\n\n<a href=\"http://www.tom61.com/ertongwenxue/ertongxiaoxiaohua/2011-04-26/22880.html\">Read the original on Tom61</a>\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n沙漠 - [pinyin]sha1 mo4[/pinyin] - Desert\n宽 - [pinyin]kuan1[/pinyin] - Wide\n秃 - [pinyin]tu1[/pinyin] - Bald\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n老师: “<strong>沙漠</strong>是一块又长又<strong>宽</strong>的地方，上面光光的，什么东西都不长。”\n小学生: “老师，我明白了。我爸爸的<strong>秃</strong>头就是一片沙漠。”\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nTeacher: \"A desert is a long, wide place, its surface is very bright, and not a single thing grows there.\" \nPrimary School Student: \"Teacher, I understand. My father\'s bald head is a strip of desert.\" \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'The Desert', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '713-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-08 17:09:14', '2011-08-08 21:09:14', '', 713, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/08/713-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(717, 1, '2011-08-08 16:48:53', '2011-08-08 20:48:53', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110806-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Dirty Chinese Jokes: Beginner, Intermediate Advanced\" title=\"Dirty Chinese Jokes: Beginner, Intermediate Advanced\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The crux of the joke is that the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced identically to the way two Chinese swear words, both meaning \"fuck\", are pronounced. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\r\n\r\nThis usage of the term “我操” (the profane way to spell 我草) is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\r\n\r\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words. \r\n\r\nLest you think I\'m being crass [only] for crass\'s (crasses? Crassnesses?) sake, these swear words are very often used in China, and because they have alternate meanings, it\'s hard to figure out what\'s going on when you read them. \r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_third]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n太阳给草打电话\r\n\r\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\r\n\r\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\r\n\r\n草:我草.\r\n\r\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third]\r\n\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW BASIC MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m grass, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun.\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! And you\'re the grass!\r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! The sun, I say!\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the son\'s mother, you\'re the grass, grass is your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW PROFANE MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, fuck me. \r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me.\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me!! And fuck you! \r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? Fuck me! \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me! Fuck me!\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: Fuck me goddamnit it, you\'re fucked, fuck your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_third]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The F Word. A Lot.', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-08 16:48:53', '2011-08-08 20:48:53', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/08/695-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(718, 1, '2011-08-10 07:00:47', '2011-08-10 11:00:47', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\nAnother super-simple and very short children\'s joke. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nOne thing to watch out for here that can be confusing is the way the word \"分\" is used here. Typically, one says \"100分\", meaning that one received \"100%\" on a test. In this case, the student indicates that he wants the teacher to give him \"5分\", which we can take to mean \"5 stars\" - not actually 5%.  \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>父子不和</h4>\r\n老师:“同学们，今天的家庭问题<strong>讨论</strong>课，讨论‘父子<strong>不和</strong>’这个<strong>题目</strong>。<strong>秋子</strong>同学，你认为要<strong>消除</strong>父子不和的<strong>现象</strong>，最好的办法是什么呢？”\r\n秋子起立回答: “老师，最好的办法是:这一次在我的<strong>成绩</strong><strong>通知单</strong>上全<strong>填</strong>5分！”\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<strong>Teacher said: </strong>\"Students, in today\'s Family Issues Discussion Class, the topic is \"Father and Son Don\'t Get Along\". Student QiuZi, do you know the best way to eliminate an issue with father and son not getting along?\" \r\n<strong>QiuZi immediately answered: </strong>\"Teacher, the best way to eliminate this problem is to give me five stars on my next report card!\"\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'Father and Son Don\'t Get Along', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'father-and-son-dont-get-along', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:49:03', '2020-04-20 11:49:03', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=718', 0, 'post', '', 4),
(1821, 1, '2020-04-20 06:26:56', '2020-04-20 10:26:56', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\nAnother super-simple and very short children\'s joke. \r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nOne thing to watch out for here that can be confusing is the way the word \"分\" is used here. Typically, one says \"100分\", meaning that one received \"100%\" on a test. In this case, the student indicates that he wants the teacher to give him \"5分\", which we can take to mean \"5 stars\" - not actually 5%.  \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>父子不和</h4>\r\n老师:“同学们，今天的家庭问题<strong>讨论</strong>课，讨论‘父子<strong>不和</strong>’这个<strong>题目</strong>。<strong>秋子</strong>同学，你认为要<strong>消除</strong>父子不和的<strong>现象</strong>，最好的办法是什么呢？”\r\n秋子起立回答: “老师，最好的办法是:这一次在我的<strong>成绩</strong><strong>通知单</strong>上全<strong>填</strong>5分！”\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<strong>Teacher said: </strong>\"Students, in today\'s Family Issues Discussion Class, the topic is \"Father and Son Don\'t Get Along\". Student QiuZi, do you know the best way to eliminate an issue with father and son not getting along?\" \r\n<strong>QiuZi immediately answered: </strong>\"Teacher, the best way to eliminate this problem is to give me five stars on my next report card!\"\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'Father and Son Don\'t Get Along', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '718-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:26:56', '2020-04-20 10:26:56', '', 718, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/04/20/718-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(719, 1, '2011-08-08 17:36:00', '2011-08-08 21:36:00', '', 'Beginner Chinese Passages and Jokes', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '20110810', '', '', '2011-08-08 17:36:00', '2011-08-08 21:36:00', '', 718, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110810.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(720, 1, '2011-08-08 17:36:51', '2011-08-08 21:36:51', '', 'Beginner Chinese Stories and Chinese Kids Jokes', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '20110810-inline', '', '', '2011-08-08 17:36:51', '2011-08-08 21:36:51', '', 718, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110810-inline.jpg', 0, 'attachment', 'image/jpeg', 0),
(721, 1, '2011-08-08 17:34:49', '2011-08-08 21:34:49', '[two_third]\nAnother super-simple and very short children\'s joke. \n\n<!--more-->\n\nOne thing to watch out for here that can be confusing is the way the word \"分\" is used here. Typically, one says \"100分\", meaning that one received \"100%\" on a test. In this case, the student indicates that he wants the teacher to give him \"5分\", which we can take to mean \"5 stars\" - not actually 5%.  The Chinese title of this joke is \"父子不和\".\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n讨论 - [pinyin]tao3 lun4[/pinyin] - To discuss\n不和 - [pinyin]bu4 he2[/pinyin] - To not get along well\n题目 - [pinyin]ti2 mu4[/pinyin] - Topic\n秋子 - [pinyin]qiu1 zi5[/pinyin] - QiuZi (a name)\n消除 - [pinyin]xiao1 chu2[/pinyin] - Eliminate, remove\n现象 - [pinyin]xian4 xiang4[/pinyin] - Phenomenon, happening, appearance\n成绩 - [pinyin]cheng2 ji4[/pinyin] - Grades (school grades)\n通知单 -  [pinyin]tong1 zhi1 dan4[/pinyin] - Report card\n填 - [pinyin]tian2[/pinyin] - To fill in (a form)\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n老师:“同学们，今天的家庭问题<strong>讨论</strong>课，讨论‘父子<strong>不和</strong>’这个<strong>题目</strong>。<strong>秋子</strong>同学，你认为要<strong>消除</strong>父子不和的<strong>现象</strong>，最好的办法是什么呢？”\n秋子起立回答: “老师，最好的办法是:这一次在我的<strong>成绩</strong><strong>通知单</strong>上全<strong>填</strong>5分！”\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\n<strong>Teacher said: </strong>\"Students, in today\'s Family Issues Discussion Class, the topic is \"Father and Son Don\'t Get Along\". Student QiuZi, do you know the best way to eliminate an issue with father and son not getting along?\" \n<strong>QiuZi immediately answered: </strong>\"Teacher, the best way to eliminate this problem is to give me five stars on my next report card!\"\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'Father and Son Don\'t Get Along', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '718-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-08 17:34:49', '2011-08-08 21:34:49', '', 718, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/08/718-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(722, 1, '2011-08-08 17:19:23', '2011-08-08 21:19:23', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nThis Chinese joke is not for the faint of heart, and definitely not for kids. This profane language mix-up joke only makes sense if you know which Chinese words have double meanings. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110806-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Dirty Chinese Jokes: Beginner, Intermediate Advanced\" title=\"Dirty Chinese Jokes: Beginner, Intermediate Advanced\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />The crux of the joke is that the word sun, 日, and the word \"grass\", 草, are pronounced identically to the way two Chinese swear words, both meaning \"fuck\", are pronounced. So the phrase \"我日\" means both \"I\'m the sun\" and also \"fuck me!\", while the phrase \"我草“　means both \"I\'m the grass\" and (if pronounced the same but spelled differently in writing), \"Fuck me!\"\r\n\r\nThis usage of the term “我操” (the profane way to spell 我草) is pure Beijing taxi-driver slang, not an actual invitation to have sex. For example, \"Fuck me! That guy almost ran right into us!\"\r\n\r\nThere are a few other swear words with double meanings, so I\'m going to do this a little differently than I usually do. I\'ll write the Chinese, and in the English translation area, I\'ll include the double meanings of words. \r\n\r\nLest you think I\'m being crass [only] for crass\'s (crasses? Crassnesses?) sake, these swear words are very often used in China, and because they have alternate meanings, it\'s hard to figure out what\'s going on when you read them. \r\n\r\nThe <a href=\"http://www.chinajokes.cn/Eb50.htm\">original text</a> comes from Chinese joke site Chinajokes.cn\r\n\r\n<hr />\r\n\r\n[one_third]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n\r\n太阳给草打电话\r\n\r\n太阳: 喂，草，你好吗，我日。\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你谁啊？\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊\r\n\r\n草: 我草，你到底谁啊\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日啊，你草吧\r\n\r\n草: 他妈的，你到底是谁啊，我草\r\n\r\n太阳: 我日，我日啊\r\n\r\n草:我草.\r\n\r\n这时， 太阳的妈妈接过电话: 我日他妈呀，你是草吧，草你妈呢\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third]\r\n\r\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW BASIC MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, I\'m the sun. \r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m grass, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun.\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! And you\'re the grass!\r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nSun: I\'m the sun! The sun, I say!\r\n\r\nGrass: I\'m the grass!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: I\'m the son\'s mother, you\'re the grass, grass is your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n\r\n[/one_third]\r\n[one_third last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW PROFANE MEANING\"]\r\nThe sun gave the grass a telephone call. \r\n\r\nSun: Hey, Grass, how are you, fuck me. \r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me.\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me. Seriously, who are you? \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me!! And fuck you! \r\n\r\nGrass: Goddamnit (literally: His mother\'s)! Really this time, who are you? Fuck me! \r\n\r\nSun: Fuck me! Fuck me!\r\n\r\nGrass: Fuck me!\r\n\r\nAt this point, the sun\'s mother picked up the phone and said: Fuck me goddamnit it, you\'re fucked, fuck your mother. \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_third]', 'The Sun Gives the Grass a Call: The F Word. A Lot.', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '695-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-08 17:19:23', '2011-08-08 21:19:23', '', 695, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/08/695-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(723, 1, '2011-08-13 07:00:12', '2011-08-13 11:00:12', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\nThis is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nIn this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". There\'s a ton of them in here. We find \"呜呜\" [pinyin]wu1 wu1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of \"Boo Hoo!\". There\'s also 劈里啪啦 [pinyin]pi1 li5 pa1 la5[/pinyin], the sound of someone whacking something (in this case, with a stick). There\'s 扑通 [pinyin]pu1 tong1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of the English word \"plunk\" - the sound of something falling into water. And there\'s 唧唧喳喳 [pinyin]ji1 ji1 zha1 zha1[/pinyin], the sound of a crowd of people chattering. \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>《包公审石头》</h4>\r\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\r\n\r\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>到这儿走过。