{"id":7756,"date":"2019-10-01T23:18:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T23:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/jiang-ping-going-to-study\/"},"modified":"2019-10-01T23:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T23:18:08","slug":"jiang-ping-going-to-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/jiang-ping-going-to-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Jiang Ping Going to Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
This short essay, taken from the Beijing Language and Culture University beginner comprehension textbook, is written from the perspective of a friend visiting Jiang Ping \uff08\u6c5f\u82f9\uff09 before she leaves the country. The language is mostly school-centric as the writer discusses his classmates, Jiang Ping’s scholarship, and her test results.
The crux of the last paragraph hinges on the fact that the Chinese word for “Goodbye” (\u518d\u89c1) literally translates as “See you again”, as the writer wo<\/em>nders when or if he’ll ever really see Jiang Ping again.
Interesting Vocabulary
\u540c\u5b66 – tóng xué – Classmates
\u52aa\u529b – n\u01d4 lì – Great effort
\u53c2\u52a0 – c\u0101n ji\u0101 – Participate
\u5f97 – de – To get, earn
\u6ee1\u5206 – m\u01cen f\u0113n – Full marks, 100%
\u5956\u5b66\u91d1 – ji\u01ceng xué j\u012bn – Scholarship
\u7559\u5b66 – liú xué – Study abroad
\u9884\u795d – yù zhù – Wish
\u6210\u529f – chéng g\u014dng – Success<\/p>\n

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\u6c5f\u82f9\u5f88\u70ed\u60c5\u5730\u6b22\u8fce\u6211\u4eec\u3002 \u540c\u5b66\u4eec\u597d\u4e45\u4e0d\u89c1\u4e86\uff0c \u89c1\u9762\u4ee5\u540e\u9ad8\u5174\u5f97\u53c8\u8bf4\u53c8\u7b11\uff0c \u8c08\u5f97\u5f88\u6109\u5feb\u3002 \u6211\u4eec\u9884\u795d\u6c5f\u82f9\u6210\u529f\u3002 \u795d\u5979\u4e00\u8def\u5e73\u5b89\u3002 \u6211\u8bf4\uff0c \u4e00\u5b9a\u8981\u5e38\u6765\u4fe1\u554a\u3002 \u6c5f\u82f9\u8bf4\uff0c\u4e00\u5b9a\u3002 \u8ddf\u5979\u8bf4 “\u518d\u89c1” \u7684\u65f6\u5019\uff0c \u5979\u54ed\u4e86\uff0c \u6211\u4e5f\u54ed\u4e86\u3002
\u56de\u5bb6\u7684\u8def\u4e0a\uff0c \u6211\u60f3\uff0c \u6211\u4eec\u5e38\u5e38\u8bf4 “\u518d\u89c1”\uff0c \u4f46\u662f\uff0c \u6709\u65f6\u5019 “\u518d\u89c1” \u662f\u5f88\u96be\u7684\u3002 \u6211\u548c\u6c5f\u82f9\u4ec0\u4e48\u65f6\u5019\u80fd “\u518d\u89c1” \u5462\uff1f<\/p>\n

Today I’m going to Jiang Ping’s house. Jiang Ping and I are highschool classmates. She’s my good friend, and she’s also good friends with everyone in our class. She studies very hard, she’s the best student in our class. She studies, she plays, and she also often helps others. The teacher and the other students like her. She recently participated in an examination for an American college. That test is very hard, but she did very well – she earned full marks. I heard that o<\/em>nly three people in the whole world got full marks. This college gave Jiang Ping their highest scholarship. We’re all very happy for her.
Next week she’s going to study abroad in America, and all our classmates are going to see her off.
Jiang Ping’s house is on the east side of the city very far away from mine. I left my house a little after four o’clock in the afternoon, and didn’t get there until 5:30. When I arrived, the rest of our classmates were already there.
Jiang Ping warmly welcomed us. She hadn’t seen her classmates in a while, and after she greeted us, we talked and smiled, chatting happily. We wished Jiang Ping success. Wished her a pleasant trip. I said, Be sure to write often. Jiang Ping said, Of course. When she said “Goodbye”, she cried, and I also cried.
On my way home, I thought, We often say “Goodbye” [lit: see you again], but sometimes “Goodbye” is sad. When will Jiang Ping and I be able to see each other again?
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