有个病人问医生：“医生，有让人变聪明的药吗？
”医生开了一些药，叫他下个星期再来。
一星期后，他问医生：“我觉得没有变聪明啊。
”医生说：“不会的，你再吃一个星期的药吧。
”病人有些不信，但还是听了医生的话。
第二个星期后，病人又来到医院问医生：“我怎么还没觉得比以前聪明啊。
医生，是不是没有聪明药呢？
”医生回答：“不对，我觉得你现在比以前聪明多了。
”
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 病人 | bìng rén | sick person / patient / invalid |
| 问 | wèn | to ask; to inquire |
| 医生 | yī shēng | doctor |
| 让 | ràng | to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 变 | biàn | to change / to become different / to transform / to vary |
| 聪明 | cōng míng | intelligent; clever; bright / acute (of sight and hearing) |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 药 | yào | medicine / drug / substance used for a specific purpose |
| 吗 | ma | (question particle for "yes-no" questions) |
| 开 | kāi | to write out |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 一些 | yī xiē | some; a few; a little; (following an adjective) slightly ...er |
| 叫 | jiào | to order / to ask |
| 他 | tā | he; him; his |
| 下 | xià | later / next (week etc) |
| 星期 | xīng qī | week |
| 再 | zài | again; once more; re- |
| 来 | lái | to come |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 后 | hòu | afterwards / after |
| 我 | wǒ | I; me; my |
| 觉得 | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ... |
| 没有 | méi yǒu | haven't / hasn't |
| 啊 | a | modal particle ending sentence, showing affirmation, approval, or consent |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 会 | huì | to be likely to; to be sure to |
| 你 | nǐ | you |
| 吃 | chī | to eat; to consume / to eat at |
| 吧 | ba | (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise) / ...right? / ...OK? / ...I presume. |
| 有些 | yǒu xiē | somewhat; rather; a bit |
| 信 | xìn | to trust / to believe / to profess faith in |
| 但 | dàn | but; yet; however; still |
| 还 | hái | still, still in progress, yet |
| 是 | shì | indeed (used for emphasis) |
| 听 | tīng | to heed; to obey |
| 话 | huà | spoken words / speech / talk / words / conversation / what sb said |
| 第 | dì | (prefix indicating ordinal number) |
| 二 | èr | two / 2 |
| 又 | yòu | (once) again |
| 来到 | lái dào | to arrive; to come |
| 医院 | yī yuàn | hospital |
| 怎么 | zěn me | how? / what? / why? |
| 没 | méi | (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not |
| 比 | bǐ | (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / (in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese) |
| 以前 | yǐ qián | before / formerly / previous / ago |
| 呢 | ne | (sentence-final particle) used in questions to link back to prior discourse or context ("what about...?", "and...?") |
| 回答 | huí dá | to reply; to answer / reply; answer |
| 对 | duì | right; correct |
| 现在 | xiàn zài | now; at present; currently |
| 多 | duō | many; much; more; a lot of |