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ID: 2160 Intermediate
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Fri Apr 05 2013 | John, Dilu
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
出差 chūchāi to go on a business trip
照顾 zhàogu to take care of
养 yǎng to raise, take care of
只是 zhǐshì only
小敏，我下周要出差，你可以帮我照顾小猫吗？
Xiǎomǐn ，wǒ xiàzhōu yào chūchāi ，nǐ kěyǐ bāng wǒ zhàogu xiǎomāo ma ？
Xiao Min, I'm going on a business trip next week. Can you help me take care of my cat?
你养猫啦？好啊。只是我没养过猫，不知道该怎么弄。
nǐ yǎng māo la ？hǎo a 。zhǐshì wǒ méi yǎng guo māo ，bù zhīdào gāi zěnme nòng 。
You have a cat? Okay. The only thing is that I've never taken care of a cat. I don't know how to do it.
养猫挺简单的。每天喂两次猫粮，给它喝干净的白开水就行了。
yǎng māo tǐng jiǎndān de 。měitiān wèi liǎng cì māoliáng ，gěi tā hē gānjìng de báikāishuǐ jiù xíng le 。
Taking care of a cat is easy. If you feed it cat food twice a day and give it clean, boiled water to drink, that's enough.
要每天洗澡吗？
yào měitiān xǐzǎo ma ？
Do I need to wash it every day?
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