最近，杭州警方抓到了三个来自福建的小偷。
他们在地图上随便选择了一个地方准备偷东西，就花了1000多元钱打车来到杭州。
结果偷了东西之后不到7个小时，就被警察抓到了。
小偷说：你们这里的东西太难偷了，我们晚上才到这里，准备晚上偷了东西，早上就走，可是到处是报警器、警察，店里也偷不到东西，逃也逃不掉。
小偷们最后偷到的东西比他们来时的路费还少7块钱。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 最近 | zuì jìn | recently |
| 杭州 | Háng zhōu | Hangzhou, a city in Zhejiang Province, China. |
| 警方 | jǐng fāng | police |
| 抓 | zhuā | to grab / to catch / to arrest / to snatch / to scratch |
| 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) |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 三 | sān | three / 3 |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 来自 | lái zì | to come from (a place) |
| 福建 | Fú jiàn | Fujian, a province in southeastern China. |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 小偷 | xiǎo tōu | thief |
| 他们 | tā men | they; them |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 地图 | dì tú | map |
| 上 | shàng | (noun suffix) on; above |
| 随便 | suí biàn | as one wishes / as one pleases / at random |
| 选择 | xuǎn zé | to select; to pick |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 地方 | dì fang | place; location; area; space; territory / aspect; part |
| 准备 | zhǔn bèi | to prepare / to intend / to be about to |
| 偷 | tōu | to steal / to pilfer / to snatch |
| 东西 | dōng xi | thing / stuff / person |
| 就 | jiù | merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly |
| 花 | huā | to spend (money, time) |
| 多 | duō | (after a numeral) ... odd |
| 元 | yuán | currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / era (of a reign) / (geology) eon |
| 钱 | qián | coin / money / unit of weight, one tenth of a tael |
| 打车 | dǎ chē | to take a taxi (in town) / to hitch a lift |
| 来 | lái | to come |
| 结果 | jié guǒ | in the end; as a result |
| 之后 | zhī hòu | after; behind / (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 小时 | xiǎo shí | hour |
| 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 |
| 警察 | jǐng chá | police; police officer |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 你们 | nǐ men | you (plural) |
| 这里 | zhè lǐ | here |
| 太 | tài | too (much) / very / extremely |
| 难 | nán | difficult (to...) / difficult |
| 我们 | wǒ men | we; us; ourselves; our |
| 晚上 | wǎn shang | evening / night |
| 才 | cái | then and only then |
| 早上 | zǎo shang | early morning |
| 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) |
| 可是 | kě shì | but; however |
| 到处 | dào chù | everywhere |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 报警器 | bào jǐng qì | alarm / warning device |
| 店 | diàn | (bound form) shop; store |
| 里 | lǐ | lining / interior / inside |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 逃 | táo | to escape / to run away / to flee |
| 掉 | diào | (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc) |
| 们 | men | plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals |
| 最后 | zuì hòu | finally; in the end |
| 比 | bǐ | (followed by a noun and adjective) more {adj.} than {noun} / (in some compounds derived from Classical Chinese) |
| 时 | shí | when |
| 路费 | lù fèi | travel expenses / money for a voyage / toll |
| 还 | hái | even more, still more |
| 少 | shǎo | few / less |
| 块 | kuài | classifier for pieces of cloth, cake, soap etc / (coll.) classifier for money and currency units |