办公室里大家都在讨论自己的孩子，一个新同事说：我有一个很完美的儿子，不抽烟，不喝酒，不会很晚回家，每天很早就睡觉了。
大家都很惊讶：真是太完美了，他多少岁了？
新同事说：是的，他这个星期就1岁了！
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 办公室 | bàn gōng shì | office; business premises |
| 里 | lǐ | lining / interior / inside |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely |
| 在 | zài | (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress) |
| 讨论 | tǎo lùn | to discuss; to talk over |
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 孩子 | hái zi | child |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 新 | xīn | new; newly |
| 同事 | tóng shì | colleague; co-worker |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 我 | wǒ | I; me; my |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 完美 | wán měi | perfect |
| 儿子 | ér zi | son |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 抽烟 | chōu yān | to smoke (tobacco) |
| 喝 | hē | to drink |
| 酒 | jiǔ | wine (esp. rice wine) / liquor / spirits / alcoholic beverage |
| 不会 | bù huì | will not |
| 晚 | wǎn | late |
| 回 | huí | to go back / to turn around / to answer / to return |
| 家 | jiā | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) |
| 每 | měi | each / every |
| 天 | tiān | day |
| 早 | zǎo | early |
| 就 | jiù | merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly |
| 睡觉 | shuì jiào | to go to bed / to sleep |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 惊讶 | jīng yà | amazed / astonished |
| 真 | zhēn | really / truly / indeed |
| 是 | shì | indeed (used for emphasis) |
| 太 | tài | too (much) / very / extremely |
| 他 | tā | he; him; his |
| 多少 | duō shao | how much?; how many? / what number? |
| 岁 | suì | classifier for years (of age) |
| 是的 | shì de | yes, that's right |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 星期 | xīng qī | week |