两个多月以前，南京一位81岁的老人，独自死在家中，最近才被邻居发现。
邻居告诉记者，这位老人自己住在这里已经7年多了。
平时没有亲人和朋友来看她，她也很少和邻居们说话。
警察联系到老人的儿子。
儿子在外地生活，现在已经赶回来了。
老人死亡的原因，目前警察正在调查。
警察也希望孩子要经常去看望独自居住生活的父母。
工作忙，也应该经常打电话，以免出现这样的事。
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 两 | liǎng | two / both / some / a few |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 多 | duō | (after a numeral) ... odd |
| 月 | yuè | month / monthly |
| 以前 | yǐ qián | before / formerly / previous / ago |
| 南京 | Nán jīng | Nanjing, capital of the Ming dynasty (1368–1421) and of the Republic of China (1927–1937 and 1946–1949) |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 位 | wèi | classifier for people (honorific) |
| 岁 | suì | classifier for years (of age) |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 老人 | lǎo rén | old man or woman / the elderly |
| 独自 | dú zì | alone |
| 死 | sǐ | to die |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 家 | jiā | home / family / (polite) my (sister, uncle etc) |
| 中 | zhōng | within; among; in |
| 最近 | zuì jìn | recently |
| 才 | cái | just now |
| 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 |
| 邻居 | lín jū | neighbor |
| 发现 | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of / to discover; to find; to detect |
| 告诉 | gào su | to tell; to inform; to let know |
| 记者 | jì zhě | reporter; journalist |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 住 | zhù | to live; to reside; to stay |
| 这里 | zhè lǐ | here |
| 已经 | yǐ jīng | already |
| 年 | nián | year |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 平时 | píng shí | ordinarily |
| 没有 | méi yǒu | to not have |
| 亲人 | qīn rén | one's close relatives |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 朋友 | péng you | friend |
| 来 | lái | to come |
| 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 |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 少 | shǎo | seldom |
| 们 | men | plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals |
| 说话 | shuō huà | to speak / to say / to talk / to gossip / to tell stories |
| 警察 | jǐng chá | police; police officer |
| 联系 | lián xì | to get in touch with / to integrate / to link / to touch |
| 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) |
| 儿子 | ér zi | son |
| 外地 | wài dì | parts of the country other than where one is |
| 生活 | shēng huó | to live |
| 现在 | xiàn zài | now; at present; currently |
| 赶 | gǎn | to overtake; to catch up with / to hurry; to rush / to try to catch (the bus etc) / to drive (cattle etc) forward; to drive (sb) away / to avail oneself of (an opportunity) |
| 回来 | huí lái | to return; to come back |
| 死亡 | sǐ wáng | death |
| 原因 | yuán yīn | cause / origin / root cause / reason |
| 目前 | mù qián | at the present time / currently |
| 正在 | zhèng zài | to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing |
| 调查 | diào chá | to investigate / to survey |
| 希望 | xī wàng | to hope |
| 孩子 | hái zi | child |
| 要 | yào | will; shall; about to / need to; should / if |
| 经常 | jīng cháng | frequently; constantly; regularly; often |
| 去 | qù | to go, to go to |
| 看望 | kàn wàng | to pay a visit to; to see (sb) |
| 居住 | jū zhù | to reside / to dwell / to live in a place |
| 父母 | fù mǔ | father and mother; parents |
| 工作 | gōng zuò | job / work / task |
| 忙 | máng | busy |
| 应该 | yīng gāi | ought to; should; must |
| 打 | dǎ | a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings |
| 电话 | diàn huà | telephone / phone call |
| 以免 | yǐ miǎn | in order to avoid / so as not to |
| 出现 | chū xiàn | to appear / to arise / to emerge / to show up |
| 这样 | zhè yàng | (before a noun) this kind of; such |
| 事 | shì | matter / thing / item / affair |