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1 goose feather sent from afar, a trifling present with a weighty thought behind it (idiom); It's not the gift that counts, but the thought behind it.

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姚明虽然已经退役好几年了，但我心里也还是一直把火箭队当成母队来看，我想有很多中国球迷有着跟我们一样的火箭情怀，他开启了火箭队的整个中国市场。

Yáo Míng suīrán yǐjīng tuìyì hǎojǐ nián le ，dàn wǒ xīnli yě hái shì yīzhí bǎ Huǒjiànduì dàngchéng mǔ duì láikàn ，wǒ xiǎng yǒu hěn duō Zhōngguó qiúmí yǒuzhe gēn wǒmen yīyàng de Huǒjiàn qínghuái ，tā kāi qǐ le Huǒjiànduì de zhěnggè zhōngguóshìchǎng 。

Although Yao Ming retired several years ago, I've always seen the Rockets as my home team. I think that a lot of Chinese basketball fans have an attachment to the Rockets, as he launched the entire Chinese market for the Rockets.

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那撒向江水的一樽酒，便连接了这虚幻与真实，仿佛穿越了时空，把诗人孤单却激越的情怀投入了那冠盖云集的古三国战场上，也让他寂寥的心得到了些许慰藉。

nà sā xiàng jiāng shuǐ de yī zūn jiǔ ，biàn liánjiē le zhè xūhuàn yǔ zhēnshí ，fǎngfú chuānyuè le shíkōng ，bǎ shīrén gūdān què jīyuè de qínghuái tóurù le nà guàngàiyúnjí de gǔ guó zhànchǎng shàng ，yě ràng tā jìliáo de xīn dédào le xiē xǔ wèijiè 。

The cup of alcohol sprinkled on the river water, links the illusory with the real, as if passing through time and space, infusing the poet's lonely yet intense mood into the overcast skies of the battleground of the Three Kingdoms, giving some consolation to his lonely heart.

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瞧您说的，敢情食物就只配被敷衍呐。对待美食用心可是一种情怀，我对美食的爱就像对初恋一样，是走心的。

qiáo nín shuō de ，gǎnqíng shíwù jiù zhī pèi bèi fūyǎn na 。duìdài měishí yòngxīn kěshì yīzhǒng qínghuái ，wǒ duì měishí de ài jiù xiàng duì chūliàn yīyàng ，shì zǒuxīn de 。

You said it. Of course the food is just there for show. Treating food seriously is about the atmosphere. My love for cuisine is like first love, it is so absorbing.

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哎，中国学生一直被诟病的就是经过十几年的训练都成了考试的机器，考试成绩没有最高只有更高，却是生活上的无能者，艺术情怀上的无知者。

āi ，Zhōngguó xuésheng yīzhí bèi gòubìng de jiùshì jīngguò shíjǐ nián de xùnliàn dōu chéng le kǎoshì de jīqì ，kǎoshì chéngjì méiyǒu zuì gāo zhǐyǒu gènggāo ，què shì shēnghuó shàng de wúnéng zhě ，yìshù qínghuái shàng de wúzhī zhě 。

Agh, Chinese students are always criticized as being turned into examination machines after over a dozen years of training. There's no such thing as a top mark anymore as there is always the next height to reach, but they are completely unable to get along in life and completely bereft of artistic sensibilities.

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哎，我觉得新天地这种利用上海的老式石库门建筑来构造的娱乐场所，虽然很有特色，但却少了石库门作为一种民居而包含的人文情怀。不过那些斑驳的墙，生锈的栅栏，黑漆的木门，磨去油漆的石柱，凹凸不平的路面，还是能让人体会到一些石库门弄堂的沧桑的。

āi ，wǒ juéde Xīntiāndì zhèzhǒng lìyòng Shànghǎi de lǎoshì shíkùmén jiànzhù lái gòuzào de yúlè chǎngsuǒ ，suīrán hěnyǒu tèsè ，dàn què shǎo le shíkùmén zuòwéi yīzhǒng mínjū ér bāohán de rénwén qínghuái 。bùguò nàxiē bānbó de qiáng ，shēngxiù de zhàlan ，hēiqī de mùmén ，mó qù yóuqī de shízhù ，āotūbùpíng de lùmiàn ，háishì néng ràng rén tǐhuì dào yīxiē shíkùmén lòngtáng de cāngsāng de 。

Oh, I think that though it's very distinctive, architecture like Xin Tian Di that uses old-style shikumen to create entertainment venues loses some of the spirit of humanity that comes from having people living in a place. But those mottled walls, rusty railings, black-lacquered wooden doors, black-painted stone pillars and uneven roads still give you a sense of the big changes in the shikumen.

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