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Let's introduce the character "man3 - full". In olden times, people used to stick the character on their rice vats. While we don't have rice vats now, you can stick them on your fridge.

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炎炎盛夏，人们在一个大瓷缸中放入冰块，再将瓷缸放入房中，用以降低房间温度。这种用冰块降温的方法其实早在先秦就已经有了。

yányán shèngxià ，rénmen zài yígè dà cígāng zhōng fàngrù bīngkuài ，zài jiāng cígāng fàngrù fáng zhōng ，yòngyǐ jiàngdī fángjiān wēndù 。zhèzhǒng yòng bīngkuài jiàngwēn de fāngfǎ qíshí zǎo zài xiānQín jiù yǐjīng yǒu le 。

In the scorching hot summer, people put ice cubes in large porcelain jars, which were then placed in rooms to help cool the temperature. This method of cooling with ice was already used in the pre Qin dynasty

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哇，这么大的鱼缸，你想干嘛？

wā ，zhème dà de yúgāng ，nǐ xiǎng gànmá ？

Whoa, that's such a big fish tank! What do you want to do with it?

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不是，酒店的浴缸不知道有多少人用过，卫生吗？

bùshì ，jiǔdiàn de yùgāng bù zhīdào yǒu duōshao rén yòng guo ，wèishēng ma ？

No, who knows how many people have used hotel bathtubs. Is it clean?

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等啊等，快到中午的时候，从水缸里走出一位漂亮姑娘，她很快就做好了饭。

děng a děng ，kuài dào zhōngwǔ de shíhou ，cóng shuǐgāng lǐ zǒuchū yī wèi piàoliang gūniang ，tā hěnkuài jiù zuò hǎo le fàn 。

He waited and waited. When it was almost noon, a beautiful woman came out of the jar of water. In no time at all she'd prepared all the food.

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有一次，他看到一只大田螺，就带回家，养在水缸里。

yǒuyīcì ，tā kàndào yī zhī dà tiánluó ，jiù dài huí jiā ，yǎng zài shuǐgāng lǐ 。

Once he found a large snail. He took it home and raised it in a jar of water.

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算了算了，就按他的意思办吧，你们接着干。对了，师傅，你看我们玄关这里能不能再做个架子？下面放拖鞋，上面我想放个鱼缸。

suàn le suàn le ，jiù àn tā de yìsi bàn ba ，nǐmen jiē zhe gàn 。duìle ，shīfu ，nǐ kàn wǒmen xuánguān zhèlǐ néng bu néng zài zuò ge jiàzi ？xiàmian fàng tuōxié ，shàngmian wǒ xiǎng fàng ge yúgāng 。

Forget it, just go with his idea. You guys can keep going. That's right, sir, would it be possible to put in another shelf in the entryway? We can put slippers underneath it and I want to put an aquarium on top.

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