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Eeps - bad medicine! In this story, the mischievous Monkey - always a trickster figure in Chinese stories - pulls the wool over Little Bear's eyes. If Little Bear was American, he'd sue the hospital for negligence and rake in millions of baskets of peaches. <!--more-->

<img src="http://chinesereadingpractice.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/20130617-INLINE.jpg" alt="Read Chinese: Bedtime Stories in Mandarin Chinese Characters" width="100" height="100" class="imgborder alignleft" />Though the majority of this text is very basic reading, there are three phrases which jump out at me as being difficult, or words I couldn't find in basic dictionaries. 

理所应当 - [pinyin]li3 suo3 ying1 dang1[/pinyin] This phrase means to feel something is well-deserved, that something has been earned through hard work, usually when it actually hasn't. So I guess that roughly translates to 'taking a reward for granted'? In this story, Monkey feels that his payment is well-earned or well-deserved. But as readers, we know Monkey doesn't deserve anything at all - he's taking that payment for granted when he didn't really earn it. Consider this phrase in another context:

别人帮助你那是义气，你不能当作是理所应当的。 - "When other people help you it's in the spirit of self-sacrifice, you shouldn't consider this something you deserve as a matter of course."  

甜头 - Though this looks like two words, the first meaning "sweet" and the second meaning "head" or "brain", it's actually a colloquialism that just means "sweet flavor" or "pleasant taste".  

贪念 - These two characters also seem separate, they don't appear together in my dictionary, but they're actually one word. According to <a href="http://baike.baidu.com/view/3187101.htm">Baidu Bai Ke</a>, the Baidu dictionary (a Chinese-language resource for word meanings and derivations), 贪念 [pinyin]tan1 nian4[/pinyin] just means "greedy" (I presume the "念" probably adds the meaning "idea" or "thoughts" here, so 贪念 could be read as "greedy thoughts"). 

<a href="http://www.tom61.com/ertongwenxue/yuyangushi/2012-10-06/26930.html">You can read the original here.</a> 

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玩耍 - [pinyin]wan2 shua3[/pinyin] - Enjoy oneself, mess around
白大褂子 - [pinyin]bai2 da4 gua4 zi5[/pinyin] - White lab coat [lit: Large white unlined upper garment]
看病 - [pinyin]kan4 bing4[/pinyin] - See a doctor
酬金 - [pinyin]chou2 jin1[/pinyin] - monetary remuneration, payment
贪念 - [pinyin]tan1 nian4[/pinyin] - Greedy
装模作样 - [pinyin]zhuang1 mo2 zuo4 yang4[/pinyin] - To put on an act
不得而知 - [pinyin]bu4 de2 er2 zhi1[/pinyin] - Can't be known, unknowable
潜入 - [pinyin]qian2 ru4[/pinyin] - To sneak into
干脆 - [pinyin]gan1 cui4[/pinyin] - Simply, straightbforward
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猴子去医院<strong>玩耍</strong>,进了大夫的房间。正好大夫不在,衣服也落在了房间内。

猴子觉得好玩,就穿上了大夫的衣服,也就是我们常见的那种<strong>白大褂子</strong>。这时候有一只小熊来医院<strong>看病</strong>。小熊是第一次上医院,并不了解医院的情况。它所知道的,就是大夫们都穿着白大褂子。

小熊提着一篮桃子(这是它准备送给大夫的<strong>酬金</strong>)来到医院,正好走进猴子所在的房间。小熊不认识猴子,但是它认识那件白大褂子,于是就请猴子给它看病。

猴子本来只是玩耍,并不会看病,但是它看到小熊的篮子后,就起了<strong>贪念</strong>。于是猴子便<strong>装模作样</strong>地给小熊看了病,并且<strong>理所应当地</strong>收下了那篮桃子。至于小熊的病是否给猴子看好了,这一点<strong>不得而知</strong>。

但是猴子却尝到了甜头,以后常常<strong>潜入</strong>医院,趁大夫不在的时候,穿上大夫的衣服,给病人看病。到后来,猴子<strong>干脆</strong>给自己也做了一身那样的白大褂子。

唉!我们不知道有多少人是在猴子那里看的病啊!

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Monkey went to the hospital on a lark, and entered the doctor's room. At that moment, the doctor wasn't in, and he'd left his [doctor's] clothes in the room.

Monkey thought this would be fun, so he put on the doctor's clothes, that white lab coat we see so often. Just then a little bear came to the hospital to see the doctor. This was the little bear's first time at the hospital, and he didn't know what hospitals were like [lit: didn't know the hospital situation]. All he knew was that doctors wear white lab coats. 

The little bear had shown up at the hospital carrying a basket of peaches (this was the payment he had prepared to give to the doctor), and he happened to walk into the room where Monkey was. Little Bear didn't know Monkey, but he recognized the white lab coat, so he asked Monkey to examine him.

Monkey originally just [intended to] have a bit of fun, but when he saw Little Bear's basket, he coveted it fiercely. So Monkey put on a big show of examining Little Bear, and accepted his well-earned basket of peaches. As to whether or not Monkey actually cured Little Bear, we will never know. 

However, after Monkey tasted that sweetness, he often stole into the hospital, taking advantage of the doctor's absence, and examined patients. Later, Monkey simply made himself one of those kind of white lab coats. 

Ai! We don't know how many people were examined by Monkey!
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