\r\n\r\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \r\n\r\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \r\n\r\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\r\n\r\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上<strong>浮</strong>起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\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\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had made the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \r\n\r\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\r\n\r\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \r\n\r\nBao Gong thought for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \r\n\r\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad things about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\r\n\r\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. 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(1818, 1, '2020-04-20 06:20:22', '2020-04-20 10:20:22', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nIn this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". There\'s a ton of them in here. We find \"呜呜\" [pinyin]wu1 wu1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of \"Boo Hoo!\". There\'s also 劈里啪啦 [pinyin]pi1 li5 pa1 la5[/pinyin], the sound of someone whacking something (in this case, with a stick). There\'s 扑通 [pinyin]pu1 tong1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of the English word \"plunk\" - the sound of something falling into water. And there\'s 唧唧喳喳 [pinyin]ji1 ji1 zha1 zha1[/pinyin], the sound of a crowd of people chattering. \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>《包公审石头》</h4>\r\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\r\n\r\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>打这儿走过。\r\n\r\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \r\n\r\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \r\n\r\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\r\n\r\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上<strong>浮</strong>起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\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\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had made the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \r\n\r\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\r\n\r\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \r\n\r\nBao Gong thought for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \r\n\r\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad things about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\r\n\r\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. 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(726, 1, '2011-06-06 16:12:41', '2011-06-06 20:12:41', '[two_third]\r\nA very basic story about a young elephant who learns a valuable life lesson.\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/20110606-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Basic Chinese Reading Practice\" title=\"Basic Chinese Reading Practice\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />There is one particularly difficult sentence here, and that\'s  小象爬到树去学飞“哎哟”一声，摔了一个大跟头. The words themselves aren\'t too hard, but the sentence arrangement doesn\'t make a lot of sense when directly translated into English. Let\'s take it step by step:\r\n\r\n小象 - Little Elephant\r\n爬到 - Climbed to / climbed up\r\n树 - tree\r\n去 - go\r\n学飞 - learn to fly\r\n“哎哟” - \'Ai yo!\' Sound which means \"Yikes!\" or \"Ow!\" \r\n一声 - Noise, sound\r\n摔了 - to fall\r\n一个大 - a big\r\n跟头 - Fall, trip and fall.\r\n\r\nIf you look at all these words together, you can more easily process the overall meaning of the sentence, which is, \"In order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\" \r\n[/two_third]\r\n[one_third last=last]\r\n<div class=\"postintro\">\r\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\r\n小河 - [pinyin]xiao3 he2[/pinyin] - Brook, stream\r\n飞来飞去 - [pinyin]fei1 lai2 fei1 qu4[/pinyin] - Fly back and forth, fly here and there\r\n爬 - [pinyin]pa2[/pinyin] - Climb\r\n跟头 - [pinyin]gen1 tou5[/pinyin] - Trip and fall, take a fall\r\n本事 - [pinyin]ben3 shi4[/pinyin] - Ability, skill\r\n宽 - [pinyin]kuan1[/pinyin] - Wide\r\n不能比的 - [pinyin]bu4 neng2 bi3 de5[/pinyin] - Cannot compare\r\n钩 - [pinyin]gou1[/pinyin] - Hook\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\n小象生下来的第三天，跟妈妈来到<strong>小河</strong>边，看见一只小鸟在天空<strong>飞来飞去</strong>。小象想：“要是我也会飞，可以看到更多的东西，多好呀！”\r\n\r\n小象<strong>爬</strong>到树去学飞“哎哟”一声，摔了一个大<strong>跟头</strong>。\r\n\r\n蛇看见了说：“小象，我们有自己的<strong>本事</strong>。我不会飞，可是，我会在树上睡觉。”\r\n\r\n狮子说：“我也不会飞，可是，我能跳过<strong>宽</strong>宽的大河。”\r\n\r\n老虎说：“我不会飞，可是我会游泳！”\r\n\r\n爸爸妈妈对小象说：“我们象的力气大，这是小鸟<strong>不能比的</strong>。”小象明白了。他用长鼻子一钩，大木头就搬走了。\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nOn the third day after he was born, Little Elephant went with his mother to the banks of a stream, and there he saw a bird in the sky flying here and there. Little Elephant said: \"If I could fly, I could see even more things, it would be great!\"\r\n\r\nIn order to learn to fly, Little Elephant climbed a tree and, with a yelp of \"Ai Yo!\", fell heavily to the ground.\r\n\r\nSeeing this, the snake said: \"Little elephant, we all have our own abilities. I can\'t fly, but I can sleep in a tree.\"\r\n\r\nLion said: \"I also can\'t fly, but I can jump across a wide river.\"\r\n\r\nTiger said, \"I can\'t fly, but I can swim!\"\r\n\r\nLittle Elephant\'s father and mother said to him, \"We elephants have great strength, incomparably greater than that little bird\'s.\"\r\n\r\nLittle Elephant understood. He used his long nose as a hook and moved a large branch.\r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n', 'The Little Elephant that Wanted to Fly', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '688-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-06-06 16:12:41', '2011-06-06 20:12:41', '', 688, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/06/06/688-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(727, 1, '2011-08-09 22:29:45', '2011-08-10 02:29:45', '[two_third]\n\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. <!--more--> The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. \n\nIn this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n从前 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\n油条- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\n脆 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\n铜钱 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\n恶势力 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\n重任 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮油条，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个铜钱买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得油乎乎的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\n\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了人马打这儿走过。\n\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个官，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \n\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来审问这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公发火了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”手下的人听包公这么一说，就拿起棍子，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \n\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个胡涂蛋！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼，你们每个人都得罚一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\n\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人抓住了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上浮起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had bade the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, 他卖油条，把一双手弄得油乎乎的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\n\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了人马打这儿走过。\n\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个官，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \n\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来审问这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公发火了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”手下的人听包公这么一说，就拿起棍子，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \n\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个胡涂蛋！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼，你们每个人都得罚一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\n\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人抓住了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上浮起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Bao Gong Interrogates A Rock', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '723-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-09 22:29:45', '2011-08-10 02:29:45', '', 723, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/09/723-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(728, 1, '2011-08-09 22:34:36', '2011-08-10 02:34:36', '[two_third]\n\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. <!--more--> The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. \n\nIn this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n从前 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\n油条- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\n脆 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\n铜钱 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\n恶势力 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\n重任 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮油条，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个铜钱买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得油乎乎的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\n\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了人马打这儿走过。\n\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个官，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \n\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来审问这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公发火了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”手下的人听包公这么一说，就拿起棍子，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \n\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个胡涂蛋！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼，你们每个人都得罚一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\n\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人抓住了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上浮起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had bade the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \n\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\", fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"Boo hoo!\" It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, walked past. \n\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个官，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \n\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来审问这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公发火了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”手下的人听包公这么一说，就拿起棍子，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \n\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个胡涂蛋！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼，你们每个人都得罚一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\n\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人抓住了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上浮起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Bao Gong Interrogates A Rock', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '723-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-09 22:34:36', '2011-08-10 02:34:36', '', 723, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/09/723-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(729, 1, '2011-08-09 22:48:45', '2011-08-10 02:48:45', '[two_third]\n\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. <!--more--> The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. \n\nIn this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n从前 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\n油条- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\n脆 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\n铜钱 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\n恶势力 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\n重任 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮油条，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个铜钱买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得油乎乎的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\n\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了人马打这儿走过。\n\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个官，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \n\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来审问这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公发火了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”手下的人听包公这么一说，就拿起棍子，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \n\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个胡涂蛋！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得罚一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\n\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人抓住了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上浮起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had bade the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \n\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\", fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"Boo hoo!\" It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\n\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \n\nBao Gong though for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \n\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad thing about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" (the s包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\n\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人抓住了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上浮起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n', 'Bao Gong Interrogates A Rock', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '723-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-09 22:48:45', '2011-08-10 02:48:45', '', 723, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/09/723-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(730, 1, '2011-08-09 23:00:09', '2011-08-10 03:00:09', '[two_third]\n\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. <!--more--> The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. \n\nIn this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n从前 - [pinyin]ju4 qing2[/pinyin] - Plot, storyline\n油条- [pinyin]zhang3 kong4[/pinyin] - Control\n铜钱\n脆 - [pinyin]dian3 ran2[/pinyin] - To ignite\n油乎乎\n亮闪闪\n人马 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\n官 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\n审问 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\n发火\n手下\n棍子\n胡涂\n蛋\n罚\n抓住\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\n\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>打这儿走过。