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第四课 Dì-sì kè Lesson

4 论天下大势,分久必合,合久必分.

Lùn tiānxià dàshì, fēn ji? bì hé, hé ji? bì fēn. speak+of sky-beneath great-power, divide long must join, join long must divide '

They say the momentum of history was ever thus: the empire long divided, must unite;

long united, must divide.'

The opening lines of Sānguó yǎnyì [三国演义], a title that is traditionally translated as The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a popular historical narrative attributed to Luó Guànzhōng [14th century]. It deals with a period more than

1000 years before the author lived, after the collapse of the Han dynasty (206 BC C

220 AD), when kingdom competed against kingdom and the heroes Liú Bèi, Guān Y? and Zhāng Fēi swore brotherhood in a peach garden behind Zhāng Fēi'

s farm (supposedly, on the outskirts of modern-day Chéngdū). Part of their vow reads: 不求同年同月同日生,但愿同年同月同日死. Bù qiú tóngnián tóngyuè tóngrì shēng, dàn yuàn tóngnián tóngyuè tóngrì sǐ. Not choose same year, month day born, but desire same year, month day die. '

We could not help our separate births, but on the self-same day we mean to die!'

[Translations from Moss Roberts, Three Kingdoms: China'

s Epic Drama by Lo Kuan-chung, New York, Pantheon Books, 1976.] 4.0 Review a) Fántǐzì (see below for new words) 李小山是南京大学的学生.她生在南京,也长在南京.南京在江苏, 在中国东部,在长江边上,离上海不远.那个地方很好,人口四五百 万,不大也不小.那儿的天气还可以.七月到九月非常热,常常下 雨,可是一月到三月不怎麽冷,很舒服.李小山还没去过外国,也没 上过英文课,可是她英文说得非常好,看英文书报也可以.那怎麽会 这样呢?很多人觉得学英文没有老师不行.她说她没有老师但是有很 多外国朋友,有美国人,有英国人,有加拿大人,也有澳大利亚人. 她说她可以看英文报纸,看英文书,看美国电视,这样学.再说,她 书包里有一本很好的英文字典,有好字典就能学好!

1 生字表 Shēngzìbiǎo '

vocabulary list'

长/长SV cháng '

long'

;

V zhǎng '

to grow;

grow up;

N zhǎng '

head of;

chief'

江Njiāng '

river'

[archaic] 江苏 Jiāngsū name of a province 人口 rénkǒu '

population'

舒服 shūfu 会/会huì '

can;

able to;

likely to'

觉得/觉得 juéde 朋友 péngyou '

friend'

电视/电视 diànshì '

TV (electric-look at)'

能néng '

capable of'

万/万wàn 下雨 xiàyǔ '

to rain (fall rain)'

不怎么冷 bù zěnme lěng '

not so cold'

b) Radicals and phonetics Try to recall characters from Units

1 C

3 that have the following character-istics: 1. Three characters with the element 戈gē '

spear'

: 2. Two characters with tǔzìpáng '

the earth radical'

, 土: 3. Two characters with jīnzìpáng '

the metal radical'

, 钅/金: 4. A second character with the radical bǎogài, seen on top in 字: 5. Three characters that contain the element 目(mù '

eye'

): 6. Two characters with the [phonetic] element 曷(hé): 7. Two characters with the radical 木, mùzìpáng: c) Add a character before or after (as indicated) to form a word: 1. _____ 瓜6. 再2. 川7. 非3. 电8. 起4. 紧9. _____ 师5. 上10. _____ 报2d) Add Taiwan to the map, then label as many places as you can in characters;