哥哥今天很累，我问他为什么，他说昨天晚上睡得太晚了。
我觉得很奇怪，因为他昨天晚上9点就说要睡觉了。
他说在睡觉前想起来有一件事要做，可是忘记了是什么事情，想了很长时间，最后终于想起来了，这件事就是要早点儿上床睡觉。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 哥哥 | gē ge | older brother |
| 今天 | jīn tiān | today |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 累 | lèi | tired / weary |
| 我 | wǒ | I; me; my |
| 问 | wèn | to ask; to inquire |
| 他 | tā | he; him; his |
| 为什么 | wèi shén me | why? / for what reason? |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 昨天 | zuó tiān | yesterday |
| 晚上 | wǎn shang | evening / night |
| 睡 | shuì | to sleep / to lie down |
| 得 | de | structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc |
| 太 | tài | too (much) / very / extremely |
| 晚 | wǎn | late |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 觉得 | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ... |
| 奇怪 | qí guài | strange / odd |
| 因为 | yīn wèi | because; owing to; on account of |
| 点 | diǎn | point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock |
| 就 | jiù | merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly |
| 要 | yào | will; shall; about to / need to; should / if |
| 睡觉 | shuì jiào | to go to bed / to sleep |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 前 | qián | ago / before / BC / former / formerly |
| 想 | xiǎng | to think (about) / to think of; to devise / to think (that); to believe (that) |
| 起来 | qǐ lái | indicating the beginning and continuation of an action or a state / indicating an upward movement / indicating completion / expressing preliminary judgment |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 件 | jiàn | classifier for events, things, clothes etc |
| 事 | shì | matter / thing / item / affair |
| 做 | zuò | to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc) |
| 可是 | kě shì | but; however |
| 忘记 | wàng jì | to forget |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 什么 | shén me | what? |
| 事情 | shì qing | affair; matter; thing; business |
| 长 | cháng | long |
| 时间 | shí jiān | time |
| 最后 | zuì hòu | finally; in the end |
| 终于 | zhōng yú | at last / in the end / finally / eventually |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 早 | zǎo | early |
| 点儿 | diǎn r | erhua |
| 上 | shàng | to climb; to get onto; to go up |
| 床 | chuáng | bed; couch (furniture that one can lie down on) / bed; bottom (of rivers, oceans, gardens etc) / frame; chassis |