\n\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \n\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \n\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\n\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上浮起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had bade the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \n\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\n\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \n\nBao Gong though for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \n\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad thing about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\n\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. 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(731, 1, '2011-08-09 23:02:31', '2011-08-10 03:02:31', '[two_third]\n\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. <!--more--> The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. \n\nIn this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Long ago\n油条 - [pinyin]you2 tiao2[/pinyin] - Fried breadsticks\n铜钱 - [pinyin]tong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Copper money / coin\n脆 - [pinyin]cui4[/pinyin] - Crispy\n油乎乎 - [pinyin]you2 hu1 hu1[/pinyin] - Greasy, covered \n亮闪闪 - [pinyin]cui4[/pinyin] - Crispy\n人马 - [pinyin]zhan4 huo3[/pinyin] - Conflagration, fires of war\n官 - [pinyin]e4 shi4 li5[/pinyin] - Evil forces\n审问 - [pinyin]zhong4 ren4[/pinyin] - Heavy responsibility\n发火\n手下\n棍子\n胡涂\n蛋\n罚\n抓住\n浮\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\n\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>打这儿走过。\n\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \n\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \n\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\n\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上<strong>浮</strong><strong>起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had bade the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \n\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\n\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \n\nBao Gong though for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \n\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad thing about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\n\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. 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(734, 1, '2011-08-09 23:15:16', '2011-08-10 03:15:16', '[two_third]\n\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. <!--more--> \n\nIn this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". There\'s a ton of them in here. We find \"呜呜\" [pinyin]wu1 wu1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of \"Boo Hoo!\". There\'s also 劈里啪啦 [pinyin]pi1 li5 pa1 la5[/pinyin], the sound of someone slapping whacking something (in this case, with a stick). There\'s 扑通 [pinyin]pu1 tong1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of the English word \"plunk\" - the sound of something falling into water. And there\'s 唧唧喳喳 pinyin]ji1 ji1 zha1 zha1[/pinyin], the sound of a crowd of people chattering. \n\nI probably added way too many words to the word list for this post, but I couldn\'t bring myself to take any of these out. \n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n从前 - [pinyin]cong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Long ago\n油条 - [pinyin]you2 tiao2[/pinyin] - Fried breadsticks\n铜钱 - [pinyin]tong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Copper money / coin\n脆 - [pinyin]cui4[/pinyin] - Crispy\n油乎乎 - [pinyin]you2 hu1 hu1[/pinyin] - Greasy, coated in oil\n亮闪闪 - [pinyin]liang4 shan3 shan3[/pinyin] - Bright\n人马 - [pinyin]ren2 ma3[/pinyin] - Men and horses\n官 - [pinyin]guan1[/pinyin] - A government official\n审问 - [pinyin]shen3 wen4[/pinyin] - Interrogate\n发火 - [pinyin]fa1 huo3[/pinyin] - Explode (angrily)\n手下 - [pinyin]shou3 xia4[/pinyin] - Subordinates\n棍子 - [pinyin]gun4 zi[/pinyin] - Stick\n胡涂 - [pinyin]hu2 tu5[/pinyin] - Confused\n蛋 - [pinyin]dan4[/pinyin] - Idiot [lit: egg]\n罚 - [pinyin]fa2[/pinyin] - To punish\n抓住 - [pinyin]zhua1 zhu4[/pinyin] - To grab, capture\n浮 - [pinyin]fu2[/pinyin] - To float\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\n\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>打这儿走过。\n\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \n\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \n\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\n\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上<strong>浮</strong><strong>起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\n</div>\n\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had bade the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \n\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\n\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \n\nBao Gong though for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \n\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad thing about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\n\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. 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(735, 1, '2011-08-09 23:17:22', '2011-08-10 03:17:22', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. <!--more--> \r\n\r\nIn this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". There\'s a ton of them in here. We find \"呜呜\" [pinyin]wu1 wu1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of \"Boo Hoo!\". There\'s also 劈里啪啦 [pinyin]pi1 li5 pa1 la5[/pinyin], the sound of someone slapping whacking something (in this case, with a stick). There\'s 扑通 [pinyin]pu1 tong1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of the English word \"plunk\" - the sound of something falling into water. And there\'s 唧唧喳喳 pinyin]ji1 ji1 zha1 zha1[/pinyin], the sound of a crowd of people chattering. \r\n\r\nI probably added way too many words to the word list for this post, but I couldn\'t bring myself to take any of these out. \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] - Long ago\r\n油条 - [pinyin]you2 tiao2[/pinyin] - Fried breadsticks\r\n铜钱 - [pinyin]tong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Copper money / coin\r\n脆 - [pinyin]cui4[/pinyin] - Crispy\r\n油乎乎 - [pinyin]you2 hu1 hu1[/pinyin] - Greasy, coated in oil\r\n亮闪闪 - [pinyin]liang4 shan3 shan3[/pinyin] - Bright\r\n人马 - [pinyin]ren2 ma3[/pinyin] - Men and horses\r\n官 - [pinyin]guan1[/pinyin] - A government official\r\n审问 - [pinyin]shen3 wen4[/pinyin] - Interrogate\r\n发火 - [pinyin]fa1 huo3[/pinyin] - Explode (angrily)\r\n手下 - [pinyin]shou3 xia4[/pinyin] - Subordinates\r\n棍子 - [pinyin]gun4 zi[/pinyin] - Stick\r\n胡涂 - [pinyin]hu2 tu5[/pinyin] - Confused\r\n蛋 - [pinyin]dan4[/pinyin] - Idiot [lit: egg]\r\n罚 - [pinyin]fa2[/pinyin] - To punish\r\n抓住 - [pinyin]zhua1 zhu4[/pinyin] - To grab, capture\r\n浮 - [pinyin]fu2[/pinyin] - To float\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\r\n\r\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>打这儿走过。\r\n\r\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \r\n\r\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \r\n\r\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\r\n\r\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上<strong>浮</strong><strong>起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had bade the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \r\n\r\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\r\n\r\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \r\n\r\nBao Gong though for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \r\n\r\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad thing about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\r\n\r\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. 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(736, 1, '2011-08-09 23:18:06', '2011-08-10 03:18:06', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. <!--more--> \r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110813-inline.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Chinese Fables Stories and Passages\" title=\"Beginner Chinese Fables Stories and Passages\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />In this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". There\'s a ton of them in here. We find \"呜呜\" [pinyin]wu1 wu1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of \"Boo Hoo!\". There\'s also 劈里啪啦 [pinyin]pi1 li5 pa1 la5[/pinyin], the sound of someone slapping whacking something (in this case, with a stick). There\'s 扑通 [pinyin]pu1 tong1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of the English word \"plunk\" - the sound of something falling into water. And there\'s 唧唧喳喳 pinyin]ji1 ji1 zha1 zha1[/pinyin], the sound of a crowd of people chattering. \r\n\r\nI probably added way too many words to the word list for this post, but I couldn\'t bring myself to take any of these out. \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] - Long ago\r\n油条 - [pinyin]you2 tiao2[/pinyin] - Fried breadsticks\r\n铜钱 - [pinyin]tong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Copper money / coin\r\n脆 - [pinyin]cui4[/pinyin] - Crispy\r\n油乎乎 - [pinyin]you2 hu1 hu1[/pinyin] - Greasy, coated in oil\r\n亮闪闪 - [pinyin]liang4 shan3 shan3[/pinyin] - Bright\r\n人马 - [pinyin]ren2 ma3[/pinyin] - Men and horses\r\n官 - [pinyin]guan1[/pinyin] - A government official\r\n审问 - [pinyin]shen3 wen4[/pinyin] - Interrogate\r\n发火 - [pinyin]fa1 huo3[/pinyin] - Explode (angrily)\r\n手下 - [pinyin]shou3 xia4[/pinyin] - Subordinates\r\n棍子 - [pinyin]gun4 zi[/pinyin] - Stick\r\n胡涂 - [pinyin]hu2 tu5[/pinyin] - Confused\r\n蛋 - [pinyin]dan4[/pinyin] - Idiot [lit: egg]\r\n罚 - [pinyin]fa2[/pinyin] - To punish\r\n抓住 - [pinyin]zhua1 zhu4[/pinyin] - To grab, capture\r\n浮 - [pinyin]fu2[/pinyin] - To float\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\r\n\r\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>打这儿走过。\r\n\r\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \r\n\r\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \r\n\r\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\r\n\r\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上<strong>浮</strong><strong>起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had bade the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \r\n\r\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\r\n\r\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \r\n\r\nBao Gong though for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \r\n\r\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad thing about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\r\n\r\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. Everyone said, Bao Gong sure is clever. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Bao Gong Interrogates A Rock', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '723-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-09 23:18:06', '2011-08-10 03:18:06', '', 723, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/09/723-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(737, 1, '2011-08-09 23:18:51', '2011-08-10 03:18:51', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. <!--more--> \r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110813-inline.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Chinese Fables Stories and Passages\" title=\"Beginner Chinese Fables Stories and Passages\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />In this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". There\'s a ton of them in here. We find \"呜呜\" [pinyin]wu1 wu1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of \"Boo Hoo!\". There\'s also 劈里啪啦 [pinyin]pi1 li5 pa1 la5[/pinyin], the sound of someone slapping whacking something (in this case, with a stick). There\'s 扑通 [pinyin]pu1 tong1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of the English word \"plunk\" - the sound of something falling into water. And there\'s 唧唧喳喳 pinyin]ji1 ji1 zha1 zha1[/pinyin], the sound of a crowd of people chattering. \r\n\r\nI probably added way too many words to the word list for this post, but I couldn\'t bring myself to take any of these out. \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] - Long ago\r\n油条 - [pinyin]you2 tiao2[/pinyin] - Fried breadsticks\r\n铜钱 - [pinyin]tong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Copper money / coin\r\n脆 - [pinyin]cui4[/pinyin] - Crispy\r\n油乎乎 - [pinyin]you2 hu1 hu1[/pinyin] - Greasy, coated in oil\r\n亮闪闪 - [pinyin]liang4 shan3 shan3[/pinyin] - Bright\r\n人马 - [pinyin]ren2 ma3[/pinyin] - Men and horses\r\n官 - [pinyin]guan1[/pinyin] - A government official\r\n审问 - [pinyin]shen3 wen4[/pinyin] - Interrogate\r\n发火 - [pinyin]fa1 huo3[/pinyin] - Explode (angrily)\r\n手下 - [pinyin]shou3 xia4[/pinyin] - Subordinates\r\n棍子 - [pinyin]gun4 zi[/pinyin] - Stick\r\n胡涂 - [pinyin]hu2 tu5[/pinyin] - Confused\r\n蛋 - [pinyin]dan4[/pinyin] - Idiot [lit: egg]\r\n罚 - [pinyin]fa2[/pinyin] - To punish\r\n抓住 - [pinyin]zhua1 zhu4[/pinyin] - To grab, capture\r\n浮 - [pinyin]fu2[/pinyin] - To float\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\r\n\r\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>打这儿走过。\r\n\r\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \r\n\r\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \r\n\r\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\r\n\r\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上<strong>浮</strong>起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had bade the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \r\n\r\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\r\n\r\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \r\n\r\nBao Gong though for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \r\n\r\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad thing about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\r\n\r\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. Everyone said, Bao Gong sure is clever. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Bao Gong Interrogates A Rock', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '723-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-09 23:18:51', '2011-08-10 03:18:51', '', 723, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/09/723-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(738, 1, '2011-08-09 23:20:15', '2011-08-10 03:20:15', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. <!