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ID: 1502 Upper Intermediate
Do you know all the work that goes into maintaining a rice paddy? And can you talk about it in Mandarin Chinese? In this lesson, a visitor to the countryside learns about both the hard labor and the simple pleasures to be found outside of China's urban areas.
Mon Sep 20 2010 | John, Jenny
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
大伯 dàbó father's elder brother
黑乎乎 hēihūhū dark, dusky
割 gē to cut
稻子 dàozi rice
大伯，天还是黑乎乎的，割稻子的时候会不会把手给割破了？
dàbó ，tiān háishì hēihūhū de ，gē dàozi de shíhou huì bu huì bǎ shǒu gěi gē pò le ？
Uncle, it's still pretty dark out. When you harvest the rice, won't you cut your hands?
不会的。有月光，看得到。等下太阳出来热死了。趁现在凉快，多割点。
bùhuì de 。yǒu yuèguāng ，kàn de dào 。děngxià tàiyáng chūlái rè sǐ le 。chèn xiànzài liángkuài ，duō gē diǎn 。
No, there's moonlight; we can still see. In a little while the sun will come up and it will be unbearably hot. We have to take advantage of this cool air and harvest more.
好的。
hǎo de 。
OK.
哎，不对，不对。你怎么拔稻子啊？割稻子是用镰刀割的，像这样，一只手抓住稻草，另一只手抓住镰刀，在根部上来一点的地方，用力地割下去。你看，这样多快！
āi ，bù duì ，bù duì 。nǐ zěnme bá dàozi a ？gē dàozi shì yòng liándāo gē de ，xiàng zhèyàng ，yī zhī shǒu zhuāzhù dàocǎo ，lìng yī zhī shǒu zhuāzhù liándāo ，zài gēnbù shànglái yīdiǎn de dìfang ，yònglì de gē xiàqu 。nǐ kàn ，zhèyàng duō kuài ！
Hey, that's not right! Why are you pulling up the rice? When we harvest, we use a sickle – like this: with one hand grab the rice straw, and with the other hand hold the sickle. Grab it a little bit above the root and cut it with force. See, this way it goes really quickly!
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