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Throwing Out Clothes

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ID: 3055 Upper Intermediate
Today is a typical argument between a parent and child. The child wants some fancy new sports clothes, but the mother says that they already have perfectly suitable clothing, and the mother is more concerned with the fact that they just want to get rid of the old clothes rather than recycle them.
Thu Mar 30 2017 | Constance Fang, Fiona Tian
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
套 tào measure word; set
样子 yàngzi appearance
打拳 dǎquán boxing
机能 jīnéng function
妈，我想把这几套运动衣丢了。
mā ，wǒ xiǎng bǎ zhè jǐ tào yùndòngyī diū le 。
Mum, I want to throw away these sport kits.
丢了？为什么？拿来我看看，我记得你的运动衣都好好的啊。
diū le ？wèishénme ？nálái wǒ kàn kan ，wǒ jìde nǐ de yùndòngyī dōu hǎohao de ā 。
Throw them away? Why? Bring them here and give me a look at them. I remember your sports clothes all being quite good.
我都放在门口了，这几套都穿很久了，样子不好看了，而且我差不多每天都去跑步、打拳、健身，现在有很多机能更好的运动衣，我想买新的。
wǒ dōu fàng zài ménkǒu le ，zhè jǐ tào dōu chuān hěnjiǔ le ，yàngzi bù hǎokàn le ，érqiě wǒ chàbuduō měitiān dōu qù pǎobù 、dǎquán 、jiànshēn ，xiànzài yǒu hěn duō jīnéng gèng hǎo de yùndòngyī ，wǒ xiǎngmǎi xīn de 。
I've already put them out on the doorstep. I've been wearing them for ages, they don't look good and I got running, boxing and exercising almost every day. Now there are so many sports outfits with lots of different functions, I want to buy new ones.
唉！儿子啊，不是不让你买，但是你也要懂得爱惜东西，像这套，去年底才买的吧？穿不到几个月啊，丢掉太浪费了！
ài ！érzi ā ，bùshì bùràng nǐ mǎi ，dànshì nǐ yě yào dǒngde àixī dōngxi ，xiàng zhè tào ，qùniándǐ cái mǎi de ba ？chuān bùdào jǐ ge yuè ā ，diūdiào tài làngfèi le ！
Ah! Son! It's not that I don't want to let you buy them, but you have to understand that you need to make good use out of things. Like this sports gear, didn't you just buy it at the end of last year? You've only worn it a couple of months, so it would be such a waste to throw them out!
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