--more--> \r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110813-inline.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Chinese Fables Stories and Passages\" title=\"Beginner Chinese Fables Stories and Passages\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />In this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". There\'s a ton of them in here. We find \"呜呜\" [pinyin]wu1 wu1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of \"Boo Hoo!\". There\'s also 劈里啪啦 [pinyin]pi1 li5 pa1 la5[/pinyin], the sound of someone slapping whacking something (in this case, with a stick). There\'s 扑通 [pinyin]pu1 tong1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of the English word \"plunk\" - the sound of something falling into water. And there\'s 唧唧喳喳 pinyin]ji1 ji1 zha1 zha1[/pinyin], the sound of a crowd of people chattering. \r\n\r\nI probably added way too many words to the word list for this post, but I couldn\'t bring myself to take any of these out. \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] - Long ago\r\n油条 - [pinyin]you2 tiao2[/pinyin] - Fried breadsticks\r\n铜钱 - [pinyin]tong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Copper money / coin\r\n脆 - [pinyin]cui4[/pinyin] - Crispy\r\n油乎乎 - [pinyin]you2 hu1 hu1[/pinyin] - Greasy, coated in oil\r\n亮闪闪 - [pinyin]liang4 shan3 shan3[/pinyin] - Bright\r\n人马 - [pinyin]ren2 ma3[/pinyin] - Men and horses\r\n官 - [pinyin]guan1[/pinyin] - A government official\r\n审问 - [pinyin]shen3 wen4[/pinyin] - Interrogate\r\n发火 - [pinyin]fa1 huo3[/pinyin] - Explode (angrily)\r\n手下 - [pinyin]shou3 xia4[/pinyin] - Subordinates\r\n棍子 - [pinyin]gun4 zi[/pinyin] - Stick\r\n胡涂 - [pinyin]hu2 tu5[/pinyin] - Confused\r\n蛋 - [pinyin]dan4[/pinyin] - Idiot [lit: egg]\r\n罚 - [pinyin]fa2[/pinyin] - To punish\r\n抓住 - [pinyin]zhua1 zhu4[/pinyin] - To grab, capture\r\n浮 - [pinyin]fu2[/pinyin] - To float\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\r\n\r\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>打这儿走过。\r\n\r\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \r\n\r\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \r\n\r\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\r\n\r\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上<strong>浮</strong>起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had bade the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \r\n\r\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\r\n\r\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \r\n\r\nBao Gong though for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \r\n\r\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad thing about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\r\n\r\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. 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(739, 1, '2011-08-13 15:25:34', '2011-08-13 19:25:34', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. <!--more--> \r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110813-inline.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Chinese Fables Stories and Passages\" title=\"Beginner Chinese Fables Stories and Passages\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />In this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". There\'s a ton of them in here. We find \"呜呜\" [pinyin]wu1 wu1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of \"Boo Hoo!\". There\'s also 劈里啪啦 [pinyin]pi1 li5 pa1 la5[/pinyin], the sound of someone whacking something (in this case, with a stick). There\'s 扑通 [pinyin]pu1 tong1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of the English word \"plunk\" - the sound of something falling into water. And there\'s 唧唧喳喳 [pinyin]ji1 ji1 zha1 zha1[/pinyin], the sound of a crowd of people chattering. \r\n\r\nI probably added way too many words to the word list for this post, but I couldn\'t bring myself to take any of these out. \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] - Long ago\r\n油条 - [pinyin]you2 tiao2[/pinyin] - Fried breadsticks\r\n铜钱 - [pinyin]tong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Copper money / coin\r\n脆 - [pinyin]cui4[/pinyin] - Crispy\r\n油乎乎 - [pinyin]you2 hu1 hu1[/pinyin] - Greasy, coated in oil\r\n亮闪闪 - [pinyin]liang4 shan3 shan3[/pinyin] - Bright\r\n人马 - [pinyin]ren2 ma3[/pinyin] - Men and horses\r\n官 - [pinyin]guan1[/pinyin] - A government official\r\n审问 - [pinyin]shen3 wen4[/pinyin] - Interrogate\r\n发火 - [pinyin]fa1 huo3[/pinyin] - Explode (angrily)\r\n手下 - [pinyin]shou3 xia4[/pinyin] - Subordinates\r\n棍子 - [pinyin]gun4 zi[/pinyin] - Stick\r\n胡涂 - [pinyin]hu2 tu5[/pinyin] - Confused\r\n蛋 - [pinyin]dan4[/pinyin] - Idiot [lit: egg]\r\n罚 - [pinyin]fa2[/pinyin] - To punish\r\n抓住 - [pinyin]zhua1 zhu4[/pinyin] - To grab, capture\r\n浮 - [pinyin]fu2[/pinyin] - To float\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\r\n\r\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>打这儿走过。\r\n\r\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \r\n\r\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \r\n\r\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\r\n\r\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上<strong>浮</strong>起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had bade the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \r\n\r\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\r\n\r\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \r\n\r\nBao Gong though for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \r\n\r\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad thing about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\r\n\r\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. 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(740, 1, '2020-04-28 19:48:36', '2020-04-28 23:48:36', '[su_row]\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\nThis is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. <!--more--> \n\nIn this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". There\'s a ton of them in here. We find \"呜呜\" [pinyin]wu1 wu1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of \"Boo Hoo!\". There\'s also 劈里啪啦 [pinyin]pi1 li5 pa1 la5[/pinyin], the sound of someone whacking something (in this case, with a stick). There\'s 扑通 [pinyin]pu1 tong1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of the English word \"plunk\" - the sound of something falling into water. And there\'s 唧唧喳喳 [pinyin]ji1 ji1 zha1 zha1[/pinyin], the sound of a crowd of people chattering. \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>《包公审石头》</h4>\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\n\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>打这儿走过。\n\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \n\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \n\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\n\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上<strong>浮</strong>起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\n</div>\n[/su_column]\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"no\" class=\"\"]\n[hide-this-part morelink=\"Show English translation\"]\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had made the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \n\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\n\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \n\nBao Gong thought for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \n\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad things about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\n\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. Everyone said, Bao Gong sure is clever. \n[/hide-this-part]\n[/su_column]\n[/su_row]</div>\n', 'Fable: Bao Gong Interrogates A Rock', 'This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook.', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '723-autosave-v1', '', '', '2020-04-28 19:48:36', '2020-04-28 23:48:36', '', 723, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/13/723-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(741, 1, '2011-08-13 15:28:34', '2011-08-13 19:28:34', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. <!--more--> \r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110813-inline.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Chinese Fables Stories and Passages\" title=\"Beginner Chinese Fables Stories and Passages\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />In this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". There\'s a ton of them in here. We find \"呜呜\" [pinyin]wu1 wu1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of \"Boo Hoo!\". There\'s also 劈里啪啦 [pinyin]pi1 li5 pa1 la5[/pinyin], the sound of someone whacking something (in this case, with a stick). There\'s 扑通 [pinyin]pu1 tong1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of the English word \"plunk\" - the sound of something falling into water. And there\'s 唧唧喳喳 [pinyin]ji1 ji1 zha1 zha1[/pinyin], the sound of a crowd of people chattering. \r\n\r\nI probably added way too many words to the word list for this post, but I couldn\'t bring myself to take any of these out. \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] - Long ago\r\n油条 - [pinyin]you2 tiao2[/pinyin] - Fried breadsticks\r\n铜钱 - [pinyin]tong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Copper money / coin\r\n脆 - [pinyin]cui4[/pinyin] - Crispy\r\n油乎乎 - [pinyin]you2 hu1 hu1[/pinyin] - Greasy, coated in oil\r\n亮闪闪 - [pinyin]liang4 shan3 shan3[/pinyin] - Bright\r\n人马 - [pinyin]ren2 ma3[/pinyin] - Men and horses\r\n官 - [pinyin]guan1[/pinyin] - A government official\r\n审问 - [pinyin]shen3 wen4[/pinyin] - Interrogate\r\n发火 - [pinyin]fa1 huo3[/pinyin] - Explode (angrily)\r\n手下 - [pinyin]shou3 xia4[/pinyin] - Subordinates\r\n棍子 - [pinyin]gun4 zi[/pinyin] - Stick\r\n胡涂 - [pinyin]hu2 tu5[/pinyin] - Confused\r\n蛋 - [pinyin]dan4[/pinyin] - Idiot [lit: egg]\r\n罚 - [pinyin]fa2[/pinyin] - To punish\r\n抓住 - [pinyin]zhua1 zhu4[/pinyin] - To grab, capture\r\n浮 - [pinyin]fu2[/pinyin] - To float\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\r\n\r\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>打这儿走过。\r\n\r\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \r\n\r\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \r\n\r\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\r\n\r\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上<strong>浮</strong>起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had made the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \r\n\r\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\r\n\r\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \r\n\r\nBao Gong though for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \r\n\r\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad thing about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\r\n\r\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. Everyone said, Bao Gong sure is clever. \r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n', 'Bao Gong Interrogates A Rock', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '723-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-13 15:28:34', '2011-08-13 19:28:34', '', 723, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/13/723-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(742, 1, '2011-08-13 15:29:43', '2011-08-13 19:29:43', '[two_third]\r\n\r\nFinally! A rather long, but simple from start-to-finish, children\'s fable. This is definitely my favorite find so far, as it falls solidly within my favorite Chinese story genre with my favorite Chinese archetype: the clever government official who catches a crook. The official in this case is Bao Gong (包公) a historical figure from who lived from 999-1062 A.D. and who, like so many historical figures in Chinese history, somehow became a fictional story character. Bao Gong was known to be fair, just and smart. <!--more--> \r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110813-inline.jpg\" alt=\"Easy Chinese Fables Stories and Passages\" title=\"Beginner Chinese Fables Stories and Passages\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />In this story, you can also expect to learn a few Chinese onomatopoeia, words that sound like what they are, like the English word \"boom\". There\'s a ton of them in here. We find \"呜呜\" [pinyin]wu1 wu1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of \"Boo Hoo!\". There\'s also 劈里啪啦 [pinyin]pi1 li5 pa1 la5[/pinyin], the sound of someone whacking something (in this case, with a stick). There\'s 扑通 [pinyin]pu1 tong1[/pinyin], the Chinese equivalent of the English word \"plunk\" - the sound of something falling into water. And there\'s 唧唧喳喳 [pinyin]ji1 ji1 zha1 zha1[/pinyin], the sound of a crowd of people chattering. \r\n\r\nI probably added way too many words to the word list for this post, but I couldn\'t bring myself to take any of these out. \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] - Long ago\r\n油条 - [pinyin]you2 tiao2[/pinyin] - Fried breadsticks\r\n铜钱 - [pinyin]tong2 qian2[/pinyin] - Copper money / coin\r\n脆 - [pinyin]cui4[/pinyin] - Crispy\r\n油乎乎 - [pinyin]you2 hu1 hu1[/pinyin] - Greasy, coated in oil\r\n亮闪闪 - [pinyin]liang4 shan3 shan3[/pinyin] - Bright\r\n人马 - [pinyin]ren2 ma3[/pinyin] - Men and horses\r\n官 - [pinyin]guan1[/pinyin] - A government official\r\n审问 - [pinyin]shen3 wen4[/pinyin] - Interrogate\r\n发火 - [pinyin]fa1 huo3[/pinyin] - Explode (angrily)\r\n手下 - [pinyin]shou3 xia4[/pinyin] - Subordinates\r\n棍子 - [pinyin]gun4 zi[/pinyin] - Stick\r\n胡涂 - [pinyin]hu2 tu5[/pinyin] - Confused\r\n蛋 - [pinyin]dan4[/pinyin] - Idiot [lit: egg]\r\n罚 - [pinyin]fa2[/pinyin] - To punish\r\n抓住 - [pinyin]zhua1 zhu4[/pinyin] - To grab, capture\r\n浮 - [pinyin]fu2[/pinyin] - To float\r\n</div>\r\n[/one_third]\r\n\r\n<hr />[one_half]\r\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\r\n从前有个小孩，爸爸死了，妈妈病了，日子可不好过了。小孩每天一早起来，提着一篮<strong>油条</strong>，一边跑，一边嚷:“卖油条咯，卖油条咯: 又香又脆的油条，两个<strong>铜钱</strong>买一根。” 有一天，他把油条全卖完了，坐在路边一块石头上，把篮子里的铜钱一个一个的数了一遍，正好一百个。他卖油条，把一双手弄得<strong>油乎乎</strong>的，用手数铜钱，把铜钱也弄得油乎乎的。他瞧着这些油乎乎亮闪闪的铜钱，可高兴了，心想: “今天卖了一百个钱，可以给妈妈买药了。”\r\n\r\n小孩跑了一个上午，可累坏了，他把头一歪，靠在石头上，就呼呼地睡着了，睡了好一会儿才醒来。“哎呀，我得赶快给妈妈买药去了。”小孩站起来一看，糟了，篮子里的铜钱一个也没有了。小孩又着急，又伤心，呜呜地哭了起来。这时候，正好包公带了<strong>人马</strong>打这儿走过。\r\n\r\n包公是什么人呀？包公是个<strong>官</strong>，黑脸黑胡子，人家叫他“包老黑”，又叫他“黑包公”，他办事公道，又很聪明。包公看见小孩哭得很伤心，就问他: “小孩，你为什么哭呀？”“我卖油条得的钱不见了，呜——呜。”