Reading Folktale 8:
People Who Like to Exaggerate |
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| English Translation |
| .................................................................................................................................. One day, two friends walked down the
street, and they saw a pumpkin on the street corner. One friend exaggerated to the
other friend, "Last week, I saw a pumpkin as big as that house over there."
His friend, not wanting to be outdone,
said, "Oh, that is nothing. This is a very small pumpkin. I once saw
another one that was even bigger than that house over there that you just pointed out. And
I even saw a pot put beside the pumpkin for boiling it too." |
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Vocabulary:
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| dao |
adv. together |
| gdkt |
v. to hold, to attach, to cling to |
| c0o |
n. an arm |
| 7qo |
n. a person, human being |
| c7,mk' |
n. the edge of the road |
| le]a[ |
prep. for.. |
| ljP; |
n. true friend |
| -uh |
v. to point |
| -eh |
vi. adj. adv. vt. repeated, recurrent |
| pjk's^bho |
v. to go for a walk |
| fP;ouh |
adv. now |
| 8k, |
prep. along |
| 8qh, |
v. to boil |
| gmqjk |
comp. the same as... |
| gmnjvdjvooAo |
n. the last/prior time |
| ohvp3rf |
adv. too/very small |
| wx |
v. to go |
| rhv,ma' |
adv. in great numbers, fully |
| ,u |
v. to have |
| g;qhk3pd |
v. to exaggerate |
| vkmyf |
n. week, weekend |
| |kd/ad |
n. a kind of squash |
| |=hdtmt |
n. a pan |
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