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Life's Difficult Lessons in China

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Simplified Chinese
死而复生

因为姐姐在老家的医院工作，所以我总能通过她的嘴第一个知道我同学朋友的病况，
好吧，我当然不能告诉你昨天我的哪个朋友又感冒了，前天谁又拉肚子了，但有两件
我是十分清楚的——一是谁谁谁又生孩子了，这一点总能引起我的嫉妒之心；二是谁
谁谁死了，这点更是让人难过。我总结经验，发现从姐姐嘴里传来的消息都不是什么
好消息。

这不，最近她又向我爆了一条新闻，我小学的一位朋友出了车祸，当场死亡。我呆了
，第一反应是反问，为什么要给她起一个这样倒霉的名字？

说起来，朋友的名字很有意思，明明是一个甜甜的像天使一样的女孩，名字却很邪恶
，和“谋杀”同音。当然，她的父母在给她取名字的时候并没想到这一点，因为在我们
的方言里她的名字听起来有“蝴蝶飞飞”的感觉，也是甜甜的，也是像天使一样。但后
来我们不幸上了学，又不幸上了大学，又不幸不得不在大学里说普通话，她的名字也
就不幸被翻译成普通话，变成了“谋杀”。老师上课点名甚至会出现“张三、谋杀、李四”
的情况。尽管如此，我的第一反应也让我姐呆了。

她的死状非常惨烈。据说是男友骑摩托车送她回家，因为下雪路滑，被一辆车迎面撞
倒，当场死亡。她的脸已经全毁了，甚至整个脑袋也被撞得变了形。肇事司机已经逃
窜，他的男友也早已不知去向，估计是车祸之后给吓跑了。

2 第二天，上网，我突然发现朋友的网页在一小时前刚刚被更新过。什么？难道我见鬼
了？她不是死了吗？仔细推敲了推敲，有三种可能——第一种，是她的弟弟更新了她
的网页，就像我给男友更新网页一样；第二，她根本没有死，是姐姐弄错了；第三种
就是她变成了鬼也忘不了她的网页，当然，这是绝对不可能的。我当即打电话回家求
证，果然，我的同学并没有死，死的是另外一个人，这个人和我同学同名同姓而且来
自同一个地方。我顿时松了口气，好险！

我不再伤心了，因为死的是一个不相关的人，所以我不伤心。但我突然觉得自己没有
人性，朋友是人，别人就不是人吗？为什么别人我就这么漠不关心呢？为什么世界上
总有这么多灾祸？似乎无论何时，灾难都可能从天上掉下来，砸到某个人的头上。即
使天天待在家里不出门，倒霉事儿也会破门而入。想想也是，灾祸总会发生，有些人
总会倒霉，也许这些人本身就是倒霉的命，喝口水都可能被噎死。也是，这个世界上
每天都有数以万计的人生，也有数以万计的人死，如果我们个个都伤心，伤心得过来
吗？总之，只要我的朋友平安，我就觉得很安心。

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Traditional Chinese
死而復生

因為姐姐在老家的醫院工作，所以我總能通過她的嘴第一個知道我同學朋友的病況，
好吧，我當然不能告訴你昨天我的哪個朋友又感冒了，前天誰又拉肚子了，但有兩件
我是十分清楚的——一是誰誰誰又生孩子了，這一點總能引起我的嫉妒之心；二是誰
誰誰死了，這點更是讓人難過。我總結經驗，發現從姐姐嘴裏傳來的消息都不是什麼
好消息。

這不，最近她又向我爆了一條新聞，我小學的一位朋友出了車禍，當場死亡。我呆了
，第一反應是反問，為什麼要給她起一個這樣倒楣的名字？

說起來，朋友的名字很有意思，明明是一個甜甜的像天使一樣的女孩，名字卻很邪惡
，和“謀殺”同音。當然，她的父母在給她取名字的時候並沒想到這一點，因為在我們
的方言裏她的名字聽起來有“蝴蝶飛飛”的感覺，也是甜甜的，也是像天使一樣。但後
來我們不幸上了學，又不幸上了大學，又不幸不得不在大學裏說普通話，她的名字也
就不幸被翻譯成普通話，變成了“謀殺”。老師上課點名甚至會出現“張三、謀殺、李四”
的情況。儘管如此，我的第一反應也讓我姐呆了。