“谁偷了你的钱？”“不知道。我靠在这块石头上睡着了，醒来一看，钱就不见了。呜——呜。” \r\n\r\n包公想了一想说: “我知道了，一定是这块石头偷了你的钱，我来<strong>审问</strong>这块石头，叫它把钱还给你。”人们听说包公要审问石头，觉得很奇怪，都跑来看热闹。包公对那块石头说: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？”石头会说话吗？不会。包公又问了: “石头，石头，小孩的铜钱，是不是你偷的？快说，快说！”石头还是一声不响，它不会说话呀。包公<strong>发火</strong>了: “石头，石头，你不说实话，打烂你的头。”<strong>手下</strong>的人听包公这么一说，就拿起<strong>棍子</strong>，劈里啪啦地打起石头来，一边打，一边喊: “快说，快说！” \r\n\r\n看热闹的人哄的笑起来了，唧唧喳喳地说: “石头怎么会偷钱？”“石头怎么会说话？”“人家都说包公聪明，原来是个<strong>胡涂蛋</strong>！”包公听了很生气，就说: “我在审问石头，你们怎么说我的坏话。哼! 你们每个人都得<strong>罚</strong>一个铜钱！”包公叫手下的人借来一只盆子，倒上水，让看热闹的人往盆子里丢一个铜钱。看热闹的人没办法，只好排着队每人往盆子里丢一个铜钱，“扑通，扑通，扑通……”\r\n\r\n有一个人刚把铜钱丢进盆子里去，就给包公叫手下的人<strong>抓住</strong>了。 包公指着这个人说: “你是小偷，你偷了小孩卖油条得来的铜钱！”大家都觉得很奇怪，这是怎么回事呀？包公说: “你们瞧，只有他丢下的铜钱，水面上<strong>浮</strong>起了一层油，他的铜钱一定是趁小孩睡觉的时候偷来的。” 那个小偷没办法，只好把一百个铜钱还给小孩。 大家都说，包公真聪明。\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n[/one_half]\r\n\r\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\r\nLong ago, there was a little child whose father was dead, whose mother was sick, and who had a rough life in general. The child woke up early every day, and scooping up a basket of fried breadsticks, ran about shouting \"Buy breadsticks, buy breadsticks, they\'re fragrant and crispy, two coppers buys one!\" One day, after he\'d sold all his breadsticks, he sat on a rock by the side of the road and counted all the coppers in the basket one at a time - he had exactly 100.  Well, selling breadsticks had made his two hands greasy, and when he used hands to count the coppers, it had made the coppers greasy. Looking at these greasy, bright coppers, he was happy, and in his heart he thought, \"Today I sold 100-worth, I can buy mother some medicine.\" \r\n\r\nThe child had been running all morning, he was exhausted, so he let his head droop, leaned against a rock, and, snoring \"hu hu\" [sound of snoring], fell asleep - after he\'d slept a bit he finally woke up. \"Ai ya! I have to quickly run and buy medicine for mother!\" The child stood up but, oh no, there was not a single coin in the basket. The child was worried and broken-hearted, and began to cry \"wu wu\" [sounds like \'boo hoo\'].  It was just then that Bao Gong, with his men and horses, happened to walk past.\r\n\r\nNow, who was Bao Gong? Bao Gong was an official, black of face and black of beard, whom the people called \"Old Black Bao\" or \"Black Bao Gong\"; he handled matters fairly, and was very smart. Bao Gong saw the child crying so broken-heartedly, and he asked: \"Child, why are you crying?\" \"The money from selling bread sticks is gone, Boo Hoooo!\" \r\n\r\nBao Gong thought for a moment and said, \"I know, it was definitely this rock that stole your money, I\'ll question the rock, and tell it to give you your money back.\" The people nearby heard that Bao Gong was going to interrogate a rock, and they thought this was very strange, so they all ran over and watched excitedly. Bao Gong said to the rock: \"Rock, rock, was it you that stole the child\'s coppers?\" But can a rock speak? It cannot. Bao Gong asked again: \"Rock, rock, the child\'s coppers, wasn\'t it you who stole them? Speak up, speak up!\" The rock still said nothing, it couldn\'t speak. Bao Gong exploded, \"Rock, rock, tell the truth or I\'ll beat you over the head!\" Bao Gong\'s men heard him say this, and they found a stick for him, and he began to <em>pi li pa la</em> [sound of stick hitting rock] hit the rock, hitting and shouting \"Speak up! Speak up!\" \r\n\r\nThe people watching excitedly roared with laughter, and chattering \"ji ji zha zha\" [sound of many people chattering], said: \"How can a rock steal money?\" \"How can a rock speak?\" and \"Everyone said that Bao Gong is smart, actually he\'s a muddled idiot!\" Bao Gong heard all this and was very angry, so he said: \" I\'m interrogating this rock. How can you all say bad thing about me? Huh! Each one of you will be fined one copper!” Bao Gong called his men to bring him a borrowed pot - he poured water into it, and made every spectator throw one copper in the pot. The spectators had no choice, they had to line up and each one had to put one copper in the pot. \"Pu tong, pu tong, pu tong...\" [the sound of metal coins plunking into a pot]\r\n\r\nWhen one man in particular put his copper in the pot, Bao Gong ordered his men to seize this man. Bao Gong pointed at the man and said, \"You\'re the thief, you took the coppers the child made from selling breadsticks!\" Everyone thought that was very strange, for how could it be? Bao Gong said: \"All of you look, it was only when this man dropped a copper in the pot that a film of oil floated to the surface, his copper is certainly one that he took advantage of a sleeping child to steal.\" The thief had no choice, he had to give the 100 coppers back to the child. 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(745, 1, '2011-08-21 20:43:45', '2011-08-22 00:43:45', '[two_third]\nJust in case you were wondering, below is a short intermediate essay on How to Make Friends. <!--more-->\n\nThis article was both written and translated into English by a Chinese student with her own blog. I wish I could remember where I found it now - it\'s been sitting in my \"drafts\" folder forever. The Chinese title is 如何交朋友.\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n共事 - [pinyin]gong4 shi4[/pinyin] - Work together\n交 - [pinyin]jiao1[/pinyin] - to \"make\" (in this case, to \"make\" friends)\n呢 - [pinyin]bao4 yi3[/pinyin] - To give in return\n报以 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\n陌生人 - [pinyin]mo4 sheng1 ren2[/pinyin] - A stranger\n为重 - [pinyin]wei2 zhong4[/pinyin] - Attach the most importance to\n分歧 - [pinyin]fen1 qi2[/pinyin] - Difference of opinion\n危急关头 - [pinyin]wei1 ji2 guan1 tou2[/pinyin] - Desperate situation, critical juncture\n患难 - [pinyin]huan4 nan4[/pinyin] - trials and tribulations\n相待 - [pinyin]xiang1 dai4[/pinyin] - to treat [someone a certain way]\n利益 - [pinyin]li4 yi4[/pinyin] - Benefit trials and tribulations\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n人人都需要朋友。朋友可以给我们以帮助，与我们<strong>共事</strong>困难和快乐。但是，怎样<strong>交</strong>朋友<strong>呢</strong>? \n\n交朋友首先要对别人友善。你对别人微笑；肯定别人也会<strong>报以</strong>微笑。要使<strong>陌生人</strong>感到亲切，关心别人要比,关心自己<strong>为重</strong>，决不以貌取人。 \n\n其次，朋友之间应该商量而不是争吵。当与别人有<strong>分歧</strong>时，要和他一起讨论。 \n\n最后，不要相信那些在<strong>危急关头</strong>背离你的人，也不要在朋友危难时离开他。记住: <strong>患难</strong><strong>之中见真情。 \n\n朋友应该以诚<strong>相待</strong>。只要你把朋友的<strong>利益</strong>置于你的利益之上，你就会拥有好多好朋友 \n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nEveryone needs friends. A friend can give us help and share our difficulties and happiness. But how can we make friends? \n\nFirst, to make friends, you must be friendly to others. Smile at others and you are sure to get a smile in return. You should try to make a stranger feel at home wherever he happens to be. Think more of others than of yourself and never judge a person by their appearance and clothes. \n\nSecond, friends should negotiate instead of quarrel. When you don\'t agree with someone, discuss the issue with them. \n\nFinally, never trust in those who leave you when you are in trouble. And never leave your friends when they are in trouble. Remember, a friend in need is a friend indeed. \n\nFriends should be faithful to each other. So long as you can put your friend\'s interests in front of yours, you will have a lot of good friends.\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'How to Make Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '654-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-21 20:43:45', '2011-08-22 00:43:45', '', 654, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/21/654-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(748, 1, '2011-08-21 20:44:52', '2011-08-22 00:44:52', '[two_third]\nJust in case you were wondering, below is a short intermediate essay on How to Make Friends. <!--more-->\n\nThis article was both written and translated into English by a Chinese student on her own blog. I wish I could remember where I found it now, as I\'d like to give the credit where credit is due, but it\'s been sitting in my \"drafts\" folder forever. The Chinese title is 如何交朋友.\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n共事 - [pinyin]gong4 shi4[/pinyin] - Work together\n交 - [pinyin]jiao1[/pinyin] - to \"make\" (in this case, to \"make\" friends)\n呢 - [pinyin]bao4 yi3[/pinyin] - To give in return\n报以 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\n陌生人 - [pinyin]mo4 sheng1 ren2[/pinyin] - A stranger\n为重 - [pinyin]wei2 zhong4[/pinyin] - Attach the most importance to\n分歧 - [pinyin]fen1 qi2[/pinyin] - Difference of opinion\n危急关头 - [pinyin]wei1 ji2 guan1 tou2[/pinyin] - Desperate situation, critical juncture\n患难 - [pinyin]huan4 nan4[/pinyin] - trials and tribulations\n相待 - [pinyin]xiang1 dai4[/pinyin] - to treat [someone a certain way]\n利益 - [pinyin]li4 yi4[/pinyin] - Benefit\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n人人都需要朋友。朋友可以给我们以帮助，与我们<strong>共事</strong>困难和快乐。但是，怎样<strong>交</strong>朋友<strong>呢</strong>? \n\n交朋友首先要对别人友善。你对别人微笑；肯定别人也会<strong>报以</strong>微笑。要使<strong>陌生人</strong>感到亲切，关心别人要比,关心自己<strong>为重</strong>，决不以貌取人。 \n\n其次，朋友之间应该商量而不是争吵。当与别人有<strong>分歧</strong>时，要和他一起讨论。 \n\n最后，不要相信那些在<strong>危急关头</strong>背离你的人，也不要在朋友危难时离开他。记住: <strong>患难</strong><strong>之中见真情。 \n\n朋友应该以诚<strong>相待</strong>。只要你把朋友的<strong>利益</strong>置于你的利益之上，你就会拥有好多好朋友 \n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nEveryone needs friends. A friend can give us help and share our difficulties and happiness. But how can we make friends? \n\nFirst, to make friends, you must be friendly to others. Smile at others and you are sure to get a smile in return. You should try to make a stranger feel at home wherever he happens to be. Think more of others than of yourself and never judge a person by their appearance and clothes. \n\nSecond, friends should negotiate instead of quarrel. When you don\'t agree with someone, discuss the issue with them. \n\nFinally, never trust in those who leave you when you are in trouble. And never leave your friends when they are in trouble. Remember, a friend in need is a friend indeed. \n\nFriends should be faithful to each other. So long as you can put your friend\'s interests in front of yours, you will have a lot of good friends.\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'How to Make Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '654-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-21 20:44:52', '2011-08-22 00:44:52', '', 654, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/21/654-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(749, 1, '2011-08-21 20:48:24', '2011-08-22 00:48:24', '[two_third]\r\nJust in case you were wondering, below is a short intermediate essay on How to Make Friends. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110821-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Practice Passages - Intermediate Chinese Essays\" title=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Practice Passages - Intermediate Chinese Essays\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />This article was both written and translated into English by a Chinese student on her own blog. I wish I could remember where I found it now, as I\'d like to give the credit where credit is due, but it\'s been sitting in my \"drafts\" folder forever. The Chinese title is 如何交朋友.\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共事 - [pinyin]gong4 shi4[/pinyin] - Work together\r\n交 - [pinyin]jiao1[/pinyin] - to \"make\" (in this case, to \"make\" friends)\r\n呢 - [pinyin]bao4 yi3[/pinyin] - To give in return\r\n报以 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\r\n陌生人 - [pinyin]mo4 sheng1 ren2[/pinyin] - A stranger\r\n为重 - [pinyin]wei2 zhong4[/pinyin] - Attach the most importance to\r\n分歧 - [pinyin]fen1 qi2[/pinyin] - Difference of opinion\r\n危急关头 - [pinyin]wei1 ji2 guan1 tou2[/pinyin] - Desperate situation, critical juncture\r\n患难 - [pinyin]huan4 nan4[/pinyin] - trials and tribulations\r\n相待 - [pinyin]xiang1 dai4[/pinyin] - to treat [someone a certain way]\r\n利益 - [pinyin]li4 yi4[/pinyin] - Benefit\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人人都需要朋友。朋友可以给我们以帮助，与我们<strong>共事</strong>困难和快乐。但是，怎样<strong>交</strong>朋友<strong>呢</strong>? \r\n\r\n交朋友首先要对别人友善。你对别人微笑；肯定别人也会<strong>报以</strong>微笑。要使<strong>陌生人</strong>感到亲切，关心别人要比,关心自己<strong>为重</strong>，决不以貌取人。 \r\n\r\n其次，朋友之间应该商量而不是争吵。当与别人有<strong>分歧</strong>时，要和他一起讨论。 \r\n\r\n最后，不要相信那些在<strong>危急关头</strong>背离你的人，也不要在朋友危难时离开他。记住: <strong>患难</strong><strong>之中见真情。 \r\n\r\n朋友应该以诚<strong>相待</strong>。只要你把朋友的<strong>利益</strong>置于你的利益之上，你就会拥有好多好朋友 \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\nEveryone needs friends. A friend can give us help and share our difficulties and happiness. But how can we make friends? \r\n\r\nFirst, to make friends, you must be friendly to others. Smile at others and you are sure to get a smile in return. You should try to make a stranger feel at home wherever he happens to be. Think more of others than of yourself and never judge a person by their appearance and clothes. \r\n\r\nSecond, friends should negotiate instead of quarrel. When you don\'t agree with someone, discuss the issue with them. \r\n\r\nFinally, never trust in those who leave you when you are in trouble. And never leave your friends when they are in trouble. Remember, a friend in need is a friend indeed. \r\n\r\nFriends should be faithful to each other. So long as you can put your friend\'s interests in front of yours, you will have a lot of good friends.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'How to Make Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '654-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-21 20:48:24', '2011-08-22 00:48:24', '', 654, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/21/654-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(750, 1, '2020-04-20 06:16:29', '2020-04-20 10:16:29', '[two_third]\nJust in case you were wondering, below is a short intermediate essay on How to Make Friends. <!--more-->\n\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110821-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Practice Passages - Intermediate Chinese Essays\" title=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Practice Passages - Intermediate Chinese Essays\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />This article was both written and translated into English by a Chinese student on her own blog. I wish I could remember where I found it now, as I\'d like to give the credit where credit is due, but it\'s been sitting in my \"drafts\" folder forever. The Chinese title is 如何交朋友.