Sometimes, things work out just the way they should.
昨天下雨了。
张伟在饭店吃饭。饭店门口有很多伞。
张伟吃完饭，拿了一把伞就走了。
回到家，他看了看伞。
啊，这不是他的伞！
他的伞很旧。这把伞是新的。
张伟想：我拿错了。这是别人的伞。
第二天，张伟拿着新伞，回到饭店。他想还伞。
饭店门口，站着一个人。
那个人手里，拿着一把很旧的伞。
是张伟的伞！
两个人看看伞，看看对方，都笑了。
“对不起！”
“对不起！”
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 下雨 | xià yǔ | to rain |
| 饭店 | fàn diàn | restaurant |
| 伞 | sǎn | umbrella |
| 拿错 | ná cuò | to take by mistake |
| 旧 | jiù | old (of objects) |
| 新 | xīn | new |
| 别人 | bié rén | other people, someone else |
| 还 | huán | to return (something) |
| 对方 | duì fāng | the other party, each other |
| 对不起 | duì bu qǐ | sorry, excuse me |
| 昨天 | zuó tiān | yesterday |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker); (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now); (modal particle intensifying preceding clause); (bound form) clear in one's mind; to understand clearly |
| 张 | Zhāng | surname Zhang |
| 伟 | wěi | big; large; great |
| 在 | zài | to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress) |
| 吃饭 | chī fàn | to have a meal; to eat; to make a living |
| 门口 | mén kǒu | doorway; gate; CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is; (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional) |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite; (also, often used before an adjective without intensifying its meaning, i.e. as a meaningless syntactic element) |
| 多 | duō | many; much; more; a lot of; too many; in excess; (after a numeral) ... odd; how (to what extent) (Taiwan pr. [duo2]); (bound form) multi-; poly- |
| 吃完 | chī wán | to finish eating |
| 饭 | fàn | cooked rice; CL:碗[wan3]; meal; CL:頓|顿[dun4]; (loanword) fan; devotee |
| 拿 | ná | old variant of 拿[na2]; variant of 拿[na2]; to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把[ba3]: to mark the following noun as a direct object) |
| 一 | yī | one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out … |
| 把 | bǎ | to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar; classifier: handful, bundle, bunch; classifier for things with handles; (used to put the ob… |
| 就 | jìu | (after a suppositional clause) in that case; then; (after a clause of action) as soon as; immediately after; (same as 就是[jiu4 shi4]) merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precise… |
| 走 | zǒu | to walk; to go; to run; to move (of vehicle); to visit; to leave; to go away; to die (euph.); from; through; away (in compound verbs, such as 撤走[che4 zou3]); to change (shape, form… |
| 回到 | huí dào | to return to |
| 家 | jiā | used in 傢伙|家伙[jia1 huo5] and 傢俱|家俱[jia1 ju4]; home; family; (polite) my (sister, uncle etc); classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for a specialist in some act… |
| 他 | tā | (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his; (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日[ta1 ri4] and 他人[ta1 ren2]) |
| 看 | kān | to look after; to take care of; to watch; to guard |
| 啊 | ā | interjection of surprise; Ah!; Oh! |
| 这不 | zhè bu | (coll.) As a matter of fact, ... (used to introduce evidence for what one has just asserted) |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only); correct; right; true; (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well; (adverb for emphatic assertion); variant of 是[shi4] |
| 的 | de | of; ~'s (possessive particle); (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun); (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis); (used after a noun, verb or adjective to… |
| 这 | zhè | (pronoun) this; these; (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun); (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. [zhei4], esp. in Beijing) |
| 想 | xiǎng | to think (about); to think of; to devise; to think (that); to believe (that); to desire; to want (to); to miss (feel wistful about the absence of) |
| 我 | wǒ | I; me; my |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number, as in 第六[di4 liu4] "sixth"); (literary) grades in which successful candidates in the imperial examinations were placed; (old) residence of a high… |
| 二 | èr | two; 2; (Beijing dialect) stupid |
| 天 | tiān | day; sky; heaven |
| 着 | zhāo | variant of 著|着[zhao1]; a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to add |
| 站 | zhàn | station; to stand; to halt; to stop; branch of a company or organization; website |
| 一个人 | yī gè rén | by oneself (without assistance); alone (without company) |
| 那个人 | nà gè rén | lit. that person; fig. the person you have been looking for; Mr Right; the girl of one's dreams |
| 手里 | shǒu lǐ | in hand; (a situation is) in sb's hands |
| 两 | liǎng | two; both; some; a few; tael, unit of weight equal to 50 grams (modern) or 1⁄16 of a catty 斤[jin1] (old) |
| 个人 | gè rén | an individual; oneself; (attributive) personal; one's own |
| 看看 | kàn kan | to take a look at; to examine; to survey; (coll.) pretty soon |
| 都 | Dū | surname Du |
| 笑 | xiào | old variant of 笑[xiao4]; to laugh; to smile; to laugh at |
It rained yesterday.
Zhang Wei was eating at a restaurant. There were many umbrellas at the restaurant entrance.
After Zhang Wei finished eating, he grabbed an umbrella and left.
When he got home, he took a look at the umbrella.
Oh, this isn’t his umbrella!
His umbrella is very old. This umbrella is new.
Zhang Wei thought: I took the wrong one. This is someone else’s umbrella.
The next day, Zhang Wei took the new umbrella and went back to the restaurant. He wanted to return the umbrella.
At the restaurant entrance, a person was standing.
In that person’s hand was a very old umbrella.
It was Zhang Wei’s umbrella!
The two people looked at the umbrellas, looked at each other, and both smiled.
“I’m sorry!”
“I’m sorry!”