星期六，爸爸带着小儿子爬山，他们花了3个小时爬到了山顶。
爸爸说："看，山下的景色多好！
”儿子说："爸爸，山下的景色那么好，我们为什么要花那么多时间爬上来呢？
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 星期 | xīng qī | day of the week |
| 六 | liù | six / 6 |
| 爸爸 | bà ba | (coll.) father; dad |
| 带 | dài | to wear / to carry / to take along / to bear / to bring |
| 着 | zhe | aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state |
| 小 | xiǎo | young |
| 儿子 | ér zi | son |
| 爬 | pá | to crawl / to climb / to get up or sit up |
| 山 | shān | mountain; hill / (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on |
| 他们 | tā men | they; them |
| 花 | huā | to spend (money, time) |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 小时 | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 到 | dào | to reach; to arrive / to (a place); until (a time); up to (a point) / (verb complement indicating arriving at a place or reaching a point) |
| 顶 | dǐng | apex / crown of the head / top / roof |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 看 | kàn | to see; to look at / to read / to watch / to visit; to call on / to consider; to regard as / to look after / to treat (a patient or illness) / to depend on / to feel (that) / (after a verb) to give it a try / to watch out for |
| 下 | xià | down / downwards / below |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 景色 | jǐng sè | scenery; landscape; view |
| 多 | duō | how (to what extent) |
| 好 | hǎo | (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so |
| 那么 | nà me | like that; in that way; to that extent |
| 我们 | wǒ men | we; us; ourselves; our |
| 为什么 | wèi shén me | why? / for what reason? |
| 要 | yào | will; shall; about to / need to; should / if |
| 时间 | shí jiān | time |
| 上 | shàng | (directional complement) up |
| 来 | lái | hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker) |
| 呢 | ne | (sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?") |