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Battling Internet Addiction

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ID: 1021 Upper Intermediate
Some addictions are better than others. Internet addiction, for example, is bad. Bad, unless of course, the addiction revolves around being on the internet compulsively reloading chinesepod.com every five minutes. Replaying each link of each podcast until slumped over in a heap. Pinning up pictures of the most active users on your wall. This good. Other addictions bad. Learn more in this podcast, in Chinese. 500 times.
Jenny, John
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
省心 shěngxīn to rest easy
窝 wō to hole up
一塌糊涂 yītāhútu a complete mess
上瘾 shàngyǐn addicted
不行我明年要去北京陪儿子
bùxíng 不行wǒ 我míngnián 明年yào 要qù 去Běijīng 北京péi 陪érzi 儿子
This just won't do. Next year, I'm moving to Beijing with our son.
算了吧他都大二了你就省省心吧别管得太严了
suàn le 算了ba 吧tā 他dōu 都dà èr 大二le 了nǐ 你jiù 就shěngsheng xīn 省省心ba 吧bié 别guǎn 管de 得tài 太yán 严le 了
Oh come on, he's already a college sophomore. Just take it easy. Don't keep him on too short a leash.
我不去看住他能行吗你看你那宝贝儿子都成什么样子了天天窝在宿舍打游戏根本没心思学习成绩肯定一塌糊涂
wǒ 我bù 不qù 去kān 看zhù 住tā 他néng 能xíng 行ma 吗nǐ 你kàn 看nǐ 你nà 那bǎobèi érzi 宝贝儿子dōu 都chéng 成shénme 什么yàngzi 样子le 了tiāntiān 天天wō 窝zài 在sùshè 宿舍dǎ yóuxì 打游戏gēnběn 根本méi 没xīnsi 心思xuéxí 学习chéngjì 成绩kěndìng 肯定yītāhútu 一塌糊涂
What will happen if I don't keep an eye on him? Look what your precious baby has become, holed up in his dorm room all the time playing video games. He doesn't care at all about studying. I'm sure his grades are atrocious.
还没到这个程度吧
hái 还méi 没dào 到zhè ge 这个chéngdù 程度ba 吧
Things probably aren't that bad yet.
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