\n\n\n人人都需要朋友。朋友可以给我们以帮助，与我们<strong>共事</strong>困难和快乐。但是，怎样<strong>交</strong>朋友<strong>呢</strong>? \n\n交朋友首先要对别人友善。你对别人微笑；肯定别人也会<strong>报以</strong>微笑。要使<strong>陌生人</strong>感到亲切，关心别人要比,关心自己<strong>为重</strong>，决不以貌取人。 \n\n其次，朋友之间应该商量而不是争吵。当与别人有<strong>分歧</strong>时，要和他一起讨论。 \n\n最后，不要相信那些在<strong>危急关头</strong>背离你的人，也不要在朋友危难时离开他。记住: <strong>患难</strong>之中见真情。 \n\n朋友应该以诚<strong>相待</strong>。只要你把朋友的<strong>利益</strong>置于你的利益之上，你就会拥有好多好朋友 \n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\n\nEveryone needs friends. A friend can give us help and share our difficulties and happiness. But how can we make friends? \n\nFirst, to make friends, you must be friendly to others. Smile at others and you are sure to get a smile in return. You should try to make a stranger feel at home wherever he happens to be. Think more of others than of yourself and never judge a person by their appearance and clothes. \n\nSecond, friends should negotiate instead of quarrel. When you don\'t agree with someone, discuss the issue with them. \n\nFinally, never trust in those who leave you when you are in trouble. And never leave your friends when they are in trouble. Remember, a friend in need is a friend indeed. [Literally: During difficult situations, you will see the truth]\n\nFriends should be faithful to each other. So long as you can put your friend\'s interests in front of yours, you will have a lot of good friends.\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n\n\n\n', 'How to Make Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '654-autosave-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:16:29', '2020-04-20 10:16:29', '', 654, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/21/654-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(751, 1, '2011-08-21 20:49:11', '2011-08-22 00:49:11', '[two_third]\r\nJust in case you were wondering, below is a short intermediate essay on How to Make Friends. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110821-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Practice Passages - Intermediate Chinese Essays\" title=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Practice Passages - Intermediate Chinese Essays\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />This article was both written and translated into English by a Chinese student on her own blog. I wish I could remember where I found it now, as I\'d like to give the credit where credit is due, but it\'s been sitting in my \"drafts\" folder forever. The Chinese title is 如何交朋友.\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共事 - [pinyin]gong4 shi4[/pinyin] - Work together\r\n交 - [pinyin]jiao1[/pinyin] - to \"make\" (in this case, to \"make\" friends)\r\n呢 - [pinyin]bao4 yi3[/pinyin] - To give in return\r\n报以 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\r\n陌生人 - [pinyin]mo4 sheng1 ren2[/pinyin] - A stranger\r\n为重 - [pinyin]wei2 zhong4[/pinyin] - Attach the most importance to\r\n分歧 - [pinyin]fen1 qi2[/pinyin] - Difference of opinion\r\n危急关头 - [pinyin]wei1 ji2 guan1 tou2[/pinyin] - Desperate situation, critical juncture\r\n患难 - [pinyin]huan4 nan4[/pinyin] - trials and tribulations\r\n相待 - [pinyin]xiang1 dai4[/pinyin] - to treat [someone a certain way]\r\n利益 - [pinyin]li4 yi4[/pinyin] - Benefit\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人人都需要朋友。朋友可以给我们以帮助，与我们<strong>共事</strong>困难和快乐。但是，怎样<strong>交</strong>朋友<strong>呢</strong>? \r\n\r\n交朋友首先要对别人友善。你对别人微笑；肯定别人也会<strong>报以</strong>微笑。要使<strong>陌生人</strong>感到亲切，关心别人要比,关心自己<strong>为重</strong>，决不以貌取人。 \r\n\r\n其次，朋友之间应该商量而不是争吵。当与别人有<strong>分歧</strong>时，要和他一起讨论。 \r\n\r\n最后，不要相信那些在<strong>危急关头</strong>背离你的人，也不要在朋友危难时离开他。记住: <strong>患难</strong>之中见真情。 \r\n\r\n朋友应该以诚<strong>相待</strong>。只要你把朋友的<strong>利益</strong>置于你的利益之上，你就会拥有好多好朋友 \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\nEveryone needs friends. A friend can give us help and share our difficulties and happiness. But how can we make friends? \r\n\r\nFirst, to make friends, you must be friendly to others. Smile at others and you are sure to get a smile in return. You should try to make a stranger feel at home wherever he happens to be. Think more of others than of yourself and never judge a person by their appearance and clothes. \r\n\r\nSecond, friends should negotiate instead of quarrel. When you don\'t agree with someone, discuss the issue with them. \r\n\r\nFinally, never trust in those who leave you when you are in trouble. And never leave your friends when they are in trouble. Remember, a friend in need is a friend indeed. \r\n\r\nFriends should be faithful to each other. So long as you can put your friend\'s interests in front of yours, you will have a lot of good friends.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'How to Make Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '654-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-21 20:49:11', '2011-08-22 00:49:11', '', 654, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/21/654-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(752, 1, '2011-08-21 20:51:09', '2011-08-22 00:51:09', '[two_third]\r\nJust in case you were wondering, below is a short intermediate essay on How to Make Friends. <!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110821-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Practice Passages - Intermediate Chinese Essays\" title=\"Intermediate Chinese Reading Practice Passages - Intermediate Chinese Essays\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />This article was both written and translated into English by a Chinese student on her own blog. I wish I could remember where I found it now, as I\'d like to give the credit where credit is due, but it\'s been sitting in my \"drafts\" folder forever. The Chinese title is 如何交朋友.\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共事 - [pinyin]gong4 shi4[/pinyin] - Work together\r\n交 - [pinyin]jiao1[/pinyin] - to \"make\" (in this case, to \"make\" friends)\r\n呢 - [pinyin]bao4 yi3[/pinyin] - To give in return\r\n报以 - [pinyin]huang1 fei4[/pinyin] - Abandoned\r\n陌生人 - [pinyin]mo4 sheng1 ren2[/pinyin] - A stranger\r\n为重 - [pinyin]wei2 zhong4[/pinyin] - Attach the most importance to\r\n分歧 - [pinyin]fen1 qi2[/pinyin] - Difference of opinion\r\n危急关头 - [pinyin]wei1 ji2 guan1 tou2[/pinyin] - Desperate situation, critical juncture\r\n患难 - [pinyin]huan4 nan4[/pinyin] - trials and tribulations\r\n相待 - [pinyin]xiang1 dai4[/pinyin] - to treat [someone a certain way]\r\n利益 - [pinyin]li4 yi4[/pinyin] - Benefit\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人人都需要朋友。朋友可以给我们以帮助，与我们<strong>共事</strong>困难和快乐。但是，怎样<strong>交</strong>朋友<strong>呢</strong>? \r\n\r\n交朋友首先要对别人友善。你对别人微笑；肯定别人也会<strong>报以</strong>微笑。要使<strong>陌生人</strong>感到亲切，关心别人要比,关心自己<strong>为重</strong>，决不以貌取人。 \r\n\r\n其次，朋友之间应该商量而不是争吵。当与别人有<strong>分歧</strong>时，要和他一起讨论。 \r\n\r\n最后，不要相信那些在<strong>危急关头</strong>背离你的人，也不要在朋友危难时离开他。记住: <strong>患难</strong>之中见真情。 \r\n\r\n朋友应该以诚<strong>相待</strong>。只要你把朋友的<strong>利益</strong>置于你的利益之上，你就会拥有好多好朋友 \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\nEveryone needs friends. A friend can give us help and share our difficulties and happiness. But how can we make friends? \r\n\r\nFirst, to make friends, you must be friendly to others. Smile at others and you are sure to get a smile in return. You should try to make a stranger feel at home wherever he happens to be. Think more of others than of yourself and never judge a person by their appearance and clothes. \r\n\r\nSecond, friends should negotiate instead of quarrel. When you don\'t agree with someone, discuss the issue with them. \r\n\r\nFinally, never trust in those who leave you when you are in trouble. And never leave your friends when they are in trouble. Remember, a friend in need is a friend indeed. \r\n\r\nFriends should be faithful to each other. So long as you can put your friend\'s interests in front of yours, you will have a lot of good friends.\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n', 'How to Make Friends', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '654-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-21 20:51:09', '2011-08-22 00:51:09', '', 654, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/21/654-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(756, 1, '2011-08-30 23:07:39', '2011-08-31 03:07:39', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\nA rather off-color \"they don\'t teach you how to say that in the textbook\" joke, this one about two parents dealing with an unexpected pregnancy in the family. This is really upper-intermediate, not really super advanced, but there will be quite a few new words here for lower-intermediate readers.\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110830-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Advanced Chinese Jokes and Written Vocaublary Practice\" title=\"Advanced Chinese Jokes and Written Vocaublary Practice\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />You\'ll have to forgive me these couple of recent not-really-for-kids jokes - I\'m no primary school teacher, and I find that an endless stream of kids\' jokes gets a bit tiresome, and is not as reflective of real spoken language. This is the kind of joke you\'d tell with your friends after a couple of glasses of 啤酒, and you have to admit, as scripted jokes go, this one\'s pretty funny.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a little hard to get rolling on this one, as the first sentence is a little hard to get past unless you know what they\'re talking about, so I\'ll explain a bit. The joke starts out: \"一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了\", which literally translates into \"A 16-year-old girl tells her mother that already two months hadn\'t come.\" Once you see it in English, and you know the joke\'s about pregnancy, it\'s pretty easy to decipher the meaning - the girl hasn\'t had her period for 2 months and suspects she\'s pregnant. Thing is, the medical word for \"menstrual cycle\" never actually shows up here - we\'re seeing instead the colloquial term \"月\", or \"moon / month\".\r\n\r\n<del datetime=\"2012-06-15T09:52:47+00:00\">It\'s also worth noting that in this reading, 令媛 is the name of the pregnant daughter - that is not really explained.</del>\r\n\r\n[CORRECTION: Alert reader Katy informs me that I was very wrong - 令媛 is not the name of the daughter but, \"an old-fashioned term of respect to say \'your daughter\' which is in keeping with the status of the man as a 绅士 (gentleman)\". Apparently, when you assume, you make an ass out of 令 and 媛. Thanks Katy.]\r\n\r\nAnd one last interesting grammar point here is the phrase \"负该负的责任\". To \"负责任\", means to shoulder your responsibilities and fulfill your obligations. So this phrase means \"fulfill the responsibilities that should be fulfilled\", or \"to bear the responsibilities that one should bear\". \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>你可以再来一次</h4>\r\n一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了.... 母亲一听不得了赶紧去药房买了<strong>验孕剂</strong>来确认一下... 结果女孩真的怀孕了！ 母亲又哭又骂的问到:\"到底是那个<strong>浑蛋</strong>干的好事，你给我从实招来!!\" 女孩只好打了通电话。 \r\n\r\n半小时后，一部全新的<strong>法拉利</strong><strong>跑车</strong>疾驶到了女孩家门，而跨出车门的是位全身<strong>名牌</strong>衣着又<strong>风度</strong>翩翩的中年<strong>绅士</strong>. 绅士进入屋内与女孩及她的父母双亲在客厅坐了下来. \"午安!\"绅士礼貌的向她们问候并说道:\"<strong>令媛</strong>刚刚告知了我这个大问题，但是因为我的个人家庭问题，很抱歉我无法娶令媛为妻，不过我会<strong>负该负的责任</strong>\" \"这样好了，如果生的是女孩，我会留3家店面，2间房子，1栋海边<strong>别墅</strong>及一个200万美金的帐户给她\" \"如果生的是男孩，我会让他<strong>继承</strong>2家公司再加上一个200万美金的帐户\" \"如果生的是<strong>双胞胎</strong>，那就每人继承1家公司还有各100万美金的帐户\" \"但如果<strong>不幸流产</strong>了............\" \r\n\r\n此时在一旁沉默已久的父亲，突然站起来，并把手紧紧的搭在绅士的肩上后说:\"没关系，到时你可以再来一次!!\" \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\nA 16-year-old girl said to her mother that she had missed 2 menstrual cycles... as soon as her mother heard this, she rushed in extreme haste to the pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test and confirm the issue... sure enough the daughter was pregnant!  Crying and yelling, the mother asked, \"Whichever scoundrel did the happy deed, you make him come face me!!\" The daughter was forced to pick up the phone. \r\n\r\nHalf an hour later, a brand new Ferrari sports car quickly pulled up to the girl\'s front door, and who stepped out of the car but an elegant middle-aged gentleman wearing a completely new set of brand-name clothes. The gentleman entered the room and sat down in the living room with the daughter and her parents. \r\n\r\n\"Good afternoon!\" the gentleman politely paid his respects, and said, \"Your honorable daughter just told me about this serious problem, but because of my own family situation, I\'m very sorry to say I can\'t take her to wife, but I will bear the responsibility I should bear. This should do: if a girl child is born, I will give her 3 storefronts, 2 houses, 1 seaside villa and a bank account with 2 million American dollars in it. If a boy is born, he will inherit 2 companies plus a bank account worth 2 million American dollars. If it\'s twins, each will inherit one company and a 1 million American dollar bank account. But if it\'s a miscarriage...\"  \r\n\r\nAt that moment, the girl\'s father, who had been sitting silently off to one side, suddenly stood up, put both hands firmly on the gentleman\'s shoulders and said, \"Don\'t worry, if that happens [lit: when the time comes] you can come back again!\" \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>', 'Joke: You can come back again', '', 'publish', 'open', 'open', '', 'you-can-come-back-again', '', '', '2020-04-20 07:48:28', '2020-04-20 11:48:28', '', 0, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/?p=756', 0, 'post', '', 1),
