有个人多年来一直觉得邻居很懒惰，“那个女人的衣服永远洗不干净，看，她晾在外面的衣服，总是有脏东西，我真的不知道，她为什么不洗干净一点儿。
”有一天，有个朋友到她家，才发现不是邻居的衣服没洗干净，而是她家的窗户很脏。
朋友擦掉窗户上的脏东西后，对她说：“看，这不就干净了吗？
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 多 | duō | many; much; more; a lot of |
| 年 | nián | year |
| 来 | lái | ever since / for the past (amount of time) |
| 一直 | yī zhí | straight (in a straight line) / continuously; always; all the way through |
| 觉得 | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ... |
| 邻居 | lín jū | neighbor |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 懒惰 | lǎn duò | idle / lazy |
| 那 | nà | (specifier) that; the; those / (pronoun) that (referring to persons, things or situations) |
| 女人 | nǚ rén | woman |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 衣服 | yī fu | clothes |
| 永远 | yǒng yuǎn | forever |
| 洗 | xǐ | to wash; to bathe / to develop (photographs) / to shuffle (cards etc) / to erase (a recording) |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 干净 | gān jìng | clean / neat |
| 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 |
| 她 | tā | she |
| 晾 | liàng | to dry in the air / (fig.) to cold-shoulder |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 外面 | wài miàn | outside |
| 总是 | zǒng shì | always |
| 脏 | zāng | dirty / filthy |
| 东西 | dōng xi | thing / stuff / person |
| 我 | wǒ | I; me; my |
| 真 | zhēn | really / truly / indeed |
| 知道 | zhī dào | to know; to become aware of |
| 为什么 | wèi shén me | why? / for what reason? |
| 一点儿 | yī diǎn r | erhua |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 天 | tiān | day |
| 朋友 | péng you | friend |
| 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) |
| 家 | jiā | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) |
| 才 | cái | just now |
| 发现 | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of / to discover; to find; to detect |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 没 | méi | (negative prefix for verbs) have not; not |
| 而 | ér | but (not) / yet (not) / (indicates contrast) |
| 窗户 | chuāng hu | window |
| 擦掉 | cā diào | to wipe |
| 上 | shàng | (noun suffix) on; above |
| 后 | hòu | afterwards / after |
| 对 | duì | towards; at; for / concerning; regarding |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 就 | jiù | merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 吗 | ma | (question particle for "yes-no" questions) |