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In this essay, a child desperately (and very angrily) pleads their father not to smoke. Though this is classified as “Intermediate”, beginners should definitely try this read, leaning heavily on the hover word-list. The difficult parts are the mid-level turns of phrase, which are all explained below.
Chinese Reading comprehension exercises: Learn to read mandarin chineseCouple of grammar points. First of all: \u6211\u672c\u60f3\u8ba9\u60a8\u522b\u62bd\u70df. Most of this sentence is quite simple, but the addition of the character \u672c can be puzzling, especially since \u672c has many meanings. In this case, the word \u672c means “originally”, as in “I originally thought to let you not smoke.” Or, in better English, “My original intention was that this would make you stop smoking.”
Another point: When the father learns that his cigarettes are gone, he \u4e1c\u7ffb\u897f\u627e. This phrase is actually a mixture of two words: \u4e1c\u897f (east and west \/ left and right \/ in all directions) and \u7ffb\u627e (to rummage through things while searching, turn things over). We’ve seen this kind of thing before in previous posts, as with the phrase “\u4ef0\u8d77\u5934\u6765” in the post Little Dog Wears Shoes. If you let the mental picture kind of wash over you, you get an image of the father turning things over looking for his cigarettes.
A word of interest: \u5927\u70df\u67aa. Literally, this word means “big opium pipe” or in more co<\/em>ntemporary times can actually mean “big bong”. Colloquially in reference to a person, this means “someone who smokes a lot”, a “heavy smoker”.
The Chinese title is: \u7238\u7238\u8bf7\u60a8\u522b\u62bd\u70df\u4e86, and the original is here.<\/p>\n

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\u7238\u7238\uff0c\u4e3a\u4e86\u60a8\u7684\u5065\u5eb7\uff0c\u4e3a\u4e86\u6211\u4eec\uff0c\u8bf7\u60a8\u522b\u62bd\u70df\u4e86!
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Papa, please don’t smoke! I still remember clearly, that day, I quietly stole your box of cigarettes, and secretly threw them in the trash can, because I was thinking that would stop you from smoking. But who knew, when you returned, and you found out your cigarettes were gone, you rummaged through everything looking for them. When I told you, that it was me who threw them away, you were quite angry, and you ruthlessly scolded me, You bad child! That sentence made me [lit: ‘the me of that time’] feel great pain. I locked myself in my room, and at that time in my heart I thought, You big opium pipe! [Then go ahead and] smoke, smoke, smoke until you die and I won’t care [lit: I won’t pay any attention to you].
Papa, please don’t smoke! I always find that when you go to work, your box of cigarettes is still full of cigarettes, but when you get off work and come back, there are o<\/em>nly a few cigarettes left in the box. Every time I see you you’re surrounded by a curling cloud [of smoke], there’s a sour smell in my nose. I worry that your lungs have already been riddled with gaping wounds by the nicotine.
Papa, please don’t smoke! You cough every day, and every day you expectorate. I worry that you will leave us. When you abandon us, then what will we do?
Papa, for your health, and for us, please don’t smoke!
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