(1816, 1, '2020-04-20 06:15:27', '2020-04-20 10:15:27', '[su_row]\r\n[su_column size=\"1/2\" center=\"yes\" class=\"\"]\r\nA rather off-color \"they don\'t teach you how to say that in the textbook\" joke, this one about two parents dealing with an unexpected pregnancy in the family. This is really upper-intermediate, not really super advanced, but there will be quite a few new words here for lower-intermediate readers.\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110830-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Advanced Chinese Jokes and Written Vocaublary Practice\" title=\"Advanced Chinese Jokes and Written Vocaublary Practice\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />You\'ll have to forgive me these couple of recent not-really-for-kids jokes - I\'m no primary school teacher, and I find that an endless stream of kids\' jokes gets a bit tiresome, and is not as reflective of real spoken language. This is the kind of joke you\'d tell with your friends after a couple of glasses of 啤酒, and you have to admit, as scripted jokes go, this one\'s pretty funny.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a little hard to get rolling on this one, as the first sentence is a little hard to get past unless you know what they\'re talking about, so I\'ll explain a bit. The joke starts out: \"一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了\", which literally translates into \"A 16-year-old girl tells her mother that already two months hadn\'t come.\" Once you see it in English, and you know the joke\'s about pregnancy, it\'s pretty easy to decipher the meaning - the girl hasn\'t had her period for 2 months and suspects she\'s pregnant. Thing is, the medical word for \"menstrual cycle\" never actually shows up here - we\'re seeing instead the colloquial term \"月\", or \"moon / month\".\r\n\r\n<del datetime=\"2012-06-15T09:52:47+00:00\">It\'s also worth noting that in this reading, 令媛 is the name of the pregnant daughter - that is not really explained.</del>\r\n\r\n[CORRECTION: Alert reader Katy informs me that I was very wrong - 令媛 is not the name of the daughter but, \"an old-fashioned term of respect to say \'your daughter\' which is in keeping with the status of the man as a 绅士 (gentleman)\". Apparently, when you assume, you make an ass out of 令 and 媛. Thanks Katy.]\r\n\r\nAnd one last interesting grammar point here is the phrase \"负该负的责任\". To \"负责任\", means to shoulder your responsibilities and fulfill your obligations. So this phrase means \"fulfill the responsibilities that should be fulfilled\", or \"to bear the responsibilities that one should bear\". \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>你可以再来一次</h4>\r\n一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了.... 母亲一听不得了赶紧去药房买了<strong>验孕剂</strong>来确认一下... 结果女孩真的怀孕了！ 母亲又哭又骂的问到:\"到底是那个<strong>浑蛋</strong>干的好事，你给我从实招来!!\" 女孩只好打了通电话。 \r\n\r\n半小时后，一部全新的<strong>法拉利</strong><strong>跑车</strong>疾驶到了女孩家门，而跨出车门的是位全身<strong>名牌</strong>衣着又<strong>风度</strong>翩翩的中年<strong>绅士</strong>. 绅士进入屋内与女孩及她的父母双亲在客厅坐了下来. \"午安!\"绅士礼貌的向她们问候并说道:\"<strong>令媛</strong>刚刚告知了我这个大问题，但是因为我的个人家庭问题，很抱歉我无法娶令媛为妻，不过我会<strong>负该负的责任</strong>\" \"这样好了，如果生的是女孩，我会留3家店面，2间房子，1栋海边<strong>别墅</strong>及一个200万美金的帐户给她\" \"如果生的是男孩，我会让他<strong>继承</strong>2家公司再加上一个200万美金的帐户\" \"如果生的是<strong>双胞胎</strong>，那就每人继承1家公司还有各100万美金的帐户\" \"但如果<strong>不幸流产</strong>了............\" \r\n\r\n此时在一旁沉默已久的父亲，突然站起来，并把手紧紧的搭在绅士的肩上后说:\"没关系，到时你可以再来一次!!\" \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\nA 16-year-old girl said to her mother that she had missed 2 menstrual cycles... as soon as her mother heard this, she rushed in extreme haste to the pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test and confirm the issue... sure enough the daughter was pregnant!  Crying and yelling, the mother asked, \"Whichever scoundrel did the happy deed, you make him come face me!!\" The daughter was forced to pick up the phone. \r\n\r\nHalf an hour later, a brand new Ferrari sports car quickly pulled up to the girl\'s front door, and who stepped out of the car but an elegant middle-aged gentleman wearing a completely new set of brand-name clothes. The gentleman entered the room and sat down in the living room with the daughter and her parents. \r\n\r\n\"Good afternoon!\" the gentleman politely paid his respects, and said, \"Your honorable daughter just told me about this serious problem, but because of my own family situation, I\'m very sorry to say I can\'t take her to wife, but I will bear the responsibility I should bear. This should do: if a girl child is born, I will give her 3 storefronts, 2 houses, 1 seaside villa and a bank account with 2 million American dollars in it. If a boy is born, he will inherit 2 companies plus a bank account worth 2 million American dollars. If it\'s twins, each will inherit one company and a 1 million American dollar bank account. But if it\'s a miscarriage...\"  \r\n\r\nAt that moment, the girl\'s father, who had been sitting silently off to one side, suddenly stood up, put both hands firmly on the gentleman\'s shoulders and said, \"Don\'t worry, if that happens [lit: when the time comes] you can come back again!\" \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part]\r\n[/su_column]\r\n[/su_row]</div>', 'Joke: You can come back again', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '756-revision-v1', '', '', '2020-04-20 06:15:27', '2020-04-20 10:15:27', '', 756, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2020/04/20/756-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(757, 1, '2011-08-30 22:13:21', '2011-08-31 02:13:21', '[two_third]\nAnother slightly off-color joke, this one about an unexpected pregnancy.  \n\nThe Chinese title of this joke is \"父子不和\".\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n讨论 - [pinyin]tao3 lun4[/pinyin] - To discuss\n不和 - [pinyin]bu4 he2[/pinyin] - To not get along well\n题目 - [pinyin]ti2 mu4[/pinyin] - Topic\n秋子 - [pinyin]qiu1 zi5[/pinyin] - QiuZi (a name)\n消除 - [pinyin]xiao1 chu2[/pinyin] - Eliminate, remove\n现象 - [pinyin]xian4 xiang4[/pinyin] - Phenomenon, happening, appearance\n成绩 - [pinyin]cheng2 ji4[/pinyin] - Grades (school grades)\n通知单 -  [pinyin]tong1 zhi1 dan4[/pinyin] - Report card\n填 - [pinyin]tian2[/pinyin] - To fill in (a form)\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了.... 母亲一听不得了赶紧去药房买了验孕剂来确认一下... 结果女孩真的怀孕了！ 母亲又哭又骂的问到:\"到底是那个浑蛋干的好事，你给我从实招来!!\" 女孩只好打了通电话... 半小时后，一部全新的法拉利跑车疾驶到了女孩家门，而跨出车门的是位全身名牌衣着又风度翩翩的中年绅士. 绅士进入屋内与女孩及她的父母双亲在客厅坐了下来. \"午安!\"绅士礼貌的向她们问候并说道:\"令媛刚刚告知了我这个大问题，但是因为我的个人家庭问题，很抱歉我无法娶令媛为妻，不过我会负该负的责任\" \"这样好了，如果生的是女孩，我会留3家店面，2间房子，1栋海边别墅及一个200万美金的帐户给她\" \"如果生的是男孩，我会让他继承2家公司再加上一个200万美金的帐户\" \"如果生的是双胞胎，那就每人继承1家公司还有各100万美金的帐户\" \"但如果不幸流产了............\" 此时在一旁沉默已久的父亲，突然站起来，并把手紧紧的搭在绅士的肩上后说:\"没关系，到时你可以再来一次!!\" \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]\n\n', 'You can come back again', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '756-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-30 22:13:21', '2011-08-31 02:13:21', '', 756, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/30/756-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(759, 1, '2011-08-30 22:37:34', '2011-08-31 02:37:34', '[two_third]\r\nAnother slightly off-color joke, this one about two parents dealing with an unexpected pregnancy in the family.\r\n\r\nYou\'ll have to forgive me these couple of not-really-for-kids jokes, . The Chinese title of this joke is \"你可以再来一次\".\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讨论 - [pinyin]tao3 lun4[/pinyin] - To discuss\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一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了.... 母亲一听不得了赶紧去药房买了验孕剂来确认一下... 结果女孩真的怀孕了！ 母亲又哭又骂的问到:\"到底是那个浑蛋干的好事，你给我从实招来!!\" 女孩只好打了通电话... 半小时后，一部全新的法拉利跑车疾驶到了女孩家门，而跨出车门的是位全身名牌衣着又风度翩翩的中年绅士. 绅士进入屋内与女孩及她的父母双亲在客厅坐了下来. \"午安!\"绅士礼貌的向她们问候并说道:\"令媛刚刚告知了我这个大问题，但是因为我的个人家庭问题，很抱歉我无法娶令媛为妻，不过我会负该负的责任\" \"这样好了，如果生的是女孩，我会留3家店面，2间房子，1栋海边别墅及一个200万美金的帐户给她\" \"如果生的是男孩，我会让他继承2家公司再加上一个200万美金的帐户\" \"如果生的是双胞胎，那就每人继承1家公司还有各100万美金的帐户\" \"但如果不幸流产了............\" 此时在一旁沉默已久的父亲，突然站起来，并把手紧紧的搭在绅士的肩上后说:\"没关系，到时你可以再来一次!!\" \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\nA 16-year-old girl said to her mother that her period was two weeks late... as soon as her mother heard this, she rushed in extreme haste to the pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test and confirm the issue... sure enough the daughter was pregnant!  Crying and yelling, the mother asked, \"Whichever scoundrel did this, you make him come face me!!\" The daughter was forced to pick up the phone... half an hour later, a brand new Farrari sports car quickly pulled up to the girl\'s front door, and who stepped out of the car but an elegant middle-aged gentleman wearing a completely new set of brand-name clothes. The gentleman entered the room and sat down in the living room with the daughter and her parents. \"Good afternoon!\" the gentleman politely paid his respects, and said, \"Ling Yuan [presumably daughter\'s name] just told me about this serious problem, but because of my own family situation, I\'m very sorry to say I can\'t take Ling Yuan to wife, but I will bear the responsibility I should bear. This should do: if a girl child is born, I will give her 3 storefronts, 2 houses, 1 seaside villa and a bank account with 2 million American dollars in it. If a boy is born, he will inherit 2 companies plus a bank account worth 2 million American dollars. If it\'s twins, each will inherit one company and a 1 million American dollar bank account. But if it\'s a miscarriage...\"  At that moment, the girl\'s father, who had been sitting silently off to one side, suddenly stood up, put both hands firmly on the gentleman\'s shoulders and said, \"Don\'t worry, if that happens you can come back again!\" \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n', 'You can come back again', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '756-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-30 22:37:34', '2011-08-31 02:37:34', '', 756, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/30/756-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(758, 1, '2011-08-30 22:36:56', '2011-08-31 02:36:56', '[two_third]\nAnother slightly off-color joke, this one about two parents dealing with an unexpected pregnancy in the family.\n\nYou\'ll have to forgive me these couple of not-really-for-kids jokes, . The Chinese title of this joke is \"你可以再来一次\".\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n讨论 - [pinyin]tao3 lun4[/pinyin] - To discuss\n\n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了.... 母亲一听不得了赶紧去药房买了验孕剂来确认一下... 结果女孩真的怀孕了！ 母亲又哭又骂的问到:\"到底是那个浑蛋干的好事，你给我从实招来!!\" 女孩只好打了通电话... 半小时后，一部全新的法拉利跑车疾驶到了女孩家门，而跨出车门的是位全身名牌衣着又风度翩翩的中年绅士. 绅士进入屋内与女孩及她的父母双亲在客厅坐了下来. \"午安!\"绅士礼貌的向她们问候并说道:\"令媛刚刚告知了我这个大问题，但是因为我的个人家庭问题，很抱歉我无法娶令媛为妻，不过我会负该负的责任\" \"这样好了，如果生的是女孩，我会留3家店面，2间房子，1栋海边别墅及一个200万美金的帐户给她\" \"如果生的是男孩，我会让他继承2家公司再加上一个200万美金的帐户\" \"如果生的是双胞胎，那就每人继承1家公司还有各100万美金的帐户\" \"但如果不幸流产了............\" 此时在一旁沉默已久的父亲，突然站起来，并把手紧紧的搭在绅士的肩上后说:\"没关系，到时你可以再来一次!!\" \n\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\nA 16-year-old girl said to her mother that her period was two weeks late... as soon as her mother heard this, she rushed in extreme haste to the pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test and confirm the issue... sure enough the daughter was pregnant!  Crying and yelling, the mother asked, \"Whichever scoundrel did this, you make him come face me!!\" The daughter was forced to pick up the phone... half an hour later, a brand new Farrari sports car quickly pulled up to the girl\'s front door, and who stepped out of the car but an elegant middle-aged gentleman wearing a completely new set of brand-name clothes. The gentleman entered the room and sat down in the living room with the daughter and her parents. \"Good afternoon!\" the gentleman politely paid his respects, and said, \"Ling Yuan [presumably daughter\'s name] just told me about this serious problem, but because of my own family situation, I\'m very sorry to say I can\'t take Ling Yuan to wife, but I will bear the responsibility I should bear. This should do: if a girl child is born, I will give her 3 storefronts, 2 houses, 1 seaside villa and a bank account with 2 million American dollars in it. If a boy is born, he will inherit 2 companies plus a bank account worth 2 million American dollars. If it\'s twins, each will inherit one company and a 1 million American dollar bank account. But if it\'s a miscarriage...\"  At that moment, the girl\'s father, who had been sitting silently off to one side, suddenly stood up, put both hands firmly on the gentleman\'s shoulders and said, \"Don\'t worry, if that happens you can come back again!\"  如果生的是双胞胎，那就每人继承1家公司还有各100万美金的帐户\" \"但如果不幸流产了............\" 此时在一旁沉默已久的父亲，突然站起来，并把手紧紧的搭在绅士的肩上后说:\"没关系，到时你可以再来一次!!\" \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n', 'You can come back one more time', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '756-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-30 22:36:56', '2011-08-31 02:36:56', '', 756, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/30/756-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(760, 1, '2011-08-30 23:02:33', '2011-08-31 03:02:33', '[two_third]\nAnother slightly off-color \"they don\'t teach you how to say that in the textbook\" joke, this one about two parents dealing with an unexpected pregnancy in the family. This is really upper-intermediate, not too terribly advanced, but there may be quite a few new words here. \n\nYou\'ll have to forgive me these couple of recent not-really-for-kids jokes - I\'m no primary school teacher, and I find that an endless stream of kids\' jokes gets a bit tiresome, and is not as reflective of real spoken language. This is the kind of joke you\'d tell with your friends after a couple of glasses of 啤酒, and you have to admit, as scripted jokes go, this one\'s pretty funny.\n\nIt\'s a little hard to get rolling on this one, as the first sentence is a little hard to get past unless you know what they\'re talking about, so I\'ll explain a bit. The joke starts out: \"一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了\", which literally translates into \"A 16-year-old girl tells her mother that already two months hadn\'t come.\" Once you see it in English, and you know the joke\'s about pregnancy, it\'s pretty easy to decipher the meaning - the girl hasn\'t had her period for 2 months and suspects she\'s pregnant. Thing is, the medical word for \"menstrual cycle\" never actually shows up here - we\'re seeing instead the colloquial term \"月\", or \"moon / month\".\n\nIt\'s also worth noting that in this reading, 令媛 is the name of the pregnant daughter - that is not really explained.\n\nAnd one last interesting grammar point here is the phrase \"负该负的责任\". To \"负责任\", means to shoulder your responsibilities and fulfill your obligations. So this phrase means \"fulfill the responsibilities that should be fulfilled\", or \"to bear the responsibilities that one should bear\". \n\nThe Chinese title of this joke is \"你可以再来一次\".