她的死狀非常慘烈。據說是男友騎摩托車送她回家，因為下雪路滑，被一輛車迎面撞
倒，當場死亡。她的臉已經全毀了，甚至整個腦袋也被撞得變了形。肇事司機已經逃
竄，他的男友也早已不知去向，估計是車禍之後給嚇跑了。

3 第二天，上網，我突然發現朋友的網頁在一小時前剛剛被更新過。什麼？難道我見鬼
了？她不是死了嗎？仔細推敲了推敲，有三種可能——第一種，是她的弟弟更新了她
的網頁，就像我給男友更新網頁一樣；第二，她根本沒有死，是姐姐弄錯了；第三種
就是她變成了鬼也忘不了她的網頁，當然，這是絕對不可能的。我當即打電話回家求
證，果然，我的同學並沒有死，死的是另外一個人，這個人和我同學同名同姓而且來
自同一個地方。我頓時松了口氣，好險！

我不再傷心了，因為死的是一個不相關的人，所以我不傷心。但我突然覺得自己沒有
人性，朋友是人，別人就不是人嗎？為什麼別人我就這麼漠不關心呢？為什麼世界上
總有這麼多災禍？似乎無論何時，災難都可能從天上掉下來，砸到某個人的頭上。即
使天天待在家裏不出門，倒楣事兒也會破門而入。想想也是，災禍總會發生，有些人
總會倒楣，也許這些人本身就是倒楣的命，喝口水都可能被噎死。也是，這個世界上
每天都有數以萬計的人生，也有數以萬計的人死，如果我們個個都傷心，傷心得過來
嗎？總之，只要我的朋友平安，我就覺得很安心。

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Pinyin
sǐ ér fù shēng
yīnwèi jiějie zài lǎojiā de yīyuàn gōngzuò, suǒyǐ wǒ zǒng néng tōngguò tā de zuǐ dì yī
ge zhīdào wǒ tóngxué péngyou de bìngkuàng, hǎoba, wǒ dāngrán bù néng gàosu nǐ
zuótiān wǒ de nǎge péngyou yòu gǎnmào le, qiántiān shéi yòu lā dùzi le, dàn yǒu
liǎng jiàn wǒ shì shífēn qīngchu de ----yī shì shéi shéi shéi yòu shēng háizi le,
zhèyīdiǎn zǒng néng yǐnqǐ wǒ de jídù zhī xīn ；èr shì shéi shéi shéi sǐ le, zhè diǎn
gèng shì ràng rén nánguò. wǒ zǒngjié jīngyàn, fāxiàn cóng jiějie zuǐ lǐ chuánlái de
xiāoxi dōu bù shì shénme hǎo xiāoxi.

zhè bù, zuìjìn tā yòu xiàng wǒ bào le yī tiáo xīnwén, wǒ xiǎoxué de yī wèi péngyou
chū le chēhuò, dāngchǎng sǐwáng. wǒ dāi le, dì yī fǎnyìng shì fǎnwèn, wèishénme
yào gěi tā qǐ yī ge zhèyàng dǎoméi de míngzi?
shuō qǐlái, péngyou de míngzi hěn yǒu yìsī, míngmíng shì yī ge tiántiánde xiàng
tiānshǐ yīyàng de nǚhái, míngzi què hěn xiéè, hé "móushā" tóngyīn. dāngrán, tā de
fùmǔ zài gěi tā qǔ míngzi de shíhou bìng méi xiǎng dào zhè yīdiǎn, yīnwèi zài
wǒmen de fāngyán lǐ tā de míngzi tīng qǐlai yǒu "húdié fēifēi" de gǎnjué, yě shì
tiántián de, yě shì xiàng tiānshǐ yīyàng. dàn hòulái wǒmen bùxìng shàng le xué, yòu
bùxìng shàng le dàxué, yòu bùxìng bùdébù zài dàxué lǐ shuō pǔtōnghuà, tā de
míngzi yě jiù bùxìng bèi fānyì chéng pǔtōnghuà, biànchéng le "móushā". lǎoshī
shàngkè diǎnmíng shènzhì huì chūxiàn "Zhāng Sān, Móushā, Lǐ Sì" de qíngkuàng.
jǐnguǎn rúcǐ, wǒ de dì yī fǎnyìng yě ràng wǒ jiě dāi le.

