27号凌晨1点左右，起床上厕所的大爷突然发现自己家中进来一个陌生人，赶紧叫自己的儿子报警说有陌生人把自己家的门打开了。
警察很快到了现场。
这个陌生人解释说他走错了，他是住在隔壁单元的，谁知道他们两家的大门密码锁是一样的，门就被他打开了。
大爷和家人表示不相信，这怎么可能呢？
然后在警察的见证下，让这个陌生人把他自己家的门打开，结果他家的门真的开了，并且这两家的大门密码确实完全一样。
警察又查证了他的身份，发现他说的也都是真的。
大家都觉得太巧了。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 号 | hào | (bound form) bugle; trumpet / (bound form) signal; bugle call / (bound form) mark; sign / (bound form) name; appellation / (after a numeral) number designation / day of the month / (bound form) size; type; category |
| 凌晨 | líng chén | very early in the morning / in the wee hours |
| 点 | diǎn | point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock |
| 左右 | zuǒ yòu | approximately |
| 起床 | qǐ chuáng | to get out of bed; to get up |
| 上 | shàng | to climb; to get onto; to go up |
| 厕所 | cè suǒ | toilet; lavatory |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 大爷 | dà ye | (coll.) father's older brother / uncle / term of respect for older man |
| 突然 | tū rán | sudden; abrupt; unexpected |
| 发现 | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of / to discover; to find; to detect |
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 家 | jiā | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) |
| 中 | zhōng | within; among; in |
| 进 | jìn | to go in / to enter / to put in / to submit / to take in / to admit |
| 来 | lái | hither (directional complement for motion toward the speaker) |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 陌生人 | mò shēng rén | stranger |
| 赶紧 | gǎn jǐn | hurriedly / without delay |
| 叫 | jiào | to order / to ask |
| 儿子 | ér zi | son |
| 报警 | bào jǐng | to sound an alarm / to report sth to the police |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 把 | bǎ | (used to put the object before the verb: 把[ba3] + {noun} + {verb}) |
| 门 | mén | gate / door / gateway / doorway / opening / valve / switch / way to do something / knack / family / house / (religious) sect / school (of thought) / class / category / phylum or division (taxonomy) / (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate) |
| 打开 | dǎ kāi | to open / to show (a ticket) |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 警察 | jǐng chá | police; police officer |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 快 | kuài | rapid / quick |
| 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) |
| 现场 | xiàn chǎng | the scene (of a crime, accident etc) |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 解释 | jiě shì | to explain / to interpret / to resolve |
| 他 | tā | he; him; his |
| 走 | zǒu | to walk / to go / to run / to move (of vehicle) / to visit / to leave / to go away / to die (euph.) / to change (shape, form, meaning) |
| 错 | cuò | mistake |
| 是 | shì | indeed (used for emphasis) |
| 住 | zhù | to live; to reside; to stay |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 隔壁 | gé bì | next door |
| 单元 | dān yuán | unit (forming an entity) / element / (in a residential building) entrance or staircase |
| 谁 | shéi | who |
| 知道 | zhī dào | to know; to become aware of |
| 他们 | tā men | they; them |
| 两 | liǎng | two / both / some / a few |
| 大门 | dà mén | entrance / door / gate / large and influential family |
| 密码 | mì mǎ | cipher; secret code / password; PIN |
| 锁 | suǒ | a lock |
| 一样 | yī yàng | same / like / equal to / the same as |
| 就 | jiù | merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly |
| 被 | bèi | used to indicate passive voice (placed before the doer of the action like "by" in English passive-voice sentences, or, if the doer is not mentioned, before the verb) / (sarcastic or jocular) used to indicate that the following word should be regarded as being in air quotes |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 家人 | jiā rén | family member |
| 表示 | biǎo shì | (of sb) to express; to state; to show / (of sth) to indicate; to signify; to show |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 相信 | xiāng xìn | to believe; to be convinced; to accept as true |
| 怎么 | zěn me | how? / what? / why? |
| 可能 | kě néng | possible / probable |
| 呢 | ne | (discourse particle) used to mark a slight pause or emphasis in speech |
| 然后 | rán hòu | then; after that; afterwards |
| 见证 | jiàn zhèng | witness / evidence |
| 下 | xià | down / downwards / below |
| 让 | ràng | to permit / to let sb do sth / to have sb do sth / to make sb (feel sad etc) |
| 结果 | jié guǒ | in the end; as a result |
| 真的 | zhēn de | really; truly; indeed |
| 开 | kāi | to open (transitive or intransitive) |
| 并且 | bìng qiě | and; besides; moreover; furthermore; in addition |
| 确实 | què shí | indeed / really |
| 完全 | wán quán | totally; entirely |
| 又 | yòu | (once) again |
| 查证 | chá zhèng | to check / to verify |
| 身份 | shēn fèn | identity; role; capacity; status (social, legal etc); position; rank |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone |
| 觉得 | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ... |
| 太 | tài | too (much) / very / extremely |
| 巧 | qiǎo | opportunely / coincidentally / as it happens |