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A short first-person essay a<\/em>bout a kid lighting firecrackers with his parents. I went back and forth on whether to classify this as “beginner” or “intermediate”. It’s easier than most of my intermediate stuff, but it’s got a tighter density of higher-level words than my beginner stuff. But it’s o<\/em>nly a few sentences long. I finally settled on “Intermediate”, but if you’re beginner level and you’re willing to walk through it word-by-word and puzzle it out, you may be able to get it.
Chinese Beginner Intermediate Vocaublary Essay – Setting Off FireworksThis isn’t really an essay, per se. The Chinese have a different word for this type of “what I did that day” article: they call it \u8bb0\u4e8b (a record of events, like a diary) or \u53d9\u4e8b (a narrative). The weirdest part a<\/em>bout this, I think, is the part wher the kid says he smokes a cigarette his dad gave him. How old is this child? The rest of the piece makes it sound like he’s a<\/em>bout 7-10? Anyway… The Chinese title of this little story is \u653e\u82b1\u70ae.
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\u653e – fàng – To release, to put, to place, to set off (in this case, to “set off” fireworks)
\u82b1\u70ae – hu\u0101 pào – Firecracker, fireworks
\u6253\u706b\u673a – d\u01ce hu\u01d2 j\u012b – Cigarette lighter
\u9999\u70df – xi\u0101ng y\u0101n – Cigarette
\u5438 – x\u012b – To smoke something
\u55b7\u51fa – p\u0113n ch\u016b – To spray out, to spurt out
\u4e94\u989c\u516d\u8272 – w\u01d4 yán liù sè – Multicolored
\u706b\u82d7 – hu\u01d2 miáo – Flames
\u51b2\u5929\u70ae – ch\u014dng ti\u0101n b\u0101o – Rocket type of firework that shoots into the air
\u5371\u9669 – w\u0113i xi\u01cen – Dangerous
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This evening, my mother father and I set off fireworks together. Father used a lighter to light a cigarette, I took the cigarette and after a few puffs we began lighting the fireworks. I light one, and the firework sprayed multicolor flames, so beautiful! Rockets are too dangerous, I don’t dare light them, so father helped me do it, and I stood beside and watched. Soon after, the fireworks were all gone, and we happily returned home.
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