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Old School Toys

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ID: 0604 Upper Intermediate
Though transformers are the flavor of the month, some of us puritans yearn for the simpler days of 'Mother May I' and 'Red Rover.' In this podcast, take a step back in time in China and find out what the kids were up to over here while you were busy playing with your cabbage patch kids and hot wheels. Learn in Mandarin Chinese about what toys the kids from the other side of the block fancied back in the day.
Sat Aug 11 2007 | Jenny, John
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
玩具 wánjù toy
腻 nì to tire of
积木 jīmù wooden block
打弹子 dǎ dànzǐ to play marbles
现在的玩具虽然做得好，不过绝对没有我小时候的好玩。
xiànzài de wánjù suīrán zuò de hǎo ，bùguò juéduì méiyǒu wǒ xiǎoshíhou de hǎowán 。
Toys these days may be well made, but they're definitely not as fun as the ones from my childhood.
怎么可能？你那时候没什么玩具吧？
zěnme kěnéng ？nǐ nàshíhou méi shénme wánjù ba ？
How's that possible? You didn't have any toys back then, right?
这你就不懂了。我小时候的玩具虽然简单，但怎么也玩不腻。比如积木，弹子，沙袋，还有毽子。一放学，就和一大堆同学围在一起玩。哎，可惜了，现在这些都成老古董了，没人玩了。
zhè nǐ jiù bù dǒng le 。wǒ xiǎoshíhou de wánjù suīrán jiǎndān ，dàn zěnme yě wán bù nì 。bǐrú jīmù ，dànzǐ ，shādài ，háiyǒu jiànzi 。yī fàngxué ，jiù hé yīdàduī tóngxué wéi zài yīqǐ wán 。āi ，kěxī le ，xiànzài zhèxiē dōu chéng lǎogǔdǒng le ，méirén wán le 。
Ah, you don't understand. The toys from my childhood were simple, but we never got tired of them. For example, wooden blocks, marbles, bean bags, and ``foot shuttlecocks." As soon as I got out of school, I'd get together with a big group of classmates to play. Ah, what a shame... these are all so outdated now, no one plays with them.
你说的都是男孩子的玩具吧。那时候女孩子都玩些什么？
nǐ shuō de dōu shì nánháizi de wánjù ba 。nàshíhou nǚháizi dōu wán xiē shénme ？
The ones you mentioned were all toys for boys. What did the girls play with back then?
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