[Level 5] 214:  🈶  曹沖稱象 – Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant – 4/6

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have one (measure) minister say elephant also big also heavy need to make one super giant (linker) scale then can measure (suffix) it (linker) weight

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One minister said: "Elephants are large and heavy, it would take a super giant scale in order to measure its weight."

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Cao Cao laugh -ing reply this way (measure) scale then even big than (measure) house how have possible can do (particle)

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Cao Cao smiled and replied, "Wouldn't that mean that such a scale would have to be larger than a house? How would that be possible?"

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another (measure) minister say elephant is live (particle) even if make (suffix) so big (measure) scale elephant all, also not necessarily willing to well-behaved stand go on

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Another minister said: "Elephants are alive, even if one could make such a large scale, the elephant may not even necessarily be willing to stand on it obediently."

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in my view kill -en (measure) elephant cut open piece by piece so then measure (suffix) how heavy (particle)

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In my opinion, if the elephant were killed and then cut up into chunks, then its weight could be measured.

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everyone unanimously object this method in order to measure elephant (linker) weight then need to kill -en it this way to do really too not humane (particle)

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Everyone unanimously rejected this method - to kill an elephant just to weigh it, that really is too inhumane!

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• 🈶 alternate version in Standard Written Chinese
• ↪ [Lvl 5] 214:  🈶  曹沖稱象 – Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant – 5/6
• ↩ [Lvl 5] 214:  🈶  曹沖稱象 – Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant – 3/6
• 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