4 tā de sǐzhuàng fēicháng cǎnliè. jùshuō shì nányǒu qí mótuōchē sòng tā huíjiā,

yīnwèi xiàxuě lù huá, bèi yī liàng chē yíngmiàn zhuàngdǎo, dāngchǎng sǐwáng. tā de
liǎn yǐjīng quán huǐle, shènzhì zhěnggè nǎodai yě bèi zhuàng de biàn le xíng.
zhàoshì sījī yǐjīng táocuàn, tā de nányǒu yě zǎoyǐ bùzhīqùxiàng, gūjì shì chēhuò
zhīhòu gěi xià pǎo le.

dì èr tiān, shàngwǎng, wǒ tūrán fāxiàn péngyou de wǎngyè zài yī xiǎoshí qián

gānggāng bèi gēngxīn guò. shénme? nándào wǒ jiàn guǐ le? tā bù shì sǐ le ma? zǐxì
tuīqiāo le tuīqiāo, yǒu sān zhǒng kěnéng ----dì yī zhǒng, shì tā de dìdi gēngxīn le tā
de wǎngyè, jiù xiàng wǒ gěi nányǒu gēngxīn wǎngyè yīyàng ；dì èr, tā gēnběn
méiyǒu sǐ, shì jiějie nòng cuò le ；dì sān zhǒng jiùshì tā biànchéng le guǐ yě
wàngbùliǎo tā de wǎngyè, dāngrán, zhè shì juéduì bù kěnéng de. wǒ dāngjí dǎ
diànhuà huíjiā qiúzhèng, guǒrán, wǒ de tóngxué bìng méiyǒu sǐ, sǐ de shì lìngwài yī
ge rén, zhège rén hé wǒ tóngxué tóng míng tóng xìng érqiě láizì tóng yīge dìfang.
wǒ dùnshí sōng le kǒu qì, hǎo xiǎn!
wǒ bù zài shāngxīn le, yīnwèi sǐ de shì yī ge bù xiāngguān de rén, suǒyǐ wǒ bù

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shāngxīn. dàn wǒ tūrán juéde zìjǐ méiyǒu rénxìng, péngyou shì rén, biérén jiù bù shì
rén ma? wèishénme biérén wǒ jiù zhème mòbùguānxīn ne? wèishénme shìjièshàng
zǒng yǒu zhème duō zāihuò? sìhu wúlùn héshí, zāinàn dōu kěnéng cóng tiānshàng
diào xiàlai, zá dào mǒu gè rén de tóu shàng. jíshǐ tiāntiān dāi zài jiālǐ bù chūmén,
dǎoméi shìr yě huì pòménérrù. xiǎngxiang yě shì, zāihuò zǒng huì fāshēng, yǒuxiē
rén zǒng huì dǎoméi, yěxǔ zhèxiē rén běnshēn jiùshì dǎoméi de mìng, hē kǒu shuǐ
dōu kěnéng bèi yē sǐ. yě shì, zhège shìjièshàng měi tiān dōu yǒu shùyǐwànjì de
rénshēng, yě yǒu shùyǐwànjì de rén sǐ, rúguǒ wǒmen gègè dōu shāngxīn, shāngxīn
de guòlai ma? zǒngzhī, zhǐyào wǒ de péngyou píng’ān, wǒ jiù juéde hěn ānxīn.

English
Death and Rebirth

Because my older sister works at a hospital in my hometown, it's often from her that
I first hear about what's happening with my classmates and friends. Now, I'm not
going to tell you that so-and-so was sick yesterday, and so-and-so had the runs
before that, but there are two events that always catch my attention. The first is
when so-and-so had a baby, which always makes me jealous. The second is when
so-and-so has died, which makes me feel even worse. In my experience, the things
that I learn from my sister are never good things.

Just a little while ago, my sister dropped another bombshell on me – one of my

5 elementary school classmates had been in a car accident and died at the scene. I
was dumbstruck. My first reaction was why had her parents given her such an
unlucky name?

Really, my friend's name is pretty interesting. She's absolutely an angel of a girl, but
her name is wicked – it sounds the same as "murder." Of course her parents didn't
realize this when they gave her this name because in our local dialect her name
sounds like how you'd describe a butterfly floating on the wind – you know, sweet,
angelic. Sadly for us though, we went to school, and again more sadly, went to
university where we had no choice but to speak Mandarin. When her name was
translated into Mandarin, it became "murder." When teachers called roll, it was like,
"Zhang San, Murder, Li Si." Despite this, my first reaction shocked my sister.

