[Level 5] 214:  🈶  曹沖稱象 – Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant – 3/6

• Overview
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• 🈶 alternate version in Standard Written Chinese

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in the end pheasant dance -en very long time all, also not stop because it want to wait mirror inside that (measure) to stop it then willing to to stop

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In the end, the pheasant danced for a long time without stopping because only when the pheasant in the mirror stopped would it be willing to stop.

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since then everyone all, also think Cao Chong really is one (measure) prodigy afterwards again have people send -en one (measure) elephant to Cao Cao

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Since then, everybody thought that Cao Chong was really a child prodigy. Later on, someone gave an elephant to Cao Cao.

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Cao Cao they everyone all, also never see -ed elephant he see only elephant leg all, also already have one (measure) pole so thick think elephant really very big

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Cao Cao and everyone else had never seen an elephant, and he even saw that the elephant's legs were already as thick as a pillar, so he thought that the elephant was indeed very large.

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he right here think don't know this (measure) elephant have how heavy (particle)

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Here he thought: How heavy is this elephant?

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so he then ask minister see a bit have or haven't method can measure this (measure) elephant ’s weight

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So, he asked the minister to see if there was any way to measure the weight of this elephant.

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• 🈶 alternate version in Standard Written Chinese
• ↪ [Lvl 5] 214:  🈶  曹沖稱象 – Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant – 4/6
• ↩ [Lvl 5] 214:  🈶  曹沖稱象 – Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant – 2/6
• Overview

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• written by Philip Wong
• illustrated by Wendy Yu
• published by HamBaangLaang (© HamBaangLaang, 2022)
• Series: Hambaanglaang Graded Readers 冚唪唥粵文讀本 (Level 5)
• Source: Hambaanglaang:《曹沖稱象》Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant
• Presentation: Dennis Amelunxen, chinvocab.com