一天晚上，吃完饭后，妈妈对七岁的女儿说：”有一个叔叔请一个男孩去砍柴，没想到男孩把他最爱的树砍掉了。
这位叔叔非常生气，但是他没有马上去骂那个男孩，你觉得是为什么?”女儿回答：”这位叔叔看到了男孩手上的斧头，所以他想等男孩放下斧头后再去骂他。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 一天 | yī tiān | one day; a day |
| 晚上 | wǎn shang | evening / night |
| 吃 | chī | to eat; to consume / to eat at |
| 完 | wán | to finish / to be over |
| 饭 | fàn | meal |
| 后 | hòu | afterwards / after |
| 妈妈 | mā ma | mama / mommy / mother |
| 对 | duì | towards; at; for / concerning; regarding |
| 七 | qī | seven / 7 |
| 岁 | suì | classifier for years (of age) |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 女儿 | nǚ ér | daughter |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 叔叔 | shū shu | father's younger brother; paternal uncle / form of address used by children for a male one generation older |
| 请 | qǐng | to ask / to request |
| 男孩 | nán hái | boy |
| 去 | qù | to go, to go to |
| 砍 | kǎn | to chop / to cut down / to throw sth at sb |
| 柴 | chái | firewood |
| 没 | méi | (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not |
| 想到 | xiǎng dào | to think of / to call to mind / to anticipate |
| 把 | bǎ | (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}) |
| 他 | tā | he; him; his |
| 最 | zuì | (before an adjective or verb) to the highest degree; (the) most ...; -est |
| 爱 | ài | to love; to be fond of; to like |
| 树 | shù | tree |
| 掉 | diào | (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc) |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 位 | wèi | classifier for people (honorific) |
| 非常 | fēi cháng | very; really |
| 生气 | shēng qì | to get angry; to be furious |
| 但是 | dàn shì | but; however |
| 没有 | méi yǒu | haven't / hasn't |
| 马上 | mǎ shàng | at once / right away / immediately |
| 骂 | mà | to scold / to abuse / to curse |
| 那 | nà | (specifier) that; the; those / (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations) |
| 你 | nǐ | you |
| 觉得 | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ... |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 为什么 | wèi shén me | why? / for what reason? |
| 回答 | huí dá | to reply; to answer / reply; answer |
| 看到 | kàn dào | to see |
| 手 | shǒu | hand |
| 上 | shàng | (noun suffix) on; above |
| 斧头 | fǔ tóu | ax / hatchet |
| 所以 | suǒ yǐ | therefore / as a result / so |
| 想 | xiǎng | to desire; to want (to) |
| 等 | děng | to wait for; to await |
| 放下 | fàng xià | to lay down; to put down / to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside / to lower (the blinds etc) |
| 再 | zài | then (after sth, and not until then) |