She died a very violent death. From what I understand, her boyfriend was taking her
home on his motorcycle, but snowfall had made the roads slick, and they were hit
head-on by a car and had died on that road. Her face was destroyed, her entire

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head deformed by the impact. The driver that caused the accident fled and her
boyfriend has disappeared, too. I guess after the accident, he was just too afraid to
stay.

The next day, I got online and suddenly discovered that my friend's website had
been updated not more than an hour before. What? It couldn't be a ghost, could it?
After thinking it over for a while, I decided there were three possibilities – one, her
younger brother had updated her website, like how I sometimes update my
boyfriend's website; two, my friend really hadn't died and my sister was wrong; three,
even in the afterlife my friend kept blogging, but of course this was impossible. I
immediately picked up the phone and called home to find out what had happened,
and as it turned out, my friend hadn't died at all! The deceased was someone else
who just happened to have the same surname, the same given name, and the same
hometown. I immediately felt the relief wash over me… Man!

I no longer felt upset. I didn't feel upset, though, because the person that died didn't
matter to me. What I did feel, though, was a nagging feeling that I was heartless. My
friend is a human being and, what, the other person isn't? Why wasn't I concerned
about the other person? Why do such horrible things happen all around the world
every day? It's like disaster just falls from the sky, smashing down onto people's
heads. Even if we just hide in our rooms all day, bad luck can come calling. Thinking
about it, bad things happen every day, and some people are constantly unlucky.
Maybe those people were just fated to lead unhappy lives, each glass of water just
another chance to choke to death. Then again, maybe it's just that every day there
are countless births and countless deaths, and if I felt bad about all of them, would I
6 even have enough sorrow in my heart to give? In the end, as long as my friend is
safe, I'm relieved.

Vocabulary
Simplified Traditional Pinyin English
嫉妒 嫉妒 jídù to be jealous of
爆 爆 bào to reveal, to break
news
邪恶 邪惡 xié'è evil, despicable
肇事 肇事 zhàoshì to cause a disturbance
噎 噎 yē to choke (on food)
推敲 推敲 tuīqiāo to weigh, deliberate,
think over

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求证 求證 qiúzhèng to seek confirmation

人性 人性 rénxìng humanity, human
sentiments
漠不关心 漠不關心 mòbùguānxīn indifferent,
unconcerned
数以万计 數以萬計 shùyǐwànjì tens of thousands

Vocabulary Sample Sentences

她总是嫉妒别人的成就。 tā zǒngshì jídù biérén de She’s always jealous of other
chéngjiù. people’s achievements.
同学今天打电话给我，向我爆 tóngxué jīntiān dǎ dànhuà gěi My classmate called me today
了一条新闻。 wǒ, xiàng wǒ bào le yī tiáo and broke a piece of news.
xīnwén.
他邪恶的行为暴露了自己邪恶 tā xiéè de xíngwéi bàolù le zìjǐ His despicable actions
的品质。 xié'è de pǐnzhì. revealed the despicable
person he really is.
警察到现在也没有找到肇事司 jǐngchá dào xiànzài yě méiyǒu The police have not as of yet
机。 zhǎodào zhàoshì sījī. caught the driver that caused
the accident.
我刚才吃得太快，噎着了。 wǒ gāngcái chī de tài kuài, Just now, I ate too quickly and
yēzhe le. choked.
我推敲了半天，也没弄明白她 wǒ tuīqiāo le bàntiān, yě méi I thought it over for a while and
7 这么做到底是为了什么。 nòng míngbai tā zhème zuò still haven’t figured out exactly
dàodǐ shì wèile shénme. why she’s acting that way.
下结论之前最好要先求证。 xià jiélùn zhīqián zuìhǎo yào Before making a decision, its
xiān qiúzhèng. best to get confirmation.
这样残忍的行为是没有人性的 zhèyàng cánrěn de xíngwéi This sort of vicious behavior is
。 shì méiyǒu rénxìng de. ruining humanity.
他对别人的生死漠不关心，真 tā duì biérén de shēngsǐ He’s totally devoid of human
没有人性。 mòbùguānxīn, zhēn méiyǒu compassion, and doesn’t care
rénxìng. if other people live or die.
数以万计的民工在城市里过着 shùyǐwànjì de míngōng zài Tens of thousands of peasant
悲惨的生活。 chéngshì lǐ guò zhe bēicǎn de workers pass a miserable
shēnghuó. existence in the city.

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