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All mothers face difficulties. "A thousand Hamlets in the hearts of a thousand readers" (This quotation speaks to the subjectivity of art acceptance and interpretation.)

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我们中国人是“家事国事天下事，事事关心”。你觉得他们是打探你的隐私，但他们的初衷都是好的。我之前临时得出差，找不到保姆，我那些邻居、二阿姨，还有我弟媳，都抢着要帮我带孩子呢！

wǒmen Zhōngguórén shì “jiāshì guóshì tiānxiàshì ，shì shì guānxīn ”。nǐ juéde tāmen shì dǎtàn nǐ de yǐnsī ，dàn tāmen de chūzhōng dōu shì hǎo de 。wǒ zhīqián línshí děi chūchāi ，zhǎobudào bǎomǔ ，wǒ nàxiē línjū 、èr āyí ，háiyǒu wǒ dìxí ，dōu qiǎng zhe yào bāng wǒ dài háizi ne ！

We Chinese people have concern about everything from the household, to the country to the world at large. You think they're trying to invade your privacy, but they're setting out from a good place. Before when we had to go away on a business trip at short notice and couldn't find a childminder, our neighbours, my auntie and my little brother's wife were all fighting it out to mind our kids!

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好，那么首先我们先要来认识这样一个概念，那就是词汇是语言的信息库，根据乔姆斯基的词库理论，词库就是大脑内的一部字典、一个储存库。

hǎo ，nàme shǒuxiān wǒmen xiān yàolái rènshi zhèyàng yī gè gàiniàn ，nà jiùshì cíhuì shì yǔyán de xìnxīkù ，gēnjù Qiáomǔsījī de cíkù lǐlùn ，cíkù jiùshì dànǎo nèi de yī bù zìdiǎn 、yī gè chǔcúnkù 。

OK. So first of all we have to understand a concept. The concept that vocabulary is the repository of a language. According to Noam Chomsky's theory lexicon, the lexicon is the brain's internal dictionary, a repository.

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孺子可教也！是的，“词”本身，在我们的大脑里，只是信息模块的载体，每个词背后所提供的信息量是相当大的，而“词汇是语言的一切”这一说法，就是咱们语言学的泰山北斗乔姆斯基在八十年代提出的。

rúzǐkějiāo yě ！shì de ，“cí ”běnshēn ，zài wǒmen de dànǎo lǐ ，zhǐshì xìnxī mókuài de zàitǐ ，měige cí bèihòu suǒ tígōng de xìnxīliàng shì xiāngdāng dà de ，ér “cíhuì shì yǔyán de yīqiè ”zhè yī shuōfa ，jiùshì zánmen yǔyánxué de tàishānběidǒu Qiáomǔsījī zài bāshí niándài tíchū de 。

You're a quick learner! Yes, words themselves, in our brains, are simply carriers of modules of data. The amount of data behind each word is quite substantial, and the saying "vocabulary is everything in language", was proposed by the giant of the linguistics field, Noam Chomsky, back in the 1980s.

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美国总统唐纳德·特朗普18日和苹果公司首席执行官蒂姆·库克会晤。

Měiguó zǒngtǒng Tángnàdé ·Tèlǎngpǔ rì hé PíngguǒGōngsī shǒuxízhíxíngguān dìmǔ ·Kùkè huìwù 。

Second: US President Donald Trump met with Apple CEO Tim Cook on the 18th.

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我也喜欢兰姆可乐。

wǒ yě xǐhuan lánmǔ kělè 。

I also like rum coke.

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我也要一杯兰姆可乐。

wǒ yě yào yī bēi lánmǔ kělè 。

I would also like a rum coke.

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嗨！你好，我姓詹，叫季威，詹姆士的詹，季节的季，威猛的威。

hāi ！nǐhǎo ，wǒ xìng Zhān ，jiào jìwēi ，Zhānmǔshì de Zhān ，jìjié de jì ，wēiměng de wēi 。

Hi! Hello. My surname is Zhan, I'm called Ji Wei. Zhan from James, Ji from seasons and Wei from powerful and bold.

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我也不想，但是他不但自理能力越来越差，而且脾气也越来越暴躁，请了三任保姆，没有一个能坚持两个月的。

wǒ yě bù xiǎng ，dànshì tā bùdàn zìlǐnénglì yuèláiyuè chà ，érqiě píqì yě yuèláiyuè bàozào ，qǐng le sān rèn bǎomǔ ，méiyǒu yī gè néng jiānchí liǎng ge yuè de 。

I didn’t want to, but it’s not just that he’s less and less able to look after himself, his temper has gotten out of control too, we hired three caregivers, and none of them lasted more than two months on the job.

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大家都到齐啦！我来介绍一下，这位是我同事汤姆。他中文超厉害的，已经通过HSK六级了！而且已经有好几年的翻译经验了。

dàjiā dōu dàoqí la ！wǒ lái jièshào yīxià ，zhè wèi shì wǒ tóngshì tāngmǔ 。tā Zhōngwén chāo lìhai de ，yǐjīng tōngguò HSK liùjí le ！érqiě yǐjīng yǒu hǎo jǐ nián de fānyì jīngyàn le 。

Everyone's present! Let me introduce my colleague Tom. His Chinese is super awesome. He has already passed HSK level 6! And he already has quite a few years experience translating.

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