\n\n[/two_third]\n[one_third last=last]\n<div class=\"postintro\">\n<h4>Click to Listen</h4>\n验孕剂 - [pinyin]yan4 yun4 ji4[/pinyin] - Pregnancy test\n浑蛋 - [pinyin]hun2 dan4[/pinyin] - Variant of 混蛋, meaning scoundrel, cur, bastard\n法拉利 - [pinyin]fa3 la1 li4[/pinyin] - Ferrari (sports car brand)\n跑车 - [pinyin]pao3 che1[/pinyin] - Sports car\n名牌 - [pinyin]ming2 pai2[/pinyin] - Name brand\n风度 - [pinyin]feng1 du4[/pinyin] - Elegant (applies only to men)\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\n别墅 - [pinyin]bie2 shu4[/pinyin] - Villa\n继承 -  [pinyin]ji4 cheng2[/pinyin] - To inherit\n双胞胎 - [pinyin]shuang1 bao1 tai[/pinyin] - Twins\n不幸流产 - \n</div>\n[/one_third]\n\n<hr />\n\n[one_half]\n<div id=\"chinesetext\">\n一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了.... 母亲一听不得了赶紧去药房买了<strong>验孕剂</strong>来确认一下... 结果女孩真的怀孕了！ 母亲又哭又骂的问到:\"到底是那个<strong>浑蛋</strong>干的好事，你给我从实招来!!\" 女孩只好打了通电话... 半小时后，一部全新的<strong>法拉利</strong><strong>跑车</strong>疾驶到了女孩家门，而跨出车门的是位全身<strong>名牌</strong>衣着又<strong>风度</strong>翩翩的中年<strong>绅士</strong>. 绅士进入屋内与女孩及她的父母双亲在客厅坐了下来. \"午安!\"绅士礼貌的向她们问候并说道:\"<strong>令媛</strong>刚刚告知了我这个大问题，但是因为我的个人家庭问题，很抱歉我无法娶令媛为妻，不过我会<strong>负该负的责任</strong>\" \"这样好了，如果生的是女孩，我会留3家店面，2间房子，1栋海边<strong>别墅</strong>及一个200万美金的帐户给她\" \"如果生的是男孩，我会让他<strong>继承</strong>2家公司再加上一个200万美金的帐户\" \"如果生的是<strong>双胞胎</strong>，那就每人继承1家公司还有各100万美金的帐户\" \"但如果<strong>不幸流产</strong>了............\" 此时在一旁沉默已久的父亲，突然站起来，并把手紧紧的搭在绅士的肩上后说:\"没关系，到时你可以再来一次!!\" \n\n</div>\n[/one_half]\n\n[one_half last=last][hide-this-part morelink=\"SHOW ENGLISH TRANSLATION\"]\nA 16-year-old girl said to her mother that she had missed 2 menstrual cycles... as soon as her mother heard this, she rushed in extreme haste to the pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test and confirm the issue... sure enough the daughter was pregnant!  Crying and yelling, the mother asked, \"Whichever scoundrel did the happy deed, you make him come face me!!\" The daughter was forced to pick up the phone... half an hour later, a brand new Ferrari sports car quickly pulled up to the girl\'s front door, and who stepped out of the car but an elegant middle-aged gentleman wearing a completely new set of brand-name clothes. The gentleman entered the room and sat down in the living room with the daughter and her parents. \"Good afternoon!\" the gentleman politely paid his respects, and said, \"Ling Yuan [presumably daughter\'s name] just told me about this serious problem, but because of my own family situation, I\'m very sorry to say I can\'t take Ling Yuan to wife, but I will bear the responsibility I should bear. This should do: if a girl child is born, I will give her 3 storefronts, 2 houses, 1 seaside villa and a bank account with 2 million American dollars in it. If a boy is born, he will inherit 2 companies plus a bank account worth 2 million American dollars. If it\'s twins, each will inherit one company and a 1 million American dollar bank account. But if it\'s a miscarriage...\"  At that moment, the girl\'s father, who had been sitting silently off to one side, suddenly stood up, put both hands firmly on the gentleman\'s shoulders and said, \"Don\'t worry, if that happens [lit: when the time comes] you can come back again!\" \n\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\n\n', 'You can come back again', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '756-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-30 23:02:33', '2011-08-31 03:02:33', '', 756, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/30/756-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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(763, 1, '2011-08-30 23:03:22', '2011-08-31 03:03:22', '[two_third]\r\nAnother slightly off-color \"they don\'t teach you how to say that in the textbook\" joke, this one about two parents dealing with an unexpected pregnancy in the family. This is really upper-intermediate, not too terribly advanced, but there may be quite a few new words here. \r\n\r\nYou\'ll have to forgive me these couple of recent not-really-for-kids jokes - I\'m no primary school teacher, and I find that an endless stream of kids\' jokes gets a bit tiresome, and is not as reflective of real spoken language. This is the kind of joke you\'d tell with your friends after a couple of glasses of 啤酒, and you have to admit, as scripted jokes go, this one\'s pretty funny.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a little hard to get rolling on this one, as the first sentence is a little hard to get past unless you know what they\'re talking about, so I\'ll explain a bit. The joke starts out: \"一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了\", which literally translates into \"A 16-year-old girl tells her mother that already two months hadn\'t come.\" Once you see it in English, and you know the joke\'s about pregnancy, it\'s pretty easy to decipher the meaning - the girl hasn\'t had her period for 2 months and suspects she\'s pregnant. Thing is, the medical word for \"menstrual cycle\" never actually shows up here - we\'re seeing instead the colloquial term \"月\", or \"moon / month\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also worth noting that in this reading, 令媛 is the name of the pregnant daughter - that is not really explained.\r\n\r\nAnd one last interesting grammar point here is the phrase \"负该负的责任\". To \"负责任\", means to shoulder your responsibilities and fulfill your obligations. So this phrase means \"fulfill the responsibilities that should be fulfilled\", or \"to bear the responsibilities that one should bear\". \r\n\r\nThe Chinese title of this joke is \"你可以再来一次\".\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验孕剂 - [pinyin]yan4 yun4 ji4[/pinyin] - Pregnancy test\r\n浑蛋 - [pinyin]hun2 dan4[/pinyin] - Variant of 混蛋, meaning scoundrel, cur, bastard\r\n法拉利 - [pinyin]fa3 la1 li4[/pinyin] - Ferrari (sports car brand)\r\n跑车 - [pinyin]pao3 che1[/pinyin] - Sports car\r\n名牌 - [pinyin]ming2 pai2[/pinyin] - Name brand\r\n风度 - [pinyin]feng1 du4[/pinyin] - Elegant (applies only to men)\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n别墅 - [pinyin]bie2 shu4[/pinyin] - Villa\r\n继承 -  [pinyin]ji4 cheng2[/pinyin] - To inherit\r\n双胞胎 - [pinyin]shuang1 bao1 tai[/pinyin] - Twins\r\n不幸流产 - [pinyin]bu4 xing4 liu2 chan3[/pinyin] - Accidental miscarriage\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一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了.... 母亲一听不得了赶紧去药房买了<strong>验孕剂</strong>来确认一下... 结果女孩真的怀孕了！ 母亲又哭又骂的问到:\"到底是那个<strong>浑蛋</strong>干的好事，你给我从实招来!!\" 女孩只好打了通电话... 半小时后，一部全新的<strong>法拉利</strong><strong>跑车</strong>疾驶到了女孩家门，而跨出车门的是位全身<strong>名牌</strong>衣着又<strong>风度</strong>翩翩的中年<strong>绅士</strong>. 绅士进入屋内与女孩及她的父母双亲在客厅坐了下来. \"午安!\"绅士礼貌的向她们问候并说道:\"<strong>令媛</strong>刚刚告知了我这个大问题，但是因为我的个人家庭问题，很抱歉我无法娶令媛为妻，不过我会<strong>负该负的责任</strong>\" \"这样好了，如果生的是女孩，我会留3家店面，2间房子，1栋海边<strong>别墅</strong>及一个200万美金的帐户给她\" \"如果生的是男孩，我会让他<strong>继承</strong>2家公司再加上一个200万美金的帐户\" \"如果生的是<strong>双胞胎</strong>，那就每人继承1家公司还有各100万美金的帐户\" \"但如果<strong>不幸流产</strong>了............\" 此时在一旁沉默已久的父亲，突然站起来，并把手紧紧的搭在绅士的肩上后说:\"没关系，到时你可以再来一次!!\" \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\nA 16-year-old girl said to her mother that she had missed 2 menstrual cycles... as soon as her mother heard this, she rushed in extreme haste to the pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test and confirm the issue... sure enough the daughter was pregnant!  Crying and yelling, the mother asked, \"Whichever scoundrel did the happy deed, you make him come face me!!\" The daughter was forced to pick up the phone... half an hour later, a brand new Ferrari sports car quickly pulled up to the girl\'s front door, and who stepped out of the car but an elegant middle-aged gentleman wearing a completely new set of brand-name clothes. The gentleman entered the room and sat down in the living room with the daughter and her parents. \"Good afternoon!\" the gentleman politely paid his respects, and said, \"Ling Yuan [presumably daughter\'s name] just told me about this serious problem, but because of my own family situation, I\'m very sorry to say I can\'t take Ling Yuan to wife, but I will bear the responsibility I should bear. This should do: if a girl child is born, I will give her 3 storefronts, 2 houses, 1 seaside villa and a bank account with 2 million American dollars in it. If a boy is born, he will inherit 2 companies plus a bank account worth 2 million American dollars. If it\'s twins, each will inherit one company and a 1 million American dollar bank account. But if it\'s a miscarriage...\"  At that moment, the girl\'s father, who had been sitting silently off to one side, suddenly stood up, put both hands firmly on the gentleman\'s shoulders and said, \"Don\'t worry, if that happens [lit: when the time comes] you can come back again!\" \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n', 'You can come back again', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '756-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-30 23:03:22', '2011-08-31 03:03:22', '', 756, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/30/756-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(764, 1, '2011-08-30 23:07:39', '2011-08-31 03:07:39', '[two_third]\r\nAnother slightly off-color \"they don\'t teach you how to say that in the textbook\" joke, this one about two parents dealing with an unexpected pregnancy in the family. This is really upper-intermediate, not too terribly advanced, but there may be quite a few new words here. \r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\n<img src=\"http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/20110830-INLINE.jpg\" alt=\"Advanced Chinese Jokes and Written Vocaublary Practice\" title=\"Advanced Chinese Jokes and Written Vocaublary Practice\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"imgborder alignleft\" />You\'ll have to forgive me these couple of recent not-really-for-kids jokes - I\'m no primary school teacher, and I find that an endless stream of kids\' jokes gets a bit tiresome, and is not as reflective of real spoken language. This is the kind of joke you\'d tell with your friends after a couple of glasses of 啤酒, and you have to admit, as scripted jokes go, this one\'s pretty funny.\r\n\r\nIt\'s a little hard to get rolling on this one, as the first sentence is a little hard to get past unless you know what they\'re talking about, so I\'ll explain a bit. The joke starts out: \"一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了\", which literally translates into \"A 16-year-old girl tells her mother that already two months hadn\'t come.\" Once you see it in English, and you know the joke\'s about pregnancy, it\'s pretty easy to decipher the meaning - the girl hasn\'t had her period for 2 months and suspects she\'s pregnant. Thing is, the medical word for \"menstrual cycle\" never actually shows up here - we\'re seeing instead the colloquial term \"月\", or \"moon / month\".\r\n\r\nIt\'s also worth noting that in this reading, 令媛 is the name of the pregnant daughter - that is not really explained.\r\n\r\nAnd one last interesting grammar point here is the phrase \"负该负的责任\". To \"负责任\", means to shoulder your responsibilities and fulfill your obligations. So this phrase means \"fulfill the responsibilities that should be fulfilled\", or \"to bear the responsibilities that one should bear\". \r\n\r\nThe Chinese title of this joke is \"你可以再来一次\".\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验孕剂 - [pinyin]yan4 yun4 ji4[/pinyin] - Pregnancy test\r\n浑蛋 - [pinyin]hun2 dan4[/pinyin] - Variant of 混蛋, meaning scoundrel, cur, bastard\r\n法拉利 - [pinyin]fa3 la1 li4[/pinyin] - Ferrari (sports car brand)\r\n跑车 - [pinyin]pao3 che1[/pinyin] - Sports car\r\n名牌 - [pinyin]ming2 pai2[/pinyin] - Name brand\r\n风度 - [pinyin]feng1 du4[/pinyin] - Elegant (applies only to men)\r\n绅士 - [pinyin]shen1 shi4[/pinyin] - Gentleman\r\n别墅 - [pinyin]bie2 shu4[/pinyin] - Villa\r\n继承 -  [pinyin]ji4 cheng2[/pinyin] - To inherit\r\n双胞胎 - [pinyin]shuang1 bao1 tai[/pinyin] - Twins\r\n不幸流产 - [pinyin]bu4 xing4 liu2 chan3[/pinyin] - Accidental miscarriage\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一个16岁的女孩跟她母亲说她已经2个月没来了.... 母亲一听不得了赶紧去药房买了<strong>验孕剂</strong>来确认一下... 结果女孩真的怀孕了！ 母亲又哭又骂的问到:\"到底是那个<strong>浑蛋</strong>干的好事，你给我从实招来!!\" 女孩只好打了通电话... 半小时后，一部全新的<strong>法拉利</strong><strong>跑车</strong>疾驶到了女孩家门，而跨出车门的是位全身<strong>名牌</strong>衣着又<strong>风度</strong>翩翩的中年<strong>绅士</strong>. 绅士进入屋内与女孩及她的父母双亲在客厅坐了下来. \"午安!\"绅士礼貌的向她们问候并说道:\"<strong>令媛</strong>刚刚告知了我这个大问题，但是因为我的个人家庭问题，很抱歉我无法娶令媛为妻，不过我会<strong>负该负的责任</strong>\" \"这样好了，如果生的是女孩，我会留3家店面，2间房子，1栋海边<strong>别墅</strong>及一个200万美金的帐户给她\" \"如果生的是男孩，我会让他<strong>继承</strong>2家公司再加上一个200万美金的帐户\" \"如果生的是<strong>双胞胎</strong>，那就每人继承1家公司还有各100万美金的帐户\" \"但如果<strong>不幸流产</strong>了............\" 此时在一旁沉默已久的父亲，突然站起来，并把手紧紧的搭在绅士的肩上后说:\"没关系，到时你可以再来一次!!\" \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\nA 16-year-old girl said to her mother that she had missed 2 menstrual cycles... as soon as her mother heard this, she rushed in extreme haste to the pharmacy to buy a pregnancy test and confirm the issue... sure enough the daughter was pregnant!  Crying and yelling, the mother asked, \"Whichever scoundrel did the happy deed, you make him come face me!!\" The daughter was forced to pick up the phone... half an hour later, a brand new Ferrari sports car quickly pulled up to the girl\'s front door, and who stepped out of the car but an elegant middle-aged gentleman wearing a completely new set of brand-name clothes. The gentleman entered the room and sat down in the living room with the daughter and her parents. \"Good afternoon!\" the gentleman politely paid his respects, and said, \"Ling Yuan [presumably daughter\'s name] just told me about this serious problem, but because of my own family situation, I\'m very sorry to say I can\'t take Ling Yuan to wife, but I will bear the responsibility I should bear. This should do: if a girl child is born, I will give her 3 storefronts, 2 houses, 1 seaside villa and a bank account with 2 million American dollars in it. If a boy is born, he will inherit 2 companies plus a bank account worth 2 million American dollars. If it\'s twins, each will inherit one company and a 1 million American dollar bank account. But if it\'s a miscarriage...\"  At that moment, the girl\'s father, who had been sitting silently off to one side, suddenly stood up, put both hands firmly on the gentleman\'s shoulders and said, \"Don\'t worry, if that happens [lit: when the time comes] you can come back again!\" \r\n\r\n[/hide-this-part][/one_half]\r\n\r\n', 'You can come back again', '', 'inherit', 'open', 'open', '', '756-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-08-30 23:07:39', '2011-08-31 03:07:39', '', 756, 'http://chinesereadingpractice.com/2011/08/30/756-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
