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Overcrowded Apartment

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ID: 2273 Upper Intermediate
As housing costs continue to climb higher and higher in Chinese cities, finding an affordable place to live can be difficult. Some people have resorted to drastic measures, living in illegal tenement-style housing where dozens of people are crammed into one apartment. In this lesson, one of these tenements gets raided by the police!
Wed Sep 11 2013 | John, Dilu
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
公民 gōngmín citizen
房东 fángdōng landlord
隔 gé to separate, partition
单单 dāndān alone, soley
谁啊？大半夜的，敲什么门啊？吵死了。
shéi a ？dàbànyè de ，qiāo shénme mén a ？chǎo sǐ le 。
Who is it? It's the middle of the night. Why are they banging on the door? It's so annoying.
开门，开门，警察！
kāimén ，kāimén ，jǐngchá ！
Open the door! Open the door. Police!
警察？哎哟，出什么事了？我们可都是遵纪守法的好公民，不偷不抢也不赌。
jǐngchá ？āiyōu ，chū shénme shì le ？wǒmen kě dōu shì zūnjìshǒufǎ de hǎo gōngmín ，bù tōu bù qiǎng yě bù dǔ 。
The police? Jeez, what is it? We're all good law abiding citizens who don't steal, rob or gamble.
有人投诉你们这里群租。你是房主吗？
yǒurén tóusù nǐmen zhèlǐ qúnzū 。nǐ shì fángzhǔ ma ？
Someone has complained that there are too many of you living here. Are you the owner?
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