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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Advanced Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 29 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

After the Banquet

Sit with Missus Lin, Master Chen and Missus Wang when the banquet is over: say how happy the day was, say someone waited forty-six years and that it was worth it, say the days ahead will be taken slowly, say it's not too late, and ask her to tea tomorrow.

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THE STORY

The emptied restaurant in the town below Longjing village on a January evening, the chairs stacked, four cups of tea at the head table and the lights half out.

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今天 太 高兴 了！jīntiān tài gāoxìng leToday I'm so happy!
谢谢 你们。xièxie nǐmenThank you all.
四十六 年。sìshíliù niánforty-six years, four ten six
等 了 四十六 年。děng le sìshíliù niánwaited forty-six years
老林， 你 等 了 四十六 年。lǎo lín, nǐ děng le sìshíliù niánOld Lin, you waited forty-six years.
值 了。zhí leIt was worth it.
慢慢 过。mànmàn guòtake them slowly, word for word slowly pass
以后 的 日子 慢慢 过。yǐhòu de rìzi mànmàn guòThe days ahead, we'll take slowly.
累 了 吧？lèi le baTired?
老陈， 我们 都 老 了。lǎo chén, wǒmen dōu lǎo leOld Chen, we're all old now.

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