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World Records

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ID: 0726 Elementary
Put down the bowl of... what IS that... there's no world record for eating the most chicken feet, and you fell asleep three hours after setting out to break the world's record of staying awake the longest. Plus it's seriously time to throw away that storage unit full of Pocky stick wrappers. In this podcast, learn about REAL world records in Mandarin Chinese... the Olympic kind.
Tue Dec 11 2007 | Jenny, Ken
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
破 pò to break
世界 shìjiè world
记录 jìlù record
肯定 kěndìng definitely
今天有人破世界记录吗？
jīntiān yǒu rén pò shìjiè jìlù ma ？
Did anyone break a world record today?
肯定有。
kěndìng yǒu 。
Someone must have.
你怎么知道？
nǐ zěnme zhīdào ？
How do you know?
因为这是奥运会啊。
yīnwèi zhè shì Àoyùnhuì a 。
Because this is the Olympics.
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