农夫有三只小白羊和一只小黑羊。
三只小白羊常常嘲笑小黑羊又黑又脏，农夫也不喜欢它。
小黑羊觉得自己不如小白羊，所以经常一个人伤心流泪。
初春的一天，小白羊与小黑羊一起外出吃草，它们走得很远。
可是没想到，突然下起了大雪。
雪太厚了，小羊们没有办法行走，所以只能留在那里，等待农夫来救它们。
农夫发现四只小羊不见了，便立刻上山找，但四处一片雪白，根本找不到小羊。
就在这时，农夫突然发现有一个小黑点，他马上跑过去一看，果然是他的四只小羊。
农夫抱起小黑羊，感慨地说："多亏小黑羊呀，不然，小羊们都要冻死在雪地里了！
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| Chinese | Pinyin | English |
|---|---|---|
| 农夫 | nóng fū | peasant / farmer |
| 有 | yǒu | to have; there is |
| 三 | sān | three / 3 |
| 只 | zhī | classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc |
| 小 | xiǎo | young |
| 白 | bái | white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / reactionary / anti-communist |
| 羊 | yáng | sheep; goat |
| 和 | hé | and; together with |
| 一 | yī | one / single / a (article) |
| 黑 | hēi | black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal |
| 常常 | cháng cháng | frequently; often |
| 嘲笑 | cháo xiào | to jeer at / to deride / to ridicule |
| 又 | yòu | both... and... |
| 脏 | zāng | dirty / filthy |
| 也 | yě | also; too; as well; (not ...) either |
| 不 | bù | no; not so |
| 喜欢 | xǐ huan | to like; to be fond of |
| 它 | tā | it |
| 觉得 | jué de | to think that ...; to feel that ... |
| 自己 | zì jǐ | oneself; (attributive) one's own |
| 不如 | bù rú | not equal to; not as good as; inferior to / it would be better to |
| 所以 | suǒ yǐ | therefore / as a result / so |
| 经常 | jīng cháng | frequently; constantly; regularly; often |
| 个 | gè | classifier for people or objects in general |
| 人 | rén | person; people |
| 伤心 | shāng xīn | to grieve / to be broken-hearted / to feel deeply hurt |
| 流泪 | liú lèi | to shed tears |
| 初 | chū | (bound form) first; early |
| 春 | chūn | spring (season) / love / lust / life |
| 的 | de | possessive particle (of; 's) / modifying particle (used after an attribute to modify a noun or to form a nominal expression) |
| 一天 | yī tiān | one day; a day |
| 与 | yǔ | (formal) and; together with (linking parallel nouns, verbs, or phrases) |
| 一起 | yī qǐ | together; in company (with) |
| 外出 | wài chū | to go out / to go away (on a trip etc) |
| 吃 | chī | to eat; to consume / to eat at |
| 草 | cǎo | grass / straw / manuscript / draft (of a document) |
| 它们 | tā men | they; them |
| 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) |
| 得 | de | structural particle: used after a verb (or adjective as main verb), linking it to following phrase indicating effect, degree, possibility etc |
| 很 | hěn | very; quite |
| 远 | yuǎn | far / distant / remote |
| 可是 | kě shì | but; however |
| 没想到 | méi xiǎng dào | didn't expect |
| 突然 | tū rán | sudden; abrupt; unexpected |
| 下 | xià | to decline / to go down |
| 起 | qǐ | verb suffix, to start / starting from (a time, place, price etc) |
| 了 | le | (completed action marker) / (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now) |
| 大 | dà | big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest |
| 雪 | xuě | snow |
| 太 | tài | too (much) / very / extremely |
| 厚 | hòu | thick / deep or profound / kind / generous / rich or strong in flavor |
| 们 | men | plural marker for pronouns, and nouns referring to individuals |
| 没有 | méi yǒu | to not have |
| 办法 | bàn fǎ | way of handling sth; means; measure; (practical) solution to a problem |
| 行走 | xíng zǒu | to walk |
| 只能 | zhǐ néng | can only |
| 留 | liú | to stay / to remain |
| 在 | zài | (of sb or sth) to be (located) at |
| 那里 | nà lǐ | there; that place |
| 等待 | děng dài | to wait; to wait for |
| 来 | lái | (between two verbs) in order to |
| 救 | jiù | to save / to assist / to rescue |
| 发现 | fā xiàn | to notice; to become aware of / to discover; to find; to detect |
| 四 | sì | four / 4 |
| 不见 | bù jiàn | not to see / not to meet / to have disappeared / to be missing |
| 便 | biàn | equivalent to 就[jiu4]: then / in that case |
| 立刻 | lì kè | immediately; at once; right away |
| 上 | shàng | to climb; to get onto; to go up |
| 山 | shān | mountain; hill / (coll.) small bundle of straw for silkworms to spin cocoons on |
| 找 | zhǎo | to try to find / to look for / to call on sb / to find / to seek |
| 但 | dàn | but; yet; however; still |
| 四处 | sì chù | all over the place / everywhere and all directions |
| 片 | piàn | classifier for slices, tablets, tract of land, area of water / classifier for CDs, movies, DVDs etc / used with numeral 一: classifier for scenario, scene, feeling, atmosphere, sound etc |
| 雪白 | xuě bái | snow white |
| 根本 | gēn běn | simply / absolutely (not) / (not) at all |
| 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) |
| 就 | jiù | merely; nothing else but; simply; just; precisely; exactly |
| 这 | zhè | this; these |
| 时 | shí | o'clock / time / hour / season / period |
| 点 | diǎn | point; dot; spot; speck / dot stroke in Chinese characters / (math.) decimal point / point in time or space / (after a number) o'clock |
| 他 | tā | he; him; his |
| 马上 | mǎ shàng | at once / right away / immediately |
| 跑 | pǎo | to run / to run away / to escape / to run around (on errands etc) / (of a gas or liquid) to leak or evaporate |
| 过去 | guò qù | to go over; to pass by |
| 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 |
| 果然 | guǒ rán | really / sure enough / as expected / if indeed |
| 是 | shì | to be (followed by substantives only) |
| 抱 | bào | to hold / to carry (in one's arms) / to hug / to embrace / to surround / to cherish / (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely |
| 感慨 | gǎn kǎi | rueful / deeply moved |
| 地 | de | -ly / structural particle: used before a verb or adjective, linking it to preceding modifying adverbial adjunct |
| 说 | shuō | to speak; to talk; to say |
| 多亏 | duō kuī | thanks to / luckily |
| 呀 | ya | (particle equivalent to 啊 after a vowel, expressing surprise or doubt) |
| 不然 | bù rán | or else / otherwise / if not / How about ...? |
| 都 | dōu | all; both; entirely |
| 要 | yào | will; shall; about to / need to; should / if |
| 冻 | dòng | to freeze / to feel very cold |
| 死 | sǐ | to die |
| 里 | lǐ | lining / interior / inside |